PREFACE General Assemblies and Conferences
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PREFACE, a signatory of the Ocean-Climate Declaration of Dakar.
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SAVE THE DATE: 25-26 June 2018, Plouzané, France
Workshop on “Small-Scale Fisheries in the South”.
Image source: IRDBernard Bourlès
Yet another challenging but successful PIRATA campaign, on-board RV Thalassa (27/02-05/04/2018).
International Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Sciences in West Africa for the inauguration of the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo, Cabo Verde, 13-17th November 2017
Image source: Bernard Bourlès
PREFACE joins AtlantOS at “A New Era of Blue Enlightenment”, 12-14/07/2017, Lisbon (PT): celebrating the launch of the South Atlantic Flagship Initiative (EU-BR-ZA).
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PREFACE at the 5th WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models (19-23/06/2017, Montreal, CA)
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PREFACE and AWA at the UN Ocean Conference (08/06/2017, New York): targeting SDG14 – recommendations for establishing a marine environment observatory in West African waters.
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PREFACE contributes to the “Agenda 2030: Poverty, Climate Change and Sustainability” PhD course at the Bergen Summer Research School, June 2017.
(Photo credit: Stephanie von Neuhoff)
A PREFACE team and colleagues receive high officials in R&I, Fisheries and Aquaculture on-board the Meteor R/V in Angola (25.10.2016).
Photo credit: Mahaut de Vareilles
PREFACE hosts a poster cluster on “Tropical Atlantic variability and predictability” at CLIVAR – Open Science Conference (18-25/09/2016, Qingdao, CN).
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SPECS/PREFACE/WCRP Workshop on Initial Shock, Drift, and Bias Adjustment in Climate Prediction (10-11/05/2016, Barcelona, ES).
Photo credit: Patrice Brehmer
PREFACE participates in hugely successful ICAWA 2015 and related-side event “International Working Group PREFACE: Bio-economic modelling of African Fisheries in the Atlantic” (17-23/11/2015, Dakar, SN).
Photo credit: Tina Dippe
PREFACE and SACUS colleagues on-board Meteor R/V just before sailing out on the 2015 cruise from Recife (Brazil) to Walvis Bay (Namibia) (17/10/2015).
Photo source: Ezinvi Baloïtcha
PREFACE and AWA support 2 successful summer schools on “Remote Sensing and its Oceanographic Applications” during October 2014 and 2015, Cotonou (Benin).
Photo credit: TROPA group, UCM (Madrid, ES)
Workshop on “Tropical Atlantic Variability (TAV), bias and partially coupled coordinated experiments” at UCM, Madrid (ES) and the enhanced collaboration that followed (20/04/2015).
Photo credit: INIP
PREFACE capacity development workshop at INIP (Luanda, Angola) on “Influences of Atlantic Niño climate pattern on oceanic conditions in Angolan coastal waters, including impacts on important marine resources” (22-26/06/2015).
Extending the Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation southward – PREFACE at the Southern Atlantic Marine Science Cooperation Workshop (15/04/2015, Brussels, BE).
Image credit: B. Bourlès, IRD
PIRATA FR26 (PREFACE Milestones 8 and 15): a high-achieving survey! (07/03-13/04/2016)
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With support and key input from projects AWA and PREFACE, and within the COP21 framework, UniCV, INDP, IRD and the French Embassy in Cape Verde organised a conference on “Ocean & Climate in Cape Verde” (20/10/2015).
Photo credit: IRD-Dakar
PREFACE-AWA training workshop for the socioeconomic surveys (March 2015, Dakar, SN)
Photo credit: Heino Fock
Students of UCAD’s Graduates Program (Dakar, SN) make use of the PREFACE survey WH383 for a 1-day excursion (March 2015) to coastal waters, thus training in fisheries and zooplankton sampling techniques and obtaining material for a further laboratory course at UCAD.
Image source: Alban Lazar, UPMC
Launching of the Buoy-Observatory ”MELAX”: a pilot site for the West African upwelling (26/01/2015)
Photo source: Abdoulaye Sarré
Senegalese research vessel RV Itaf Déme successfully conducts its cold season small pelagic stock survey (Jan 2015), in connection with two EU projects: ADUPES and PREFACE… And unwillingly witnesses a case of unreported and unregulated fishing.
Photo source: Mathieu Rouault
Nansen Tutu Summer School on “Ocean, Climate and Marine Ecosystem: A focus on the Agulhas Current, the Benguela upwelling system and the Tropical Atlantic” (1-8/12/2014, UCT, ZA).
Photo source: Patrice Brehmer, IRD
Workshops towards an AWA-PREFACE collaboration agreement.
Photo source: Rockland Scientific (SLOCUM glider with microstructure probe)
Tracking the seasonal warm bias along the 14°42’ parallel between Cape Verde and Senegal
Image source: SRFC-CSRP
Documenting the Mauritanian and Senegal-Gambian marine ecosystem response to climate change, on-board RV Thalassa (25/02-13/03/2014).