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The IOCCG inaugurates a fellowship in honour of Trevor Platt.
The Trevor Platt Memorial Scholarship was established by the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) to honour the memory of Professor Trevor Platt (1942-2020), who was a brilliant scientist and a leader in interdisciplinary oceanographic...
ONWARD international training course on monitoring water quality
The ONWARD (Open Network on Water-Related Diseases) project is organising an international training course on monitoring water quality using remote sensing and geospatial analyses for human health.Climate variability and change, occurrences of extreme weather events...
World water day webinar by Dr. Priscila Lange on harmful algal blooms in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
This year’s World Water Day theme was “making the invisible visible”. The reference was to groundwater, but TPSF first webinar focused in another naked-eye invisible water-related element that occasionally becomes very much visible. Priscila Lange, visiting professor...
Osvaldo Ulloa, Member of the Trevor Platt Science Foundation, dives down to over 8000 m in the Atacama Trench in the South Pacific
Osvaldo Ulloa and Victor Vescovo after the first ever human dive to the depths of the Atacama trench in the South Pacific. In January 20, 2022, microbial oceanographer Dr. Osvaldo Ulloa, director of the Millennium Institute of Oceanography, at Concepcion University in...