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2026 Call for Participation for Universities: Science Hub Challenges

July 30, 2025

The European Space Agency (ESA) invites universities offering Master’s or PhD programmes in Earth Observation (EO), Environmental Science, Remote Sensing, or related fields to apply for participation in the Science Challenges […]

The Marine Heat Waves from space: from detection to prediction workshop. Science Hub, ESA-ESRIN 13-16th October 2025.

October 14, 2025

Marine Heat Waves (MHWs) — periods of abnormally high sea surface temperatures lasting several days — are becoming more frequent and intense under climate change. Enhancing our capacity to monitor […]

Science Hub Challenges: September 2025

September 29, 2025

Bringing Together Future Scientists from the Universities of Venice, Edinburgh and Leeds Introduction The Science Hub Challenges are an innovative initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA), dedicated to graduate […]

Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

September 27, 2025

Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists collaborating in the Southern Ocean Freshwater (SO Fresh) project have discovered a surprising reversal in the Southern Ocean: instead of becoming fresher as Antarctic sea […]

Intercomparison of tropospheric ozone column datasets from combined nadir and limb satellite observations

July 30, 2025

Tropospheric ozone impacts air quality and climate, serving as both a pollutant and a greenhouse gas. In this research, we analysed satellite data of tropospheric ozone columns (TrOC) obtained by […]

Science Hub Challenges: July 2025

July 14, 2025

Bringing Together Future Scientists from University of Leicester and Sorbonne University/IPGP Introduction The Science Hub Challenges are an innovative initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA), dedicated to graduate students […]

ESA and CNR-ISMAR inaugurate the advanced Mediterranean Lab

May 16, 2025

The new ADVANCED MEDITERRANEAN OPEN SCIENCE DATA ANALYSIS LAB (MeDAL) has been inaugurated on April 7th in the ESRIN Science Hub through the signature of a Memorandum of Intent between Director […]

ESA Science Hub Joins the WCRP Global Kilometer-Scale Hackathon 2025

May 14, 2025

The ESA Science Hub is actively participating in the WCRP Global Kilometer-Scale Hackathon 2025, a pioneering global event focused on advancing high-resolution Earth system modeling. Scheduled from 12 to 16 May 2025, the […]

Training on Carbon and Extremes Science with the DeepESDL Platform

February 28, 2025

The Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing at Leipzig University, Germany, has been a long-standing partner of ESA, leading various scientific research activities on the DeepESDL platform. Their […]

Advancing Lagrangian modelling with satellite-derived oceanic flow fields

January 30, 2025

From October 30 to November 6, 2024, the Science Hub of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati, Italy, hosted an international workshop titled Grounding Lagrangian particles in satellite-derived oceanic flow fields. Organized in […]