The One Ocean Science Congress will be organised in Nice, France on 4-6 June 2025. The Congress will feature a mix of plenary sessions, including opening and keynote speeches, alongside parallel oral and poster presentations. To enhance interactions between science and society, action and policy, and to engage civil society more broadly, ‘townhalls’ such as panels and roundtables will also be arranged.
The One Ocean Science Congress is organised by CNRS and IFREMER and it is a special event of the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Ocean Endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Members of the GEORGE consortium will be present at One Ocean Science Congress. Below is a list of presentations from GEORGE partners. Please refer to the conference homepage for updated information.
OOS2025-1446 | Orals | T10-2 TRICUSO: Three Research Infrastructures: Carbon Uptake Southern Ocean
Richard Sanders
Thu, 05 Jun, 08:40–08:50 (CEST) | Room 8
The ocean plays a key role in the Global Carbon Cycle, taking up about 25% of the carbon dioxide we emit to the atmosphere, thus slowing climate change and giving us more time to put in place mitigation and adaptation actions. We know this because of a linked series of activities, the ocean carbon value chain, which begins with in water observations of ocean CO2 levels, then links these to data synthesis and mapping / product generation actions. This then allows multiple estimates of ocean CO2 uptake to be made annually which are reported to the COP by the Global Carbon Budget. The Ocean component of the Integrated Carbon Observing System (ICOS) plays a key role in the European element of this data gathering exercise via providing high quality reference observations to sit alongside similar observations from different regions. Key areas of action underway to improve this system include:
- The urgency of the climate crisis has lead the WMO to propose the construction of a ‘Global Greenhouse Gas Watch’, or G3W. This will require an ocean element operating across the globe and to this end we have proposed that GOOS (the Global Ocean Observing System) should endorse a surface ocean CO2 network (SOCONET) that will form the core of the WMO effort, incorporating ICOS and other observing networks.
- The Global C Project estimates of Ocean C uptake based on in water observations are systematically higher than those made by models. There are (at least) 2 ways that this issue can be addressed: model analyses suggest that a much greater density of observations in undersampled regions such as the Southern Ocean can address this, in addition expanding the set of platforms used to acquire data to include ARGO and GOSHIP is likely to be beneficial.
Both actions 1 and 2 are being supported by an ICOS lead project TRICUSO, Three Research Infrastructures: Carbon Uptake Southern Ocean which will initiate in Jan 2025.
OOS2025-1042 | Oral presentation | T10-2 | Thursday, 5 June, 09:30–09:40 (CEST) | Room 8
EMSO ERIC: Advancing Deep-Sea Science with Long-Term Ocean Observations
Aljaz Maslo, Enoc Martinez, and Ingrid Puillat
We will provide an overview of EMSO ERIC’s data that emphasizes the infrastructure’s capacity to support and enhance deep-sea research by offering a consolidated view of diverse observations across its regional sites. By making this data accessible to scientists and stakeholders, EMSO ERIC not only contributes to advancing ocean science but also promotes informed decision-making around sustainable ocean management. EMSO’s commitment to open, long-term ocean monitoring establishes it as a valuable resource for addressing pressing environmental challenges and supporting continued scientific exploration of the deep sea.
OOS2025-743 | Posters on site | T10-2 | Thursday, 5 June, 18:00–20:00 (CEST) | Poster area “La Baleine”
EMSO ERIC a pan European Marine Research Infrastructure to take the pulse of the Deep Ocean
Ingrid Puillat, Laura Beranzoli, Alan Berry, Roberto Bozzano, Vanessa Cardin, Eric Delory, Joaquin Del Rio, Davide Embriaco, Ilker Fer, Nadine Lanteri, Dominique Lefèvre, George Petihakis, Vlad Radulescu, Pierre-Marie Sarradin, and Carlos Sousa
Composed by 8 Member States (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland, Norway, Greece, and Romania), the multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure EMSO ERIC has the goal to explore, monitor and improve the understanding of the deep ocean variability and the ocean-climate nexus. EMSO ERIC currently comprises ten Regional Facilities (RFs) and three shallow water test sites, strategically located all the way from the southern entrance of the Arctic Ocean across to the North Atlantic through the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
EMSO elaborates a common strategic framework, with diverse and numerous Research Institutes and Centres operating observing facilities in the deep sea and seafloor of key sites in European seas, to promote and drive advances in marine science and technology while enabling access to its services, facilities and technology platforms. Its uniqueness stands in the observed zone of the deep ocean: the bottom layer and the water column, in fixed regional zones and on long terms. It provides harmonised data and access to the facilities.
For that purpose, it supports services for the harmonisation process and data flow (EMSO ERDDAP), and it elaborates training capacities (EMSO Academy). This abstract stands for a general introduction to EMSO ERIC and other proposed abstracts focusing on some of its specific capacities.
OOS2025-1045 | Posters on site | T10-6 | Thu, 05 Jun, 18:00–20:00 (CEST) | Poster area “La Baleine” | P658
Empowering the Next Generation of Ocean Scientists: The Role of EMSO Academy and Personnel Exchange
Sara Pero, Felicity Donnelly, and Ingrid Puillat
EMSO ERIC has initiated two key initiatives: the EMSO Academy and the Personnel Exchange Program, aimed at offering respectively diverse selection of courses tailored to meet the needs of various audiences, including researchers, students, and industry professionals within the marine sector, and a distinctive opportunity to facilitate knowledge transfer and practical hands-on experience regarding operational procedures through the mobility of EMSO ERIC staff among its Regional Facilities. In this poster, we will dive into these opportunities within the Communication Services.
OOS2025-1046 | Posters on site | T10-2 | Thursday, 5 June, 18:00–20:00 (CEST) | Poster area “La Baleine”
Access opportunities to a unique long term deep sea infrastructure
Simo Cusi, Alfredo Martins, Beatrice Tomasi, and Ingrid Puillat
The aim of the EMSO physical access service is to facilitate access to instrumented platforms deployed at different sites across the European seas, from the seabed to the surface, in order to perform experiments in geosciences and engineering in real ocean conditions. Depending on the logistics and availability of each site, users may deploy their own platforms, instruments, systems or technologies to be tested by the existing equipment that, in this case, can provide reference measurements. Users may also deploy their own systems on the existing EMSO platforms, either in standalone mode or connected to them, receiving power and, in some cases, being able to transmit data by satellite or by cable, depending on the site. Projects requiring the use of several EMSO sites are also accepted. The host EMSO Regional Facility provides logistics and technical support in order to deploy and recover the systems, access the data and it may also offer training and co-development. EMSO ERIC launches the physical access call on a yearly basis and evaluates the received project proposals every two months. Access is free of charge and funding is available for travel, consumables, shipping, operations and hardware adaptations needed to run the project. Since 2022, when the first call was launched, ten projects with varied topics have been funded and are in different phases of execution.
OOS2025-1196 | Posters on site | T10-4 | Thursday, 5 June, 18:00–20:00 (CEST) | Poster area “La Baleine” | P629
Dominique Lefèvre, Laura Beranzoli, Aljaz Maslo, Roberto Bozzano, Ana Colaco, Constantinos Frangoulis, Sébastien Garziglia, Paul Gaughan, Nadia Lo Bue, Stefano Miserocchi, Karin Sigloch, Ingunn Skjelvan, Daniel Mihai Toma, Raluca Tutuianu, and Ingrid Puillat
EMSO develops dedicated data services and products providing valuable insights of climate change on the ocean processes, human activity on ocean sounds and natural hazards and early warnings capability. This work focuses on the advancements in marine biodiversity based on automated imaging recognition and citizen science. A range of deep-sea time series of EOVs such as pressure, temperature and biogeochemical variables (O2, …), algorithm dedicated to environmental variables using the distributed acoustic sensing technology, providing invaluable spatial information on deep sea dynamics, seismologic data allowing the capability early warnings but also derived variables such as temperature, ocean sounds.
OOS2025-960 | Posters on site | T4-5 | Thursday, 5 June, 18:00–20:00 (CEST) | Poster area “La Baleine” | P380
Capacity building in observations for a sustained stewardship of the deep ocean
Nan-Chin Chu, Hélène Leau, Daniela Loock, Ella Minicola, Sara Pero, Ingrid Puillat, Tsuyoshi Sugiura, and Takashi Toyofuku
The UN Ocean Decade programme “One Ocean Network for Deep Observation (OneDeepOcean)” is a network of seabed & water column observatories from Ifremer, EMSO-ERIC, Ocean Networks Canada and JAMSTEC. It aims at providing integrated knowledge on the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems under global changes, obtaining environmental properties, to enhance efforts in mitigating natural disasters, and to engage citizens with a deep ocean increasingly under pressure due to human activities. Time-series imagery and sensor data from our platforms support world-leading research into how deep-sea organisms respond to habitat disturbance and long-term environmental change. Together we work to expand a joint capacity building initiative that will include for instance students’ mobility and shipboard training. In this poster, we will highlight opportunities for knowledge exchange and capacity building that will allow students and early career ocean professionals to access deep-sea and water column observational facilities. We intend to associate our efforts to establish practices and shared notebooks for time series analysis and AI based image analysis.