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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.

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.

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).

Sailing route

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

 

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