On the 8th of April 2024 in Barcelona, at the Institut de Ciències del Mar and online, OCEAN:ICE collaborated alongside many Horizon Europe funded projects, such as TipESM, ObsSea4Clim, Arctic PASSION, Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) for the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference Satellite Event ‘Monitoring the Ocean: Panel Discussion and Networking Event’ and a photo exhibition on beautiful images from fieldwork with inputs from Danish Meteorological Institute, Scottish Association For Marine Science, European Polar Board, British Antarctic Survey and many more.
‘Monitoring the Ocean: Panel Discussion and Networking Event’
The agenda of the event consisted of two parts:
- Panel Discussion: A sequence of flash presentations provided by climate scientists and followed by a panel discussion with inputs from the audience.
- Photo Exhibition: A photo exhibition with photos and videos of fieldwork footage to engage with the public.
Panel Discussion
Chiara Bearzotti (EU Grant Project Manager, Danish Meteorological Institute) represented the OCEAN:ICE project in the panel discussion and delivered a presentation ‘Complementarity of ocean observations (in situ) for monitoring the ocean from the ocean’.
You may access Chiara’s presentation in the OCEAN:ICE Zenodo community here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10947362
Below you may access the full agenda of the panel discussion.
Photo Exhibition
The following three photos taken by OCEAN:ICE project member, Povl Abrahamsen (Physical Oceanographer, British Antarctic Survey), were showcased in the photo exhibition.
Approaching the South Sandwich Islands on fishing vessel FV Argos Georgia
Deploying an oceanographic mooring from a longline fishing vessel in South Sandwich Trench
Some moments from the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference Satellite Event ‘Monitoring the Ocean: Panel Discussion and Networking Event’.