SO-CHIC Category: announce

SO-CHIC Visualisation Contest

The mission of the SO-CHIC project is crucial - by contributing to reducing uncertainties in climate change predictions, the SO-CHIC is expected to have major quantifiable impacts on climate science. SO-CHIC’s work is organised through a series of interconnected and specialised Work Packages (WPs), however these can be difficult to understand to general public. As it is important for SO-CHIC to explain its activities (as described in the WPs) to broader audience, SO-CHIC held a Visualisation contest organised by the European Polar Board. The goal of the contest was to obtain an illustration that could be further used for communication… Read More

#TashaGoesSouth

#TashaGoesSouth Natasha Lucas (“Tasha”) is an observational oceanographer / scientist who has started her journey on Agulhas II research ship sailing from Capetown to Antarctica on 17 December 2022 as part of the British Antarctic Survey & the SO-CHIC project. Tasha decided to record a few videos each day to show her life and work on the ship as a scientist for educational, outreach and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) reasons. Thank you, Tasha for this wonderful initiative! To see daily updates from Tasha, follow @tashaocean on Instagram, where the photos and videos are being published by the #TashGoesSouth initiative partners each day. Read More

The Southern Ocean, in the midst of climate change

90% of heat budget accumulated on Earth is located in the oceans. To understand this global warming phenomenon, we have to investigate oceans under their surface and in particular the Southern Ocean. This is the main objective of the SO-CHIC project. Started in 2019 and coordinated by Sorbonne Université (Paris, France), SO-CHIC (Southern Ocean – Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate) gathers 16 international partners and experts in physics, oceanography, climatology and biochemistry. Funded by the European Commission for 5 years, the project aims to understand and quantify key processes controlling heat and carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, ocean and… Read More

Atlantic Pole to Pole: Climate Science 2 Policy

Facilitating the science needed to support ocean governance and management. About this event Join our open event as part of All-Atlantic 2021, discussing what kind of research priorities should be taken into account in establishing a framework for international collaboration in the next decades? Date: 2nd June 2021, from 11:30 - 13:00 UTC The world faces global challenges that can only be met through science diplomacy, the use of scientific collaborations among nations to address common problems. Researchers, decision makers and knowledge brokers have a responsibility to develop and maintain the flow of information to create evidence-based and equitable outcomes… Read More

Newsletter #1: 2021 here we come !

After almost 15 months since its launch and after unexpected events, SO-CHIC is summarizing its journey so far in a Newsletter. You will discover the project’s latest news and developments, as well as interesting reads from the consortium and beyond. Click on the link to find out more ! http://www.sochic-h2020.eu/article/so-chic-newsletter-2020/ Read More

webinar #3: Ocean variabilities in the Southern Weddell Sea

The next SO-CHIC webinar will be 'Ocean variabilities in the Southern Weddell Sea', with Shenjie Zhou (British Antarctic Survey, UK), Svein Østerhus (NORCE, Norway), Andrew Meijers (British Antarctic Survey, UK) and Casimir de Lavergne (Sorbonne Université, France) at 13:00 UTC on Wednesday 27th January. The webinar will discuss long-term observations from moored instruments and from ship-based hydrographic observations. To register for the webinar, please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TJlROomeTWWBeq81ryUx2Q The SO-CHIC webinar series is hosted by the EPB. Recording of previous webinars in the series can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCttAc0nxl4091-UU6tNliHw. For more information on the SO-CHIC project please visit http://www.sochic-h2020.eu/ Read More

Second SO-CHIC webinar

"EU project SO-CHIC: New frontiers of air-sea fluxes in the Southern Ocean" with Seb Swart from UGOT, Mario Hoppema from AWI and Brian Ward from NUIG. The second SO-CHIC webinar of the series will be held at 15:00 CEST on Thursday 8th October. This episode will focus on the WP1 of SO-CHIC, investigating annual cycle time series of high-resolution air-sea flux observations of heat, momentum and carbon dioxide. To join, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k0Y5GkL6QYiEDy59boVmZw The webinar will be hosted by the EPB, with a recording made available afterwards on the SO-CHIC YouTube channel. Read More

Establishment of the SO-CHIC Dissemination Board

The role of the SO-CHIC Dissemination Board is to support the project in gaining new ideas on how to efficiently engage with stakeholders, attract more users and identify ways to improve usage of data and information from society to science. The Dissemination Board will contribute to the evaluation of SO-CHIC dissemination and communication activities that informs updates to the Dissemination and Communication Plan and final report on dissemination and communication activities at the end of the project. The SO-CHIC Dissemination Board is composed of project partners EPB, ETT and SU. During the planned annual updates to the SO-CHIC Dissemination and… Read More