Thomas Lesage, 3rd and 4th Awareness-Raising Sessions
Thomas Lesage, who just turned 15 on September 25th, continues his sailing trip around the world, during which his goal is to promote the protection of ocean. Travelling with 60 other students, his on-board schedule includes classes, the watch system and everyday chores (cooking, cleaning, etc.). 3rd awareness-raising session: Thomas recently held his 3rd awareness-raising […]
Mercator Ocean International becomes Nausicaá’s partner
Mercator Ocean International is an exhibitor at the Centre National de la Mer, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the largest aquarium in Europe. General Director – Philippe VALETTE NAUSICAÁ aims to help visitors discover and appreciate the sea by showing them the link between humans and the ocean; NAUSICAÁ proposes to make its visitors aware of […]
Marine Data Assimilation Workshop Toulouse Sept 2018
On September 5th and 6th, 2018 Mercator Ocean International (MOI) held a Marine Data Assimilation (MDA) Workshop in Toulouse. The workshop objective was to set the scene for creating a long-term European infrastructure in marine data assimilation. Given the many actors involved and competencies across organizations, the objective was to identify cooperation and joint activities […]
2018 Summer Sea Surface Temperatures in Western Europe
“So??? It’s hot?” Authors: Romain Bourdallé-Badie, Eric Greiner, Clotilde Dubois, Fabrice Hernandez, Véronique Landes, Fabrice Messal. Every summer on the French seaside, the temperature of the water at the beach is one of the most important topics of discussion. With a heatwave in the summer of 2018, the summer was particularly hot in Western Europe. […]
2018 EuroGOOS Kostas Nittis Medal awarded to Florent Gasparin
At the end of the GEO Blue Planet Symposium plenary on 4 July, Glenn Nolan, EuroGOOS Secretary General, awarded the 2018 Kostas Nittis Medal to Florent Gasparin. The Medal is awarded yearly by the EuroGOOS Executive Directors Board to a young scientist who has made a significant contribution to operational oceanography. “The EuroGOOS Kostas Nittis Medal […]
Pleased to Announce Partnership with Exxpedition
Mercator Ocean International and CMEMS are supporting Exxpedition, an all-women’s scientific research expedition that is currently sailing across the North Pacific Gyre investigating solutions to Ocean Plastic Pollution. Mercator Ocean International provide Exxpedition drift computations using CMEMS data to demonstrate the concentration of plastics in the North Pacific Gyre. The expedition is headed by Emily […]
SEA PLASTICS 2018 Expedition: 4 Young Women Aboard Supported by Mercator Ocean
Founded in 2016 by three students from AgroParisTech, a school of engineering in life sciences and the environment, Sea Plastics is an association whose mission is to design and operate oceanographic expeditions to study the impact of plastics on the marine environment. The values of Sea Plastics are the protection of the environment through research, […]
A lost sailing yacht was found thanks to MetOcean Solutions using Copernicus Marine Service.
At the end of October, MetOcean Solutions helped an insurance company find a yacht called the Jolly Rogers, which had been abandoned on October 5th off Spain’s Cape Finistere during the Mini Transat 6.50 race. To help the insurance company, MetOcean ran simulations and used Copernius Marine Service datasets. The yacht a MINI 6.50 was […]
Copernicus information and training session
A “Copernicus information and training session” is organized on 23 and 24 November 2017 in Paris – La Défense (on the roof of the Grande Arche) by the Ministry of the Ecological and United Transition and the Copernicus Support Office, driven by the European Commission. It will provide information and training regarding: – the European […]
New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography, 2017 GOV International Summer School
Last week marked the wrap-up of the 2017 GODAE Ocean View International School, hosted in Mallorca, Spain. The summer school, which took place from October 2nd to the 13, is one of the main educational activities supported by GODAE OceanView. During the intense two-week school session, there were 54 lectures, poster sessions, workshops, debates, visit to SOCIB […]
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) pre-operational seasonal prediction systems launch
From the beginning of March 2017, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has launched its pre-operational state-of-the-art seasonal prediction systems. The products will be available on the 15th of each month. The forecasts are updated every month and cover a time range of 6 months and cover variables such as air, sea-surface temperature, atmospheric circulation. […]
The NAOS project #6 newsletter is now online!
About NAOS Argo is an international array of 3000 profiling floats that measure temperature and salinity throughout the deep global oceans, down to 2,000 metres. Argo is the first-ever global, in-situ ocean-observing network in the history of oceanography, providing an essential complement to satellite systems, to understand the role of the ocean on the earth’s […]