Developing an ocean best practice: A case study of marine sampling practices from Australia
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Author
Przeslawski, RachelBarrett, Neville
Carroll, Andrew
Foster, Scott
Gibbons, Brooke
Jordan, Alan
Monk, Jacquomo
Langlois, Tim
Lara-Lopez, Ana
Pearlman, Jay
Picard, Kim
Pini-Fitzsimmons, Joni
van Ruth, Paul
Williams, Joel
Date
2023Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International
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Since 2012, there has been a surge in the numbers of marine science publications that use the term ‘best practice’, yet the term is not often defined, nor is the process behind the best practice development described. Importantly a ‘best practice’ is more than a documented practice that an individual or institution uses and considers good. This article describes a rigorous process to develop an ocean best practice using examples from a case study from Australia in which a suite of nine standard operating procedures were released in 2018 and have since become national best practices. The process to develop a best practice includes three phases 1) scope and recruit, 2) develop and release, 3) revise and ratify. Each phase includes 2-3 steps and associated actions that are supported by the Ocean Best Practices System (www.oceanbestpractices.org). The Australian case study differs from many other practices, which only use the second phase (develop and release). In this article, we emphasize the value of the other phases to ensure a practice is truly a ‘best practice’. These phases also have other benefits, including higher uptake of a practice stemming from a sense of shared ownership (from scope and recruit phase) and currency and accuracy (from revise and ratify phase). Although the process described in this paper may be challenging and time-consuming, it optimizes the chance to develop a true best practice that is a) fit-for-purpose with clearly defined scope; b) representative and inclusive of potential users; c) accurate and effective, reflecting emerging technologies and programs; and d) supported and adopted by users.Journal
Frontiers in Marine ScienceVolume
10Issue/Article Nr
1173075Page Range
6pp.Resource/Dataset Location
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1173075/fullae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1173075
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