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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the key challenges we face in Ocean Carbon cycle research is quantifying the behavior of the Ocean carbon sink. This sink absorbs approximately 25% of the CO2 we emit to the atmosphere, slowing the rate of climate change. Its future evolution is therefore a matter of some concern, and a system is needed …
UNESCO Integrated Carbon Research Workshop OceanICU investigators had the opportunity to contribute to the conversation of defining key priorities in Ocean Carbon cycle research during the UNESCO Integrated Carbon Research workshop, hosted by the European Commission in Brussels this past May. This was a follow-up discussion to the 2019 meeting in Paris that led to …
On the 28th of February 2023, OceanICU team members from the 30 partner organisations making up the consortium gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the opportunities and challenges of meeting the objectives of the OceanICU project. A series of presentations and workshops were held covering a variety of different disciplines, initial implementation plans were forged …
OceanICU celebrates World’s Ocean Day with the release of its first video. Check out Richard Sanders discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the OceanICU team undertaking this monumental research.
