In Aug. 2019, Prof. Fan Wang was invited to attend the three-day UN Ocean Science Decade Regional Planning Workshop (RPW) for the North Pacific and Western Pacific Marginal Seas (RPW-NPWPMS) in Tokyo, Japan, the workshop culminated in a wide range of actions and partnerships to advance scientific knowledge needed for sustainable development.
This Regional Planning Workshop (RPW) aims to build dialogues amongst various ocean stakeholders in the region, focusing on the co-development of solution-oriented research strategies to address the Decade six societal outcomes: a clean ocean, a healthy and resilient ocean, a predicted ocean, a safe ocean, a sustainably harvested and productive ocean, and a transparent and accessible ocean.\
(Edited by Fengfan Yang)