IOCCG Summer Lecture Series 2014 Frontiers in Ocean Optics and Ocean Colour Science Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 21 July to 2 August 2014 Overview The second IOCCG Summer Lecture Series, dedicated to high-level training in the fundamentals of ocean optics, bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing took place at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France from 21 July to 2 August 2014. This laboratory is part of the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche (OOV), and hosts the Marine Optics and Remote Sensing group (MORS, www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/OMT/). Several distinguished scientists were invited to provide lectures on cutting edge research, focusing on current critical issues in ocean colour science. Students were given ample opportunity to meet with the lecturers for in-depth discussions on various pre-selected topics, as well as on their own scientific research. The lecture series was open to young graduate scientists and post-doctoral fellows involved in any aspect of ocean-colour research. List of teaching staff Curtis Mobley (Sequoia Scientific Inc. WA, USA) Dave Siegel (University of California, Santa Barbara,USA) Stephanie Henson (National Oceanography Centre, UK) Emmanuel Boss (University of Maine, USA) Dariusz Stramski (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA) Roland Doerffer (Helmholtz Center Geesthacht, Germany) Collin Roesler (Bowdoin University, USA) Zhongping Lee (University of Massachusetts at Boston, MA, USA) Marlon Lewis (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada) Menghua Wang (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, USA) Mati Kahru (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA) Kevin Ruddick (MUMM | BMM | UGMM, Belgium) Course content The emphasis of the course was on current critical issues in ocean colour science, and consisted of lectures by specialists as well as a few hands-on practical sessions. It was assumed that participants were familiar with downloading and processing satellite ocean colour imagery using SeaDAS and/or BEAM. Lectures covered the following topics (see final agenda): Inherent Optical Properties (inversion and applications in coastal and open ocean waters) Errors and uncertainties in ocean colour remote sensing (emphasis on inverse modelling) Radiative transfer in the ocean: shallow water remote sensing and HydroLight training Atmospheric correction of ocean colour remote sensing observations Advanced ocean colour remote sensing products for ocean carbon cycle and biogeochemistry Optics from autonomous platforms: linking IOPs to biogeochemistry and remotely sensed ocean colour (including hands-on exercises) Phytoplankton variability and climate change Retrieving phytoplankton biomass and functional groups In situ measurements Ocean colour remote sensing in turbid coastal waters Optics of marine particles (phytoplankton, minerogenic particles, colloids, bubbles) Course Sponsors The Second Summer Lecture Series was sponsored by: International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) CNRS/INSU (French National Center for Scientific Research) Villefranche Observatory (OOV) Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) CNES (French National Space Centre) GIS COOC (Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique - COlour of the OCean) Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) WET Labs (USA) Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Selected Students The 24 successful candidates (selected form over 140 applications) are listed below.       James Allen   University of California, Santa Barbara, USA       Emma Bone   University of Cape Town, South Africa       Isabel Caballero de Frutos   Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía, Spain       Gema Casal   Irish Marine Institute, Ireland       Dat Dinh Ngoc   Space Technology Institute, Vietnam       Elisabeth Eder   Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland       Amabile Ferreira   University of São Paulo, Brazil       Natalie Freeman   Univ. Colorado, Boulder USA       Rafael Gonçalves Araujo   Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany       Anna Göritz   Technische Universität München, Germany       Victoria Hemsley   National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK       Christopher Ilori   Simon Fraser University, Canada       Wonkook Kim   Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea       Jiwei Li   University of Massachusetts, USA       Xiao Liu   University of Southern California, USA       Jenny Lovell   CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia       Christian Marchese   Universite du Quebec a Rimouski, Canada       Matt McCarthy   University of South Florida, USA       William Moutier    Laboratory of Oceanography and Geoscience (LOG), France       Emanuele Organelli    Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France       Surya Prakash Tiwari    City College University of New York, USA       Aleksandra Wolanin   Alfred Wegner Institute, Germany       Hongyan Xi   Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany       Laura Maria Zoffoli   INPE, Brazil Lecture Presentations All PowerPoint presentations from the 2014 Summer Lecture Series are available for download at: www.ioccg.org/training/lectures.html#SLS2014. The course report and lecture synopses are available here. Video Recordings of Lectures All the lectures were video recorded and are available online here: Videos from 2014 Summer Lecture Series.     Back | Training & Education | Home