SOCIB takes part in the European Geosciences Union 2025 sharing capabilities and knowledge in ocean dynamics

From April 27 to May  2, 2025, the Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB) participated in the  EGU General Assembly 2025 (EGU25), joining 20.984 registered attendees from 120 countries to share its advances in marine research. The EGU General Assembly brings together the global ocean science community to exchange findings, foster collaboration, and drive scientific progress.

The event provided an ideal forum for the SOCIB team to present its work, explore new directions in ocean science, uncover emerging research, and contribute to the collective understanding of our interconnected ocean. In particular, SOCIB highlighted the advanced capabilities and latest findings of its Glider Fleet and Modelling and Forecasting Facilities. These presentations were featured in the Eddies, waves and instabilities session, within the framework of the CALYPSO project, funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (2022–2024). Furthermore, SOCIB presented progress from the Horizon Europe FOCCUS project (funded by the European Union, Grant Agreement No. 101133911) in the session of The Global Coastal Ocean: multi-hazard Early Warning System for coastal resilience. In fact, the EGU25 has shown challenges to understanding marine heatwaves, ocean extremes events, lagrangian transport, novel techniques in data assimilation, datacube analytics, European Digital Twin of the ocean, machine learning for ocean science,  high-resolution observations, and the role of meso- and submesoscale dynamics in subduction processes. Understanding these processes is a key fundamental element to progress on the developments of the digital twins of the ocean, where the multi-platform and integrated observing and forecasting approach that characterises SOCIB is well recognised.

For more information, see SOCIB’s presentations during EGU25 below: 

• Zarokanellos, N. D., Rudnick, D. L., Mourre, B., Garcia-Jove, M., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., and Tintoré, J.: Eddy Dynamics and Energy Pathways from 4-Dimensional Glider Observations and Numerical Simulations, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-15929, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15929, 2025.

• Garcia-Jove, M., Mourre, B., Zarokanellos, N., Haley Jr., P. J., Mirabito, C., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., Rudnick, D. L., and Tintoré, J.: Vertical Pathways Associated with the Evolution of a Mesoscale Front into Submesoscale Cyclonic Eddies, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-18677, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18677, 2025.

• Bonaduce, A., Reyes, E., Staneva, J., and Johnson, K. and the FOCCUS Project: New insight of high-resolution coastal observations: FOCCUS project: New Insight into High-resolution Coastal Observations for Enhancing Models and Applications, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-15636, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15636, 2025.

• Johnson, K., Staneva, J., Reyes, E., Bonaduce, A., Verri, G., Federico, I., Bartosova, A., Terskii, P., Christensen, K. H., Jamet, Q., Melet, A., Garcia Hermosa, I., Mészáros, L., and El Serafy, G.: Forecasting and Observing the Open-to-Coastal Ocean for Copernicus Users (FOCCUS): Advances in Coastal Monitoring and Forecasting to Enhance Europe’s Coastal Hazard Resilience, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-16397, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16397, 2025