The Earth Sciences Department will have a stand at the conference to showcase all the ocean-related projects currently under development at the BSC
Under the motto ‘Delivering the science we need for the ocean we want’, Barcelona will hold from 10th to 12th of April 2024, the well-recognised and influential conference UN Ocean Decade Conference. This year’s edition will bring the ocean sciences community to the Catalan capital to celebrate achievements and set joint priorities for the oceans' future.
The aim is to generate dialogue across the whole science-policy-society interface, as well as to provide a global forum for governments, leaders, maritime sectors, philanthropy, universities, the private sector, NGOs and more to meet and catalyse new partnerships and collaborations.
The results of the expedition ‘Unexplored Seamounts of the Salas y Gómez Ridge’ and the current negotiations to create a blue corridor in the area will be presented by BSC researcher Ariadna Mecho at the “Ocean Decade MPA Forum: Progress, obstacles and solutions” forum organised as a satellite event of the UN Ocean Decade Conference.
This forum will explore four cross-cutting themes for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) over two days. Researcher Pablo Ortega, co-leader of the BSC’s Climate Variability and Change group, will also participate in the forum, presenting the advances of digital twins of ocean research and how they could be a powerful tool for creating climate-adapted MPA in the future.
The BSC’s Earth Sciences Department will hold a booth at the conference to present all the projects related to the ocean, with special emphasis on the European projects EERIE, RESCUE and Climateurope2.
Further participation of BSC’s researchers includes:
- Mario Acosta (co-leader of the Computational Earth Sciences group) presenting the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking-funded Center of Excellence ESiWACE3 at the “Monitoring the Ocean: Panel discussion” satellite event,
- Joan Llort (researcher in the Climate Variability and Change group) co-organises the satellite event “Unifying the air-sea interactions community” and will contribute to the event “Art for Advocacy, A deep-sea live show”, organised by the Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) and Sónar+D; and
- Raffaele Bernardello (researcher in the Climate Variability and Change group) contributing to the “Advancing marine carbon dioxide removal for the planet we want: Exploring science and collaborative solutions in the Ocean Decade” off-site event.
Photo credit: Renata Romeo / Ocean Image Bank