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

#OceansX uses ‘oceans’ as it’s metaphor. Everything is connected by our oceans. Every individual drop finds it’s own wave to thrive. These collective Xplorations reach out high above the ocean surface. Once they reached their full potential they return to be part of that same oceans again.

OceansX understands everything has a limit except our collective #humanpotential.

Listing our achievements of 2022 might be what you would expect on this day. But that’s not OceansX-like. We don’t claim achievements, we facilitate them and see them as new points of departure.

What we do is set our milestones for 2023. In order for collective potential to find it’s way to generate a new waves.

Our ‘23 milestones (not limiting):

👉 #XplorationCrewSupport (Feb 2023) showcasing our Minimum Viable Infrastructure for #federatedlearning in the maritime sector and opening up to memberships for all;

👉 #XplorationCoastlineCuraçao #UNwaterconference side event (March 2023) to facilitate government of the Kingdom and international aid organizations to take their role;

👉 #XplorationCoastlineCuraçao #BOOST-event (9-11th of May in Curaçao) to facilitate local agricultural entrepreneurs, environmental organizations and landowners to propose a their own land development concept;

👉 #XplorationISAMO (Oct 2023) completing a year of air sampling to understand #methanereduction cycles over the Atlantic Ocean;

👉 New ones coming up soon… keep you posted.

To all fellow #Xplorers – thank you for being you! Let’s keep spreading our Xploring #mindset.

To all #partners and #relations – let’s keep #Xploring together in 2023!

Happy New Year!