It has been a while since we came here to update you on our CHASE-related activities, and the fact is that many things have happened over the last months! Following the invitation for representing Portugal at SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study), we have attended the SOLAS Scoping Workshop which was held in Xiamen, China (25-28 September 2023) with the aim of framing/drafting the SOLAS 3.0 science plan. SOLAS is a global and multidisciplinary consortium sponsored by SCOR, Future Earth, WCRP, and iCACGP, which was established to provide international science coordination and capacity building in science topics aimed at understanding and quantifying the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the regulation of climate and global change. The CHASE team now includes two SOLAS national representatives: Catarina V. Guerreiro representing SOLAS-Portugal, and Jan-Berend Stuut representing SOLAS-Netherlands. You can check the SOLAS Portugal Report for 2022 here.
Our participation in the SOLAS Scoping Workshop, as well the RV Pelagia marine expedition we did in the tropical Atlantic earlier this year (in March 2023 - see post from affiliated-project PRIMUS) were mentioned on a recent article published at national newspaper Público featuring the study we have published at Frontiers in Marine Science in April 2023, where we report on the response of coccolithophore communities to oceanographic processes and Saharan dust deposition in the North Atlantic. The article, which also included statements from Ana Russo, climatologist and researcher at IDL and Ciências UL, and Mark Parrington, senior scientist in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), had a great dissemination success over multiple online channels, including magazines Visão and Sábado.
To read the article, click here.
