ECSF Director Dr. Sourav Paul delivered an invited lecture at Indian Ocean Regional Decade Conference (IO-CON), 2024 at INCOIS, Hyderabad. He emphasized the need of building a cyclone program for Indian estuaries in the UN Ocean Decade. He also demonstrated capacity development initiatives taken from the ECSF in the last two years that touched many stakeholders of the UN Ocean Decade. His lecture slotted in ‘Challenge 10 on Change Humanity’s Relationship with the Ocean’ had engaged fruitful discussions among academicians, government, policymakers, private NGOs who were representing their countries across the World.