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Third IOCCG Summer Lecture Series 2016 Frontiers in Ocean Optics and Ocean Colour Science Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
  18 to 30 July 2016 
Overview
 
The third IOCCG Summer Lecture Series, dedicated to high-level training in the fundamentals of ocean optics, bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing will take place at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France from 18 to 30 July 2016. This laboratory is part of the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche (OOV), and hosts the Marine Optics and Remote Sensing group (MORS, www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/OMT/).  
 
Several distinguished scientists will provide lectures on cutting edge research, focusing on current critical issues in ocean colour science. Students will be given ample opportunity to meet with the lecturers for in-depth discussions on various pre-selected topics, as well as on their own scientific research. 
 Reports of the IOCCG  2012 Summer Lecture Series and the  2014 Summer Lecture Series are available online.
 
Course content
 
The emphasis of the course will be on current critical issues in ocean colour science, and will consist  of lectures by specialists as well as a few hands-on practical sessions. Lectures will cover the following topics: 
 
 Inherent Optical Properties (inversion and applications in coastal and open ocean waters)
	Errors and uncertainties in ocean colour remote sensing (emphasis on inverse modelling)
	Radiative transfer in the ocean: shallow water remote sensing and HydroLight training
	Atmospheric correction of ocean colour remote sensing observations
	Advanced ocean colour remote sensing products for ocean carbon cycle and biogeochemistry
	Optics from autonomous platforms: linking IOPs to biogeochemistry and remotely sensed ocean colour (including hands-on exercises)
	Phytoplankton variability and climate change
	Retrieving phytoplankton biomass and functional groups
	In situ measurements
 Ocean colour remote sensing in turbid coastal waters 
 Optics of marine particles (phytoplankton, minerogenic particles, colloids, bubbles)
 
List of Teaching Staff  
 
 
	Curtis Mobley (Sequoia Scientific Inc. WA, USA)
	John Hedley (Environmental Computer Science Ltd, Tiverton, Devon, UK)
	Emmanuel Boss (University of Maine, USA)
	Collin Roesler (Bowdoin University, USA)
	Dariusz Stramski (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA), 
	Hervé Claustre (LOV Villefranche, France)
	Stéphanie Dutkiewicz (MIT, USA)
   Heidi Dierssen (University of Connecticut, USA)  
  	Julia Uitz (LOV, Villefranche sur mer, France)
   Mike Twardowski (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, USA)    
 James Acker (Adnet Inc., NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Services Center, USA) 
   Zhongping Lee (University of Massachusetts at Boston, MA, USA)
   Agnieszka Bialek (National Physical Laboratory, UK)
 Kevin Ruddick (RBINS, Belgium)
 Sergio Muacho (EUMETSAT, Germany)
 Cedric Jamet (MREN/ELICO, Wimereaux, France) 
       
 
Course Sponsors  
 
The 2016 IOCCG Summer Lecture Series will be supported by IOCCG together with the following sponsors, which are gratefully acknowledged: 
 
Selected Students
 
Over 140 excellent  applications were received for the 2016 Summer Lecture Series , but regrettably the total number of students accepted had to be restricted to just 22 for logistical and financial reasons.  The Selections Committee evaluated all applications based on the candidate’s knowledge of remote sensing, previous training, current area of research and the potential to apply the knowledge and skills gained to future research.  Congratulations to the final selected students listed below. 
 
 
Marie	Barbieux (Station Océanographique de Villefranche-sur-Mer,	France)
Nariane	Bernardo (São Paulo State University,	Brazil)	
Henry	Bittig	(Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer,	France)
Ilaria	Cazzaniga	(IREA-CNR and Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca,	Italy)
Liesbeth	De Keukelaere	(Flemish Institute of Technological Research, VITO,	Belgium)
David	Flanagan	(College of Charleston,	U.S.A.)
John	Gittings	(King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,	Saudi Arabia)
Dmitry	Glukhovets	(P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology,	Russia)
Juan Ignacio 	Gossn	(Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE-CONICET/UBA), 	Argentina)
Andrea	Hilborn	(University of Victoria, SPECTRAL Lab,	Canada)
Tin	Hoang Cong	(Curtin University of Technology,	Australia)
Priscila	Lange	(Oxford University, Department of Earth Sciences,	U.K.)
Boram	Lee	(Korean Institute of Science and Technology, 	South Korea)
Joan	Llort Jordi	(University of Tasmania,	Australia)
James	Nyaga	(Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD),	Kenya)
Carina	Poulin	(University of Sherbrooke,	Canada)
Anna	Raczkowska	(Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences,	Poland)
Deanesh	Ramsewak	(University of Trinidad and Tobago,	Trinidad & Tobago)
Charlotte	Robinson	(Climate Change Cluster, University of Sydney,	Australia)
Michael	Sayers	(Michigan Technological University,	U.S.A.)
Zhehai	Shang	(School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, 	U.S.A.)
Larissa	Valerio	(James Cook University,	Australia)
 
Video Recordings of Lectures
 
Because of the limited number of students that could be accommodated at the 2016 Summer Lecture Series,  all lectures were recorded and the videos and PowerPoint presentations have been made available online via the IOCCG website, as was done for the previous lecture series (see 
http://www.ioccg.org/training/lectures.html). This material provides a valuable teaching resource and the files have been downloaded thousands of times by students from around the world.
 
 
 
 
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