European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium 2025

Experts from PML will be convening sessions across the Symposium (further information below). 

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Monday 23rd June: 

14:00 | A.08.14 – Enhancing Cooperation between EC and ESA Ocean Science projects. (PML’s Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente and PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk) 

14:00 | F.04.05 – Room 0.11/0.12 – In-land Water Quality and Resources Management – PART 1:

• Global inland water quality climate data records from the ESA’s Climate Change Initiative for Lakes (PML’s Prof Stefan Simis)

15:30 | ESA booth – Marine biosphere in CCI: Promotion of PHYTO-CCI and OC-CCI projects (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk)

16:15 | E.01.02 – Room 1.34 – Earth Observation in Practise: Linking Public and Commercial Data for Earth Action- PART 2:

• Understanding Oil Spill Dispersal Dynamics in Complex Coastal Systems from High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (PML’s Dr Elizabeth C. Atwood (Presenter), Dr Mark Warren, Dr Daniel Clewley,  Dr. Thomas Jordan [Co-authors])

17:45 | F.04.05 – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone G-H – In-land Water Quality and Resources Management: 

• Realignment of MSI derived Chl-a algorithms using coincident OLCI data within the Calimnos processor for Lake Water Quality (PML’s Dr Mark Warren) 
• Towards Improved Transparency in Large Optical Water Quality Processing Chains – Bringing Calimnos to the Community (PML’s Dr Nick Selmes (Presenter), Prof Stefan Simis, Dr Mark Warren,  Dr Xiaohan Liu [co-authors])

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Tuesday 24th June: 

08:30 | A.08.07 – Room 0.49/0.50 – Ocean Health including marine and coastal biodiversity – PART 1:

• PML’s Dr. Victor Martinez-Vicente is co-chairing this session.

11:30 | B.03.06 – Room 0.94/0.95 – Climate, Environment, and Human Health – PART 2: 

• Survey on sanitation and microbial pollution for assessment of risk from climate change and water-borne diseases – case study from Kerala, India (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author]) 

• A remote sensing assessment of floating macrophyte cover dynamics in Lake Vembanad, India (PML’s Emma Sullivan [presenter]; Dr. Gemma Kulk, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Dr. Victor Martinez-Vicente [co-authors]) 

• Signatures of Cholera Outbreak in Long-Term Seasonal Rainfall Trends and Urban Built Patterns in Chandigarh, India (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Elin Meek [co-authors]) 

14:00 | B.03.06 – Room 0.94/0.95 – Climate, Environment, and Human Health – PART 3: 

• The impact of extreme weather on the spread of water-associated diseases in a tropical wetland region (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [presenter]) 

• Extreme weather events, changing land use patterns and microbial pollution escalate outbreaks of leptospirosis in coastal regions along the southwest coast of India (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author])

17:45 | B.03.06 – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone C-D – Climate, Environment, and Human Health: 

• Synergy of extreme weather and socio-economic factors in improved understanding and prediction of water associated diseases in India: A machine learning and Bayesian statistics approach (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author]) 

17:45 | A.08.07  – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone – Ocean Health including marine and coastal biodiversity 

• From pigment prediction to phytoplankton functional type trends with explainable machine-learning (PML’s Dr Angus Laurenson) 

• Linking shelf-sea fronts and biodiversity for improved planning of offshore renewable developments (PML’s Dr Peter Miller). 

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Wednesday 25th June: 

08:30 | D.02.12 – Room Hall G2 – Big-data Driven AI Techniques in Ocean Applications: Enhancing Marine Monitoring and Analysis:

• Advances in Deep Learning for Detecting Karenia brevis Harmful Algal Blooms with Sentinel-3 OLCI Data (PML’s Dr. Salem Ibrahim Salem [Presenter])

11:30 | A.08.10 – Room 0.11/0.12 – Coastal Ocean and Land-sea interaction – PART 2: 

• Primary productivity in Upwelling Systems (PRIMUS) (PML’s Steve Groom [presenter]; Dr. Gemma Kulk, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Dr. Gavin Tilstone, Dr. Dan Clewley, Dr. Peter Land, Kim Hockley, Elin Meek [co-authors]) 

13:00 | Agora 1 Agora – EC-ESA Earth System Science Initiative (PML’s Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente)

14:00 | A.08.09 – Room 0.11/0.12 – Marine and Coastal Carbon – PART 1:  

• Satellite-based observations of carbon in the ocean: Pools, fluxes and exchanges (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [presenter]) 

• Phytoplankton carbon from ocean colour: validation and intercomparison of retrieval algorithms (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author]) 

16:15 | A.08.09 – Room 0.11/0.12 – Marine and Coastal Carbon – PART 2: 

• Trends in Coastal Ocean Primary Productivity (PML’s Dr Yanna Alexia Fidai [presenter]; Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Dr. Gemma Kulk [co-authors]) 

• The Strengths And Limits Of Satellite-driven pCO2 Products And Model Estimates For Assessing The Ocean Carbon Sink (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Dr. Peter Land [co-authors]) 

PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk is co-chairing this session. 

17:45 | A.08.10 – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone F-GPOSTER SESSION – Coastal Ocean and Land-sea interaction:

• Satellite Observations of Long-term Water Quality Properties using Improved Algorithms in the Chesapeake Bay (PML’s Dr. Salem Ibrahim Salem [Co-author])

17:45 | A.08.09 – Room 0.11/0.12 – POSTER SESSION – Marine and Coastal Carbon: 

• Marine and Coastal Carbon. Dynamic assignment of photosynthetic parameters for modelling primary production from satellite observations using machine learning (PML’s Dr Mayra Rodriguez Bennadji [presenter]; Dr. Dave Moffat, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Dr. Lekshmi Krishnakumary and Dr. Gemma Kulk [co-authors]) 

• Towards a global assessment of coastal dissolved organic carbon (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author]) 

• Towards a New Database of Photosynthesis Parameters Estimated From Production Profiles (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author]) 

• Regional Modification Of Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes Due To The Inclusion Of Quantified Ocean Biological Processes Within Satellite-based Assessments (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, Dr. May Rodriguez, Dr. Dave Moffat [co-authors]) 

• Is the efficiency of the biological carbon pump in transporting organic carbon changing due to ongoing climate change? (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [co-author]) 

• Assimilation of satellite-derived surface carbon into ocean biogeochemical models to improve the ocean’s carbon budget (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk, Dr. Lekshmi Krishnakumary [co-authors]) 

• Dissolved organic matter dynamics along the European coasts, new insights from the TRaversing European Coastlines (TREC) expedition (PML’s Dr Tom Jordan and Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente) 

17:45 | A.05.04 – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone E – Advances at the observation -modelling interface: 

• Global trends in marine ecological indicators – Understanding the ocean ecosystem’s response to climate forcing using remote sensing. (PML’s Dr Mayra Rodriguez Bennadji [presenter]; Dr Gemma Kulk, Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath [co-authors])  

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Thursday 26th June: 

16:15 | Ocean Science Cluster Insight: Presentation on SCOPE (PML’s Dr Gemma Kulk [presenter]) 

17:45 | F.04.16 – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone N – Sustainable Blue Economy: 

• Earth Observations for Sustainable Aquaculture (EO4SA) (PML’s Dr Andrey Kurekin and Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente) 

• Mapping coastal Aquaculture Facilities and Optimizing Shelfish operations Using Earth observation methods (PML’s Dr Andrey Kurekin and Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente) 

17:45 | B.02.09 – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone K – The Role of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Drone-based Calibration Data for Integrated Freshwater and Coastal Monitoring: 

• Technological Readiness Of Complementary Shipborne, Airborne and Citizen-Operated Hyperspectral Aquatic Reflectance Data Collection (PML’s Prof Stefan Simis, Dr Tom Jordan and Aser Mata) 

• Validation of atmospheric correction approaches of PACE imagery using ship-based radiometry across the coastal and open ocean Atlantic (PML’s Dr Dr Tom Jordan and Dr Gavin Tilstone) 

17:45 | D.02.06 – POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone T – Foundation Models for Earth Observation: Current solutions with less labelled data to improve environment monitoring and future perspectives to revolutionize geospatial data discovery and utilization: 

• Advancing Marine Earth Observation with AI Foundation Models (PML Environmental Intelligence Group’s Dr. David Moffat) 

14:00 | B.02.09 – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone K – The Role of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Drone-based Calibration Data for Integrated Freshwater and Coastal Monitoring:

• PRESENTATION: Biogeochemical and hyper-spectral optical properties of European coastal and open ocean waters: an unprecedent dataset for the calibration and validation of multi-sensor ocean color satellite products (PML’s Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente) 

Friday 27th June: 

11:30 | A.08.05 – Room 1.14 – Measuring and Monitoring Winds:  

• Developing a long-term consistent wind speed dataset from altimeters (PML’s Dr Graham Quartly). 

13:00 | D.02.08 POSTER SESSION – Room X5 – Poster Area – Zone N – Explainable AI for Earth Observation and Earth Science: 

• Integrating physical modelling and machine learning within a Bayesian framework: a novel algorithm for coastal marine remote sensing (PhD researcher Pirta Palola and Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente) 

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