📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Birds; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: USA
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
📚 Category: Ocean Professionals
🏷️ Topics include: Infrastructure
📍 Country/Region: USA
The mission of NAML and its three regional organizations is to promote excellence in research, education, and public outreach in the marine sciences. NAML also seeks to provide a forum for the resolution of challenges common to non-profit marine laboratories in the United States and to inform the wise use and conservation of marine and coastal resources. The Association is committed to establishing an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of NAML’s research, education, and outreach enterprise.
📚 Category: Ocean Professionals
🏷️ Topics include: Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: USA
NAEP is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to developing the highest standards of ethics and proficiency in the environmental professions. Our members are public and private sector professionals who promote excellence in decision-making in light of environmental, social, and economic impacts of those decisions. NAEP provides the access and network for you to grow as a professional.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays); Diversity & Inclusion
📍 Country/Region: International
We were founded by four Black female shark researchers. We strive to be seen and take up space in a discipline which has been largely inaccessible for women like us. We strive to be positive role models for the next generation. We seek to promote diversity and inclusion in shark science and encourage women of color to push through barriers and contribute knowledge in marine science. Finally, we hope to topple the system that has historically excluded women like us and create an equitable path to shark science. We believe diversity in scientists creates diversity in thought, which leads to innovation.
📚 Category: Engineering/Technology
🏷️ Topics include: Technology; Career Development Support; Renewable Energy; Ocean Literacy; Scuba Diving; Oceanography; Meteorology
📍 Country/Region: International
The Marine Technology Society promotes awareness, understanding, and the advancement and application of marine technology. Incorporated in 1963, the international society brings together businesses, institutions, professionals, academics, and students who are ocean engineers, technologists, policy makers, and educator
📚 Category: Engineering/Technology
🏷️ Topics include: Renewable Energy
📍 Country/Region: Ireland; Northern Ireland
The Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA) represents companies and interests in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the Marine Renewables Emerging Technologies (MRET) sector.
Category: Ocean Professionals
Focuses on: Biology/Ecology; Marine Mammals; Career Development Support
Country/Region: International
The Marine Mammal Observer Association (MMOA) is a membership-based association with the aim of bringing together and representing individuals who work commercially and professionally as marine fauna mitigation professionals who implement mitigation measures to protect marine life during industry operations.
MMOA aims to work with professional, experienced and newly qualified MMOs, PSOs and PAM operators, industry, government agencies, non-government organisations (NGOs) and academics to improve the profession's effectiveness by:
Developing professional competency.
Improving collection and use of data.
Assimilating field experience and knowledge of marine fauna mitigation professionals.
Providing a collective voice for offshore professionals.
Promoting the marine fauna mitigation profession in the offshore industry.
Improving protection for marine mammals.
MMOA seek to achieve this through:
Attendance at relevant conferences and meetings by MMOA spokespersons to represent marine fauna mitigation interests.
Recognising the skills of professional MMOs, PSOs, PAM Operators, MMO managers and associated consultants and providing marine fauna mitigation professionals with career development opportunities and advice.
Encouraging feedback from professional and experienced marine fauna mitigation professionals through an online forum.
Providing a point of contact for advice and consultation on marine mammal mitigation issues, feedback on improving/reviewing guidelines and marine fauna mitigation data collection.
Improving knowledge of members through an Information Directory
Working to encourage and promote the systematic collection, collation and analysis of marine fauna data worldwide.
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📚 Category: Ocean Professionals
🏷️ Topics include: Blue Economy
📍 Country/Region: Canada
The MGAC is a non-profit association of marine guides and tourism stakeholders committed to the development and preservation of top-tier professional guiding in Canadian coastal waters.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology; Geology
🏷️ Topics include: Habitat Mapping; Geoscience
📍 Country/Region: International
GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an international association of marine scientists studying biophysical (i.e., geologic and oceanographic) indicators of benthic habitats and ecosystems as proxies for biological communities and species diversity. The main goals of GeoHab scientists are: to support government spatial marine planning, sustainable ocean management, and decision making; to support and underpin the design of marine protected areas (MPAs); to conduct scientific research programs aimed at generating knowledge of benthic ecosystems and seafloor geology; to conduct living and non-living seabed resource assessments for economic and management purposes, including the design of fishing reserves.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: UK
The Marine Biological Association (MBA) is one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting research into our oceans and the life they support. Since 1884 we have been providing a unified, clear, independent voice on behalf of the marine biological community and currently have a growing membership in over 40 countries.
📚 Category: Maritime Industry
🏷️ Topics include: Law
📍 Country/Region: France
L’association réunit près de 400 professionnels du droit maritime (universitaires, avocats spécialisés, juristes d’entreprises ayant une activité maritime). Elle a notamment pour objet l’étude des questions relatives au droit maritime et au droit des activités maritimes en général sous tous ses aspects (interne et international, privé et public).
📚 Category: Multidisciplinary
🏷️ Topics include: Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: International
La POC rassemble plus de 90 membres – instituts de recherche, ONGs, aquariums, secteur privé, institutions françaises et agences internationales, collectivités territoriales. Ils travaillent ensemble à communiquer le message suivant : « un océan en bonne santé pour un climat protégé ».
📚 Category: Ocean Professionals
🏷️ Topics include: Scuba Diving
📍 Country/Region: Germany
Die Kommission Forschungstauchen Deutschland (KFT) ist ein eingetragener Berufsverband der in Deutschland ansässigen Forschungseinrichtungen, die wissenschaftliches Tauchen auf Grundlage der geltenden nationalen Bestimmungen und Regelwerke durchführen.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Data Science/Modelling
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM) promotes the international exchange of ideas, scientific results, and other knowledge on application of systems analysis and simulation in ecology and natural resource management. The Society was formed in Denmark in 1978 by the initiative of the professor Sven E. Jorgensen. Today ISEM has following chapters: Africa, Australasia, Europe, North America and Japan. The society sponsors conferences, symposia, and workshops that promote the systems approach to ecological research and teaching, and to the management of natural resources. Its members frequently contribute research articles to the official scientific journal of the Society, Ecological Modelling.
📚 Category: Maritime Industry
🏷️ Topics include: Blue Economy; Boating; Sailing
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Council of Marine Industry Associations - ICOMIA - is the international trade association representing the global marine industry since 1966. ICOMIA brings together national marine industry associations in one global organisation and represents them at an international level, presenting a strong and united voice when dealing with issues challenging the industry.
📚 Category: Maritime Industry
🏷️ Topics include: Blue Economy; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Association of Marine Consultants and Surveyors (IAMCS) was formed on 2015. The association is an independent, non-political organisation. It also provides information on the people who are the main driving force behind the Association. Actively represent and promote the interests of the Association's members to the local and international communities. Promote regular programmers to improve productivity, technology, skills upgrading and to raise safety, health and environmental standards.
📚 Category: Ocean Professionals
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/ Ecology; Infrastructure; Ocean Literacy; Environment/Sustainability; Fisheries; Aquaculture; Maritime; Oceanography; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) is an organization of librarians and information professionals involved in all aspects of aquatic and marine sciences and their allied disciplines. The association provides a forum to exchange and explore ideas and issues of mutual concern.
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology
📍 Country/Region: International
The International Association for Biological Oceanography (IABO) acts under the umbrella of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) of the the International Science Council (ISC). IABO seeks to promote the advancement of knowledge of the biology of the sea by providing opportunities for communication between marine biologists. These opportunities shall include meetings and discussions either during other Assemblies of IUBS or other suitable occasions. IABO also fosters co-operating with organizations and individuals with similar aims and interests.
📚 Category: Maritime Industry
🏷️ Topics include: Navigation
📍 Country/Region: International
The Institute of Navigation (ION) is a not-for-profit organization advancing Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT). ION’s international membership is drawn from many sources including professional navigators, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, cartographers, photogrammetrists, meteorologists, educators, geodesists, surveyors, other aviation and airline pilots, mariners and anyone interested in position-determining systems. Corporate members include corporations, civil and military government agencies, private scientific and technical institutions, universities and training academies, and consulting firms.
📚 Category: Engineering/Technology; Maritime Industry; Multidisciplinary
🏷️ Topics include: Technology; General Science; Maritime; AI; Career Development Support; Coastal Science; Marine Mammals; Seafarers; Renewable Energy; Naval Architecture; Engineering; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: International
IMarEST is The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology; the international professional body and learned society for all marine professionals. IMarEST is the first Institute to bring together marine engineers, scientists and technologists into one international multi-disciplinary professional body.
