May 16, 2025
14:00-15:30 CEST (UTC +2)
webinar

The coastal ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle by taking up and emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide. Obtaining good estimates of this flux is key to managing climate change and needs quality observations at high resolution. Recent developments mean that key international structures to coordinate these estimates are now coming into view.

In this webinar we will describe the structure of these, showcase an integrated ocean carbon observing system in Southern Africa, and present an example of how national scale efforts can be integrated together into continental scale networks. We will finish by describing a potential in person event which could be used to catalyse the development of an African scale surface carbon flux network.

 

Invited speakers:

• Richard Sanders, ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (ICOS OTC)

Dr. Richard Sanders is the Director of ICOS Integrated Carbon Observation System, Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC) in NORCE (the Norwegian Research Centre), and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, Norway. The OTC leads, supports, and coordinates the ocean element of the ICOS network.

• Oksana Tarasova, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Dr Oksana Tarasova is a Senior Scientific Officer in the Infrastructure Department in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). She is working on the development of the Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure/ Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W)

• Maciej Telszewski, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP)

Dr. Maciej Telszewski is the Director of the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP). In this role he coordinates the highly diverse set of ocean carbon and biogeochemistry activities through extensive collaboration and dialogue with the scientific community via national and international organizations, scientific steering committees, scientific workshops, and expert meetings.

• Tommy Bornman, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)

Prof Thomas Bornman is the manager of the Coastal Node of the South African Environmental Observation Network and the Shallow Marine and Coastal Research Infrastructure. He is a co-lead of the ocean pilot in the KADI project.

• Abdirahman Omar, Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE)

Dr. Abdirahman Omar is a senior researcher in chemical oceanography working on the marine carbon cycle at the Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE). He is the Principal Investigator at the ICOS ocean station Sea-Cargo Express and co-leading the ocean pilot in the KADI project.

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