Tag: blueeconomy

Backyard Buoys to Help Support Blue Economy
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Backyard Buoys to Help Support Blue Economy

A new effort to gather wave data to enhance the blue economy, including maritime activities, food security and coastal hazard protection, is underway with National Science Foundation (NSF) funds to improve ocean data access for Indigenous communities. NOAA officials said the Backyard Buoys project would empower Indigenous and other coastal communities to collect, steward and use wave data that complements their existing knowledge to support their blue economy. Innovations in the works currently include a modular, sustainable process for community-led stewardship of affordable ocean buoys and co-designed web-based applications that render data easy to access and understand and bridge to Indigenous knowledge. The NOAA-led U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System effort is being financed v...
Ocean Contributes Billions of Dollars to BC Economy: Study
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Ocean Contributes Billions of Dollars to BC Economy: Study

A University of British Columbia study concludes that ocean waters contributed nearly $5 billion to the provincial gross domestic product in 2015, and that the sum is likely an underestimate, as it included only sectors most closely linked to the ocean. But the initial estimate raises additional questions, a starting point for policy to generate some sort of informed decision, said authors of the report published in the free online journal MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute). The authors suggest that their estimate could be used by non-economists to work out a baseline of what oceans contribute to the economy, as part of achieving the United Nations’ goal of sustainable oceans by 2030. Senior author Rashid Sumalia, a professor at UBC’s Institute for the Ocean...