International Youth Day: Dr. Filipa Afonso Shares Her Interest for Ocean Carbon
By Filipa Afonso International Youth Day is commemorated every year on 12 August, bringing youth issues to the attention of the international community and celebrating the potential of youth as partners in today’s global society. This year’s theme – “Different Contexts, Common Aspirations“ – recognises that while young people’s lives are shaped by different national …
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Media
Tune into the voices of our consortium scientists as they discuss various threads of the OceanICU story from Ocean Carbon and Marine Biology to Governance and Policy. Podcast Demystifying the cop On the heels of COP29, Richard Sanders (NORCE Research) and special guest Dr. Toste Tanhua (GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel) discuss whether or not …
Posters
These posters showcase the work of OceanICU’s early career researchers and were presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Sopot, Poland. Check out their insightful and exciting work focussed on various aspects of the OceanICU investigation to better understand the biological carbon pump and its processes.
Connecting the Dots: Bringing Diverse Data Sets Together To Understand the Ocean Carbon Cycle
By Sophie Clayton, National Oceanography Centre Predicting how the carbon cycle will respond to a warming climate is still an open question, with CMIP6 climate projections giving a wide range of projections for how ocean biology will interact with higher temperatures and higher atmospheric carbon dioxide. To improve these projections, we need to gain a …
The Oostende Declaration
Calling for concerted international and intergovernmental efforts to create a robust, resilient, and sustainable surface ocean observing system, the monumental Oostende Declaration is a culmination of a vigorous workshop held in early November 2023 in Belgium and hosted by VLIZ – Flanders Marine Institute. Several of our OceanICU colleagues–Richard Sanders, Siv Lauvset, Andy Watson and …









