The EGU General Assembly 27 April–2 May 2025 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.
Members of the GEORGE consortium will be present at the EGU. Please find a list of presentations from GEORGE partners below. The list is subject to change – please see the EGU website for up-to-date details.
GEORGE will also be present at the ENVRI booth (Booths 64 and 65), prominently located at the entrance to the conference venue. The booths will serve as a hub for showcasing the capabilities and contributions of Environmental Research Infrastructures, presenting projects and engaging with the geoscience community through discussions, materials, presentations, and activities. Read more about the ENVRI booth here.
GEORGE partners at EGU 2025
Oral presentation | Monday, 28 Apr, 10:50–11:00 (CEST) Room 2.24
GEORGE –scientific success-story about the collaboration between three European Research Infrastructure Consortiums (ICOS, EMSO and EURO-ARGO) developing novel tools for observational gaps and future needs.
Janne-Markus Rintala1,Socratis Loucaides2,Matt Mowlem3,Laurent Coppola4,Edouard Leymarie5,Ute Schuster6,Tobias Steinhoff7,Simo Cusi8,Richard Sanders9,Ingrid Puillat8,Nadine Lanteri10,Maria Luhtaniemi1,Yann-Hervé de Roeck11,Tomi Männistö12,Nea Pirttinen12,and Werner Kutsch1
Climate Change is the biggest environmental challenge of the 21st century. Novel sensors are needed to improve our understanding of carbonate chemistry and a concerted scientific effort to compile different requirements, such as needs to know how the carbon observations measured from various parts of the oceans differs. ICOS, EURO-ARGO and EMSO ERICs are all open and accessible world-class sustainable research infrastructures, with enhanced international cooperation that are crucial to foster innovation in the field which have joined their forces together to improve ocean carbon observations.
We will present an overview of the current progress of the GEORGE-project. We will also open discussion about some of the key concerns about the foreseeable long-term future concerns and challenges, such as the data integration, and sustainable funding of the measurement stations which will hinder the integration and implementation of these developed technologies to be an elemental part of the existing observational networks.
Read the full abstract and see more details here.
Poster presentation EGU25-19623 | Posters on site | OS4.6
Tailor a comprehensive design of OneArgo for its European implementation
Yann-Hervé De Roeck, Claire Gourcuff, Alan Berry, Fiona Carse, Dimitris Kassis, Birgit Klein, Kjell Arne Mork, Giulio Notarstefano, Simo-Matti Siiriä, Violeta Slabakova, Colin Stedmon, Andreas Sterl, Virginie Thierry, Pedro Vélez Belchí, and Waldemar Walczowski
Fri, 02 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Hall X4 | X4.79
The ocean plays a key role in the climate system, and therefore in the climate change threat. About 90% of the heat excess absorbed since the 1970’s is stored in the ocean and changes in the hydrological cycle related to climate change are also strongly manifested in the ocean. In addition, the ocean acts as a net anthropogenic carbon sink, presently assessed as one fourth of the global uptake, and a moderator of climate change. It is therefore of paramount importance to monitor key ocean properties over long periods, with a global coverage.
Argo has transformed the way of ocean observing in the last decades and is the most important source of in situ marine data. As a major component of both the Global Ocean Observing System and the Global Climate Observing System, it provides near-real time data for forecasting and reanalysis services and high-quality data for climate research. Its implementation began in 1999, reaching a global coverage since 2007 (Roemmich et al. 2009). Originally designed to provide temperature and salinity profiles in the upper 2 000 m of the ice-free ocean (Core-Argo mission), the array has been expanded into seasonal ice zones (Polar-Argo mission), as well as in marginal seas. Successful pilot studies have shown the scientific added-value and the technology readiness to extend its mission towards greater depths (Deep-Argo mission) and biogeochemistry (BGC-Argo mission), hence the new “Global, full depth, multidisciplinary” OneArgo design defined after the OceanObs’19 Conference (Roemmich et al. 2019), aiming for a full implementation by 2030.