TY - JOUR
T1 - Open science for the ocean. Recommendations from the perspective of marine carbon observations in Germany, Brazil, and beyond
AU - Schoderer, Mirja
AU - Bittig, Henry
AU - Castro Morales, Karel
AU - Cotrim da Cunha, Leticia
AU - Faber, Claas
AU - Hägele, Ramona
AU - Klein, Birgit
AU - Körtzinger, Arne
AU - Musetti, Carlos
AU - Oliveira, Raquel
AU - Steinhoff, Tobias
AU - Wimart-Rousseau, Cathy
AU - Wunsch, Matthias
AU - Hornidge, Anna Katharina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Authors
PY - 2025/4/21
Y1 - 2025/4/21
N2 - The ocean plays an essential role in regulating the global climate, absorbing around 25 % of global CO2 emissions. Scientific knowledge of the ocean's capacity as a carbon sink is therefore essential for policy-making at the national and international level. However, the capacity of the existing marine science system to deliver this information at sufficiently high quality, without geographical and temporal gaps, and with equitable contributions by and access for less affluent national science systems, is far from assured. This contribution applies the six guiding principles of Open Science as a yardstick for science in the service of society to assess the current state of marine (carbon) science, pointing out strengths and shortcomings, and deriving specific recommendations for science policy. This contribution results from a three-year interdisciplinary research project with researchers from Brazil and Germany and was discussed within the UN Ocean Decade Program Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability (OARS) to validate the applicability of insights and recommendations beyond these particular contexts.
AB - The ocean plays an essential role in regulating the global climate, absorbing around 25 % of global CO2 emissions. Scientific knowledge of the ocean's capacity as a carbon sink is therefore essential for policy-making at the national and international level. However, the capacity of the existing marine science system to deliver this information at sufficiently high quality, without geographical and temporal gaps, and with equitable contributions by and access for less affluent national science systems, is far from assured. This contribution applies the six guiding principles of Open Science as a yardstick for science in the service of society to assess the current state of marine (carbon) science, pointing out strengths and shortcomings, and deriving specific recommendations for science policy. This contribution results from a three-year interdisciplinary research project with researchers from Brazil and Germany and was discussed within the UN Ocean Decade Program Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability (OARS) to validate the applicability of insights and recommendations beyond these particular contexts.
KW - Marine carbon
KW - Marine Science
KW - Ocean climate nexus
KW - Ocean observations
KW - Science policy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106736
DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106736
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105002843586
SN - 0308-597X
VL - 178
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Marine Policy
JF - Marine Policy
M1 - 106736
ER -