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Country representatives of the European COST Action “Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science” (CA15217) gathered together between 25 and 27 November 2019 for their 4th International conference in Piran, Slovenia. 

, Senior Lecturer at the of the University of Malta participated as one of the country’s members of this COST Action.

This event included a conference together with parallel scientific workshops and lectures.

Expert discussion revolved around (i) issues and challenges in ocean governance, (ii) emerging science of ocean acidification impacts in the coastal oceans, and (iii) negotiating the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in the high seas.

These events also framed the official scientific programme comprising workshops and meetings of working groups of the COST Action OceanGov, with a focus on finalizing a number of joint research publications on the main six core themes of OceanGov: Land-Sea Interaction, Area-Based Management, Seabed Resource Management, Ocean, Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, and Fisheries Management. 

Dr Galdies, who forms part of the Working Group on Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, is a co-author of a recent open-access research article entitled published by this Working Group in the Journal Ocean & Coastal Management. Other working group articles are currently under editorial reviewed and in preparation.