OceanICU is pleased to feature in the Cordis Information Pack: Blue Carbon for Diversity and Climate Action as one of 15 EU Funded projects closing significant gaps in understanding, observing, modelling and predicting the natural blue carbon component of ecosystem services. BlueCarbon describes the way in which carbon is captured, stored and released through ecosystems …
The EU4Ocean Stand, The ROBO-IGUANA stand by Mrudul Chellapurath, the Oceanografi Na Otoku stand with oceanographers Maja Karlovic and Natalija Dunić and OceanICU colleague Maria Angel. On April 25th, at the Science is Wonderful event in Brussels, we engaged with teachers and early career scientists from across Europe to celebrate the importance of science and …
Joides Resolution, Luc Beaufort; British Geological Survey; National Science Foundation; NASA Earth Observatory The 2024 OceanICU Annual Science Meeting took place virtually, 11-15th of March, offering a positive view of progress made during the first year and a robust platform for discussions among partners across various scientific domains concerning ocean carbon processes. Through a series …
Calling for concerted international and intergovernmental efforts to create a robust, resilient, and sustainable surface ocean observing system, the monumental Oostende Declaration is a culmination of a vigorous workshop held in early November 2023 in Belgium and hosted by VLIZ – Flanders Marine Institute. Several of our OceanICU colleagues–Richard Sanders, Siv Lauvset, Andy Watson and …
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 …
