IOCCG Summer Lecture Series 2016

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. Lectures covered the following topics:

• 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)

• Curtis Mobley (Sequoia Scientific Inc. WA, USA)
• John Hedley (Environmental Computer Science Ltd, Tiverton, Devon, UK)
• Emmanuel Boss (University of Maine, USA)
• Collin Roesler (Bowdoin University, USA)
• Dariusz Stramski (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA),
• Hervé Claustre (LOV Villefranche, France)
• Stéphanie Dutkiewicz (MIT, USA)
• Heidi Dierssen (University of Connecticut, USA)
• Julia Uitz (LOV, Villefranche sur mer, France)
• Mike Twardowski (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, USA)
• James Acker (Adnet Inc., NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Services Center, USA)
• Zhongping Lee (University of Massachusetts at Boston, MA, USA)
• Agnieszka Bialek (National Physical Laboratory, UK)
• Kevin Ruddick (RBINS, Belgium)
• Quinten van Hellemont (RBINS, Belgium)
• Cedric Jamet (MREN/ELICO, Wimereaux, France)
• Louis Legendre (LOV, Villefranche, France)

The 2016 IOCCG Summer Lecture Series will be supported by IOCCG together with the following sponsors, which are gratefully acknowledged:

• CNRS/INSU (French National Center for Scientific Research)
• Villefranche Observatory (OOV)
• Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV)
• GIS COOC (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique – Colour of the Ocean)
• EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)
• Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program (U.S.A.)
• SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research)

Over 140 excellent applications were received for the 2016 Summer Lecture Series , but regrettably the total number of students accepted had to be restricted to just 22 for logistical and financial reasons. The Selections Committee evaluated all applications based on the candidate’s knowledge of remote sensing, previous training, current area of research and the potential to apply the knowledge and skills gained to future research. Congratulations to the final selected students listed below.

• Marie Barbieux (Station Océanographique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France)
• Nariane Bernardo (São Paulo State University, Brazil)
• Henry Bittig (Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France)
• Ilaria Cazzaniga (IREA-CNR and Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Liesbeth De Keukelaere (Flemish Institute of Technological Research, VITO, Belgium)
• David Flanagan (College of Charleston, U.S.A.)
• John Gittings (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• Dmitry Glukhovets (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia)
• Juan Ignacio Gossn (Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE-CONICET/UBA),  Argentina)
• Andrea Hilborn (University of Victoria, SPECTRAL Lab, Canada)
• Tin Hoang Cong (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
• Priscila Lange (Oxford University, Department of Earth Sciences, U.K.)
• Boram Lee (Korean Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
• Joan Llort Jordi (University of Tasmania, Australia)
• James Nyaga (Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya)
• Carina Poulin (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
• Anna Raczkowska (Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• Deanesh Ramsewak (University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago)
• Charlotte Robinson (Climate Change Cluster, University of Sydney, Australia)
• Michael Sayers (Michigan Technological University, U.S.A.)
• Zhehai Shang (School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
• Larissa Valerio (James Cook University, Australia)

Because of the limited number of students that could be accommodated at the Summer Lecture Series, arrangements were made for all the lectures to be video recorded, and for all the PowerPoint presentations to be made available online, as was done for the previous lecture series (see below).