European Space Agency shares marine students’ success

Students who completed a research project using satellite data have been celebrated by the European Space Agency (ESA) for their 'impressive' success.

Second-year students on the [COURSE] BSc (Hons) Ocean Science and Marine Conservation "> BSc (Hons) Ocean Science and Marine Conservation were tasked with completing a research project as part of a module on Marine Remote Sensing. Remote sensing is widely used in oceanography to measure, map and track a location without physically travelling there, using satellites.

Within just three weeks, the students used freely available data and tools from the European Union Copernicus Sentinel programme to explore issues ranging from monitoring shipping traffic to tracking waves to protect coral - and the ESA received the projects so positively that it shared three of the most impactful on its news pages (read the full ESA article).

Module lead and Lecturer in Marine Science, [STAFFMEMBER] Dr Lauren Biermann - P "> Dr Lauren Biermann, explained that while her hopes were high, she was blown away by what the students achieved.