Have you all been keeping up with your reading of policy documents issued by the Executive Office of the President of the United States? If not, you may have missed their National Plan for Civil Earth Observations (EO), issued a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Oceans
Looking Deeper At Phytoplankton from Space
NASA is currently in the middle of a joint airborne and sea campaign to study the ocean and atmosphere in preparation for developing instruments for future spaceborne missions. The Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) campaign has brought together experts from a … Continue reading
The Science Behind Springwatch
Last Wednesday Pixalytics made it’s TV debut on the BBC2 Springwatch programme, where they showed a video we’d made on phytoplankton blooms. The video was based on NASA MODIS-Aqua daily images. MODIS, or the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, is an optical sensor that’s … Continue reading
Vienna!
Last week I was in Vienna, Austria, attending the 2014 European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly. It was a scientific smorgasbord laid in front of over 12,000 people from 106 countries. Over 4,800 oral presentations were given and 9,500 posters … Continue reading
Report on Last Week’s Global Oceans Action Summit
Last week I attended the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth; held at The World Forum in The Hague (the Netherlands). It brought together 500 ocean stakeholders from over 80 countries to address the three key … Continue reading
