Events

The next 5 years in marine data and how you can help

We would like to invite you to participate in the MEDIN Open Meeting on 24th April 2024. The MEDIN Open Meeting this year is entitled “The next 5 years in marine data and how you can help.” and will consist of presentations, networking and flash talks with a Q&A session. The meeting is FREE of charge.

The Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN​) and OceanWise are delighted to announce the premiere of our online workshop: Marine Data Management, Governance and the MEDIN toolset. The course will take place over 5 days, with live lessons in the morning and independent learning in the afternoons. Places are limited so please register on OceanTeacher Global Academy as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

We are excited to invite you to the next MEDIN Open Meeting entitled “Enhancing the national framework for sharing UK marine data.” on April 26^th 2023.

This event is open to all and will be hybrid taking place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and online using Zoom.

The aims of the meeting are to:

1. share marine data successes and

2. discuss priorities for enhancing the national framework for sharing UK marine data.

The conference will bring together representatives from environmental policy and management sectors with evidence gathering communities drawn from government agencies, academia and NGOs, and feature a range of exemplar projects and speakers drawn from around the UK.
 

Planning is at an early stage. If you are interested, please check our website regularly for updates or, better still, subscribe to our newsletter mailing list.

This is an invitation to provide your details to submit an abstract if you would like to present your work for at the 2023 UK DNA Working Group Conference. We would like to receive presentations from projects at different stages of the innovation pathway from the development of new techniques and approaches to the operational use of these techniques in monitoring and assessment.

Download the agenda here and FAIR principles here.

MEDIN holds free workshops periodically throughout the year to improve the uptake, knowledge and use of MEDIN Data Guidelines and the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard (and associated tools). Presentations from MEDIN workshops can be viewed in the archive.