Sau Pinn Woo
Malaysia
Loreta Cornacchia (Deltares, Netherlands); Alessandro Gibertini (CNR, Italy); Saviour Udo-Akuaibit (University of Calabar, Nigeria); Anwesha Ghosh (IISER Kolkata, India); Salvatore Causio (CMCC, Italy)
Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), United States of America (USA), Yemen.
This project will establish a global network of Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs) focused on Ocean Literacy and Citizen Science within the CoastPredict Programme. Led by ECOPs across over 130 GlobalCoast Pilot Sites, it fosters broad community engagement in addressing local coastal resilience challenges. Drawing on the expertise of over 50 ECOPs from more than 25 countries, it will compile a toolkit of OL and CS activities tailored for community engagement. These cover five key coastal change aspects: social-environmental; morphological; seawater; biodiversity; and atmospheric – aspects identified during the CoastPredict-DCC-CR ECOPs workshop (Feb 2025). Methods include Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) assessments, low-cost data collection, games/digital tools and knowledge exchange. The project also supports intergenerational mentorship among senior scientists, current ECOPs, and school-level students, supporting sustained action toward coastal resilience worldwide.
A short survey is open to map ECOP expertise across the CREW initiative. Help us identify who is involved, what research and activities are being carried out, and how you may engage in future CREW initiatives.
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