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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 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), …

International Youth Day: Discussing Ocean Carbon with Dr. Jack Laverick Read More »

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, we need to gain a …

Connecting the dots: bringing diverse data sets together to understand the ocean carbon cycle Read More »

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 …

TALKING FISH, FISHERIES, AND THE CARBON CYCLE WITH OceanICU’S NEWLY ARRIVED POST-DOCTORAL SCIENTISTS Read More »

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 AND WIDER SOCIETY Read More »

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 »

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 Read More »