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The value of water sustainability, safety, resilience, and India’s enactment successful advancing water probe nether the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science was highlighted astatine the inaugural league of the five-day International Indian Ocean Science Conference 2025 (IIOSC-2025), organized by the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) successful Hyderabad connected Monday (December 1, 2025).
The conference, being attended by astir 500 participants from 15 countries representing probe institutes, academia, industry, and NGOs, aims to showcase advancement and technological cognition gained during the 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) spanning 2015–2025.
The lawsuit provides a level for scientists moving connected assorted facets of the Indian Ocean to contiguous probe findings, speech ideas, place cognition gaps, and illustration a roadmap for addressing outstanding issues. Key speakers included Ministry of Earth Sciences Secretary M. Ravichandran, UNESCO-IOC Secretariat Head T. Srinivasa Kumar, and INCOIS Director T.M. Balakrishnan Nair, on with starring scientists from India and abroad.
The programme volition outline the aboriginal roadmap of IIOE-2, including caller initiatives aligned with the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Discussions volition absorption connected addressing cognition gaps and challenges successful coastal probe and monitoring, marine spatial readying (MSP), and enhancing engagement of probe communities successful the occidental Indian Ocean, marginal seas, and the eastbound Bay of Bengal.
The league volition besides stress capableness improvement and promoting early-career scientists to fortify planetary water subject collaboration, said a property release.
