Ifremer and the OCEAN Institute, in partnership with OUT-THERE, are pleased to invite you to a scientific workshop to present the SeaOrbiter project and preview the first international scientific campaign in the Mediterranean.
Date: Monday 12 December 2022 from 14:00 to 17:00.
Venue: Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie (MIO) / Campus de Luminy - OCEANOMED / Bâtiment Méditerranée - Amphi OCEANOMED, Marseille 9.
SeaOrbiter is a concept for an oceanographic vessel designed by the oceanographer Jacques Rougerie. Designed as the first "International Ocean Station", SeaOrbiter is a multidisciplinary in situ scientific platform, a mobile underwater base and a tool for education and communication on oceanic, biodiversity and climate issues. SeaOrbiter is a 58 m high vertical vessel with a crew of 24 that drifts with the currents of the sea, just as the ISS flies in orbit around the Earth.
The programme calls for the system to be launched at the end of 2024 and for the first international, interdisciplinary oceanographic campaign to start in 2025.
With this in mind, the aim of this first working meeting is to bring together the designers and a broad scientific community to discuss uses and the associated scientific ambitions.
By devoting its first mission to the exploration of the Mediterranean, SeaOrbiter will be opening up an unprecedented scientific collaboration with all the countries of the Mediterranean Basin, which in itself concentrates all the ecosystem issues linked to ocean balances impacted by the effects of global change and their socio-economic repercussions.
Register on the following website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/billets-seaorbiter-463518906527