Steve Thur, from @noaa.gov chairs the session on #Ocean Obs and Modelling - with Nicolas Segebarth from #DGRTD, Louis Demargne from #Fugro, Nicole du Plessis from #SAEON and Joanna Post from #GOOS - read more in the QR code.

WIOMSA 2025 Special Session: Advancing Sustainable Ocean Management through Ocean Accounting Friday 3 October 2025 | Dodori Room (SS036), Pride Inn Paradise Resort, Mombasa, Kenya During this year's WIOMSA Scientific Symposium, the GOAP Africa Community of Practice will run a special session...

2/2 Countries in WIO region already advancing 🏃‍♀️ #OceanAccounting incl. 🇰🇪🇲🇿🇲🇬🇬🇭 🇿🇦+ others

Hear from experts as they share practical insights from experiences implementing #OceanAccounts: #PwaniUniversity @unesco-iocafrica.bsky.social #UniCapeCoast #SAEON

🔗 www.oceanaccounts.org/wiomsa-2025-...

When researchers hid a camera off the coast of South Africa, a "creepy creature" appeared and attacked this shark | Discover Wildlife Shark “finds out the hard way” why it shouldn’t mess with this bizarre ocean creature.

Our #BRUV camera captured incredible interaction between a shark & a hagfish www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... #SANParks #SAEON #SAIAB

South African forecasting services

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SOMISANA products

Operational forecasting from CMEMS in SOMISANA

Next talk is by Jennifer Veitch from South Africa #SAEON who talks about forecasting both in South Africa and in India ... the Sustainable Ocean modelling initiative through SOMISANA that uses CMEMS data to give useful outputs for users ...simple models did as well or better than global models.