Events
Adjust your buoyancy, we’re going into the deep…
This event will bring together marine scientists, educators and conservation activists to present and discuss how citizen science hands on and digital initiatives can successfully connect people to their Oceans, and support pro-environmental behavioural change.
Into The Deep brings the worlds deep ocean to your laptop. In this event we will present how we have built learning modules + a tailored participatory science tool around four distinct deep sea marine habitats. Each shows the impact which human behaviour has on them, then empowers users to use a new web-based image analysis tool, know as BiiGLE PARTY, to make species observations in sea floor images. Excellent results from the project show that users' observations feed well into ongoing scientific research, and users gain a deeper understanding of marine conservation policy and agency through their participation. Our outputs will encourage more collaboration to protect our valuable marine ecosystems.
Alongside Into The Deep, we will also welcome a panel of marine citizen science implementers from all over Europe, and hear how they build and maintain programmes and project that connect people with the Oceans around them in a participatory way.
Upcoming Events:
Into The Deep - Marine Citizen Science Webinar
Friday September 27th. 2024, 10:00-12:00 CET
Cinemare Film Festival Kiel April 2024
On Thursday April 25 and Sunday April 28, the INTERCHANGE team was pleased to be a part of the Cinemare Ocean Film Festival and Ozean Dekade Deutschland in Kiel. Attending workshops and manning an information stand to engage people to try out BIIGLE Party.
The project was pitched to judges and won 2nd prize! “What convinced us the most was the gamification aspect of this project and the integration of digitalization allowing us to bring marine ecosystems to people who would usually never have access to these areas.” — Feedback from the judges.
Check out the Cinemare Programme here https://www.cinemare.org/
Ocean Decade April 2024
The Into the Deep Project was featured in Interchange’s presentation at the Ocean Decade conference in Barcelona on Friday April 12th 2024, in session 4, challenge 10.
Full program and more information via this LINK
EGU April 2024
Into the Deep Project was presented at EGU 24 in Vienna on Tuesday April 16 in the poster hall between between 10:45 to 12:30.
The abstract and more information can be found via this LINK
Into the Deep Launch at MARUM, Bremen, Germany
On January 10th, 2024 we will present the Into the Deep Project, at MARUM, where you can try out BIIGLE Party with real time data sets, so that you can see if and how it might be of interest to you.
We give citizen scientists the opportunity to learn about remote places they would ordinarily never have access to, and they also help the scientist with the annotation of images… It’s really a win-win situation.
What: Into the Deep presents BIIGLE PARTY: A citizen science image annotation tool that can be used by researchers, educators, and interested stakeholder alike.
When: 10. January 2024 from 11:00-12:30
Where: MARUM Seminar room 2070
MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Leobenerstraße 8, 28359 Bremen
Join online: https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/65351650098?pwd=dlZlZVlYVzhwMk83blBBWXdZSHRKZz09
Into the Deep Training Event, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
On October 24-26 Into the Deep held a three day training event at UPC in Vilanova i la Geltrú to test the products for the first time.
We invited scientists and non-scientists alike to give us constructive feedback on the lessons that we developed and the Biigle Party image analysis tool. Additionally local stakeholders were invited to share local projects.
What: Into the Deep short term staff training event
When: October 24-26, 2023
Where: Universitat Polècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Vilanova i la Geltrú
Click here to see our reel.
