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OCEAN:ICE at 2024 UN Ocean Decade Satellite Event ‘Monitoring the Ocean’

  • BAS ReDS Projects
  • 09/04/2024
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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:

  1. Panel Discussion: A sequence of flash presentations provided by climate scientists and followed by a panel discussion with inputs from the audience.
  1. 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

Here is Chiara’s talk present on TipESM - YouTube channel. You may access the recordings of other speakers' presentations in TipESM's '2024 Ocean Decade Conference Satellite Event - Monitoring the Ocean Panel Discussion' playlist.

Below you may access the full agenda of the panel discussion.

Agenda-Monitoring-the-OceanDownload

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

“Usually I study the ocean from large ice-strengthened research vessels. However, these ships are in high demand, and sometimes plans change at short notice. This year, as part of OCEAN:ICE, we wanted to deploy instruments to monitor the deep waters modified near Antarctica as they flow into the South Atlantic Ocean through South Sandwich Trench. This is a remote area, rarely visited by ships. We made contact with the operators of a fishing vessel that was performing research and commercial fishing only a few hours from our study site, and managed to deploy two oceanographic moorings between fishing operations, to collect data over the next year.”

Deploying an oceanographic mooring from a longline fishing vessel in South Sandwich Trench

“While longline fishing vessels are set up to efficiently deploy long ropes with thousands of baited hooks and recover the lines with any fish that have taken the bait, deploying a mooring with scientific instruments down to nearly 6000 m depth took a bit more planning. The main mooring line was flaked into large plastic buckets usually used for bait. These were set up in front of a hatch in the stern usually used for deploying marker buoys at the ends of the longlines, and the instruments were clamped on at different depths. After the buoys at the top of the mooring were lowered into the water, the line then streamed out from the buckets, with the instruments thrown over the side at the appropriate time. It worked surprisingly smoothly.”

Some moments from the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference Satellite Event ‘Monitoring the Ocean: Panel Discussion and Networking Event’.