🌍 🛰️ New five-year agreement signed between GÉANT and #EUMETSAT

We are proud to announce the signature of a five-year agreement between GÉANT and EUMETSAT, advancing our long-standing collaboration on #network and #connectivity services to support the global distribution of meteorological #satellite #data for weather forecasting, #climate monitoring, and environmental #research.

🔗Read more: https://connect.geant.org/2026/05/29/geant-to-provide-single-point-of-contact-spoc-and-connectivity-services-to-eumetsat-in-collaboration-with-nrens-for-the-next-five-years

#EUMETcast #satelliteData #Meteorology #EnvironmentalResearch #ClimateMonitoring

Department of Geodesy (Hochschule Bochum) and 52°North held an interactive #KomMonitor workshop at the recent AGIT Conference. Participants explored the monitoring capabilities of the KomMonitor Web Application, analyzing heat exposure, the distribution of vulnerable population groups, and the accessibility of green spaces and drinking water infrastructure.

Sebastian Drost provides details in his blog post
👉 https://blog.52north.org/2025/07/22/kommonitor-workshop-agit-2025/

#CCA #climatemonitoring #climateresilience #urbanplanning

Your transatlantic video calls are now moonlighting as climate researchers! Scientists discovered that undersea fiber-optic cables can monitor ocean temps & pressure by measuring tiny changes in light signals. Even our infrastructure has side hustles these days 🌊

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2246201/transatlantic-communications-cable-doubles-as-ocean-sensor

#OceanScience #FiberOptic #ClimateMonitoring