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The 8th Atlantic Stakeholders Platform Conference (ASPC 2021), organized with the Presidency of the Atlantic Strategy Committee, will be held as a hybrid event, covering the topic ‘Atlantic Pathways to a Green Blue Economy’. This conference will provide opportunities to review the current state-of-play of the Atlantic Action Plan and the way forward. To register, […]

Lifewatch is organizing a new inspiring, annual event on biodiversity, where science meets citizens, policy and industry. In this first edition they kick off with a hot topic: ‘biologging and camera ‘trapping, technology that changed the world of animal research’. You can register here by 20 October. via Lifewatch Have any news or opportunity in […]

The MATES project team organizes a Workshop on: “Maritime Technologies Skills Strategy: Construction & Validation”.  The main goal of this event is to present the preliminary Maritime Technologies Skills Strategy for the Shipbuilding and Offshore Renewable energy sectors. To find out more, click here. You can register here till 27 September. via MATES Have any […]

EMB Young Ambassadors Alessandro Cresci, Rebecca Zitoun and Anjali Gopakumar are organizing a workshop within the scope of the International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE) 2021 edition. The 3-hour workshop, taking place from 12:30-15:30 CEST on 23 September 2021, will be on “Boosting the impact of your science through effective communication: Learning how to […]

The Southern Ocean Task Force and the Organizing Committee of Polar Data Forum IV are pleased to announce that the Southern Ocean Decade & Polar Data Forum Week 2021 will be convened on 20-24 September 2021. This event will be dedicated to the 2nd Southern Ocean Regional Workshop for the UN Ocean Decade and the […]

Date: Wednesday 1 December 2021, from 09:30-16:00 CEST At the end of the first year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the 8th EMB Forum will discuss European efforts in support of the Ocean Decade. This is an important time to reflect on what has already been achieved in this first year of the […]

How can we support the application of ecosystem-based approaches in Marine Spatial Planning? #MSP Join the UNESCO – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and #MSPglobal online seminar organized jointly with the European Commission‘s #DGMARE and #CINEA to present the results of a new study carried out as part of the #MSProadmap — register below! #EBA4MSP 📅 29 September 2021 / 16.00 – 17.30 (CEST) For more registration follow this link. via […]

The Ecosystem Studies of the Subarctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) program is inviting nominations for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) interested in the impacts of climate change on high-latitude marine ecosystems to join its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for a three-year renewable term. ESSAS is a regional program under the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) project. The SSC […]

The launch of the Blue Food Assessment will highlight the interconnection of aquatic and terrestrial food systems, present the latest science on how blue food can support a shift towards a healthier and more sustainable future, and spark policy discussions about how to set that shift in motion. For more information and registration, click here. […]

The Conference will mark the launch of the UN Ocean Decade in the Western Pacific and its adjacent areas, and represent the beginning of the region-wide efforts in a substantive development and implementation of Decade Actions. It aims to catalyze partnerships among various ocean stakeholder communities in the region, and initiate co-design of transformative ocean […]

The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) is a project of UNESCO IOC´s IODE Programme. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss recent innovations in atlases, how atlases can contribute to the goals of the UN´s Decade of Ocean Science and it will also investigate synergies with other initiatives such as the IODE […]

When: November 5 – 7, 6:30pm – 10:30pm Eastern US Where: Online, Interactive over Zoom Target Audience: Collectors, Exporters, Importers, Wholesalers, Retailers, Hobbyists Includes: Three 4-hour sessions in an interactive AV training call in a small group, physical training materials including the Coral Finder Toolkit 2.0 (Coral Finder 2021 and a comprehensive workshop manual, a […]

The Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy  (OASIS)  is a United Nations (UN) Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development programme, led by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group #162. It is a community working to harmonize observational strategies and develop a practical, integrated approach to observing air-sea interactions through capacity development, leveraging of multi-disciplinary activities, and […]

Presenters: Marjolaine Krug, Marcello Passaro, Masami Nonaka, and Maria Kavanaugh Moderators: Marjolaine Krug and Belén Martín Míguez. The OOPC Boundary System Task Team (BSTT) will report on its recent progress in reviewing observing systems at oceanic boundaries. Following a short presentation by the BSTT team, 3 presentations on recent advances in satellite oceanography and their application at the ocean […]

We are pleased to open registration for the Fifth Community Workshop of the  IOC-UNESCO Ocean Best Practices System (20-24 Sep, 2021) at: https://workshop5.oceanbestpractices.org/registration During these workshops, we gather insight and guidance from diverse ocean communities on how the OBPS should develop to promote engaging, interdisciplinary, and multi-stakeholder management of ocean practices and know-how. We’re pleased to […]

This online event will showcase the impact and legacy of this unique 4-year programme funded by UKRI. It will show how the GSSTAR programme has changed the landscape of seaweed aquaculture at both the national and international level and mark the launch of an updated Global Policy Brief providing recommendations on safeguarding the future of […]

The main theme of Oceanthon 2021 is “Ocean&Climate”, as part of Pre-COP26 in Milan and the challenges of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The focus is dedicated to the Mediterranean area, for this reason the event is addressed to everyone, from researchers, innovators, developers, marine scientists, social scientists, designers, engineers, experts in […]

“SPOT satellites (Satellites Pour l’Observation de la Terre) were designed by CNES to study the Earth. From 1986 to 2015, the series of 5 satellites were able to take images of the planet with improved resolution with each generation of satellites (from 20 m to 2.5 m). In order to perpetuate and enhance these data, […]

The final version of the protocol document entitled “Particulate Organic Matter Sampling and Measurement Protocols: Consensus Towards Future Ocean Color Missions” is now available for download from the IOCCG website.  This document is the product of a NASA-supported workshop to produce community consensus protocols for sample collection, filtration, storage, analysis, and quality assurance for particulate […]

The Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center (OA-ICC) will host its second virtual Ocean Acidification Week in September. The event a virtual multi-day forum to highlight different aspects of ocean acidification research and initiatives from around the world. The key goals of OA Week are to: Engage the OA and broader oceanographic communities, raise awareness to the […]

In collaboration with MaRINET2, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), WavEC Offshore Renewables and the Marine Engineering Institute – Italian National Research Council (CNR-INM), is organizing a course entitled “Methods and environmental data collection in Marine Renewable Energy sites”. The short course will take place ONLINE, on July 30th and September 3rd, 2021. The general […]

Presented by: Samuel Brody of the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas at Texas A&M University at Galveston, Carlos Martin with the Brookings Institution’ Metropolitan Policy Program, and Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton Risk Center at the University of Pennsylvania Description: Sea level rise will cause interrelated challenges in communities around the United States. The […]

Dear friends, collaborators, entrepreneurs and innovators, This is a reminder that WE ARE 20 DAYS AWAY from the submission deadline for the Blue Climate Initiative’s US$1 Million Ocean Innovation Prize. This Prize is part of the Blue Climate Initiative’s Ocean Decade Programme. The Prize aims to inspire, fund, support, and showcase market-based innovations to mitigate climate change through ocean-related strategies. It’s time […]

Dr Claire Jolly, Head, STI Ocean Economy Group, OECD Secretariat Dr Emma Heslop, Programme Specialist, Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), IOC/ UNESCO Dr Clare Postlethwaite, Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Marine data play a crucial role for many scientific disciplines, as well as for a  diverse range of operational services, such as fisheries management, […]

Description September 29 & October 6 – 11:00 to 13:00 ET and 15:00 to 17:00 ET Since the pre-industrial period, human activities are estimated to have increased Earth’s global average temperature by about 1.1 degree Celsius (IPCC, 2021), a number that is currently increasing by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade (GISTEMP Team, 2021). The increase in […]

The State of the Climate in 2020 report has been released. Follow this link for details. If you would like to read a summary of the report’s highlights, follow this link. via NOOA Have any news or opportunity in ocean sciences to share? Send it to info_at_nf-pogo-alumni.org

How to do science so it influences marine policy and management: A panel discussion with a focus on Latin American, Caribbean, and African contexts Moderator/panelists: Peter Edwards of The Pew Charitable Trusts (moderator), Rodrigo Arriagada of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (panelist), Nicole Leotaud of the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (panelist), and David Obura […]

The Ocean Festival aims at inspiring visitors to #takeaction ❗️ “Culture meets Science” – through an extensive stage programme, adventure areas, educational stations, and cultural installations visitors are invited to embark on a journey into the diverse and unknown #underwater world.🌊🌏 🗓 21-22 August 2021 📍 Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Discover more here 🔍 via OD Have any news or […]

An original survey of UK marine data users, conducted by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), explores the pathways through which marine data are used and transformed into actionable information, in order to better value vital marine information. The results of […]

The International Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) of IOC-UNESCO – together with regional partners across the globe – is developing an inclusive Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) to allow digital stakeholders to reliably share and discover key ocean data. ODIS is built by its participants: anyone with data to share can become a node in […]

Save the date for the 9th Workshop of the International Coastal Atlas Network which will be held online on 27-29 September 2021. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss recent innovations in atlases, how atlases can contribute to the goals of the UN´s Decade of Ocean Science and it will also investigate synergies […]

Consider submitting an abstract to the session on ‘Protecting Coastlines Using Nature-Based Solutions‘ at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022 being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, during 27 February – 4 March 2022. The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday 15 September 2021.   Session ID: CP01 Protecting Coastlines Using Nature-Based Solutions Topic Area: Coastal and Estuarine Hydrodynamics […]

The report on the State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 will be released during a high level event tomorrow. The event will be live streamed here. via WMO Have any news or opportunity in ocean sciences to share? Send it to info_at_nf-pogo-alumni.org

The Intergovernemental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is convening together with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) the final conference of their joint MSPglobal Initiative on Tuesday 5 October 2021 from 16:00 to 19:00 CEST (virtual format). In order to share the key outcomes of the initiative since its launch in […]

The ECSA 58 – EMECS 13: Estuaries and coastal seas in the Anthropocene – Structure, functions, services and management conference will be held online from 6-9 September 2021 and will be available afterwards on-demand. This stimulating online event will bring together a specially selected line-up of expert speakers, contributed talks and ePosters outlining the latest innovative research […]

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICES Annual Science Conference 2021 is organized as a virtual conference. The conference takes place 6–10 September and consists of live interactive sessions and pre-recorded presentations. Live sessions run 15:00–20:00 CEST Monday to Thursday and 15:00–18:00 CEST on Friday.  All pre-recorded presentations are available for on demand viewing between 23 August–30 September. You can find […]

S5: BIO/POC Topic Session Atmospheric nutrient deposition and microbial community responses, and predictions for the future in the North Pacific Ocean Thu, Oct. 26, 2021 19:00-21:00 (Sidney, BC, PT) Convenors: Jun Nishioka (Japan, corresponding), Huiwang Gao (China), Santiago Gassó (USA), Kitack Lee (Korea), Maurice Levasseur (Canada), Guiling Zhang (China) Atmospheric deposition is an important nutrient source for […]

Societal uses and environmental health of the coastal ocean are impacted by outflows from human activities on land and by coastal to open-ocean exchange at the edge of the continental shelf, which is strongly influenced by energetic shelf-edge boundary currents. Boundary currents are also significant in global budgets of heat, freshwater and biogeochemical constituents, and […]

The National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), in partnership with SOLAS, is exploring offering a new Master of Science (MSc) Programme in Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate. We would be grateful for your feedback on your interest in participating postgraduate study (as either a student or a supervisor) in Sustainability and Climate through NUIG. You can […]

Since 2004, the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) project is an international research initiative aiming to understand the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere. SOLAS has 29 scientific national and regional networks around the world with contacts and scientists who conduct research under the SOLAS themes. You can read the latest release […]

The Atlantic International Research Centre is an international collaborative framework to address global challenges and local priorities in the Atlantic Ocean. It promotes an integrative approach to space, climate, ocean and energy in the Atlantic, supported by emerging technological innovations and advances in data science, and through South-North and North-South cooperation. As part of their […]

The journal Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research is currently running a Special Issue titled “Remote Sensing and Oceans”. Dr. Giacomo De Carolis is serving as Guest Editor for this Special Issue. For further reading, please visit the Special Issue website at the following link: https://www.lidsen.com/journals/aeer/aeer-special-issues/remote-sensing-ocean The submission deadline is “November 30, 2021”. You may […]

Are you interested in learning how remote sensing can help monitor aquatic environments? If  you are interested in coastal monitoring and environmental reporting, or if you work in fisheries and aquaculture, if you studied an Earth discipline (hydrology, ecology, meteorology, oceanography, glaciology, geology); if you work in the military, intelligence, if you are a diver, […]

The programme, funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme, gives 15 talented researchers from all over the world the opportunity to undertake their research and training activity at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The programme is supported by the University’s corporate partners, including research centres, non-academic networks of spin-offs, and small and medium enterprises, […]

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and supported by European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) will be holding a conference that aims to assess how well the current global climate observing system supports current and near-term user needs for climate information. The outputs will provide […]

This IOCCG news bulletin contains a summary of the latest news from the IOCCG and its sponsoring agencies, as well as the broader ocean colour community. If you would like to include an item of interest in the next IOCCG news bulletin, please contact the IOCCG Scientific Officer, Dr. Raisha Lovindeer (raisha@ioccg.org), with a cc: […]

The US CLIVAR is going to organize a workshop on Future US Earth System Reanalysis, which will be held October 18-20, 2021 in Boulder, CO (with virtual participation options). This workshop is open to the broad Earth sciences community. Experts from data assimilation communities, operational and research centers, academia, and users of the reanalysis products […]

This year, the AVISO+ service is starting to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to the datasets and products in its catalogue. The objectives of this change are to enable concise, accurate and reliable referencing as well as an estimation of the importance given to the datasets by users. The first three DOIs were assigned to: […]

The eCoast Marine and Freshwater Consultancy based in sunny Raglan, New Zealand  has released a new suite of online calculators. These calculators are inspired by the now unsupported applets put on the web by Prof. Tony Dalrymple back in the late 1990?s. The app is a collection of straightforward interactive calculators for basic marine science […]

When it comes to the weather and climate, most of us think only about what is happening in the atmosphere. If we ignore the ocean, however, we miss a big piece of the picture. Covering some 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean is a major driver of the world’s weather and climate. It also […]

The aim of this pro­ject is to com­mu­nic­ate sci­ence through short stor­ies in or­der to en­cour­age the dia­logue between sci­ent­ists and the pub­lic. We are a group of in­ter­na­tional re­search­ers from dif­fer­ent in­sti­tu­tions, mainly in Bre­men, but co­oper­at­ing with vari­ous sci­ent­ists, writers, artists in Ger­many and in­ter­na­tion­ally. We as sci­ent­ists write short stor­ies deal­ing with […]

The CO2COAST project will analyze the spatio-temporal variability of pCO2 and air-sea flux of CO2 over the global coastal ocean over the past two decades, using a satellite approach. This 4-year project, funded by the French National Agency of Research (ANR), will be headed by PI Hubert Loisel of the Université du Littoral – Côte d’Opale (LOG […]

The Atlas provides a better understanding of the consequences climate change and human actions have for the planet’s surface water resources. It is impossible to overstate the critical importance of water in our daily lives. Surface water bodies – including lakes, ponds and rivers – are particularly important as sources of water for domestic, industrial […]

SAVE THE DATE 14 December 2020 14:00 – 16:00 – Paris Time The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020. The Commission was created within UNESCO to promote coordinated international research about the global ocean and its various basins, based on the pioneer experiences of the International Geophysical Year (1957-58) and the […]

YSLME Phase II Final Project Video Launched http://www.yslmep.org/?p=4741 Entitled as “Restoring the Ecosystem Carrying Capacity of the Yellow Sea Ecosystem”, the UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II Project final video was formally launched on October 19, 2020 during the 5th and final Meeting of the YSLME Interim Commission Council. With the 20-year implementation of the UNDP/GEF YSLME Projects […]

Welcome to the SDG 14.3.1 data portal on http://oa.iode.org This SDG 14.3.1 Data Portal is a tool for the submission, collection, validation, storage and sharing of ocean acidification data and metadata submitted towards the Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations. In 2015, the United […]

The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is set to launch on 1 January 2021 with a mission “to catalyse transformative ocean science solutions for sustainable development, connecting people and our ocean.” An essential Ocean Decade infrastructure challenge, one of ten identified, is to “7: Ensure a sustainable ocean observing system across all ocean basins […]

The Special Issue reprint book “Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour” has been published online and is freely accessible on the MDPI Books platform (http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2960). The reprint book will be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Google Books and WorldCat and is available through several distribution platforms, e.g., Amazon. Furthermore, the book can be purchased as […]

The 4th community workshop of the IOC Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) was held as an innovative online event, spread over two weeks and comprising plenary sessions, breakout groups, and parallel working groups. A record of 452 participants from across the globe participated with a single objective: to facilitate community-led evolution of methods into best […]

Dear user of the Copernicus Marine Service, We are happy to introduce you to our new responsive viewer: My Ocean. This new tool on our website portal is designed to let you discover the ocean and its different many facets. You can now interact with and explore the ocean’s blue (physical), green (biogeochemical), and white (sea ice) variables with this […]

To all Early Career Scientists in Oceanic Research,   In 2018, the SCOR Executive Committee (EC) decided to incorporate an Early Career Scientist as one of the two co-opted members. This is a position that rotates in a two-years basis. The mission of this EC member is to reach out the broader early-career community and involve them […]

Over the summer, the Copernicus Marine Service launched a few updates including additions to the Ocean Monitoring Indicator (OMI) Catalogue and the publication of the full Ocean State Report (OSR) in the Journal of Operational Oceanography (JOO). In this week’s Copernicus Observer find out more about the new and updated OMIs, as well as key […]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the release of the version 2 of the GEOTRACES Data for Oceanic Research (DOoR) portal. As you know, the DOoR portal is where you must register your data sets for intercalibration and potential inclusion in IDP2021 before 15 December 2020. You can access it using your ORCID at this […]

Dear colleague, Capacity Development (CD) is an essential tenet of the mission of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Capacity Development enables all IOC Member States to participate in, and benefit from, ocean research and services that are vital to sustainable development and human welfare on the planet. The vision contained in the IOC Capacity Development Strategy 2015-2021 (http://www.ioc-cd.org/strategy)  identifies capacity development as the primary […]

The hyperspectral satellite mission PRISMA (http://www.prisma-i.it/index.php/en/), funded by the Italian Space Agency, ASI, has the potential to provide interesting data for the ocean colour community, despite the fact that it was not developed as an ‘aquatic’ mission. The imaging spectrometer takes images with a pixel size of 30 m in a continuum of spectral bands ranging […]

The Sentinel-3 Validation Team (S3VT) open call is accessible from the ESA EOPI web page at https://earth.esa.int/aos/S3VT.  In the framework of a Copernicus collaborative agreement, the call issued by ESA and EUMETSAT endeavours “To engage world-class validation expertise and activities to complement Sentinel-3 routine validation activities and ensure the best possible outcomes for the Sentinel-3 Mission“. Since the first S3VT workshop […]

A total of 26 innovative projects submitted via ESA’s Open Space Platform will kick off this summer, to better detect and track seaborne plastic litter using satellites. These projects address different problems, solutions and approaches, from using existing remote sensing technology in novel applications, to exploring new technologies to monitor marine litter, through developing new […]

To all Early Career Scientists in Oceanic Research, In 2018, the SCOR Executive Committee (EC) decided to incorporate an Early Career Scientist as one of the two co-opted members. This is a position that rotates in a two-years basis. The mission of this EC member is to reach out the broader early-career community and involve them in […]

Since 2011, large quantities of sargassum have overwhelmed beaches throughout the Atlantic, harming coastal ecosystems and the economies of coastal communities. Member states of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE) requested facilitated networking with the sargassum community of practice, sargassum monitoring, guidance on best management practices for sargassum events, and a centralized location for all this information. GEO Blue Planet, IOCARIBE […]

The report offers a distilled look at the state, natural variations, and ongoing changes in the global ocean, and draws on the Copernicus Marine Ocean Monitoring Indicator (OMI) framework. “The Ocean is a central component of the Earth climate system and human communities depend heavily upon the goods and services provided by the Ocean. Understanding and monitoring […]