The twenty-second meeting of the 'United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea' was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 6 - 10 June 2022. The Informal Consultative Process was established by the General Assembly in 1999 in order to facilitate its annual review of developments in ocean affairs and the law of the sea. Annual meetings are held with a different topic of focus each year. The twenty-second meeting held this year focused its discussions on the theme 'Ocean observing'. Joao Vitorino from Instituto Hidrografico (Portugal), partners in JERICO-S3, participated in the second segment of the discussion panel, held on 8 June and titled…