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 …
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 …
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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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 …
