From yacht deck to climate lab: navigating currents and building climate resilience!

Jan G Bourgois1, Gil Bourgois1, Toste Tanhua2

  • 1Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

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