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International Ocean Colour Science Meeting
Žarko Kovač and Marija Bačeković Koloper attended the International Ocean Colour Science Meeting in Darmstadt, Germany. The four day conference started on the 1st December and was held at the Darmstadtium in Darmstadt. In total there were around 330 participants from all over the world.
The International Ocean Colour Science Meeting (IOCS) brings together researchers, space-agency representatives, and experts in optical ocean radiometry to advance global ocean-colour observations and their applications. The 2025 meeting, hosted by EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, focuses on sharing new scientific results, improving satellite mission capabilities, and strengthening collaboration across the ocean-colour community. Through plenaries, panels, breakout discussions, and poster sessions, IOCS serves as a key forum for developing community-driven recommendations that support climate research, water-quality monitoring, and broader ocean-ecosystem management. You can learn more about the conference here.
Robert Brewin gave a keynote lecture titled Aquatic Carbon from Space. Shubha Sathyendranath was part of the Planning Comittee. Žarko Kovač presented a poster titled: Towards analysis ready primary production data, while Marija Bačeković Koloper presented a poster titled: Bayesian Estimation of Photosynthesis–Irradiance Parameters for Marine Phytoplankton. Both posters can be seen and downloaded below.
