Isn’t it just awesome when meeting like-minded people? The instantaneous connection and the direct feeling you need to do stuff together? The energy it produces and the human potential it sets free is amazing.

Looking forward to dive deeper. The Xploration Coastline inclusive partnership and social governance set-up is able to host these open mission driven collaborations.

After all water is a compelling story line for all.

UNFAO UNICEF DOPS COMMIT CZSK Curacao Ministerie van Defensie Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties Aqualectra – Curacao Water and Power Company Government of Curaçao/ Gobièrnu di Kòrsou Gemeente Rotterdam

Alexandra van Huffelen Ruisandro Cijntje Vanessa Toré Neysa Isenia Ergün Erkoçu MSc. Alban Nouvellon

Just awesome! On 15th of June 2023 we opened your Living Lab of  Xploration Coastline.

Xplore the #power2water value chain and participate as student, entrepreneur, scientist or policymaker! #EveryoneanXplorer

This inclusive open innovation lab will enable a permanent influx of new ideas, technology and connections.

The living lab operates in support of Xploration Coastline. A concept that produces 1.000.000 liters of portable water every 24 hours from seawater for coastal regions and their livelihoods. The installation is automonously operated from a mobile maritime modular microgrid and is powered by clean energy sources.

Xploration Coastline is an insurance for effective, efficient and sustainable human relief operations. But there is more – the unique social governance of the concept enables SIDS to locally integrate the asset, outside these emergency operations, to support agriculture and resilience.

See also: https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/xploration-coastline-curacao

Xploration Coastline is one of the Xplorations of #OceansX.

A big thank you to all seafarers @ Stolt Tankers!

Amongst others, thanks to your efforts and intrinsic drive we have sampled over 500 flasks of air in the North Atlantic in the past 6 months. Launching one of the biggest sampling campaigns ever!

And we’re just getting started…

Xploration Seafarer & Scientists unleashes the collective potential of our seafarers and scientists for global impact.

The atmosphere and it’s natural sinks for methane (and carbon) still hold a lot of mysteries. Xploration Seafarers & Scientists provides unique data, collected by seafarers, to scientist to enhance and validate global climate models.

In this case the sampling is part of the Iron Salt Atmospheric Methane Oxidation (ISAMO) project – to better understand the natural methane oxidation (depletion) process catalyzed by the interaction of the iron rich Sahara dust with the salty maritime boundary layer under the influence of sunlight. https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal-approaches/iron-salt-aerosols

Interested to hear more about Xploration Seafarers & Scientists?

Join Berend at the Ocean North Sea Summit https://oceannorthsea.nl/ during the stopover of the Oceanrace.

Stolt-Nielsen Limited Stolt Tankers Københavns Universitet – University of Copenhagen Utrecht University Spark Climate Solutions Edo van der Velde Matthew Johnson Maarten Herpen, van Thomas Roeckmann Carina van der Veen Chloe Brashear David Joan Bonell Fontàs Getachew Agmuas Adnew David Mann Erika Reinhardt John Bowey Phoebe Barnard

Let’s keep Xploring our collective human potential…

A big thank you to all seafarers @ MAERSK!

Amongst others, thanks to your efforts and intrinsic drive we have sampled over 500 flasks of air in the North Atlantic in the past 6 months. Launching one of the biggest sampling campaigns ever!

And we’re just getting started…

Xploration Seafarer & Scientists unleashes the collective potential of our seafarers and scientists for global impact.

The atmosphere and it’s natural sinks for methane (and carbon) still hold a lot of mysteries. Xploration Seafarers & Scientists provides unique data, collected by seafarers, to scientist to enhance and validate global climate models.

In this case the sampling is part of the Iron Salt Atmospheric Methane Oxidation (ISAMO) project – to better understand the natural methane oxidation (depletion) process catalyzed by the interaction of the iron rich Sahara dust with the salty maritime boundary layer under the influence of sunlight.
https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal-approaches/iron-salt-aerosols

Almost ready for the demo day Living Lab Xploration Coastline on June 15, 2023.

Finished the demo container at Neptune Marine today. Transport to RDM Rotterdam this week.

The demo unit will be put into use at the Aqua Dock to produce fresh water from the Maas during the Xploration Coastline demo day 0-15 June.

Xplore Our Future just come and watch Berend van de Kraats Patrick Tit Monique van der Drift Robert Monteban Jack Zwirs Bart Friso Willem Buijs Joep van Leeuwen Carel Andriessen Jouke Goslinga Ferdi Bakker Verena Ohms, MBA, PhD Raymond Hoogendoorn Helen Van Willenswaard Tina van de Vooren Yasmien Van Der Valk @Guido Blankenstijn Rowan van der Zanden Lodewijk Voorhoeve Erwin de Mos Ad Oosterman Christian Millenaar Lukas Blom Celine Teheux