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Euro-Argo, EMSO and ICOS at ICRI2024 – summary of key highlights
The International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) 2024 served as a key event for the global research infrastructure (RI) community to discuss the role of RIs in tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This year’s conference, held in Brisbane, was especially significant in framing climate change and sustainability as central themes in the global research agenda. Representatives from the three…
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Innovation Under the Waves: How the GEORGE project advances pCO2 measurements on EMSO’s EGIM platform
A few decades ago, the European landscape of ocean observation facilities was characterised by the diversity of equipment, methodologies, and operational models, often operated independently, deployed for short periods and centred on one specific scientific discipline. The societal context urged for a unified framework of European initiatives. The communities who shared common strategic visions, scientific…
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GEORGE annual meeting in Rome highlights progress and prepares for 2025 milestones
The GEORGE consortium gathered in Rome, Italy on 19-21 November 2024 for its second annual meeting and general assembly, bringing together partners from across Europe to reflect on achievements and plan future actions in autonomous ocean observing technologies, integrated data flow and training. The agenda included progress updates from work package leaders, presentations and discussions…
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ICOS station Finnmaid Offers Testing Facilities for GEORGE for the Development of New Sensors
Have you ever taken a ferry and wondered about the machinery hidden beneath the deck? If you’ve travelled between Helsinki and Lübeck-Travemünde on a ferry, you might have encountered an ICOS station onboard. This particular station, in addition, is also an important testing facility for new sensors developed in the GEORGE project. Since the beginning…
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One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France, 4-6 June 2025
The Ocean is under threat from combined pressures such as climate change, overfishing, pollution, and conflicting uses. It is also a source of solutions, for example to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The Ocean urgently needs decisive, swift, and unified efforts to address its critical condition and maximize the solutions it offers. This presents…
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EMSO Generic Instrument Module successfully deployed in the Norwegian Sea
On 27th September 2024, an EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM) was deployed at Station M in the Norwegian Sea for a four month test period as part of the GEORGE project. The EGIM, EMSO Generic Instrument Module, is a multimodal platform to which numerous sensors can be clamped on to measure diverse ocean variables, EGIM…
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GEORGE partners presented their research at ICOS Science Conference 2024
ICOS Science Conference 2024 was organised on 10-12 September 2024 in Versailles, France and online. The event brought together close to 600 attendees online and onsite. GEORGE partners were present at ICOS Science Conference with oral and poster presentations. Below is a list of presentations from the GEORGE community from the presenters that have allowed…
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The sailing campaign NAARCO recovered 10 Argo floats in the North Atlantic
After sailing for 27 days between Brest and the Azores, the North Atlantic Argo Recovery Cruise Operation (NAARCO) returned home to Brest on the 10th of June 2024 with 10 profiling floats. These floats needed to be recovered as they were either reaching the end of their life or had some misfunctioning sensors. NAARCO was…
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GEORGE at ICOS Science Conference 2024
Presentations from the GEORGE project partners are prominently featured at the ICOS Science Conference 2024. The conference will be held from September 10-12, 2024, in Versailles, Paris, and online. Registrations are now open. See more info on the conference website. Please see the list of GEORGE-related presentations below and read the full list of abstracts…
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Charting New Waters – How New Technologies are Drastically Improving Autonomous Ocean Observations
Measuring carbon in the ocean, the largest ecosystem on Earth, is no easy job. Most of the measurements today are made using ship-based observations, but ship-based or fixed-location observations on moorings are never going to provide enough information from all parts of the ocean, with high enough resolution and frequency. Enter: autonomous ocean observations. One…
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The first GEORGE Technical Forum organised this week in Villefranche-sur-Mer
The first training event of the GEORGE project will be organised in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France on 21-25 May 2024. The event brings together scientists, technicians and instrument manufacturers in a unique learning event and an active dialogue about ocean observing technologies. An online training platform will make this information known to a wider audience. Training the…
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GEORGE at EGU24
GEORGE will be presented at EGU24 on Monday 15 April, from 8:30-12:30 in Hall X4 as part of the poster session “OS4.9 – The Copernicus Marine Service and the future European Digital Twin of the Ocean.” The author attendance is on Monday 15 April between 10:45-12:30. Click here to view the poster in detail GEORGE partners at EGU24…