Other Ocean-Colour Training Opportunities
NASA Sponsored Workshop on Calibration and Validation of Ocean Color Remote Sensing (also called Ocean Optics Class)
18 May – 14 June 2025, University of Maine, Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine, USA
An intensive four-week, cross-disciplinary, graduate-level workshop in optical oceanography will be offered at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC). This workshop is the latest version of the optical oceanography course first offered at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in 1985, and since then in coastal Maine at the DMC and at Bowdoin College’s Schiller Coastal Studies Center:
Instructional team: Meg Estapa and Patrick Gray (UMaine; co-coordinators), Kelsey Bisson (NASA), Ivona Cetinić (NASA), Ali Chase (UW-APL), Sasha Kramer (MBARI), Wayne Slade (Harbor Branch) and Jeremy Werdell (NASA).
Read more and see how to apply! Application deadline is 15 February 2025
Previous class material: https://misclab.umeoce.maine.edu/OceanOpticsClass2023/
Past resources from the 2021 Ocean Optics Class
ESA Ocean Synergy Training Course 2025 (OTC25)
22 April – 4 June 2025, aboard the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl
OTC25 is part of the One Ocean Expedition, which is a scientific and educational voyage around the Northern Hemisphere oceans, aboard the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl (https://lehmkuhl.no/en/).
The OTC25 leg is from Tromø, Norway, to Nice, France, via Reykjavik, Iceland from 22 April – 4 June 2025. read more about the course: oceantrainingcourse2025.esa.int.
Introduction to Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Hyperspectral Observations for Water Quality Monitoring — FREE online, introductory course
Part 1: Introduction to the PACE Mission for Water Quality Monitoring – September 25, 90min
Part 2: Overview, Access, and Analysis of PACE Ocean Color Data Products – October 2, 90min
Part 3: Access and Visualization of PACE-OCI Data using Python/Jupyter Notebook Software – October 9, 90min
See recordings of the course in English and Spanish!
NASA’s ARSET program offers free, online training on using Earth Observations for decision making that are open to the public. Courses are designed for a broad audience, ranging from introductory to advanced. For more on ARSET and to see their wealth of upcoming and previous trainings, please visit their website.
2024 Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Training Program
3-14 June 2024, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Full immersion class with participation for the entire 2 weeks required. Visit the course website (http://oceanography.eas.cornell.edu/satellite) for course information. For additional questions about the course, contact course organizer Bruce Monger (bcm3@cornell.edu).
Supporting Marine Earth Observation Applications Course
26 February 2024 – 22 March 2024, Online
EUMETSAT in with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Learn how to independently access and process data from the EUMETSAT product catalogue for your marine workflows and applications.
IOC/OTGA:Ocean Colour Remote Sensing and Data Analysis for African Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs) – online training held June 2-21, 2022
NOAA CoastWatch satellite course
Last course: 24 – 28 January 2022
Check for new course dates in the future
EUMETSAT Training Courses
Various dates and locations
Including the following open access courses:
- Series of short courses on data discovery for weather, oceanography, air quality and climate, (Autumn 2020 edition)
- GMES & Africa and Copernicus Marine Earth Observation (2019)
- Workshop on the Use of the Copernicus Marine Data Stream for Ocean Applications
- The Use of Satellite Data for Climate Services in Europe (2019)
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.