Following the adoption of the European Water Resilience Strategy, the first Water Resilience Forum will take place in Brussels on 8. december 2025. The forum brings together policymakers, scientists, industry leaders, and civil society to chart the path toward a water-resilient EU by 2050.

The forum is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with the Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR).  Europe is facing increasing water scarcity, water quality degradation, and climate-related threats to both human well-being and economic competitiveness.

The forum will tackle these challenges head-on through dedicated sessions on financing innovative water solutions, strengthening industrial competitiveness through water resilience, and scaling water efficiency from local to global action.

The forum will also address urban water challenges, digital transformation opportunities, and upskilling initiatives essential for building the water-secure Europe envisioned by 2050.
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Join us at the Sixth Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting! 🚀🌊
🗓️ 23–24 October 2025 | 📍 Online via MS Teams

Don’t forget to register for the Sixth Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting — a unique opportunity for our growing community to connect, collaborate, and co-create space-based solutions for water-related challenges.

🔹 Who can participate? Space4Water community members!
🔹 What to expect?
– Knowledge exchange and creation across disciplines and cultures
– Co-designing innovative space-based solutions to address water-challenges

🔹 Key Dates and Information:
📌 Registration deadline for the meeting: 1 October 2025
🔗 Get the details here: https://lnkd.in/dShY8eMB
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Time: 15:00-16:00 (UTC+1)

Date: 29 October 2025

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/8K2gUUogQ3i0wWLyqgbYHg

Meeting ID: 986 7577 5003

Passcode: 070145

Title:

TESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis

Abstract:

Satellite remote sensing enables a wide range of downstream applications, including habitat mapping, carbon accounting, and strategies for conservation and sustainable land use. However, satellite time series are voluminous and often corrupted, making them challenging to use. We present TESSERA, an open, global, land-oriented remote sensing foundation model that uses self-supervised learning to generate “ready-to-use” embeddings at 10~m scale from pixel-level satellite time-series data.

TESSERA uses two encoders to combine optical data with synthetic aperture radar backscatter coefficients at 10~m resolution to create embeddings that are fused with a multilayer perceptron to create annual global embedding maps. We compare our work with state-of-the-art task-specific models and other foundation models in five diverse downstream tasks and find that TESSERA closely matches or outperforms these baselines. We believe that TESSERA’s ease of use, state-of-the-art performance, openness, and computation- and labelled data-efficiency will prove transformative in a wide range of ecological applications.

Speakers:

Srinivasan Keshav, Profesor and Frank (Zhengpeng) Feng, PhD Candidate

Department of Computer Science and Technology

University of Cambridge

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EPA invites you to attend a free webinar in the HABs, Hypoxia, and Nutrients Research Webinar Series.

Predicting Harmful Algal Blooms and Toxins in Lakes of the Conterminous United States

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9317401688757/WN_aPmECxvzSDmRAuyQ2RTpRA

1. Using predicted chlorophyll-a and cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters to characterize harmful algal bloom impacts on US drinking water quality – Meredith Brehob (ORISE), and Michael Pennino, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development

In this presentation, we explore innovative approaches to predicting harmful algal blooms and their impacts on drinking water quality across lakes in the conterminous United States. We paired survey data with contextual nutrient, landscape, lake, and climate data to predict nutrient and chlorophyll-a concentrations in lakes. Combining lake predictions with drinking water system operation and violation data allowed us to explore the impacts of harmful algal blooms on drinking water and develop a simplified risk metric for determining where drinking water is most vulnerable to the effects of HABs.

2. Predicting cyanobacteria abundance and microcystin detection in 125,000 on-network US lakes – Melanie Reynolds, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORISE)

With increasing concerns about freshwater cyanobacteria blooms, there is a need to identify which waterbodies are at risk for developing blooms, especially those that produce cyanotoxins. We developed spatial statistical models based on national lake characteristics, nutrient input and other watershed data to determine which factors best explain the presence of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. These models can help identify which lakes are more vulnerable to blooms and in need of additional monitoring or communicating with communities near high-risk lakes.

Presenters and Moderator

• Meredith Brehob, EPA Office of Research and Development (ORISE)

Meredith Brehob is an aquatic ecologist with an ORISE fellowship at the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development. In this role, she works on applying national data to assess nutrient impacts on freshwater ecosystems and drinking water systems. Meredith has a Master of Science degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Science from the University of Nevada, Reno.

• Michael Pennino, EPA Office of Research and Development

Michael, an Ecologist with EPA’s Office of Research and Development in Washington, DC, focuses his research on understanding spatial and temporal trends for indicators of environmental quality and human health. Currently, Michael is leading projects assessing impacts of wildfires, harmful algal blooms, urban best management practices, and other factors that influence nitrate and other contaminants in drinking water and source waters. He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College (2005) and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2014).

• Melanie Reynolds, EPA Office of Research and Development (ORISE)

Melanie is a post-masters ORISE fellow within the Pacific Ecological Systems Division in Corvallis, working with Jana Compton and Ryan Hill. She earned her master’s degree last year from the University of Maryland, studying geography with a focus on remote sensing and deforestation monitoring.

• Moderator: Jana Compton, EPA Office of Research and Development

Jana Compton is a biogeochemist with EPA’s Pacific Ecological Systems Division, focusing on the influence of watershed characteristics and nutrient use on surface and groundwater quality.

Visit the HABs, Hypoxia, and Nutrients Research website for upcoming webinar information and past webinar recordings.