Attending my first UN Conference: #UNOceanConference in Lisbon, Portugal

My project, www.MonitorMyOcean.com was selected as the Youth4Ocean Award winner under Research related to Solving Marine and Societal Challenges category.

My project measured the contribution of anthropogenic activities to the underwater noise levels in global oceans using the COVID-19 lockdown as a research opportunity to gather baseline data. I used over 20 years of cumulative data from a network of hydrophones in the Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific Oceans, and Mediterranean Sea.

As part of the award, I was offered a return trip to Lisbon to attend the 2022 UN Ocean Conference. I attended the Summit in Lisbon between 27 June 2022 -1 July 2022, which provided a great opportunity to understand how ocean negotiations happen, the issues being negotiated and the different perspectives, and meet hundreds of other delegates from around the world.

Wonderful to have met so many ocean enthusiasts from around the world including Early Career Ocean Professionals Schmidt Ocean Institute UN Ocean Decade Fisheries and Oceans Canada / Pêches et Océans Canada Thanks Ocean Networks Canada MBARI NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration for open data! Thanks Schmidt Futures for inspiration through hashtag#RISE Initiative and University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies for the Certificate Program on Artificial Intelligence that helped my data analysis skills.