European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium 2025

Monday 23 June 2025 - Friday 27 June 2025

Location: Vienna, Austria

‘From Observation to Climate Action and Sustainability for Earth’: save the date for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) next Living Planet Symposium, set for 23–27 June 2025 at the Austria Center Vienna.

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) 

 

Find out more about the Living Planet Symposium here >>