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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…

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has released its annual report on climate change, providing an overview of the state of the global climate and weather patterns over the past year. Together with numerous meteorological and hydrological organisations around the world,…

Overview Mercator Ocean International oceanographers analyse the record-breaking temperature of the Earth’s ocean surface, which has reached the highest level recorded since satellite records began, only narrowly exceeding the 2016 record. Our data reveals that currently, multiple regions, such as…

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…

The recently launched OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (DCC) is taking its first important steps in the framework of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, coordinated by IOC-UNESCO. OceanPrediction DCC is a cross-cutting structure that will…

The quarterly magazine Marine & Oceans has just published a new issue with a special report “2022, Year of the Ocean”, produced in partnership with Mercator Ocean International. The year that has just ended has indeed seen many conferences and…

Mercator Ocean International is organising a kick-off event of the NECCTON project (“New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks”) aiming to gather all partners and stakeholders of the project and set its start. This hybrid event will last from 24-26…

The CNES-NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite lifted off with SpaceX launch services from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday December 16th. Mercator Ocean International was at the launch event at Cité de l’espace in…