Press Releases Archive 2016

Senior officials of the European Commission and the U.S. Department of State gathered on Wednesday, 30 November 2016, to review recent achievements and discuss new opportunities under the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC).

On the 10th of November 2016 the European Commission adopted a landmark political document: a Joint Communication on "International ocean governance: an agenda for the future of our oceans."

A miniature sailboat created by Kaitlyn Dow, a student at Waterford High School in Connecticut, was recovered by 8-year-old Méabh Ní Ghionnáin, a resident of Droim, Leitir Móir, Connemara, Co. Galway.

This award honours the AORA-CSA as an outstanding success story in the Atlantic geographical area.

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.

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.

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.

A multi-national team of European, Canadian, and American ocean exploration experts lead by Thomas Furey, Marine Institute, has revealed previously uncharted features on the Atlantic seabed including mountains and ridges taller than Carrauntoohil, Ireland's highest mountain.

A multi-national team of European, Canadian, and American ocean mapping experts launch the first trans-Atlantic mapping survey under the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance

An international team of scientists led by Prof. Andy Wheeler of University College Cork have recently (June 2015) discovered a new cold-water coral habitat in Irish waters.

European Maritime Day in Turku 2016 will take place in Turku, Finland, on 18 and 19 May 2016.