Title: International Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) Geo Needs and Efforts

With: 

• OA: Dr. Martin Hernandez Ayon, Investigator, del Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. Ayon is Oceanographer with doctoral studies in Coastal Oceanography and postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California. He’s a specialist in the Carbon Dioxide System in seawater and marine biogeochemistry. His research has focused on studying the role of coastal zones in the carbon cycle, including the effect of ocean acidification (AO) on marine ecosystems and the relationship of OA with other stress factors such as hypoxia, climate change, and CO2 fluxes in coastal regions. He has served as the Chair of the Mexican Carbon Program since 2018 and is a Science member of the Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) Executive Council and member of the North American Carbon Program Science Leadership Group
  He is GOA-ON Latin American Ocean Acidification Studies Network (LAOCA) representative.
• MBON: Dr. Frank Müller-Karger is a Professor in the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida. He studies coastal and marine ecosystems including the links between water quality, biological production, and biodiversity, and how these may be connected to climate change and human activities. He uses satellite remote sensing and field work to measure how marine life is changing. Muller-Karger serves as co-lead of the US and international Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON), the Marine Life 2030 program endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and the NOAA Climate Program Office/Sanctuaries Climate Indicator Task Force. Muller-Karger promotes science and technology, working with the public to advance environmental conservation, locally, nationally and internationally.