News & Events

On January 22, 2026, the Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM) Programme hosted the GEM Webinar Series (2nd Event), attracting over 85 participants. The webinar featured two distinguished speakers. Prof. Amanda Reichelt-Brushett from Southern Cross University in Australia delivered a presentation entitled “Understanding Challenges in Catchment Management and River Health - An Australian Experience.” She shared insights into the physical, chemical, social, and political challenges

On 29 December 2025, we received a good news that our research proposal on the 2 nd phase of the UN-endorsed Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM) Programme was selected and funded by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR Government via its Research Impact Fund (RIF) scheme. Led by Professor Kenneth Leung, the Director of the GEM Programme, and the Director of State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Health (formerly called State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution

The GEM Webinar Series (2nd Event) is scheduled for 9:00-10:30 am (GMT) on 22 January 2026. We are very happy to invite Prof. Amanda Reichelt-Brushett  and Dr. Caroline Marie B. Jaraula  to share their research with us. Please find more details below. We also welcome your engagement in the following academic contributions. The presentation topics can cover any content related to estuarine research and UN Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 17, including, but not limited to:

From December 26 to 27, the 2025 Symposium on Advancing the Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) took place in Guangzhou, China. Hosted by the Decade Collaborative Centre on Ocean-Climate Nexus and Coordination Amongst Decade Implementing Partners (DCC-OCC), the South China Sea Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the First Institute of Oceanography under the Ministry of Natural Resources, the symposi

In the most recent Ocean Decade Progress Report (July 2024 - June 2025) by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM) Programme was specially reported as a case study under Ocean Decade Challenge 1: Marine Pollution. This signifies the broad acknowledgment of GEM's accomplishments throughout the previous year and the first five years of the Ocean Decade. “At the halfway mark of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Susta