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🌋 What lives on an underwater volcano? Join our next Marine Biodiversity Networking Friday on SEAMOUNTS, where researchers from 3 continents will come together to explore deep-sea discovery & high-seas conservation.
📅 9 Oct, 1–2 PM UTC
👉 aircent.re/4ArERUN
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🌊 Following our Networking Fridays: Sargassum Across the Atlantic series? Our Ep 2 will discuss "Communities & ecosystems under pressure: livelihoods & marine biodiversity"!
🗓2 Oct, 1:00–2:30 PM UTC
👉 Register: aircent.re/4cR5lF9
More details here: aircent.re/4hdOg9G
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This week, @AIRCentre_org joined the II Ibero-American Space Agencies Meeting #RIAE, organised by @aee_gob in Madrid on 15–16 Sept. The event advanced cooperation on space weather, sustainability, EO and satellite connectivity, with a visit to @esa.
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🛰️🌊 Next week, we will launch the Networking Fridays: Sargassum Across the Atlantic webinar series!
Join us for the first session on how satellites, ocean models & drones track and forecast sargassum blooms basin-wide.
🗓18 Sep
👉 aircent.re/3UIvT5e
Register now!
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New study in Frontiers in Marine Science shows the High Seas Treaty’s Clearing‑House Mechanism must connect to existing global data systems,not duplicate them. Interoperability and data literacy are key to tracking marine genetic resources.
Full article🔗 bit.ly/4gHVId8
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Marine Biodiversity Networking Fridays is back!
Join this session on "Modelling the Living Ocean"
👉11 Sept
How can ecosystem modelling help predict a changing ocean? From plankton & the carbon pump to sea turtles, don't miss this discussion!
Register now: aircent.re/4guHR9S
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🌊 Save the date! This autumn, @AIRCentre_org's Networking Fridays will bring the Atlantic together for “Sargassum across the Atlantic”.
🔎5 eps from Sep–Nov connecting science, communities, policy & practice.
More details will be revealed soon! 🌎
#Sargassum #Atlantic #AIRCentre
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Should Atlantic aquaculture stick with established species or invest in new ones that take 15–20 years to develop?
A new @AIRCentre_org white paper looks at aquaculture in the Azores, Cape Verde & Senegal, and shows why no region can do it alone.
📄 aircent.re/4fQNfoK
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We're hiring a Policy Officer for our Ocean Policy Group in Lisbon🌊
Support EU-funded projects on ocean governance & blue economy.
📩CV + cover letter to recruitment@aircentre.org by 4 Sept 2026, quoting "Policy Officer" in the subject line.
🔗 + details: aircent.re/4pS8EkE
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Last week, @AIRCentre_org had the pleasure to join the V Ocean Decade Conference in 🇨🇻. Executive Director, Miguel Miranda, attended the high-level forum, Ana Faria mentored the Blue Youth Hackathon, and #IMAR contributed key scientific expertise.
+ info: aircent.re/3TLwHFX
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The ROKAMURAE-AZ project wrapped up in Faial, Azores, on 23 July, with our researcher Mariana Ávila co-presenting on R. okamurae stranding patterns using satellite imagery and citizen science. 🌿🌊
🔗Read full article: aircent.re/4pCoEHf
#AIRCentre #Azores #InvasiveSpecies
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🐋"Whaling in the Atlantic": 22 July at the Sesimbra Maritime Museum. A scientific meeting on whaling across the Lusophone Atlantic, from medieval origins to industry, museums & conservation.
📍Sesimbra | Register: forms.gle/H3MFDHpPYG7kAbfx8
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Last week, @eo4sure met with @apambiente and DHI to review first results and co-develop EO tools for water stress and ecosystem monitoring in Portugal, supporting SDG 6.4.2 and SDG 6.6.1.
Science built with those who use it.💧🛰️
🔗 bit.ly/4eT2k8Q
#EO4SURE #SDG6 #Portugal
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On 2 July, the AIR Centre welcomed Comendador Anthony Bailey, Honourable Consul-General of His Majesty The King of Tonga to the Portugal, to discuss ocean science, climate action & cooperation between two ancient maritime nations 🌊
🔗Read full story: aircent.re/4wBJkSc
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The @eo4sure project met with #IMAR #CaboVerde to present first results and co-develop #EarthObservation tools for sustainable fisheries monitoring and #SDG14 reporting.
This co-creation shows a science shaped by those who need it most.🐟🛰️
🔗 Full story: bit.ly/4eR6RIO
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The @BlueEconomyEU Regional Portfolio Calls for Interest are now open across 5 European sea basins.
🔵Wave 1 (Atlantic & Black Sea): 29 Jul
🔵Wave 2 (Mediterranean, Baltic & North Sea): 9 Sep
General information webinar to be held on 7 Oct!
🔗More info: bit.ly/4v7mlgw
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📢Join us on 10 July for Marine Biodiversity Networking Friday with Jaume Piera of ICM CSIC. He will discuss how participatory methodologies and new dimensions like completeness & timeliness can strengthen biodiversity monitoring at scale.
🔗Register now: aircent.re/44EVOMO
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🛰️ @AIRCentre_org joined +ATLANTIC & @geosat_space in Lisbon to showcase geospatial services for Atlantic challenges developed under WP5. From ocean monitoring to offshore renewables. 🌊
🗞️Full story here: aircent.re/4xX9a4D
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🌊Join upcoming @trevorfondation webinar this Thu, Jul 2
Advancing satellite-based monitoring of marine carbon pools, phytoplankton diversity and marine litter pollution with Dr. Victor Martinez-Vicente from @PlymouthMarine!
🔗Register now: bit.ly/4oV2OP7
#OceanScience
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🌊 Our 2nd PhD Scholarship Annual Meeting wrapped up, and it's wonderful to see how much this group has grown.
Here's to many more milestones ahead!
See you next year! 🌍
🗞️Read full article: aircent.re/3StD0O0
#OceanScience #FCT
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