A summary of relevant sessions, posters and events for our community, to enjoy the conference at best
Published on 14 December 2023 | news
The biggest conference on Ocean Sciences of the year is approaching, and to provide some guidance to navigate the rich programme of the conference we summarized here a list of sessions and presentations that we think might be interesting for our commmunity.
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DCC-CR’s Townhall
TH23A - A Dialogue on Coastal Cities and Coastal Community Resilience - Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 12:45 - 13:45 CST – 217-219, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Moderator: Nadia Pinardi1
Primary Contact: Sara Pasqualetto1
Speakers: Nadia Pinardi1, Vassiliki Kourafalou2, Vanessa Sarah Salvo3, Zach J Monroe4, David Behar5
1University of Bologna
2University of Miami
3Institut de Ciències del Mar - Spanish National Research Council
4Office of Resilience and Sustainability City of New Orleans
5Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS) / San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Ocean Decade
DO21A-01 The international multi-system OSEs/OSSEs by the UN Ocean Decade Project SynObs and its early results in JMA/MRI - Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 8:30 - 8:40 CST – 211-213, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Authors: Yosuke Fujii1, Ichiro Ishikawa1, Shoji Hirahara1, Norihisa Usui1, Nariaki Hirose1
1Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency
Ocean Decade Data and Information Strategy Workshop: Building a trusted, inclusive, and interconnected global ocean data and information system - Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 12:30 - 14:00 CST – 224, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Presenters: Kevin O'Brien1, Pier Luigi Buttigieg2, Kate Wing3
Onsite contact: Louis Demargne4
1University of Washington/CICOES
2Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
3Intertidal Agency
4UNESCO
DO23A-02 How the Ocean Decade Will Transform the Way We Produce, Manage, Share and Use Ocean Data – and How You Can Contribute. - Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 14:11 - 14:22 CST – 211-213, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Author: Louis Demargne1
1 UNESCO
ED24B-0114 Report on the ITCOocean machine learning and species distribution course and hackweek: first event of the UN Decade of the Ocean capacity development initiative “Devising Early-Career Capacity Development - Indian Ocean” - Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 16:00 - 18:00 CST – Poster Hall, First Floor (Convention Center)
Authors: Elizabeth E Holmes1, Aditi Modi2, Kumar Nimit3, Smitha B R4, Swarnali Majumder3, Sourav Maity3, TVS Udaya Bhaskar3
1 NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
3 Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services
4 Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology
TH43F - Fostering Partnerships by Building on the Framework of the Ocean Decade - Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 12:45 - 13:45 CST – 217-219, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Moderator: Elizabeth Tirpak1
Primary contact and presenter: Celina Harris1
1NOAA
ED44C-0214 Satellite data towards the UN Ocean Decade Challenges: case studies and tutorials from EUMETSAT - Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 16:00 - 18:00 CST – Poster Hall, First Floor (Convention Center)
Authors: Hayley Evers-King1, Benjamin Loveday2, Vinca Rosmorduc3, Aida Alvera-Azcarate4, Vittorio Brando5, Ana B. Ruescas6, Rob Roebeling1, Christine Traeger Chatterjee1, Olivier Membrive7
1EUMETSAT
2Innoflair
3CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites
4Université de Liège
5CNR Institute of Marine Sciences
6University of Valencia
7Meteo France
TH53K - Vision 2030: Ocean Science and Knowledge Priorities for the Ocean Decade to Achieve the Ocean We Want by 2030 - Friday, 23 February 2024 at 12:45 - 13:45 CST – 203-205, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Contact and presenter: Alison Clausen1
1Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Coastal Focus
CP11A - Coastal River Deltas: Coupled Natural and Human Systems in a Changing World I Oral - Monday, 19 February 2024 at 8:30 - 10:00 – 229-230, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Chair: Kehui Xu1
Co-chairs and moderators: Samuel J Bentley1, Z. George Xue1
1Louisiana State University
PI13A - Physical and Biogeochemical Variability and Changes in the World's Upwelling Systems: Present and Future I Oral - Monday, 19 February 2024 at 14:00 - 15:30 CST – 229-230, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Chair: Mercedes Pozo Buil1
Co-chairs: Elisa Lovecchio2, Adama Sylla3, Steven J. Bograd4
Student/Early Career Chair: Adama Sylla3
Moderators: Mercedes Pozo Buil1, Elisa Lovecchio2, Adama Sylla3, Steven J. Bograd4
1University of California Santa Cruz
2National Oceanography Centre
3University of Hamburg
4National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
ED14C-0039 The community-based environmental monitoring systems as part of the research infrastructures underpinning the management of the coastal ecosystems towards the 2030 goals: the case of the citizen science observatory MINKA - Monday, 19 February 2024 at 16:00 - 18:00 – Poster Hall, First Floor (Convention Center)
Authors: Vanessa Sarah Salvo1, Sonia Liñan1, Karen Soacha1, Xavier Salvador1, Eli Bonfill1, Barta Companys1, Carlos Rodero1, Ivan Rodero2 and Jaume Piera1
1Institut de Ciències del Mar - Spanish National Research Council, Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography - EMBIMOS, Barcelona, Spain
2Quanta Systems, S.L., Barcelona, Spain
ED14C-0043 The EU Mission Ocean supports the blue curricula through the Horizon Programme: the ProBleu and SHORE projects will enhance the Network of European Blue Schools for next three years. - Monday, 19 February 2024 at 16:00 - 18:00 CST – Poster Hall, First Floor (Convention Center)
Authors: Vanessa Sarah Salvo1, Eli Bonfill1, Barta Companys1, Carlos Rodero1, Afşın Yusuf Çeti̇nkaya2, Elifnaz Unay2, Sonia Liñan1 and Jaume Piera1
1 Institut de Ciències del Mar - Spanish National Research Council, Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography - EMBIMOS, Barcelona, Spain
2 Yildiz Technical University Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
RH21A - Science for Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction to Coastal Hazards I Oral - Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 8:30 - 10:00 CST – 208-209, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Chair: Donya P FrankGilchrist1
Co-chairs: Legna Maria Torres-Garcia2, Hilary F Stockdon1
Student/Early Career Chair: Legna Maria Torres-Garcia1
Moderators: Donya P FrankGilchrist1, Maria Torres-Garcia1, Hilary F Stockdon1
1U.S. Geological Survey
2USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg
HD33A - Indigenous and Earth System Science Collaborations to Cocreate Knowledge About Coastal Change I Oral - Wednesday, 21 February 2024 at 14:00 - 15:30 CST – 229-230, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Chair: Alice K DuVivier1
Co-chairs: Jenniffer Santos-Hernandez2, Robert Eugene Turner3
Student/Early Career Chair: Alice K DuVivier1
Moderators: Alice K DuVivier1, Jenniffer Santos-Hernandez2, Robert Eugene Turn3
1University Corporation for Atmospheric Research NCAR
2University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras
3Louisiana State University
RH33A - Nature-Based Climate Mitigation and Resilience Along Our Coasts I Oral - Wednesday, 21 February 2024 at 14:00 - 15:30 CST – 215-216, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Chair: Francis Wiese1
Co-chairs: Guillermo Auad2, Jill Slinger3
Student/Early Career Chair: Ashton M. Bandy4
Moderators: Francis Wiese1, Guillermo Auad2, Jill Slinger3
1Stantec
2Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
3Delft University of Technology in Netherlands and Rhodes University in South Africa
4University of California Irvine
DO43A - Nearshore Modeling: Challenges and Advances in Modeling the Coastal Ocean at the Land-Ocean Interface II Oral - Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 14:00 – 15:30 CST – 210, Second Floor (Convention Center)
Primary Chair: Krysten Elizabeth Rutherford1
Co-chairs: Laura Bianucci2, Mari Myksvoll3, Diego Narvaez4
Student/Early Career Chair: Krysten Elizabeth Rutherford1
Moderators: Laura Bianucci2, Mari Myksvoll3, Diego Narvaez4, Krysten Elizabeth Rutherford1
1Institute of Ocean Science, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
2Institute of Ocean Sciences
3Institute of Marine Research
4University of Concepcion
CE44C-0475 Microplastics Assessment in the Mayan Riviera Beaches, Mexico; a Pioneer Study - Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 16:00 - 18:00 CST – Poster Hall, First Floor (Convention Center)
First Author: Vivianne Solis-Weiss1
Author: Virginia Téllez1
1Universidad nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología
CC51A - Mind the Gap: Understanding and Predicting Future Coastal Ocean Climates II Oral - Friday, 23 February 2024 at 8:30 - 10:00 CST – Great Hall A, First Floor (Convention Center)
Primary chair: Anna Katavouta1
Co-chairs: Andrea Lira Loarca2, Mercedes Pozo Buil3, Julia Rulent1
Student/Early Career Chair: Julia Rulent1
Moderators: Anna Katavouta4, Andrea Lira Loarca2, Julia Rulent1
1National Oceanography Centre
2University of Genoa
3University of California Santa Cruz
4Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography