The African Youth summit was aimed at fostering ownership and stewardship of the global Marine Protected Areas agenda among African youth. Our youth network hosted a talk on “Building your career with the environment” with the western Indian Ocean Early Career Scientists Network (WIOECSN). Our members across the region facilitated different sessions in the summit...

RACHEL THOMS, our co-opted member from the United States of America and an early career researcher in the ocean sciences. She works as a data scientist in the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, holds a Bachelor of Science and is specialized in data science for marine conservation. She is interested in “data revolution” and...

Perhaps the African Marine Science week should form part of the Western Indian Ocean-Early Career Scientists Network’s (WIO-ECSN’s) annual calendar. WIO-ECSN certainly used this platform effectively to formally debut its outreach and ocean literacy campaign for early career scientists in the WIO region. This was a four-day online event hosted by the United Nations Educational,...

Soondur Mouneshwar, vice-chair of WIO-ECSN, and Hellen Kizenga, a member of the network, have both been in Helgoland in Germany since the beginning of 2021 under the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE) scholarship programme which provides world-class education and training courses in the field of observational oceanography. Both scholars are based at the...

An outreach event in Zanzibar-Tanzania introduced participants to WIOMSA and its different networks, including WIO-ECS Network. The event aimed to strengthen the capacity of early career scientists in the WIO region and to reach out to early career scientists for networking purposes. The key take home message from the day was that WIO-ECSN should stand...

The Early and Young Career Scientists Network (WIO-ECSN) is pleased to share tits activities in the first half of 2021 namely the election of its new leadership team. We are pleased to announce that following the recent general election of the Western Indian Ocean Early Career Scientists Network (WIO–ECSN) in February and March 2021, the...

This is an inspirational story of Dr. Jacqueline Uku, a Senior Research Officer at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute. She is also the current president of WIOMSA and serves on the Executive Committee of the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research (SCOR). She is a recipient of the 2019 NK Panniker Award. ****************************************************************************************************************************** Your...