Let’s Observe Together!

Thank you for your interest in LandSeaLot and for joining us for the publication of our first newsletter. 

What can I say about LandSeaLot? Twenty partners, three Research Infrastructures and an impressive team of diverse expertise across land-sea observation communities and scientific domains including earth observation, in situ and citizen science. We have three significant Community Fora, seven work packages and nine Integration labs to pilot and test our proposed actions addressing societal challenges—that’s a solid foundation to build an ambitious frame around our credo: Let’s Observe Together. The key thing about LandSeaLot is bringing together fragmented observing communities—bringing together people, bringing together disciplines, expertise and experience, and bringing together citizen scientist groups—from all around Europe, because we all need to team up to do a better job in observing the land sea interface. We need to co-create a common observation strategy to improve our understanding and knowledge of these critical areas in support of science-based decision making and policy. But we know we cannot do this on our own. The success of LandSeaLot very much depends on a broad range of stakeholders across different communities – including citizen scientists – engaging in the co-creation process. This is the best guarantee that the end-products of LandSeaLot will not be regarded as a product of our own consortium and scientists, but hopefully endorsed and widely used by the broader community converging at the land-sea interface, from the local stakeholders who engage in our LILs, to national, to European and beyond.

And we are off to a good start.  In this newsletter, we bring you summaries of activities that have taken place since the LandSeaLot kick-off in March of this year.

So, Let’s Read Together!

Jos Brils, LandSeaLot Project Coordinator
Deltares