Course Delivery

In addition to practical sessions on Copernicus datasets, playing with Light, AC-labs, and HydroLight labs a range of lectures were covered in the course including:

• Interaction of light and matter
• Optics of marine particles
• Inherent optical properties (fundamentals,  measurement and proxies for biogeochemical properties)
• Ocean scattering
• Apparent optical properties (fundamentals, measurements & uncertainties)
• Past, present and future of satellite OCR
• Atmospheric corrections of satellite OCR observations
• Basics on OCR inversion algorithms
• Shallow water remote sensing
• NPP; Carbon export; climate-driven changes
• HABS, and use of OCR in biogeochemical modelling

Course Sponsors

We thank the organisations listed below for sponsoring and supporting the 2022 Summer Lecture Series.  (Alphabetic order)

• CNES (French National Space Agency), for funding the SLS logistic assistant role, students’ accommodation, lecturers travel costs, the audio and video recording of lectures and other operating expenses.
• The “EU Framework Partnership Agreement for Copernicus Users Uptake” (FP-CUP), for funding students and lecturers travel costs, the audio and video recording of lectures and other operating expenses.
• EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), for funding students travel expenses and full support to EUMETSAT lecturers.
• Institut de la Mer, de Villefranche (IMEV), France, for providing the lecture room, laboratory facilities and assistance for practicals, and subsidised student accommodation.
• International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG^*), for administrative support, website maintenance and funding lecturers travel costs.
• Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France, for administrative support.
• Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office, Woods Hole, MA, USA, for funding students travel costs.
• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), for support to two lecturers.
• Sea-Bird Scientific, for providing an AC-S Spectral Absorption and Attenuation Sensor for the practical sessions
• All lecturers’ time is provided in-kind by their respective institutions (list below).

*Note that IOCCG support implicitly means a shared support by all IOCCG constitutive agencies and institutions.

Lecturers SLS 2022

• Emmanuel Boss – University of Maine, ME, USA
• Collin Roesler – Bowdoin College, ME, USA
• Mike Twardowki – Harbor Branch Ocean. Inst., USA
• Dariusz Stramski – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
• David Antoine – Curtin University, Australia
• Ali Chase – University of Washington, USA
• John Hedley – Numerical Optics Ltd., Tiverton, Devon, UK
• Kevin Ruddick- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
• Quinten Van Hellemont – Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
• Hayley Evers-King – EUMETSAT, Germany
• Ana Ruescas – Brockmann Consult GmbH and Universitat da València, Spain

Selected Students SLS 2022

• Isabel De Sousa Brandão   –   Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands
• Amir Masoud Chegoonian    –   University of Waterloo and University of Regina, Canada (unable to attend)
• Anastasia Papadopoulou   –   Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Sejal Pramlall   –   Spectral Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Victoria, Canada
• Giulia Sent   –   MARE-ULisboa, Portugal
• Esther Patricia Urrego   –   Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, Spain
• Masuma Chowdhury   –   Quasar Science Resources (Madrid) and University of Cadiz, Spain
• Chandanlal Parida   –   Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India
• Premkumar Rameshkumar   –   Annamalai University, India
• Yulun Wu   –   University of Ottawa, Canada
• Shun Bi   –   Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
• Žarko Kovač   –    Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia
• Samuel Martin   –   Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France
• Flavien Petit   –   Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (Sorbonne Université), France
• Bastian Raulier   –   Université Laval, International Research Laboratory Takuvik, Quebec, Canada
• Jakob Weis   –   University of Tasmania and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australia
• Muhammad Asim   –   Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Tromsø, Norway
• Kyeong-Sang Lee   –   Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, South Korea
• Elinor Tessin   –   University of Bergen, Norway
• Patrick Clifton Gray   –   Duke Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, USA
• Anvita Kerkar   –   Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida, USA
• Chintan Maniyar   –   Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA
• Md Masud-Ul-Alam    –   The University of Georgia, USA and BSMR Maritime University, Bangladesh
• Anna Elizabeth Windle   –   University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, USA