The United Nations General Assembly recently proclaimed 2021-2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to generate the knowledge, data, science, infrastructure and partnerships needed to inform policies for a well-functioning ocean. What better time to engage the first stewards of the ocean—the Indigenous peoples of the world—in the conversation.


In September 2019, this is exactly what happened at OceanObs’19 in Honolulu, Hawaii...