Research Stories

Professor Jamie Shutler (PI) and Dr Dan Ford, with help from Dr Jenny Watts, have been awarded a new project by the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Office – a project called Ocean Carbon for Climate. This two-year project, worth €0.9 million, is led by Jamie’s team (Centre for Geography and Environmental Science) and involves partners from Europe and the US (Columbia University, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, Alfred Wegener Institute, VLIZ in Belgium, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Heriot Watt University and SpaceConnexions). It aims to initiate ESA activities towards a longer-term generation of ocean carbon climate data records from satellite data to support annual global carbon budget assessments, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Paris Climate agreement. A sister project (ESA Satellite based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools, fluxes and Exchanges, SCOPE) has also been funded. This second project, also for two years, is led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, is worth €1.1 Million, and also includes Jamie Shutler (as Co-I) and Dan Ford. This second project aims to develop the first 4D global ocean carbon budget from satellite data and machine learning.