NASA Sponsored Workshop on Calibration and Validation of Ocean Color Remote Sensing

Class dates: May 18 – June 14, 2025

University of Maine, Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine, USA

An intensive four-week, cross-disciplinary, graduate-level workshop in optical oceanography will
be offered at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC). This workshop is the latest
version of the optical oceanography workshop first offered at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in
1985, and since then in coastal Maine at the DMC and at Bowdoin College’s Schiller Coastal
Studies Center. Past participants include many of today’s leaders in oceanography.

The major theme of the workshop is calibration and validation of ocean color remote sensing.
The workshop will provide students with a fundamental knowledge of ocean optics and optical
sensor technology that will enable them to make quality measurements, assess the
uncertainties associated with the measurements, and compare the data with remotely sensed
ocean color measurements and derived products. The course is sponsored by NASA and the
University of Maine, with the goal of preparing a new generation of oceanographers trained in
the use of optics to study the oceans.