Poster competition
All participants could vote for the best poster. The winner of the poster competition was announced at the closure of the conference.
- 1st place : 10 tips and tricks to improve the communication of marine conservations science with a clear and attractive visual story - Torrez Pieter [abstract + ]
- 2nd place: Short stories about the ocean: An art integrated project - Scheurle Carolyn, Julia Uitz and Michèle Guieu [abstract + ]
- 3rd place: Gelavista - a developing citizen science program - De Sousa Lígia Faria, Raquel Marques, Inês M. Dias, João Pastor, Cátia Bartilotti, Rita F.T. Pires, Inês Farias and Antonina Dos Santos [abstract + ]
Poster session
Thirty posters - with best practices on marine science communication - were exhibited during lunch and coffee breaks. The social media team posted Facebook Live elevator pitches by the poster presenters on the CommOCEAN Facebook page (www.facebook.com/commocean).
1. Blue Comms: Communicating climate science from the North to South Atlantic (NoSoAt2016)
Brodte Eva-Maria, Lisa Spotowitz, Pauhla McGrane, Karen Helen Wiltshire, Peter Lemke and Annette Wilson
2. Medclic: The Mediterranean in one click
Cañellas Bartomeu, Angels Garau, Blanca de Ugarte Blanco, Rosa María Rodríguez and Joaquín Tintoré
3. Historical maps as a source for communication
De Hauwere Nathalie, Hans Pirlet, Annelies Goffin, Pieter Maes and Francisco Hernandez
4. Gelavista - a developing citizen science program
De Sousa Lígia Faria, Raquel Marques, Inês M. Dias, João Pastor, Cátia Bartilotti, Rita F.T. Pires, Inês Farias and Antonina Dos Santos [ ]
5. Habitat mapping of sardines in Philippine archipelagic waters
Del Prado Jakellen, Cesar Villanoy and Asuncion de Guzman
6. Zooplankton illustrated guide for the Portuguese waters
Dias Inês M., Lígia F. De Sousa, Sónia Cotrim Marques, Marco Nunes Correia, Sérgio Miguel Leandro and Antonina Dos Santos
7. A toolbox of solutions for human/sharks coexistance
Favier Florent
8. The Primefish Project, engaging and communicating the competitiveness with the European seafood stakeholders
Fernández Mercedes, Rosa Chapela and José L. Santiago [ ]
9. MARE goes to school: Connecting future generations and marine scientists
França Susana, Vera Sequeira, Sandra Amoroso Ferreira, Sá Erica, João Paulo Medeiros, Maria João Tavares, Inês Cardoso, Ana Amorim and Henrique Cabral [ ]
10. The power of citizen and science to monitor cetacean occurrence and spatial distribution in Macaronesia offshore waters.
Gil Ágatha, Ana M. Correia and Isabel Sousa-Pinto
11. Marina: A marine knowledge sharing platform for federating responsible research and innovation communities
Gin Iwona, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni, Ned Dwyer, Elena Giusta, Saša Raicevich, Mato Knez, Anca Gheorghe, Manuel Cira, Xenia Schneider, Liina Vaher, Rogerio Chumbinho, Yiannis Laouris, Mara Gualandi, Hans Thor Andersen and Husne Altiok [ ]
12. School children performing on marine issues related to the Baltic Sea and the Arctic
Kotynska-Zielinska Izabela, Joanna Piwowarczyk and Tymon Zielinski
13. Columbus project: Optimising impact of research outcome through knowledge transfer
L’Hermitte Gaëlle
14. The Open Marine Archive (OMA) of Belgium: one of the largest of its kind
Lust Heike and Zohra Bouchti
15. “Bridges Between School and Blue Science”: Interaction Student - Investigator in a Non-Formal Educational Environment
Mata Bernardo, Raquel Costa, Diogo Geraldes, Fernanda Silva, Luís Sebastião, Cláudia Viegas and Hilda de Pablo [ ]
16. "Sea, earth and energy: A challenge for our future." An interdisciplinary project for marine science education in primary schools
Merlino Silvia, Marinella Abbate, Marina Locritani and Mascha Stroobant
17. Black Sea Watch – A smartphone application for monitoring the biodiversity of the Black Sea
Öztürk Ilayda Destan and Ayaka Amaha Öztürk
18. Photo galeries in global marine education
Piwowarczyk Joanna, Izabela Kotynska-Zielinska and Tymon Zielinski
19. Capacity building for knowledge generation and innovation growth in coastal water research
Politi Eirini and Rory Scarrott [ ]
20. Municipalities, the missing link between marine science and its communication with the public - Cascais case study
Rijo Andreia, Ana Ferreira, Sara Faria and Sara Saraiva [ ]
21. Engaging youth across Europe with the ocean – Experiences from the Professor Mário Ruivo competition
Sá Sandra, Ruth Higgins and Ned Dwyer
22. Short stories about the ocean: An art integrated project
Scheurle Carolyn, Julia Uitz and Michèle Guieu [ ]
23. A new approach to science communication: the case of the Marine Food Chains - A knowledge to share" project
Sousa Eunice, Joana Campos and Joana Saiote
24. Ocean EDGE: The European database of good examples in ocean education and outreach
Sterken Mieke, Laure Van Medegael, Evy Copejans and Jan Seys [ ]
25. 10 tips and tricks to improve the communication of marine conservations science with a clear and attractive visual story
Torrez Pieter [ ]
26. Floundering flatfish! A video communication case study
Uhlmann Sebastian S., Miriam Levenson and Sofie Vandendriessche [ ]
27. The importance of acoustic telemetry for restoring fish stocks
Pieterjan Verhelst, Jan Reubens, Peter Goethals, Ans Mouton and Tom Moens
28. Encouraging science communication at postgraduate level (case study)
Winter Gundula and Anna Gardiner [ ]
29. Seaside activities in marine science and education
Zielinski Tymon, Izabela Kotynska-Zielinska and Joanna Piwowarczyk
30. Mercator Océan and the Copernicus Marine Service (digital poster)
Messal Fabrice