2024 IOCCG Summer Lecture Series
Frontiers in Ocean Optics and Ocean Colour Science: 4-16 November 2024
Overview
The 6th edition of the advanced IOCCG Summer Lecture Series is scheduled for 4-16 November 2024 in Hyderabad, India. The course will be held at the International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOOcean) at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS).
As in previous years held in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, this high-level training course will be dedicated to the fundamentals of ocean optics, bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing. Several distinguished research scientists will provide lectures on cutting edge research, with focus on current critical issues in ocean colour science. Students will have ample opportunity to meet with lecturers for in-depth discussions on various pre-selected topics, as well as on their own scientific research.
Note that the Lecture Series is an advanced training course targeted at students conducting ocean color research, and is not suitable for beginners with limited knowledge of remote sensing. The course will address theoretical aspects and advanced science questions, rather than only practical applications.
INCOIS will provide accommodation and meals for all course participants, and there is no registration or course fee. Local transportation, airfare, and insurance (health and travel), as well as visa costs are not covered. A limited number of travel scholarships have been provided to assist with some of these costs.
As the course is limited to a 30 in-person participants, video recordings and PDF presentations of all previous IOCCG Summer Lecture Series are available online at https://ioccg.org/what-we-do/training-and-education/lectures/.
Course Content & Delivery
The course will consist of lecture-style discussions, with a few hands-on practical sessions. Lecturers for the course are research scientists from the global ocean colour and ocean optics community.
A range of topics will be covered in the course, with specifics dependent on the expertise of the invited lecturers. The following subject areas will be included:
- Inherent optical properties (inversion and applications in coastal and open ocean waters)
- Errors and uncertainties in apparent optical properties
- Radiative transfer in the ocean: shallow water remote sensing and HydroLight training
- Atmospheric correction
- Hyperspectral radiometry
- Retrieving phytoplankton community composition and data on harmful algal blooms
- Retrieving data applicable to the aquatic carbon cycle
- Operational oceanography
Course Lecturers
- Ana Ruescas – Brockmann Consult GmbH and Universitat da València, Spain
- Aneesh Lotliker – INCOIS, India
- Dariusz Stramski – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
- David Antoine – Curtin University, Australia
- John Hedley – Numerical Optics Ltd., Tiverton, Devon, UK
- Lachlan McKinna – Go2Q Pty Ltd, Australia
- Matthew Slivkoff – In-situ Marine Optics, Australia
- Mike Twardowski – Harbor Branch Ocean. Inst., USA
- Nimit Kumar – INCOIS, India
- Shubha Sathyendranath – Plymouth Marine Lab, UK
- Wayne Slade – Harbor Branch Ocean. Inst., USA
- ZhongPing Lee – Xiamen University, China
Selected Participants for 2024
- Edward Alburqueque, Instituto del Mar del Perú-IMARPE, Perú
- Christine Atuhaire, Makerere University, Uganda
- Karl Bosse, Michigan Technological University, USA
- Tu Bui, Météo-France, France
- Leon Ćatipović, University of Split, Croatia
- Nahia Chowdhury, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh
- Margherita Costanzo, CNR-ISMAR, Italy
- Dmitriy Deryagin, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology/Shirshov Institute оf Oceanology, Russia
- Paige Dillen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
- Congju Fu, Institute of Marine Sciences & Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Jorge García, Universitàt de Valencia, Spain
- Shriya Garg, CSIR National Institute of Oceanography, India
- Dalia Grendaite, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Md Rony Golder, Curtin University, Australia
- Raphael Mabit, Université du Québec, Canada
- Julien Masson, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) – Wimereux, France
- Annabeth McCall, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
- Aditi Modi, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India
- Mar Roca Mora, Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia, Spanish National Research Institute (ICMAN-CSIC), Spain
- Saritha Parakkil Kongad, Indian Space Research Organization, India
- Arnab Paul, Louisiana State University, USA
- Andrea Pellegrino, Sapienza University of Rome/CNR-IREA, Italy
- Ana Piazza Forgiarini, Federal University of Rio Grande – FURG, Brazil
- Humeshni Pillay, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Ayana S, Indian National Centre For Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), India
- Ziad Sari El Dine, Centre d’études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC) – CNRS, La Rochelle Université, France
- Eva Scrivner, University of Connecticut, USA
- Maya Sinurat, IPB University Bogor, Indonesia
- Andrea van Langen Rosón, Gent University and Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium
- Hongwuyi Zhao, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Course Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors for supporting the 2024 Summer Lecture Series.
- Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)
- Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office, Woods Hole, MA, USA
- Trevor Platt Science Fund held at Plymouth Marine Lab, in collaboration with the Trevor Platt Science Foundation (TPSF)
- EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)
- International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG)
The sixth International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) meeting will take place in Darmstadt, Germany from 1 – 4 December 2025, hosted by EUMETSAT and ESA with support from other agencies.