Audrey Hasson
After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Audrey was the EU coordinator for the GEO Blue Planet Initiative, hosted by Mercator Ocean International as part of the EU4OceanObs FPI Action funded by the European Union.
Tag: oceans
SMOWS: Satellite Mode Waters Salinity, in synergy with Temperature and Sea Level
Prime company: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (FR)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Audrey Hasson. Mode waters (MWs) transport a large volume of heat, carbon and other properties across basins at seasonal to longer time-scales and thus play a major role in the modulation of the Earth climate. In the context of anthropogenic global warming, unlocking the understanding of the MWs transport …
Sargassum monitoring service
Prime company: CLS COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES (FR)The project objective is to develop and implement an innovative automated service based on Earth Observation (EO) data to monitor floating Sargassum algae in the Caribbean area, estimate their drift and eventual landings on the coasts, and provide dedicated bulletins to the end-users.
Monitoring sargassum drift with Sentinel-3 and MODIS
Since 2011, sargassum rafts of unprecedented size have had been found on Caribbean shores, with a strong impact on tourism, fisheries and wildlife. As sargassum decomposes on beaches, it releases disagreeable odours. Removal is time-consuming and expensive as mats can be several meters thick. Tourists are bothered by sargassum, and incoming rafts smother sea grasses …
Remote Sensing of Environment special issue
The Science and Applications with Sentinel-2 special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment has been completed with the last paper published on 5 April 2019. It features a selection of 28 key papers covering a wide range of new applications monitoring natural and human-induced dynamic processes up to national and even continental scale at high-resolution. …
Satellite Oceanographic Datasets for Acidification (OceanSODA)
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (GB)Since the beginning of the industrial revolution humans have released approximately 500 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, cement production and land-use changes. About 30% of this carbon dioxide (CO2) has been taken up by the oceans, largely by the dissolution of this CO2 into seawater and subsequent reactions …
Arctic + Salinity
Prime company: ARGANS LIMITED (GB)Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) is a key indicator of the freshwater fluxes and an important variable to understand the changes the Arctic is facing. However, salinity in-situ measurements are very sparse in the Arctic region. For this reason, remote sensing salinity measurements (currently provided by L-band radiometry satellites, SMOS and SMAP) are of special relevance …
Marco Bellacicco
“As well as doing my research, it has been an invaluable opportunity to complement my knowledge about the ocean opening new interest’s pathways” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Marco was a postdoc fellow at the ISMAR-CNR in Rome. He was working on ocean carbon from space and in synergy with autonomous …
William Llovel
William is a post-doctoral researcher working at LEGOS located in Toulouse, France. His research interests are investigating sea level change at global and regional scales. William particularly focuses his investigations on interannual to long-term changes. The main scientific questions of his research are: how is sea level changing? And why is sea level changing? To …
Earth System Data Lab (ESDL)
Prime company: BROCKMANN CONSULT GMBH (DE)The main objective of the Earth System Data Lab (ESDL) project is to establish and operate a service to the scientific community that greatly facilitates access and exploitation of the multivariate data set in the ESDL and by this means advances the understanding of the interactions between the ocean-land-atmosphere system and society. To this end, …