We are more than happy to share our townhall at the 7th XMAS 2025 Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences, "Regional Modelling for the East Asian seas and Western Pacific Ocean: Experience and Perspective from MoNITOR and COASTAL-SOS". This townhall is co-hosted by UN endorsed project, MoNITOR.
Date & Time: 12:00 – 13:15 January 16, 2025
Venue: 1B Meeting Room, Xiamen International Conference Center
Description: This town hall on regional modelling for the East Asian seas and Western Pacific Ocean aligns perfectly with the main theme of XMAS 2025, transformative science & technology for a sustainable ocean. By leveraging advancements in digital technology, we aim to address critical challenges facing the coastal ecosystem in the region. Through modelling techniques, we seek to enhance our understanding of complex interactions between human activities, climate change, and ocean sustainability. The town hall will focus on two United Nations Ocean Decade endorsed projects, MoNITOR (“Mitigation of Natural Incidence Towards an increased Oceanic Resilience”) and COASTAL-SOS (“Coastal Zones Under Intensifying Human Activities and Changing Climate: A Regional Programme Integrating Science, Management and Society to Support Ocean Sustainability”). MoNITOR is dedicated to developing regional physical-biological model and operational forecasting systems for coastal regions along the Indian and western Pacific Ocean. COASTAL-SOS, focusing on the East Asian seas, aims to build a Digital Twin of the Ocean, serving as a science database and modelling platform for basic research and government decision-making. This town hall will showcase findings and implications of MoNITOR and COASTAL-SOS projects, highlighting innovative technologies and methodologies of regional modelling for the East Asian seas and Western Pacific Ocean. We will explore the development of coupled dynamic modelling capturing relationships between human activities, climate change, and coastal ecosystems in the East Asian seas and Western Pacific Ocean region. Based on these technological advancements, we will further discuss the potential of a coupled dynamic model in predicting coastal ecosystem changes and supporting informed decision-making. We welcome relevant researchers from various disciplines, to foster collaboration, inspire new ideas, and drive transformative solutions for a sustainable ocean in the coastal region.
Townhall poster
