Posts by Maura Tronci

The OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (DCC), hosted by Mercator Ocean International (MOi) and launched in January 2023, aims to a predicted Ocean based on a shared and coordinated global effort in the framework of the UN Ocean Decade. To accomplish…

The European Maritime Day (EMD) took place in Brest, France, on 24-25 May and gathered Europe’s maritime community to outline joint actions concerning maritime affairs and the sustainable blue economy. The European Commission shared its ambition for a European Digital…

This World Oceans Day, we are happy to celebrate advancements for Mercator Ocean International (MOi) towards becoming an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the Ocean, developments of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean, catalysing ocean prediction activities worldwide, and the…

The OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (DCC) was officially launched with its kick-off meeting on January 11th-12th, 2023. Since then, some important milestones have been reached, notably the formation and launch of several Regional Teams, fully aligned with OceanPrediction’s main objectives.…

The Italian Marevivo Association has launched a very interesting initiative to raise awareness among children on important environmental issues and teach them about the sea’s biodiversity and the problems it faces, including plastic and pollution. In collaboration with the Italian…

Not much is known about the movement of juvenile turtles after they are born and enter the open ocean, and this is a critical time for turtles as their survival rate is lower in these more vulnerable years. Thanks to…

A new study published in the journal Earth System Science Data by an international team of 70 researchers from 15 countries led by Mercator Ocean International’s Karina von Schuckmann has revealed that 89% of the excess heat accumulated in the…