March 2025 | Oceanography
85 SPOTLIGHT. Capacity Building with Volunteers: Divers and Boaters Collect Data on Southern California Bight
By C. Gelpi, D. Kushner, A. Solomon, and S. Eckley
87 SPOTLIGHT. Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Development to Promote Early Career Ocean Professionals in Small Island
Developing States: The SmartNet Approach
By S. Chiba, K. Jhugroo, S.J. Bograd, J.O. Schmidt, J.M. Jackson, H. Lachance, M. Makino, A.M. Piecho-Santos, H. Saito,
E.V. Satterthwaite, and N. Correia Sena
89 SPOTLIGHT. Critical Connections: Transdisciplinary Capacity and Youth Engagement for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries
and Coastal Communities
By E. Koch and R. Chuenpagdee
91 SPOTLIGHT. Backyard Buoys: Meeting Needs of Coastal, Indigenous Communities Through Co-Design and Co-Production
By J. Newton, S. Wisdom, M. Iwamoto, R. Carini, J. Watson, S. Boulay, D. Mactavish, J. Hagen, J. Schumacker, D. Rudolph,
D. deBrum-Kattil, P. Tuaua, E. Brown, S. Burch, J. Hopson Jr., and J. Evans
94 SPOTLIGHT. Underwater Acoustics for All: Expanding Capacity with Education and Low-Cost Sensors
By K.J. Vigness-Raposa, L.J. Van Ufelen, M.O. Oladipo, E.K. Asamoah, A.O. Saba, N.M. Oguguah, A.O. Lawal-Are,
and K.M. Becker
96 SPOTLIGHT. Perspectives from Developers and Users of the GOA-ON in a Box Kit: A Model for Capacity Sharing in
Ocean Sciences
By A. Valauri-Orton, K.B. Lowder, K. Currie, C.L. Sabine, A.G. Dickson, S.N. Chu, A. Acosta, F.E. Asuquo, R. Bermudez,
U.J.F. Bilounga, K. Boodhoo, B.O. Botwe, C. Chapa-Balcorta, D. Cossa, A. De Cian, A. De Ramon N’Yeurt, C. Edworthy,
L. Epherra, C.M. Ferrera, L. Havimana, Y.A. Imrit, K.K. Kotra, E. Mahu, Y. Neehaul, A. Pickering, R.T. Ramessur, K. Soapi,
Z. Sohou, M. Tabius, and M. Vuiyasawa
99 SPOTLIGHT. Ocean Acidification Capacity Is Needed at All Levels to Develop a Multistakeholder Ocean Acidification
Action Platform
By J. Newton, S. Widdicombe, K. Isensee, S. Dupont, S. Flickinger, K. Grabb, E.F. Keister, K. Schoo, A. Kenworthy,
and A. Valauri-Orton
101 SPOTLIGHT. Capacity Building and Connecting Practitioners Through the Global Mangrove Alliance
By L. Veverka, E. Forinash, E. Roddom, A. Susanto Astra, B. Christ, M.C. Díazgranados, J. Howard, E. Landis, P. Jacobo,
H. Pickard, M. Spalding, and M. Leal
103 SPOTLIGHT. The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole of the Americas: Building a Community of Practice
for Detecting Rapid Changes in Coastal Biodiversity
By N. Moity, G. Bigatti, F. Muller-Karger, and E. Monte
106 SPOTLIGHT. Boosting the South: A Vision for an All-Atlantic Training Platform
By W. Ekau, H. Fock, J. Muelbert, and J. Augustyn
109 SPOTLIGHT. Technical Cooperation Programme to Build Countries’ Capacities for Science-Based Sustainable Marine
Management
By M. Metian, J. Friedrich, P. Masque, S. Dupont, M. Zapata, M. Warnau, and C.M. Alonso-Hernandez
111 SPOTLIGHT. The IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Capacity Building Program: Empowering
Member States to Address and Minimize the Impacts of Ocean Acidification
By S. Dupont, C. Edworthy, C. Sánchez-Noguera, M. Metian, J. Friedrich, S. Flickinger, A. Bantelman, C. Galdino, F. Graba,
O. Anghelici, and L. Hansson
114 SPOTLIGHT. Measuring the Success of Ocean Capacity Initiatives
By M. Guilhon, M. Vierros, H. Harden-Davies, D. Amon, S. Cambronero-Solano, C. Gaebel, K. Hassanali, V. Lopes, A. McCarthy,
A. Polejack, G. Sant, J.S. Veiga, A. Sekinairai, and S. Talma
116 Autobiographical Sketches
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5 QUARTERDECK • Women in Oceanography: One More Time?
By E.S. Kappel