Trevor Platt Science Foundation (TPSF) Symposium: Abstract deadline 13 Feb 2023

COURTESY POST:

Dear Colleagues from the ocean colour and water radiometry communities,

We encourage you to submit an abstract to the following Session (SS102) of the 2023 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, which will be held from 4 -9 June 2023 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The abstract submission is open until 23 February 2023.

Session ID: SS102

Session Title: Inland and Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems Monitoring from In Situ and Satellite Radiometric Measurements

Session abstract: Coastal and inland waters ecosystems are ecologically, culturally, and economically important. Monitoring these environments is therefore essential to understand ecosystem functioning, how to ensure sustainable practices and assess the impact of human activities. Among the large diversity of measurement techniques, optical remote sensing presents some clear advantages. Indeed, earth observation satellites nowadays allow to monitor the spatial variability of water quality parameters over large areas and with relatively short revisiting times. In water and above water radiometers, have a great potential for ecosystem monitoring, especially if they are integrated into autonomous measurement systems providing high temporal resolution data, or if they have a high spectral resolution opening the door to new environmental products based on fine spectral features. However, retrieving relevant information on water constituents from radiometric data in optically complex waters is still challenging. Indeed, although in clear, case-1, waters most of the bio-optic parameters are dependent of the chlorophyll-a concentration, in coastal and inland waters (i.e. case-2 waters) light absorption and scattering is affected by terrestrial inputs of sediments and/or dissolved organic carbon which can make the retrieval of simple parameters such as the chlorophyll-a concentration very complicated. In addition, atmospheric correction algorithms are more challenging because of potentially extreme optical water properties and the proximity with the coast or surrounding land. This session is open to all contributions presenting novel applications of inland and coastal aquatic monitoring based on visible and NIR radiometric remote sensing data either from satellite or in situ sensors.

Hope to see you all there,
Héloïse, Clémence, Pierre, David and Evangelos.

See flyer IsDB FELLOWSHIPS 2022-Final

The TWAS Programme Office is pleased to announce that that applications for the 2022 Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme are now open. The deadline is 6 March 2023.

This year’s edition is open to women and men scientists from IsDB least developed member countries. The programme aims to advance research in the fields of sustainability science and applications from women scientists are especially encouraged.

Please find attached the programme’s presentation and the full Call here: TWAS-IsDB Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme | TWAS

This fellowship is an invaluable opportunity for women scientists from least developed countries, as they may undertake postdoctoral research in areas relevant to sustainability science at host institutions with a well-established track record in research in developing countries.

On behalf of the Academy, I would be grateful if you would be able to share this opportunity among your organisation’s members and contacts and/or on your online channels.

For queries, please, contact: TWAS Programmes Office:  isdb@twas.org  , Tel: +39 040 224 0662

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Nous avons de plaisir de vous annoncer l’ouverture de l’appel à candidatures de l’édition 2023 du programme Postdoctoral IsDB-TWAS (2023 Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme) scientifiques. La date limite de candidature est fixée au 6 mars 2023.

L’édition 2023 est ouverte aux scientifiques des pays membres les moins développés de l’IsBD. Le programme vise à faire progresser la recherche dans les domaines de la science du développement durable.

Veuillez trouver ci-joint la présentation du programme et l’appel complet est à retrouver à l’adresse suivante https://twas.org/opportunity/isdb-twas-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme.  

Cette bourse est une opportunité inestimable pour les scientifiques des pays les moins avancés : les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs peuvent entreprendre des recherches postdoctorales dans des domaines liés à la science de la durabilité dans des institutions d’accueil ayant une expérience bien établie dans la recherche dans les pays en voie de développement.

Nous vous serions reconnaissants de bien vouloir partager cette opportunité avec vos contacts.

Nous restons à votre disposition pour toute question. N’hésitez pas à nous contacter (en anglais ou en français) à l’adresse suivante : TWAS Programmes Office, isdb@twas.org.

Sincères salutations.

TWAS Programmes Office.

two job opportunities to operate the BGC-Argo array and work on data are
now open at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR) of the National
Research Council (CNR), in Rome (Italy).

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Deadline for application: February 16th, 2023

Applications must be done on https://selezionionline.cnr.it/

Gross salary: around 35Keuro per year (+ meal vouchers + health
insurance). It includes pension treatment.

1-year contract, with possibility to extend up to the end of the
project. The ITINERIS (Italian Integrated Environmental Research
Infrastructure System) project has started on Nov 1st, 2022 for a
duration of 30 months.
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1) Call N. 400.6 ISMAR PNRR – CODE 02 – 1 Research Scientist
with at least three years’ experience in the analysis of remotely sensed
in situ or satellite data and in the development of inversion methods
and/or algorithms for applications in the field of physical and/or
biological and/or optical oceanography; knowledge of at least one
programming language (C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Fortran, IDL, R).

https://selezionionline.cnr.it/jconon/call-detail?callId=6a35bf16-e2fa-497a-91a5-0a8d398dc700&lang=en

2) Call N. 400.5 ISMAR PNRR – CODE 02 – 1 Research Engineer with at
least three years’ experience in operation and maintenance of
oceanographic and/or optical instrumentation; experience in field work,
acquisition, post-processing of metadata and data; knowledge of at least
one programming language (C, C++, labview, Arduino, MATLAB, Python,
Fortran, IDL, R, QGIS).

https://selezionionline.cnr.it/jconon/call-detail?callId=b4f53632-1796-4930-b9f6-8da088c2d1ce&lang=en

English call at the bottom of each link and attached.

More info on https://www.cnr.it/it/concorsi-opportunita and
https://selezionionline.cnr.it/

News from the ESA Lakes Climate Change Initiative ‘Lakes_cci Project’!

A new ESA CCI Lakes data paper is now online by Carrera et al.! Read the paper, use the dataset which contains lake surface water temperature, ice cover, color water level and extent for more than 2000 lakes around the world!

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The last version (2.0.2) of merged satellite products for the ECV –
Lakes, over the period 1992-2020 and for over 2000 inland water
bodies, is accessible at:
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a07deacaffb8453e93d57ee214676304

This dataset contains the following thematic climate variables: Lake
Water Level (LWL), Lake Water Extent (LWE), Lake Surface Water
temperature (LSWT), Lake Ice Cover (LIC), Lake Water-Leaving
Reflectance (LWLR).