By Natalya Gallo As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change annual Conference of the Parties (COP), the Ocean Pavilion hosts webinars in its Virtual Pavilion focused on ocean science and policy topics that are relevant to the negotiations. These online events are free to anyone wishing …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWKJebejxE Did you know that International Youth Day is celebrated around the World every year on the 12th of August? The theme for International Youth Day 2024 – “From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development” – highlights the key connection between digitalisation and accelerating the progress of …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …