IOCCG Summer Lecture Series 2018

The topics listed below were covered in the course (see videos and presentations below).

• Fundamentals of inherent and apparent optical properties (IOPs and AOPs)
• Optics of marine particles
• Applications of Secchi disk depth
• Introduction to Hydrolight (with labs)
• Radiometry, AOPs, measurements and uncertainties
• Ocean scattering
• Light environment in coral reefs and seagrass ecosystems
• Atmospheric correction
• From IOPs to BGC quantities
• Ocean colour in support of fisheries and protected species research
• Ocean colour remote sensing in turbid  waters
• Coccolithophores: optical properties and biogeochemistry
• Practical session on using Copernicus datasets
• Practical ac-labs

The 2018 Summer Lecture Series was sponsored by:

• IOCCG (International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group)
• CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France)
• EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)
• LOV (Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche) in the IMEV (Institut de la Mer, de Villefranche)
• GIS-COOC (French Groupement d’intérêt scientifique couleur de l’océan)
• NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA)
• OCB (Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry Program, USA)
• SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research)

A number of prominent scientists conducting research in the field of satellite ocean colour radiometry were invited to deliver lectures on cutting edge research and critical issues in ocean colour science. Teaching staff include:

• David Antoine (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) – Course Coordinator
• Emmanuel Boss (University of Maine, USA)
• Zhongping Lee (University of Massachusetts at Boston, MA, USA)
• Kevin Ruddick (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium)
• Dariusz Stramski (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
• John Hedley (Environmental Computer Science Ltd, Tiverton, Devon, UK)
• Jeffrey Polovina (NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu)
• Matt Slivkoff (Curtin University, Perth)
• Mike Twardowski (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, USA)
• Hayley Evers-King (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK)
• Quinten Vanhellemont (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium)
• Griet Neukermans (Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France)
• Louis Legendre (Professor Emeritus UPMC, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France)

More than 130 excellent applications were received for the 2018 Summer Lecture Series, and 21 students were selected (see list below):

• Christiana Ade – University of California at Merced, USA
• Falilu Adekunbi – University of Lagos, Nigeria
• Derya Akkaynak – Princeton University, United States, and University of Haifa, Israel
• Ave Ansper – Tartu Observatory, Estonia
• Katarzyna Draganska-Deja – Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Science, Poland
• Frieda Geldenhuys – Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
• Maria Fernanda Giannini – University of Victoria, Canada
• Hanna Kauko – Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway
• Srinivas Kolluru – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Héloïse Lavigne – Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Belgium
• Juan Li – Takuvik, Université Laval, Canada
• Jing Li – Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, China
• Raisha Lovindeer – University of California, Irvine, United States
• Thais Medeiros – CSIRO, Australia and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Guillaume Morin – Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, France,
• Vasileios Pefanis – Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
• Sornsiri Phongphattarawat – University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Geneviève Potvin – Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Stephen Sagar – Geoscience Australia, Australia
• Louis Terrats – Institut de la Mer de Villefranche – Marine optics group, France
• Xiaohui Zhu – Boston University, United States

All lectures from the 2018 Summer Lecture Series were video recorded (see below).  Furthermore, all the PowerPoint presentations are also available for download (see below).