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... Decade Challenges and Outcomes Addressed The Restored and Sustainable Ocean addresses many of the UN Ocean Decade challenges and outcomes. The primary UN Ocean Decade challenges include Challenge 1: "Understand and beat marine pollution - Understand and map land- and sea-based sources of pollutants and contaminants and their potential impacts on human health and ocean ecosystems, and develop solutions to remove or mitigate them"; Challenge 2: "Protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity - Understand the effects of multiple stressors on ocean ecosystems and develop solutions to monitor, protect, manage and restore ecosystems and their biodiversity under changing environmental, social and climate conditions"; and Challenge 3: "Sustainably feed the global population - Generate knowledge, support innovation and develop solutions to optimize the role of the ocean in sustainably feeding the world's population under changing environmental, social and climate
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... Moreover, the beauty and wonder of the ocean provide a cultural resource that inspires the arts and offers respite for many who enjoy beaches, swimming, diving, fishing, and other water activities. Connections to Ocean-Shots, UN Ocean Decade Actions, and U.S.
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... ENABLING TECHNOLOGY reefs The Coral Reef Sentinels food A Call for Health Diagnostics to Preserve Feeding 10 Billion Coral Reefs Future Fisheries in a Changing World Plant a Million Corals SEAFood with Healthy Oceans Reef Solutions TOPS3 The TeleConnected Reef Meeting Protein & Energy Needs for 10 Billion People while Restoring Oceans coasts Ecological Forecasts for a Rapidly Changing Coastal ecosystem seagrass & kelp Ocean Net Ecosystem Nature-Based Nutrient Reduction Improvement for Seagrass Restoration PERSEUS biodiversity Developing Thermally Tolerant Marine Life 2030 Kelp Broodstock The Endless Dive deep sea microbes iDOOS Development of Health Challenger150 Indices for Microbe genomics Twilight Zone Dominated Ocean Systems A Global eDNA Monitoring System Seascape Genomics of North Pacific Forage Fishes FIGURE 2.2  Visualization of select Ocean-Shot concepts relevant to The Restored and Sustainable Ocean. NOTE: Acronyms are defined in Table 2.4.
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