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🌟 DTO-BioFlow has been highlighted in the European Marine Board IVZW's Navigating the Future VI report! 🎉 This flagship publication explores the crucial role of the Ocean in the wider Earth system and promotes collaboration across disciplines to tackle global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. 🌍🌱 We are pleased to be mentioned as a key initiative working to bring biodiversity data into Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) repositories, helping to bridge critical knowledge gaps with advanced tools like AI and ecosystem modeling. This recognition underscores the impact of our efforts in enhancing data availability and integration for better ocean governance. 🌐🤝 Check out the report for more insights into how the Ocean is driving solutions for a sustainable future! 🐠🌿

🌊🤝 AQUARIUS is all about collaboration and connection. 👨🏻🔬👩🏽🔬 Are you a scientist working in the marine or freshwater domain? Irrespective of where you are based, or whether you are an academic research scientist, an SME or industry researcher, or if you belong to a citizen science organization, you can apply to have free access to use state-of-the-art research infrastructure from another country to advance your marine and freshwater research and innovation projects. 👉 Sound interesting? All you have to do is apply to the transnational calls for access when the first call opens on November 11, 2024, and explain how your R&I project can combine some of these diverse research infrastructures to address the defined challenges and contribute to healthier and more sustainable marine and aquatic ecosystems. ✅ 🛫 Costs to travel and use this research infrastructure will be covered and all necessary training and logistical support will be provided. AQUARIUS combines 45 partners from 18 countries, & last week they all met online to kick-off this collaboration, share ideas, work plans, and our infographic! You can download it here: https://lnkd.in/ekzmPxzi #EuGreenDeal #MissionOcean Horizon Europe European Research Executive Agency (REA) Marine Institute Seascape Belgium Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) - Suomen ympäristökeskus (Syke) CSIC Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway Grønlands Naturinstitut Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research University of Limerick CNRS National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" MARIS B.V. ) CzechGlobe @NIVA - Algal Future Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute EMBRC - European Marine Biological Resource Centre-ERIC Sorbonne Université CCMAR - Centro de Ciências do Mar) DO ALGARVE Mercator Ocean International EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory SMHI INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT University of Liège Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Instituto Hidrográfico - Marinha Portuguesa Türkiye Harita Bilimsel ve Teknik Kurultayı NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Socib Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER - IFREMER @HAVSTOVAN Frank Armstrong Aodhán F. Pieter Torrez Nathalie Tonné Ils Reusen

🌊 The AQUARIUS kick-off meeting comes to an end, but the project is just beginning! Over the last two days the 45 partners came together virtually to plan the next steps, share ideas and get to know each other. We heard about: ✅ The fantastic diversity of the 57 research infrastructures that will be made available via free-for-use transnational calls for access, from drones to research vessels, and from ROVs to airplanes; ✅ The many training opportunities for users of the research infrastructures to best practices in data management, and from floating universities and glider schools; ✅ The great diversity of experience and knowledge spanning the partners in this consortium. ✅ How, ultimately, AQUARIUS will contribute data, information, and knowledge to support the goals of the Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters. ⏰ The first of two calls for free-for-use transnational access will open for applications in November 2024. Over the coming weeks and months we will be rolling out more information on these resources and opportunities. So stay tuned! Subscribe to our Newsletter https://lnkd.in/euHeWKhN #EUGreenDeal #Ocean #FreshWater #Science #Research #CallsforAccess Horizon Europe Marine Institute Seascape Belgium Finnish Meteorological Institute on Telegram by GRT : Ilmatieteen laitos [Meteo WWF Suomi / Finland] CSIC Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway Grønlands Naturinstitut Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research University of Limerick National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" MARIS B.V. Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) - Suomen ympäristökeskus (Syke) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CzechGlobe NIVA - Algal Future Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute EMBRC - European Marine Biological Resource Centre-ERIC Sorbonne Université Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR) DO ALGARVE Mercator Ocean International EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory SMHI INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT University of Liège Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Instituto Hidrográfico - Marinha Portuguesa Horizon Europe #EUResearch European Research Executive Agency (REA)

If you're planning on being at ICARP IV - #ASSW 2025, in Boulder, Colorado in-person or virtually, consider submitting or coming to our session Brooks Kaiser (Deadline: extended until 9 October 2024 at 23:59 MDT!): https://lnkd.in/e5qw33gD 3. Understanding the dynamics and resilience of Arctic social-ecological systems to foster sustainable futures  # 3.1. Arctic Marine Research Agendas: Who writes the Saga? Arctic Scenario analysis frequently categorizes outcomes into four quadrants – along two axes: governance, and resources and trade. Of the four categories, Arctic Saga, Arctic Race, Polar Preserve, and Polar Lows, the first three reflect outcomes that favor different Arctic scales of interests, while Polar Lows is considered undesirable by most if not all stakeholders and rightsholders as providing neither local stability and quality of life nor global extractive benefits. Who’s “in” and who’s “out” in Arctic planning is a longstanding issue affecting within the marine realm, for example, Svalbard’s identity, the Arctic Council structure and its Working Groups (ie CAFF, PAME), the Polar Silk Road, and the Central Arctic Ocean fisheries policy. The challenge also impacts research agendas. In this multidisciplinary session, we discuss how agenda-setting in Arctic research priorities and funding strategies can affect these outcomes, with a particular focus on the role of academic research driven by actors not directly living or working in Arctic states. We anticipate differences in impact from the natural sciences and social sciences that stem from (1) scale of engagement in Arctic communities and environmental changes from local to global; (2) experience and expectations for transdisciplinary research and/or Indigenous engagement and inclusion needs, including longer research timelines and more diverse research outlets and forms; and (3) funding structures that limit such diversity as well as cross-scale research, amongst other distinctions along disciplinary lines. We illustrate with some background analysis of research communities in non-Arctic states, e.g. France, S. Korea, Japan and the UK.

A research team led by University of Galway is investigating whether climate change is reducing the impact that some of tiniest organisms in the oceans have on CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The researchers spent several weeks at sea on board the Marine Institute’s Celtic Explorer in the Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland, to record levels of phytoplankton. The expedition team are assessing the role of these tiny plants in carbon absorption from the atmosphere in the context of the threat from climate change on the seas from freshwater and meltwater in the Arctic regions. The research expedition was funded by the Marine Institute, and led by Professor Brian Ward, School of Natural Sciences, University of Galway and involved researchers from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada and the Ocean Frontier Institute; Memorial University Newfoundland; and the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for applied geosciences - iCRAG. Science Foundation Ireland Dalhousie University Ocean Frontier Institute iCRAG - SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences #UniversityofGalway #Research #MarineScience #ClimateChange #Phytoplankton

Want to learn how to use AQUARIUS TAP? Webinar next week! Go register for a successful application 🌟

🚨 Underwater Noise Joint Action update! 🚨 🌊 We're halfway there! The mid-term meeting of the five projects from the #JPIOceans Joint Action on #UnderwaterNoise took place on 20-21 June in Padua, Italy. 🛠️ Led by Italy and Germany, this #JointAction focuses on the impacts of underwater noise on marine ecosystems. The meeting served to assess #advancements, strengthen #collaboration, and plan impactful #dissemination of project results. 🔊 Presentations featured insights from the projects #ORCHESTRA | #DeuteroNoise | #DIAPHONIA | #SONORA | #PUREWIND 🎓 The meeting included a science communication training course and proposed activities to enhance outreach and engagement. Plans include educational materials, strategies for engaging policymakers, and webinars for scientists. 🤝JPI Oceans extends its gratitude to the University of Padua and the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research for the generous hospitality and support in hosting the mid-term review meeting. 📥 Read more about it and download the mid-term meeting presentations here: https://lnkd.in/d9rE9TYQ #MarineScience #UnderwaterNoise

CORAL RESEARCH NEWS: Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography study coral reef bleaching Marine biologists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla are conducting a long-term study of coral reef “bleaching” off the Hawaiian coast in efforts to combat global warming by conserving and restoring precious reef ecosystems. Using 3D imaging technology, scuba-diving scientists like Scripps’ Orion McCarthy (above), a recent graduate conducting research as a Ph.D. student, have been surveying Maui’s corals annually since 2014, contributing to a unique, long-term dataset that reveals coral survival rates following bleaching events in 2015 and 2019. It’s invaluable information to know. “It’s complicated telling the story about the dramatic global decline with coral tied to climate change reminding us they are a natural system that goes through ups and downs and that it isn’t a foregone conclusion (that bleached reefs will die), but that there is a middle ground (where they can survive),” McCarthy pointed out. He added one aim of studying bleaching is to devise ways to “locally improve water quality and reduce the impact on coral reefs and their survival during climate change.” Read full story here: https://lnkd.in/eWMMP7Wi #coralreefs #coralresearch #coralbleaching #climatechange #coralecology #coralreefecology #marineecology #marinescience #marinebiology

CORAL REEF NEWS: Experiments find coral reefs more resilient to climate change than previously thought Coral reefs may have a brighter future than previously thought—if carbon emissions are reduced and local stressors like pollution are addressed, reefs could adapt and persist even under climate change. That’s the promising outlook from a study in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB). The work was conducted by the Toonen-Bowen “ToBo” Lab, with partners at UH Mānoa and The Ohio State University. For two years, the researchers changed levels of temperature and acidity to 40 experimental reef systems and measured the calcification responses of the marine life. They found that the reefs didn’t collapse; instead, they persisted as new reef communities. Read full story here: https://lnkd.in/eybQJYNh #coralreefs #climatechange #hawaii #resilience #coralreefecology #coral #globalwarming #coralhealth #marineecology #marinebiology

Can we see bogs 'breathe' from space? Answer: Yes. **updated video, with in-situ groundwater time series**. % Text from previous post: Our new paper in Remote Sensing of Environment demonstrates that data from radar satellites flying at 800 km above the Earth can be used to measure the ups (blue) and downs (red) of a raised peatland to mm-accuracy. The peat surface in the bog rises and falls annually, as the groundwater level changes from high in winter to low in summer. Since they are recharged entirely by rainfall, raised peatlands are highly sensitive to climate change. Our work implies that future impacts on near natural raised bogs or bogs under restoration can potentially be monitored at national scales by satellite radar. The paper is led by Alexis Hrysiewicz at UCD School of Earth Sciences and iCRAG - SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences and was written in collaboration with researchers at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and staff at Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales. Project funding comes from iCRAG and a European Space Agency - ESA Living Planet Fellowship. Paper is open access at https://lnkd.in/gNEPpmgv