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Appreciation from the United Nations: IOW's Baltic Sea long-term observation is officially part of the UN Oceans Decade

The IOW research vessel ‘Elisabeth Mann Borgese’ on the Baltic Sea with the official logo of the UN Ocean Decade.
For the IOW's long-term observation of the Baltic Sea, the research vessel ‘Elisabeth Mann Borgese’ is deployed five times a year, since recently with the official logo of the UN Ocean Decade (Photo: IOW / M. Sommer)

The IOW has been collecting physical, chemical and biological Baltic Sea data for many decades. These allow important conclusions about the state and environmental changes in the Baltic Sea and are freely accessible to both scientists and the public. As of this year, the centrepiece of the IOW's long-term observation programme – the annual monitoring ship expeditions – has been officially recognised as a project of the United Nations (UN) “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021 – 2030”.

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