OceanICU

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 …

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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 …

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OceanICU AND WIDER SOCIETY

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 …

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HOW IMPORTANT ARE WHALES IN THE OCEANIC CARBON CYCLE?

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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PhD position on “Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle Response to Antarctic Meltwater

This work described in this open PhD opportunity from OceanICU partner AWI will be of great interest to OceanICU as it will help inform how the global carbon process works. PhD position on “Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle Response to Antarctic Meltwater”. This is a modelling project: the selected candidate will run and analyze simulations with …

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Newsletter | Issue 1

In this edition: Welcome Note from Richard Sanders How to Get Involved OceanICU Project Kick Off Event Celebrating World Ocean Day UNESCO Integrated Carbon Research Workshop Summer Read: First OceanICU Science Paper The OceanICU Webinar & Workshop Series The Future is Fish Carbon: Our Focus for Autumn 2023 Upcoming Events OceanICU is a five-year project, …

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