Explaining EU Mission Ocean to young children: meet Martina Stella di Mare, a charming ocean literacy comic booklet launched in Italy
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 artist and creator of comics for kids, Nicoletta Costa, they published and disseminated Martina Stella […]
WMO State of the Global Climate 2022: Mercator Ocean expertise contributes
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, Mercator Ocean International contributed to the report, which examines key climate indicators such as greenhouse […]
Global Warming and the Ocean: a new study led by Mercator Ocean International expert sheds light on the Earth’s Energy Imbalance
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 Earth system in the past sixty years has been absorbed by the Ocean. Anthropogenic emissions […]
OceanPrediction UN Decade Collaborative Centre: Kick-off meeting key takeaways
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 work at the global scale to develop collaboration between Decade Actions related to ocean prediction […]
NECCTON Kick-off Meeting this week in Toulouse
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 January 2023 and take place in Toulouse, France. The vision of NECCTON is to advance […]
Renewal of fruitful collaboration between the Chinese National Marine Environmental Forecasting Centre and MOi
On November 28, a new 2-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Chinese National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC) and Mercator Ocean International (MOi). The purpose of this MoU is to enrich and enhance the cooperation in the field of operational oceanography and to improve the technical level in the development of marine […]
Mercator Ocean International at the COP27
November 6th marked the launch of the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP27), which brings together the signatory nations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and numerous climate stakeholders. For the first time at the UNFCCC COP, an Ocean Pavilion has been opened, highlighting the ocean’s enormous role in climate. This […]
Launch of a Policy Paper on Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change
On June 16, Angelique Melet, Head of Scientific Evolution of Copernicus Marine Service at Mercator Ocean International, participated in the International Workshop on Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change. Gathering more than thirty European and Mediterranean institutions, the workshop was organised by the Conservatoire du Littoral, in the framework of the French Presidency of the Council […]
Release of the guide ‘Implementing Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Systems’
Introduction On the 1st of July at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and its Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems (ETOOFS) announced the release of a Guide on “Implementing Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Systems”. Initiated at the request of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the […]
UN Ocean Conference 2022: major achievements
The second much awaited United Nations Ocean Conference took place last week (June 27th – July 1st) in Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference gathered ocean stakeholders from all over the world, including Heads of Governments, leaders from the private sector, the scientific community and more, to implement Sustainable Development Goal 14 for the conservation and sustainable […]
The Launch of a UN Decade Collaborative Centre for the ocean prediction we need
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 the launch of several Decade Collaborative Centres (DCCs) during the event. Among these is the […]
“Mercator Ocean International: towards a Digital Twin of the Ocean”, by Marine & Océans
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 the One Ocean Summit. But what is a digital twin of the ocean, what is […]