AIR Centre Joins Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
The AIR Centre has officially joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a prominent international organization dedicated to developing open standards for geospatial and location-based services.
Call for Expression of Interest: Travel Grants for two Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs) to attend 2024 All-Atlantic Forum in Ottawa, Canada.
Are you an early career ocean professional? Join us at the 2024 All-Atlantic Forum in Ottawa for an intergenerational dialogue session! Applications are welcome until 10 July 2024!
All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance Forum 2023
Registrations are now open for the 2023 edition of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance Forum, which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21-22 November 2023. The event is co-organised by the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission.
Call for PhD fellowships topics on Preservation and Restoration of Polar Marine and Coastal Ecosystems and Biodiversity
The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR), the European Polar Board (EPB) and the Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre) opened a call for PhD fellowships topics on “Preservation and Restoration of Polar Marine and Coastal Ecosystems and Biodiversity”
All-Atlantic Marine Ecosystems: science to policy debate
AtlantECO, Mission Atlantic and AANChOR are co-organising a science to policy debate in the framework of the TARA Microbiomes flagship mission, which will dock in Portugal on October 3rd, 2022.
The AIR Centre at UNOC 2022
The 2022 UN Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, took place on 27 June – 1 July 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal. The AIR Centre was present in several activities, both as organizers and participants of UNOC official side-events.
AIR Centre joins the UNEP as GRID Azores
The AIR Centre EO Lab meets in Stockholm to sign a MoU with UNEP to create GRID Azores.
First images of the newly installed DRS Antenna at the AIR Centre EO Lab
Th AIR Centre is now receiving data every few hours from several satellites, through a Direct Receiving Station (DRS).
ESAPlastics
ESAPlastics - De-Risk Action: Spectrometer for Marine Litter. This action will evaluate and develop at a low TRL, prospective technology that in the future can lead to the development of a spectrometer for marine litter detection from space. Clearly there is an opportunity to develop innovative technology that can take advantage of Earth Observation satellite constellation to provide a continuous monitoring of earth oceans and coastal areas.