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 …
HOW IMPORTANT ARE WHALES IN THE OCEANIC CARBON CYCLE? Read More »
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 …
Application closing date: 10 October 2023
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 …
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 …
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 …
PhD position on “Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle Response to Antarctic Meltwater Read More »
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, …
If your research involves Ocean carbon, please consider submitting an abstract to the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 session OB017, titled “Recent advances in understanding the Ocean carbon cycle”. OceanICU partner Neill MacKay of the University of Exeter will be convening this session and is welcoming submissions addressing all aspects of the Ocean carbon cycle, including …
There are many facets to the OceanICU investigation, one of which is understanding the potential role that fish play in the global carbon cycle, how their role may have changed as a result of fishing, and how fishery activities might be managed to maximise climate and fisheries benefits. Coming to you this autumn, OceanICU will …
Since September is traditionally back to school time and you are never too old or qualified to learn or share or play (collaborate) with others, OceanICU is launching its informative webinar and workshop series tailored to specific or general audiences, to share knowledge and skills and discuss various themes associated with Ocean carbon and the …
