IMARPE successfully organized the final workshop of the Humboldt Tipping project.
The Peruvian Sea Institute (El Instituto del Mar del Perú, IMARPE) successfully held the Final Workshop of Humboldt Tipping – Phase II, within the framework of the cooperation agreement between IMARPE and Kiel University (CAU) in Germany.
The event, conducted in a hybrid format, brought together researchers from IMARPE — both from the central headquarters and its decentralized coastal branches — as well as from CAU and other German academic institutions, in addition to specialists from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). During the sessions, the main results achieved throughout the execution of the project were presented and discussed, reflecting the collaborative work among all participating institutions.
Dr. Renato Salvatteci (principal investigator of the project at the Center for Ocean and Society of Kiel University) and Dr. Dimitri Gutiérrez (co–principal investigator for IMARPE) led the meeting. The workshop’s topics covered studies on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in both the present and future scenarios, focusing on the Peruvian marine ecosystem, its main fisheries, and the relationship between natural and socio-ecological processes in the bays of Sechura and Independencia, in the context of global change.
The program included seven keynote lectures corresponding to the different components of the project, as well as 29 oral and poster presentations, 26 of which were led by IMARPE specialists or developed by students advised by the institution and the project. At the end of each day, discussion panels were held with researchers and special guests.
In the first panel, the need to continue improving the spatial resolution of studies and to better understand the mechanisms driving ecosystem dynamics was highlighted, in order to strengthen the robustness of future regional scenarios and anticipate ecosystem tipping points in the coming decades.
In the second panel, it was agreed that, regardless of global change scenarios, urgent actions are needed to increase the resilience of the socio-ecological system. Such actions should lead to improvements in the value chain of fishery and aquaculture products, contribute to food security, and strengthen marine-coastal management and governance capacities with a participatory approach, among other measures.
