Innovation and Technology Transfer Webinar Series

We are pleased to introduce the Innovation & Technology Transfer Webinar Series, developed in collaboration with our sister project Blue‑Seas and under the Building Future Leadership Initiative in Future Earth Coasts (FEC).

This webinar series is part of our commitment to strengthen scientific exchange, accelerate capacity building, and promote the application of advanced tools and methods for understanding and managing blue carbon ecosystems.

About the Webinar Series

C‑BLUES and Blue‑Seas are jointly advancing scientific knowledge on coastal wetland carbon stocks, sequestration processes, and the drivers of greenhouse gas fluxes. Together, the projects contribute to improving reporting of managed blue carbon ecosystems under the IPCC Wetlands Guidelines, supporting both EU and Chinese efforts to integrate blue carbon into national climate strategies.

The Webinar Series aims to:

  • Highlight state‑of‑the‑art technologies and innovative methodologies relevant to blue carbon research

  • Promote knowledge exchange between European and Chinese experts

  • Strengthen the scientific basis for blue carbon inventories and GHG reporting

  • Support early‑career researchers, practitioners, and policy stakeholders worldwide

By bringing together expertise across continents, the series contributes to global understanding of how restoration, monitoring, and management affect carbon fluxes and climate mitigation potential.

Six webinars

EU and Chinese experts will share advanced methodologies and case examples on:
• Blue carbon mapping – drones (21. January 2026)
• Blue carbon mapping – satellites
• Ecological processes
• Biogeochemical flux dynamics
• Blue carbon GHG modelling
• Blue economy

Follow our LinkedIn pages for updates on the webinars and for registration links: C-BLUES and Future Earth Coasts.

The first webinar in the Innovation & Technology Transfer Series introduced cutting-edge drone applications for blue carbon mapping. Moderated by Dr. Sung-Ching Lee and featuring talks from:

  • Dr. Kasper Hancke, Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) on drone-based habitat monitoring

  • Prof. Wu Jiaping from Zhejiang University on the role of seaweed aquaculture in carbon sequestration.

Discussions highlighted how drones complement field and satellite data.

Watch the full recording here.