BIOcean5D
A European, multidisciplinary project exploring marine life and how it changes with space, time and human impact
Image credit: Karim Iliya / Kogia
There’s still much we don’t know about marine biodiversity, despite its fundamental importance in planetary and human health.
BIOcean5D seeks to explore marine life and how it changes across 5 dimensions: 3-dimensional space, time, and human impact.
Central to achieving our goals is a one-of-a-kind set of samples and data, collected from across Europe’s coastline and land-sea interface.
Over 4 years, we will use this data to explore marine biodiversity holistically and to develop novel tools and methods to monitor and understand its functions and its economic and legal value.
Ultimately, we hope that by measuring, monitoring and understanding marine biodiversity, and involving citizens in our research, we’ll be able to inform the sustainable management and long-term preservation of our marine ecosystems.
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Sparking curiosity: the Curiosity microscope
In March, we ran our first workshop for teachers, helping to bring inland communities closer to marine science and ocean literacy.
Exploring life beneath the waves: BIOcean5D general assembly 2024
Marking one year of BIOcean5D, the full team convened for our full general assembly at Nantes University, France, from 30 Jan to 1 Feb 2024.
Building a community of seatizens
In December, we began a series of workshops to equip citizen scientists with the PlanktoScope – and with it, an efficient way to monitor the ocean’s microscopic inhabitants across exceptional ecological scales.
Save the date: 2024 science-to-policy summer school
Ever wanted to know more about how science can be used to drive policy change? Find out more about our joint summer school in June 2024, San Sebastian, Spain.
Deliberating over the value of plankton
BIOcean5D team member Gilles Jean-Louis reflects on a series of successful public deliberation workshops, exploring the monetary valuation of plankton and the marine ecosystem services it provides.
Science for a Green and Sustainable Society
Reflections from the EC-ESA Earth System Science Initiative workshop, held in Italy, November 2023
Our funding
BIOcean5D has received more than €17m in total from the European Commission under grant agreement 101059915, from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation under contract #22.00255 for Swiss partners, and from the UK government Horizon Europe Guarantee, UKRI Grant Reference Number 10039266 for UK partners.
