2025 Arctic Science Summit Week

As IOPAN continues leading the development of the Marine Organic Carbon Atlas, strong emphasis is placed on promoting the vision of MOCA among key stakeholders, especially those responsible for coordination of observations and data management in the Arctic region. To this end, in March Monika Kędra travelled to attend the 2025 Arctic Science Summit Week in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

In BioEcoOcean, Monika contributes to the development of a roadmap towards new data products related to benthic carbon deposition and burial - processes crucial for better constraining ocean carbon sequestration. During the Joint Community Meeting for the pan-Arctic network of Distributed Biological Observatories (DBOs) Monika gave a talk on the role of benthos in the DBO ecosystems, highlighting, among others, the ongoing work in the BioEcoOcean project, including new results obtained from the 2024 field campaign. 

The meeting was an excellent opportunity to interact face-to-face with members of the DBO community - an initiative which BioEcoOcean sees as instrumental in providing a well-coordinated network of Arctic data providers spanning all areas of oceanography, from physics to biology.