GCRI · Oceans and Coasts
Mandate and publisher
Oceans and Coasts is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for oceans, coastal ecosystems and built shoreline resilience at the junction of science and development. This page sets out its mandate, who publishes it, what it does not do and its current operating state. The platform is open for information and enquiries.
- STEM methods
- 7
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 8
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 7
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 2
- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
What the platform exists to do.
The mandate is scientific: to produce interdisciplinary evidence on coastal and marine risk that planners, scientists and institutions can check and reuse. It exists as a dedicated platform because the marine community it serves is distinct from terrestrial biodiversity work and from port engineering alone.
Scope
Oceans and coasts, climate and hazards, and biodiversity and nature.
Who takes part
Marine scientists, coastal planners, fisheries experts and port specialists.
What it is designed to publish
Coastal risk atlas methods, marine dependency briefs and research cases.
The platform’s work is organised around eight topics, from sea level and coastal flood to marine pollution, and its methods draw on the STEM Commons, where GCRI stewards ocean and coastal science for the whole network.
Who is responsible.
GCRI publishes Oceans and Coasts and answers for its content. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation.
- Editorial responsibility: a platform editor and named subject reviewers, appointed as the platform opens.
- Methods: marine observations, coastal inundation analysis and fisheries and habitat evidence, each with its uncertainty published on methods and uncertainty.
- Corrections: reported and logged on corrections.
What the platform does not do.
- It does not regulate, certify, license or approve any person, project or institution.
- It does not issue flood, storm or tsunami warnings; those come from competent national authorities.
- It does not set fishing quotas, permit coastal development or allocate marine space.
- Taking part gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings, and sponsorship confers no editorial control.
Established.
The platform is published at its canonical address, as a candidate for the second wave after evidence. Its page set is built, and expert groups, research cases and methods open as editors and review capacity are confirmed. Write to the research team at the research collaboration form; the acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Questions and answers.
Is Oceans and Coasts a separate organisation?
Can I join a working group?
Does the platform take positions on marine policy?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.