The four EMB Young Ambassadors reflect on how COVID-19 and national lockdowns have impacted on their professional and personal lives.
News archive
EMB Young Ambassadors reflect on COVID-19
Friday, 09 October 2020
7th EMB Forum - Big Data in Marine Science: Supporting the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, and the Digital Twin Ocean
Wednesday, 02 September 2020
The 7thEMB Forum brings together diverse stakeholders from government, academia, NGOs and industry to discuss the role of big data, digitalization and artificial intelligence in marine science to support of the EU Green Deal, the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and the development of a Digital Twin Ocean. Big data is rapidly transforming our society and is leading to a paradigm shift in the way we face major challenges including climate change and the sustainable management of our marine resources. With the expansion of the scale and scope of ocean observing systems and other data sources, an increasing flood of highly complex ocean data is being generated, often in near real-time. Data need to be integrated and readily available to support decision-making, which can be assisted by artificial intelligence as a tool for more complex analyses and a deeper understanding of the functioning, human impacts, and future state of the ocean. These topics are explored in more detail in the EMB Future Science Brief No. 6 ‘Big Data in Marine Science'.
COVID-19 and Marine Science
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
In Summer 2020, EMB conducted an initial survey of it's member organizations to find out how they had been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
New EMB science webinar series
Thursday, 06 August 2020
EMB launches a new #ThirdThursdayScience webinar series, which will dive into the science behind our publications.
New EcoMagazine article on 'Food from the Ocean in the Digital Age'
Monday, 03 August 2020
The EMB secretariat have published an article in the July/August issue of EcoMagazine on 'Food from the Ocean in the Digital Age'. The article looks at the role of modelling and big data in the fishery and aquaculture sectors, drawing on the EMB's Future Science Briefs 'Enhancing Europe's Capability in Marine Ecosystem Modelling for Societal Benefit' and 'Big Data in Marine Science', as well as the SOPHIE 'Strategic Research Agenda for Oceans and Human Health'.
Joining forces at the first “EU4Ocean workshop" – Designing Ocean Literacy action in Europe
Monday, 27 July 2020
On 24 – 25 September 2020, the first EU4Ocean workshop– Designing Ocean Literacy action in Europe will be organised by the EU4Ocean Coalition – a new initiative on ocean literacy of the European Commission.
A bird's eye view on 25 years of EMB's marine research activities
Monday, 15 June 2020
On Friday 12 June 2020, EMB Executive Director Sheila Heymans gave an overview of how the EMB has been developing, promoting and linking marine science to societal challenges in the past 25 years. She did this as the guest speaker on the AIR Centre Networking Fridays, moderated by Wendy Watson-Wright.
Launch of Oceans and Human Health Policy Brief
Thursday, 28 May 2020
The EU4Ocean Coalition on Ocean Literacy is ready to sail
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
On June 8th, the first Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit will be organised on the occasion of the World Oceans Day. There is no better chance to celebrate the creation of the European Union's initiative dedicated to ocean literacy, the EU4Ocean coalition, together with Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, and IOC-UNESCO. Because of the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will meet virtually to officially announce and celebrate this launch and share ideas and perspective for the protection of our blue planet.
Webinar launch of EMB's 6th Future Science Brief 'Big Data in Marine Science'
Monday, 27 April 2020
EMB’s 6th Future Science Brief on ‘Big Data in Marine Science’ was launched today during a dedicated webinar, with over 400 participants. The publication is the outcome of the work of the EMB Working Group on Big Data, which kicked-off in May 2019.