The research and innovation project AtlantECO, funded by the European Union, is in its final year. It brought together experts from Europe, South America and Africa, conducting research on the Atlantic Ocean Microbiomes, Microplastics and Seascape connectivity.
The AtlantECO Final Scientific Conference, One Ocean One Health, is held in the Azores 15-19 September 2025. It is an opportunity for AtlantECO partners and other European and international research projects (e.g. Mission Atlantic, iAtlantic, SUMMER, NECCTON, eDNAbyss, BioGeoScapes, EXPORTS, APERO, ACE, GO-SHIP) to present & discuss their latest findings and approaches.
Under the UN Decade of Ocean Science, this endeavour is embodied in the concept of One Ocean, One Health. While the focus of the AtlantECO Final Scientific Conference is to present & discuss scientific results, participants are asked to highlight how their science is relevant to that concept.
To that end, the AtlantECO Final Scientific Conference is organised around a handful of Themes that correspond to key ecosystem services provided by Microbiomes of the Atlantic Seascape, i.e. climate regulation, food provision, health provision and regulation, deep sea ecosystems support, and biodiversity. Registration and Abstract submission here
The Atlantic seascape is made of 3D physical processes such as large river plumes, upwelling and downwelling associated with coastal winds and mesoscale eddies, boundary currents and gyres.
This highly dynamic system shapes the diversity of marine microbiomes