Programme

Call for Breakout Workshop Chairs

Applications are now open for chairs of the IOCS-2025 Breakout Workshops. The workshop should have active involvement from participants. Recommendations from the workshop should be directed to either the space agencies, the community, or the IOCCG Committee, and should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART).

The IOCS-2025 Scientific Planning Committee has defined the topics below for the breakout workshops. Proposals for chair(s) should clearly outline the scientific questions aimed to be addressed within the workshop, and a basic plan for how the workshop will be structured to stimulate and facilitate attendee participation and discussion that can answer the scientific questions and lead to the consensus recommendations.

• Carbon and climate
  Satellite ocean colour product requirements for climate studies, linking ocean colour data to IPCC activities and societal awareness/ Strategies to integrate ocean colour products into climate change models and policy discussions/ Development of community-driven, multi-mission datasets to monitor aquatic carbon over decades (long-term time series).
• Water quality
  Requirements and gaps in satellite products for water quality applications, including those addressable by geostationary satellites, hyperspectral sensors, Lidar/ Approaches for integrating products from multiple missions, and across existing and future missions to support water quality monitoring/ Products specifically designed to address regional and local water quality challenges and to meet the needs of diverse user communities.
• Biodiversity
  Defining decadal trends and long-term changes in marine biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics/ Definition and specification of biodiversity products that inform conservation and management/ Satellite data to understand relationships between biodiversity and ocean health.
• Technical topics around validation and calibration