Sheila Heymans

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The main conclusions are that one of the devices were much better, and one of the sites are better. But neither the devices nor the sites made it below the cost effective compared to other ways of doing this.

The cost analysis results for the annual scenario and just for the summer... and how the economies of scale impacts the costs of the devices.

Results show that sometimes they have to close the devices due to too big waves in exposed sites. But also will not work when there are too little wave energy in other sites. So the Goldilocks site is somewhere in the middle - Porto Santo!

Two types of wave energy converters proposed - and the information are not easy to find, but find information from the report mentioned! They created WEC optimization codes in MATLAB - that could be scaled up or down.

Reductions in water consumption imposed by governments in Portugal due to drought conditions! 15% in public consumption, 15% for tourism and 25% for agriculture !
But Portugal has a large wave energy resource!
Energy requirements for desalination is very high!

This afternoon I am hosting the @emarineboard.bsky.social #ECOPWednesdays webinar, moderated by our EMB Young Ambassador #EcopsEmb Laura Ciriminna, with Daniel Clemente from #Ciimar- on wave energy solutions and seawater desalination!

Interactive game using thermal ranges and #Ecopath model output! Love it!! @surimi-project.bsky.social @emarineboard.bsky.social

eDNA detected of sardine anchovy and thresher sharks. And some marine mammals. But needs well curated reference databases.

Delphine Tange from #ILVO tells us about the eDNA work she has done in the North Sea - related to the new @emarineboard.bsky.social working group on biomolecular approaches www.marineboard.eu/biomolecular...

Anika Eske talks about marine heatwaves and its influence on plankton! And the trophic effects of heatwaves

Dries Lorre talks about warming in the North sea - and how you model that in a foodweb - related to the models used in @surimi-project.bsky.social and the @emarineboard.bsky.social document on ecosystem modelling and included in #EDITO

First pre-doc presentations this morning …is a quick round of 5 minute presentations! Faras talks about tidal marshes and carbon bioaccumulation - related to the @emarineboard.bsky.social documents on blue carbon and coastal resilience ! Marshes go with the flow!

#IOC also support #OBIS #IODE and #OTGA ! Ocean biodiversity information system, International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange and Ocean Teacher Global Academy!

Today I am at the @vliz.be marine science day - with a keynote by the wonderful Joanna Post from #IOC of @unesco.bsky.social
Talking about the #GOOS and how they are doing #OceanObservations.

Panel 3: with Thorsten Kiefer #JPIOceans, Antonella Clavia-Goetz @eib.org Jean-Marc Daniel @ifremer.bsky.social Paula Garcia Rodriguez #ICZM talk about how to position the #EU in global competition Ocean R&I and Tech and how to support companies in investment journey?

The panel I was on.

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Daan highlights the importance of linking natural and social sciences, which we highlighted in Navigating the Future V and VI
Read it here www.marineboard.eu/publications...

Monica: research priorities should address the triple planetary crisis. And research in support of policy is important. The precautionary principle is very important.
Daan: the Arctic and the Southern Ocean is connected to us, and the future of Europe’s climate, BlueEconomy is linked!

Question: How do we improve our knowledge on the state of the Ocean and out capacity to develop sustainable solutions?
Rosa: maintaining and fund long term data provision, and bring research closer to the policy.
Yann-Herve: #EuroARGO need to expand to biogeochemistry

Panel 1: Rosa Figueroa #CSIC, Yann-Herve De Roeck #Euro-ARGO, Monica Verbeek @seasatrisk.bsky.social, Daan Blok #NWO and European Polar Board.

#ECOP take home messages
1. Recognize complexity of ocean space
2. Offer intergenerational research
3. Give value to co-design experience
4. Strengthen international cooperation
5. Invite ECOPS systemically to political discussions.

Good examples include the @allatlantico.bsky.social #BlueIntergenerationalProgramme
#Co-design and multi-actor approaches
The All-Atlantic Coastal Resilience Beacon Sites.

Political and society expectations are changing. And ECOPS are well placed to help with the solutions.

Jonathan Heimer, #ECOP advisor at #KDM gives the young generation vision on the Ocean R&I Strategy! Tripple helix becomes quadruple with geoplitical instability!

Need a shared strategic approach, which builds on a shared understanding of the risks and threats to the system, services, people and economies.

We need to deliver ocean data in all these multilateral system. To move forward we need to make sure this becomes a critical infrastructure that is co-designed.

The UN system is complicated but the Ocean is linked into all of that. Not an internet cloud but an internet sludge that goes through the deep sea cables.
#GOOS has 36 essential variables, with 120,000 observations per day!

This is a critital infrastructure that needs to be funded as such !
It is one Ocean and it is all connected not just the physics but also the water cycle, carbon, oxygen.