Opinion: We need a global movement to transform ocean science for a better world

摘要: The ocean is our planet’s largest life-support system. It stabilizes climate; stores carbon; produces oxygen; nurtures biodiversity; directly supports human well-being through food, mineral, and energy resources; provides cultural recreational services. value of the economy speaks to its importance: Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) estimates that by 2030, $3 trillion USD will be generated annually from sectors such as transportation, fishing, tourism, (1). Unsustainable resource extraction, pollution, climate change, habitat destruction are on rise affecting many parts world’s oceans (2). rapidly changing, yet ways in which these changes play out not clear. Although improved management conservation have helped reduce threats restore some key ecosystems, basic benefits people receive a healthy overall decline. Image credit: © World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US)/James Morgan. Although decline (3). If left unchecked, growing resource-hungry population add additional pressures ocean. Scientific research, experimentation, data collection, monitoring, modeling provide knowledge, frameworks, evidence needed model explore environmental consequences policy development proposals thus chart sustainable future ocean. The current scale, pace, practice scientific discovery observation keeping up with conditions. We need fundamental way researchers work decision makers co-create knowledge address pressing problems. Researchers share their more freely sooner so can inform decisions near real … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may addressed. Email: linwood.pendleton{at}wwf.org. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1