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The HorizonEU OceanICU project will produce new data, information and understanding on the role of the #ocean in the global #carbon cycle. #horizoneurope

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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 5h
Want to learn about recent #Ocean #Carbon research & develop your #scicomm skills? If so, check out the #OceanICUYouthCompetition 🌊 Open to budding science communicators (age 14-30) Deadline: 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 More info here: ocean-icu.eu/youth-compet... #EUGreenDeal #ECR #STEM #Education #ArtContest
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For #InternationalYouthDay we are spotlighting one of our project's bright, young scientists #Dr.FilipaAfonso to learn why she thinks young people should be interested in #ocean #carbon. ocean-icu.eu/blogs/intern... #YouthDay @marineinst.bsky.social #MarineEcology #Oceanography #ECR #ECOP
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 from OceanICU colleagues 𝗔 𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 Find it here: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... #EcoSystems #OceanCarbon #MCDR #fisheries #aquaculture
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
OceanICU is pleased to be part of this coalition of projects investigating ocean carbon. We know calendars fill up quickly so please see more info at the link and save the date. #OceanCarbon #OceanClimateAction #MarineData #Science
Graphic with text: European Ocean Carbon Summit is a coalition of Horizon Europe funded projects who will present key results and next steps at an event on the 26th of May, 2027 in Brussels with QR code for more info and registration, matching link in the comments
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dr. Carla Freitas shares insights from her #research on the diving behaviour of common minke & fin #whales in Norway and the impact of whale-released nutrients on ocean primary production. Read her blog to learn more. ocean-icu.eu/blogs/how-wh... #MarineBiology #OceanCarbon #STEMWomen
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Today's awareness & appreciation campaign reminds us that everyday the Ocean provides an invaluable service sequestering carbon to slow down the effects of climate change. OceanICU delivers research towards better policy to protect our Ocean. #WorldOceanDay #OceanClimateAction #OceanConservation
Happy Ocean Day graphic with illustrations of a dolphin, fish, turtle and whale and the OceanICU logo
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Check out this good read! A new paper discussing OceanICU results published in #AGU Geophysical Research Letters - Respiration Rates in the Global Mesopelagic Ocean agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #oceancarbon #marinescience #oceanobservation #mesopelagicresearch #sciencepaper
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🌍🔬The OceanICU project was well represented throughout the week long Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow through orals, poster talks and town hall discussions. Stay tuned for more information #OSM #OceanSciencesMeeting #OceanCarbon #HorizonEurope #EUMissionOCean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Today at OSM, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗢 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 (𝗜𝗢𝗖-𝗥) 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁. OceanICU is pleased to have contributed. Read the full report here unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper! The biogeochemical transport by the Gulf Stream Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... This paper explores the role of the Gulf Stream in the carbon cycle. #HorizonEurope #EUMissionOcean #OceanCarbon #SciencePaper
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To mark the occasion, we spoke with some of the women working in OceanICU to learn what inspired them to pursue careers in ocean science. #WomeninScience #GirlsInSTEM #horizonEU #EUMissionOcean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🌊 The High-Seas Treaty has Officially Entered into Force 🌍 OceanICU welcomes this achievement! The high seas are an important area to study ocean carbon cycle in. A landmark achievement. Learn more www.un.org/bbnjagreemen... #BBNJ #TheHighSeastreaty
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
📢New Paper funded by OceanICU published in Nature Geoscience! ➡️Distinct contributions of suspended and sinking prokaryotes to mesopelagic carbon budget. Read it here www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read the story behind the paper here → communities.springernature.com/posts/distin...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
💡🐟 It's Marine Knowledge Week & we are pleased to be sharing the OceanICU story with attendees at the EMODnet Open Conference today! If you are in attendance pass by & talk to us about understanding ocean carbon. #EMODnetOC2025 #HorizonEU #MissionOcean #EUOceanPact #EUGreenDeal #Ocean #Carbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢#Vacancy Alert! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ocean Alkalinity Cycling at Heriot-Watt University The postholder will contribute to the Horizon Europe and UKRI funded OceanICU project (Ocean-Improving Carbon Understanding). Apply by 7 December here enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Joint OceanICU and TRICUSO Webinar IPCC: What is it all about? was a success. With COP30 now underway in Brasil, why not take this timely opportunity to hear directly from IPCC authors Did you miss it? We prepared a goody bag for you → ocean-icu.eu/webinars/oce... #HorizonEU
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The OceanICU webinar was featured in the latest Atlas of the Seas map of the week: IPCC - What is it all about?Registration: ocean-icu.eu/webinars/oce... This week the map shows the spatial distribution of the mean sea surface temperature trends! maritime-forum.ec.europa.eu/map-week-cli...
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OceanICU - Webinar 9 - IPCC - What is it all about - OceanICU
The OceanICU project is designing new Decision Support Tools (DSTs)—modelling tools—to allow us to predict the impact of natural processes and industry actions and of which will aid scientists, indust...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 28/10/2025
Marine animals play a key role in locking #carbon deep in the #ocean, slowing #climate change. This study finds that fishing has already cut this service in half, with climate change expected to further reduce it in the future. @gaelmariani.bsky.social @oceanicu.bsky.social
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The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna - Nature Communications
Marine animals play a key role in locking carbon deep in the ocean, slowing climate change. This study finds that fishing has already cut this service in half, with climate change expected to further ...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗣𝗖𝗖 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 from previous and newly elected authors in the joint OceanICU – TRICUSO Webinar 🌍 𝗜𝗣𝗖𝗖 - 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁? Register ocean-icu.eu/webinars/oce... #IPCC #ClimateChange #Webinar #OceanCarbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🔍New Paper: Micronekton Indicators and Ocean Change 📖 Read it here: sp.copernicus.org/articles/6-o... #EUGreenDeal #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean #OceanScience #SciencePaper #OceanCarbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚀Register for the joint OceanICU - TRICUSO Webinar 🌍 IPCC - What is it all about? 📆 6 November at 14:00 CET→ ocean-icu.eu/webinars/oce... #Webinar #IPCC #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Science #OceanScience #Register #LearningOportunity
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
They are architects building houses while floating through oceans. They are engineers capturing atmospheric carbon, atom by atom. While you breathe, they work. While you sleep, they build. While you read this, they're protecting our climate system. Who are they? #OceanGuardians
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In a world visible only under a microscope, a story unfolds that's changing our planet. Like grains of sand that build beaches, these microscopic organisms are constructing something far greater. Illustrations by Rosie Sheward. #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🔍Understanding Carbon in the Ocean: Is It Enough?🧪 🔗 Read the latest OceanICU blog by Emma Dolmaire: ocean-icu.eu/blogs/unders... #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean #EUOceanPact #BiologicalCarbonPump #MarineScience #ClimateAction #OceanCarbon #OceanChemistry #RedfieldRatio #ClimateScience
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🐠OceanICU at the European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA) Conference. 🌍OceanICU partners from @Seascape Belgium met with ocean science educators from across Europe to share the OceanICU investigation into the biological carbon pump. #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean #EMSEA #OceanLiteracy
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We’ll be presenting a poster at #EMSEA: New Knowledge & Tools for Blue Economy & Policy Stakeholders to Better Manage our Ocean Stop by to learn about: 🌀The ocean carbon cycle 🌍 The ocean biological carbon pump 💻 The OceanICU decision support tool #OceanCarbon #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📢 New Paper: Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023. Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciencePaper #OceanCarbon #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal #ClimateChange
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢 New Paper! Sequestration by the Biological Carbon Pump: Do We Really Know What We’re Talking About? OceanICU colleague Andre Visser (DTU) proposes a distinction to help clarify how this fundamental BCP metric is reported. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SciencePaper #HorizonEU
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🌊 #VacancyAlert | Marine Institute is #Hiring! Join the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management Team as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and contribute to important research within the OceanICU project (Horizon Europe). #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean #Ocean #Carbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Are you a researcher investigating the Ocean Biological Carbon Pump? You may want to apply to attend an important international workshop: The roles of marine biology in helping the ocean store carbon. 2 - 4 March 2026 Glasgow, UK Deadline 24th August forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #Ocean #Carbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Call for #Abstracts #OSM26: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Interactions with Fish, Fisheries & Aquaculture’. More INFO: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr... #ClimateChange #Ocean #Carbon #Research #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🪸 🦠 🦐 What tiny creatures play an ENORMOUS role in regulating aquatic life? Why Plankton of course! OceanICU colleague @Alex J. Poulton, who alongside 45 other experts has contributed to a new article that highlights the importance of plankton. Read it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🔬Benjamin Gustafson presented his research on Pelagic calcifier diversity and their relative contributions to production and export of CaCO3 at the Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Sciences PhD Symposium 👏 Thank you Ben for representing OceanICU #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal #Ocean #Carbon #Research
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🌊 New guest post from OceanICU partners on @carbonbrief.org → How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h... ✍️ By Damien Couespel (NORCE), Fabio Berzaghi (WMU) , Jerry Tjiputra (NORCE), Richard Sanders (NORCE), and Dagmara Rusiecka (NORCE)
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This past week in Sopot ended on an optimistic note felt across the large OceanICU consortium. An Ocean of Thanks to our partners at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences - Maciej Telszewski and Dominik Krzymiński - for hosting us and for the incredible hospitality! #OceanICUAM25
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The #OceanICUAM25 started today hosted by IO PAN. After a welcome by Jan Marcin Węsławski & Richard Sanders we got into what OceanICU is investigating: are industrial processes like fishing affecting the oceans ability to absorb carbon? Stay tuned as we get into the details! #HorizonEU #Ocean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The OceanICU Janus moment! Janus: Roman legend symbolising transitions. OceanICU partners will meet next week in Sopot, Poland, for a key milestone: the halfway point of the project. We will be posting updates during the meeting next week. Follow #OceanICUAM25 to keep up with the latest #HorizonEU
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🗺️ To observe the seasonal increase in phytoplankton activity see the Atlas of the Seas’ Map of the Week on global ocean chlorophyll, which includes a reference to OceanICU and its work to gain a new understanding of the biological carbon pump: maritime-forum.ec.europa.eu/map-week-spr... #HorizonEU
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🐠Quantifying the fish contribution to on-shelf carbon sink🐟 Paula Silvar presented findings from an OceanICU study at EGU25 advancing our understanding of the contribution of continental shelf species on carbon sequestration ➡️ Find the abstract here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
OceanICU at Sea: An Unexpected Journey On the third station of the expedition, a CTD rosette was lost to the deep ocean, losing connection around 1500m. The talented Jana Piñel gave us a depiction of how the events may have unfolded. Take a look… www.gob-iocag.ulpgc.es/post/an-unfo... #HorizonEU
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Unfortunately, at station 3 a CTD rosette was lost to the great Southern Atlantic Ocean. To minimise the disruption to research, we decided to transit to the next sampling station while the expert cre...
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today is Earth Day, & this year's theme is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy. #EarthDay2025 #EarthActionDay #Ocean #Carbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🌊OceanICU at Sea🚢 The adventure continues as our colleagues sail up the western coast of Africa. 🦈 It’s been an eventful journey. Read the official expedition blog for all the exciting details: www.gob-iocag.ulpgc.es/s-projects-b... #HorizonEU #EUMissionOcean #Ocean #Carbon @ulpgc.es @csic.es
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
OceanICU colleagues Aja Trebec & Javier Arístegui are among a team of scientists currently onboard the CSIC Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa, on an expedition from Namibia & is headed to Gran Canaria. Blog www.gob-iocag.ulpgc.es/s-projects-b... #Science #Ocean #Carbon #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
There is a hidden Climate Hero in our Ocean! It’s the Biological Carbon Pump and it plays a trillion-dollar role, according to Fabio Berzaghi, referencing a new paper he is lead author on. Read the paper: rdcu.be/efknr #EUMissionOcean #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal #ClimateMitigation #OceanCarbon
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
On #WorldWaterDay, let’s remember the importance of glacier preservation! Melting glaciers release fresh water into the ocean, which can alter ocean circulation patterns. These changes can potentially affect the biological carbon pump. Learn more about the biological carbon pump ocean-icu.eu
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
OceanICU aims to provide tools to help decision makers examine #carbon and thus #climate impacts of a variety of #ocean resource extraction activities, which will support the ambitions outlined in the @wmo-global.bsky.social #StateOfClimate report.
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌊 @bengustafson.bsky.social is a researcher at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social investigating how climate change stressors affect pelagic calcifiers. 🧐 Read his insightful blog. (link in comments) #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal #EUMissionOcean #Ocean #Carbon #Climate #research #Biodiversity #EU4Ocean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The OceanICU Ocean Acidification & Carbon Cycle Feedbacks webinar was successfully held on the 26th February. Whether you missed the live event or would like a refresher visit our website for the webinar recording and more! → ocean-icu.eu/webinars/oce... #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal #EUMissionOcean
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Now more than ever, it is important that the voices of both women and evidence-based science are heard on the international stage! OceanICU wishes all women in STEM and beyond a happy and special International Women’s Day #ocean #carbon #IWD2025 #WomeninSTEM #ScienceSHEroes #EUGreenDeal #HorizonEU
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OceanICU Project @oceanicu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Congrats to our colleagues Jerry Tjiputra, @oceanrics.bsky.social sky.social & Damien Couespel for the publication of their work in Nature Communication on how the ocean biological pump plays a vital role in maintaining low atmospheric CO2 levels. Find it here: tinyurl.com/3kfyuud5 #EUGreenDeal
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