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Sponsorship opportunity: ESA Ocean Synergy Training Course 2025 and the One Ocean Expedition
21 August 2024
Plymouth Marine Laboratory joins the Trevor Platt Science Foundation to announce the sponsorship of a trainee from a developing country to participate in the #OTC25, through the Trevor Platt Science (TPS) Fund at PML. One of the successful applicants selected for the #OTC25 training course will be sponsored by the PML-TPS Fund.
Image: Reykjavik, Iceland. The ESA OTC25 will take place during the One Ocean voyage from Tromsø to Reykjavik and Reykjavik to Nice in April-June 2025.
ESA Ocean Synergy Training Course 2025 (#OTC25) and the One Ocean Expedition
Glimpses from the One Ocean Expedition 2023:
The #OTC25 Training Course consists of two mandatory parts:
A shore-based online component from November 2024 to March 2025 using Ocean Virtual Laboratory: It will consist of 14 modules, each of 2 hours duration, scheduled at the rate of one module per week. Each module will focus on a different Earth Observation satellite measurement: How they work, how different instruments measure different properties, and how we can apply derived data in different ways for ocean science applications. The shore-based course will focus on a virtual Voyage of the ship-based component of the training course.
A ship-based component aboard the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl (https://lehmkuhl.no/en/) during the One Ocean expedition from Tromsø, Norway, to Nice, France, via Reykjavik, Iceland (22nd April 2025 - 4th June 2025 sailing 6200 nautical miles in about 35 days).
The ESA OTC25 will take place during the One Ocean voyage from Tromsø to Reykjavik and Reykjavik to Nice in April-June 2025.You can find more information on this opportunity and how to apply on the website of the European Space Agency: https://oceantrainingcourse2025.esa.int/.
The deadline for application is the 8th of September 2024.
Schedules and Deadlines
| Opening of student application submission | 12 June 2024 |
| Applications submission deadline Sponsored: “40 ESA, 1 IOCCG, 1 PML-TPS Fund, 10 NASA students” |
08 September 2024 |
| Announcement of student selection. Selected students will be informed by email no later than | 20 September 2024 |
| First online lecture | 03 December 2024 |
| Departure of Statsraad Lehmkuhl from Tromsø, Norway | 22 April 2025 |
| Arrival Statsraad Lehmkuhl in Nice, France for the UN Ocean Decade (UNOC) 2025 Conference https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/ocean2025 |
04 June 2025 |