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On Thursday 30 June, the “Ocean Decade Forum: Launch of the Decade Collaborative Centre for Ocean Prediction” took place in the backdrop of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon. The United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) announced…

Mercator Ocean International (MOi) hosted the first Digital Ocean Forum in Paris on the 20th to 21st of April, 2022. It was organized by MOi under the auspices of the European Commission and the French Ministry of the Sea in the context…

Marine & Oceans has published a new issue with a special feature on Mercator Ocean International. 2022 is again a key year for Mercator Ocean International, why? Ms von der Leyen announced the creation of the European digital twin at…

EUMETSAT, in partnership with Mercator Ocean International, IOC-UNESCO, IODE and the Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) invites applications to attend the upcoming Supporting Marine Earth Observation Educators (SMEE) workshop which will be held from 30 May to 17 June 2022.…

Mercator Ocean International offers state-of-the-art expertise and services for ocean analysis and forecasting. Recently, it developed a high-resolution regional system covering the Caribbean, designed to improve the forecasting of Sargassum seaweed beachings for the French government.  The overabundance and beaching…

Already two months into 2022, this year brings new impetus, opportunities and synergies to fix our relationship with and save our ocean. The ocean is high on the global policy agenda with several key events lined up this year, and…

©OPS / Amélie Laurin President Emmanuel Macron and French Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin chose the One Ocean Summit, during the French Presidency of the EU, for France to sign the “Brest Declaration” alongside five other European states. Within…

Knowledge of ocean parameters from our digital ocean systems, distributed through the Copernicus Marine Service*, helps us to understand the behaviour of juvenile sea turtles in order to better protect them. A study published this week in Frontiers in Marine Science, that included…