News & Events Archive 2016

This event will take place on the 6th of September 2016 in the European Parliament, Brussels.

HYDRO 2016 Hydrographic Conference and Exhibition, November 8 – 10, 2016, in Rostock-Warnemünde.

Gdansk, 19-20 September 2016

On July 22, 2016, the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance is launching the 5th Trans-Atlantic seabed mapping survey.

Craig McLean of NOAA was recently featured in an Irish Times article where he spoke on climate change, the potential of the oceans and the importance of sea bed mapping.

South Africa will host the 35th International Geological Congress from 27 August - 4 September 2021

Ocean experts have called for international action to generate the kinds of maps of global seabeds that space missions have already returned for the Moon and Mars.

The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 funding programme is supporting the largest and most ambitious assessment of deep-sea Atlantic ecosystems ever undertaken.

Galway Statement Implementation Committee Meeting. 13th of June, Brussels, Belgium.

Registration open for Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference, 27 September 2016.

The R.V. Celtic Explorer set sail last night (8pm Newfoundland/11:30pm Ireland) from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

Schools from 7 different countries are expected to participate in the Atlantic Miniboat Regatta this November.

The European Union and Canada are strengthening their scientific collaboration in order to better understand and protect the Atlantic Ocean, and to sustainably use its resources.

In September 2015 the United Nations adopted a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) calling for better ocean management. Implementation of this SDG requires a holistic, knowledge-based approach that integrates ocean system understanding and human interactions with the ocean.

The World Aquaculture Society’s annual conference in 2016 was an opportunity to advance the work on the roadmap of the Aquaculture Working Group of the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance.

Representatives of the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance attended meetings with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and others as part of the St. Patrick’s Day events in Washington DC.

The EU-Canada-US Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Town Hall took place in the Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center, New Orleans on Wednesday 24th of February during the 2016 Ocean Sciences Conference.

The Oceanology International is being held from March 15-17 at Excel, London

The 2nd annual AtlantOS meeting is being held in Kiel, Germany from the 28th of June to the 30th of June.

SeaFest will be held in Galway city centre, including the harbour area, from the 30th of June to July 3rd.