Protected: Managing and protecting ocean spaces for climate, biodiversity and people by 2030
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TALKING FISH, FISHERIES, AND THE CARBON CYCLE WITH OceanICU’S NEWLY ARRIVED POST-DOCTORAL SCIENTISTS
Paula Silvar and Fiona Culhane have recently joined the OceanICU project as postdoctoral researchers, via consortium partner The Marine Institute in Ireland, a co-lead institute for Work Package 5 – Impacts of Fishing and Industrial Extraction Processes on the Ocean C Cycle. Why are we talking about fish? Because the role of fish in the …
OceanICU is convening a session at EGU 2024: Key Processes in the Oceans Biological Carbon Pump
Abstracts are welcome. Submissions by 10th of January 2024 In the following general areas: Key processes in individual biomes Laboratory measurements of key processes Data syntheses integrating multiple studies Human exploitation impacts on flux Food web structure effects One dimensional models of key processes Vertical C budgets Seasonality of key processes Remote sensing based approaches …
Newsletter | Issue 2
In this edition: Coordinator’s Note Webinars & Workshops On the Water: Research Cruises Good Reads: Blogs & More Notable News Upcoming Events OceanICU is a five-year project, funded by Horizon EU and UK Research and Innovation, that seeks to gain a new understanding of the biological carbon pump and its processes to provide fundamental knowledge …
OceanICU AND WIDER SOCIETY How will new knowledge from OceanICU contribute to enhanced Ocean Literacy?
As a Project Officer working on Ocean Literacy, I am amazed at how much there is to learn everyday about the ocean. Scientists working on a very wide range of ocean research projects are helping us better understand the multiple features of the ocean and marine ecosystems. Given the importance of the ocean in our …
HOW IMPORTANT ARE WHALES IN THE OCEANIC CARBON CYCLE? Scientists are looking for the answer.
OceanICU colleagues Dr. Carla Freitas and Morten Skogen, of the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Norway recently joined Richard Sanders, Andrew Watson and Pernille Schnoor for the first OceanICU webinar. Read on to learn about their important research! 600 tonnes of poo each day! That’s the estimate of excretion from minke whales around Svalbard, Norway …
World Ocean Assessment Pool of Experts
Congratulations to OceanICU colleagues Richard Sanders, Mary Wisz, Alex Poulton, Jerry Blackford for their acceptance into the World Ocean Assessment Pool of Experts. There’s still time to join hundreds of experts from different disciplines and geographic regions to contribute to the preparation, drafting and peer-review of third World Ocean assessment and other outputs of the …
Permanent Researcher Position in Ocean Observing Systems
Application closing date: 10 October 2023
A PATH TO NET ZERO
29 AUGUST 2023 OceanICU has a featured spotlight in the August issue of Sea Technology. In the article, “A Path to Net Zero”, Richard Sanders provides a good overview of OceanICU and discusses the project’s aims to examine the impact of blue economy industries on Ocean carbon storage, and how decision support tools will be developed …
A Path to Net Zero
OceanICU has a featured spotlight in the August issue of Sea Technology. In the article, “A Path to Net Zero”, Richard Sanders provides a good overview of OceanICU and discusses the project’s aims to examine the impact of blue economy industries on Ocean carbon storage, and how decision support tools will be developed to help …