Summer School: Emerging topics in coastal marine ecosystems

EuroMarine’s mission is to support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics or issues and associated methodologies in marine sciences, as well as to foster new services relevant to the marine scientific community. The EuroMarine Summer School “Emerging topics in coastal marine ecosystems (eTOPs, common abbr. of Enhanced Training Opportunities Program) will be held in July 2023 in Cádiz (Spain).
This course mixes theoretical formation with practical laboratory sessions, field trips, oceanographic instruction, and demonstration of unmanned observation technology. Topics include some related to climate change such as marine heatwaves and ocean acidification, others with global impacts such as invasive species, microplastics and emerging pollutants, climate change mitigation issues such as blue carbon, marine observation technologies such as unmanned vehicles, and finally a relevant part mixing management and social sciences in the study of the marine protected areas MPAs.
The EuroMarine Summer School is oriented towards PhD students mostly from the EuroMarine network. The main objective is to achieve a broad and interdisciplinary training in a series of emerging topics in the study of coastal marine ecosystems.
The expected learning outcomes will be a broad and interdisciplinary training in the topics that are currently growing in coastal marine sciences, so that the PhDs, apart from their specific research topic, will acquire a broad vision of climate change, mitigation measures, anthropogenic impacts, the use of marine technologies and the management of Marine Protected Areas. As important as the specific training, are the transversal skills of sharing experiences with students from other universities and a wide range of lecturers in an international environment for 10 days.
The topics covered in this Summer School fit to the objective 1,2 and 3 of the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters of the EU. Questions such as ocean warming, acidification, plastic/marine pollution are addressed in the course, likewise, overfishing, with management issues in MPAs, and a “classic topic” such as eutrophication, are also present.
This Summer School is funded by EuroMarine and has received co-funding from UCA, CEIMAR and SEA-EU.
To attend this Summer School, application must be submitted before the 9th of March 2023. For more information, please follow this link: https://euromarinenetwork.eu/activities/eTOPs/.