EC-ESA Joint Earth System Science Initiative

This event focuses on:

Reviewing the latest advances in EO and Earth System Science across domains and specially to showcase the latest ESA and EC funded results, projects (e.g., ESA Science Clusters), and initiatives as a basis for networking and interdisciplinary science.

Coordinating European scientific efforts to advance Earth System Science as the key enabler to address some of the major challenges that society is facing in the onset of this century.

Exploring opportunities to line up scientific activities, fostering networking and collaborative research across teams and projects in Europe;

Exploring funding opportunities offered by ESA FutureEO and EC Horizon Europe programmes for collaborative research in Earth system science.

Coordinate efforts to foster the scientific excellence of Europe in the international scientific arena, providing a coordinated contribution to major international scientific efforts, initiatives and programmes;

Discuss and identifying major scientific challenges and research needs and define key scientific priorities that may drive new collaborative activities of ESA and EC in the coming years.

Exploring opportunities offered by latest technologies and Open science to share expertise, data and resources ensuring that the results may be bigger than the sum of the parts. Exploring opportunities to foster the transfer of latest results in science to operational programmes such as Copernicus and DestinE.

Themes shall focus on different aspects of Earth system science and specially some of the key Flagship activities identified by EC and ESA as key priorities for collaborative research:

• Ocean: Advance our observing capacity and scientific understanding of the Ocean, its role in the Earth and climate system and its responses to climate change and management actions and establish a scientific base for developing the next generation of Ocean observing system and the Digital Twin of the Ocean as an advance tool for climate adaptation and to support actions aiming at reversing the cycle of decline of Ocean’s health and at improving conditions for its sustainable development.
• Carbon: capitalize on the increasing satellite observation capacity, together with numerical models, in-situ networks, and novel technologies, for a better understanding and quantification of the carbon cycle (with special focus on CO2 and CH4), its pools and fluxes and their sensitivity to climate change, with a special attention to the land biosphere including the natural ecosystems, land use, agriculture and forests establishing a solid scientific basis to advance towards a carbon-neutral society.
• Polar changes and regional and global impacts: Improving our observation capabilities, basic understanding and prediction capacity of the different changes taken place in the polar regions, the Arctic, Antarctic systems the 3^rd Pole (High mountain ranges), their root causes and its impacts on society and ecosystems to support local communities and Europe in preparing for and managing climate related risks.
• Climate attribution – Extremes and multi-hazards: Advance in the preparation of Europe to deal with geo-hazards and climate disruptions, advancing our capacity to better understand and preparing for and managing climate risks such as heatwaves, forest fires, droughts, floods, storms, and related multi-hazards (cascade and compound events).
• Biodiversity: Enhance observations and fundamental scientific understanding and predictive capability, on the status of and threats to vulnerable ecosystems, the connections between biodiversity, ecosystem integrity and ecosystem services delivery, as well as of the complex interactions of ecosystems with the Earth and climate system.
• Agriculture under pressure: Improve our observation capabilities and advance the scientific basis to support resilience of agricultural productivity to climate change, including the response of food production to many co-occurring stressors including diseases, pests, water scarcity, land degradation and hydro-climatic extremes, and transfer science results into adaptation measurements and alternative management practices.

The registration to participate to the event is CLOSED.

IMPORTANT: Due to the high number of parallel sessions and to respect the on site room capacity, invited speakers will receive the registration link separately.

The workshop will be structure through a set of plenary and parallel topical sessions addressing some of the key Flagship Actions of the EC-ESA Joint Earth System Science Initiative: Polar, Oceans, Carbon, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Extremes and multi-hazards.

Topical sessions will involve keynote speakers, presentations of ESA Science Clusters and EC projects and activities, round tables and open discussions aiming at reviewing lates developments and activities, exploring opportunities for collaboration, and identifying priorities for the future.

Poster sessions and networking, open to the community, especially young scientist will be organised during the event. The Abstract for Posters submission interface will open soon.

The official language of the Workshop is English. No participation/registration fee will be charged. Participants are expected to finance their own travel and accommodation expenses.