WISH-OI

WISH-OI enhances the existing OCEAN:ICE (O:I) project in Horizon Europe by the addition of the National Antarctic Science Centre (NASC) of Ukraine to the consortium. NASC expertise will add new observations and analysis as well as innovative numerical modelling to ocean and atmospheric processes and regions not presently represented in the project. NASC logistical support will expand existing O:I observations to areas not covered by O:I around Antarctica, allowing us to close the gap and become a truly circum-polar project. WISH-OI focuses on developing collaborations between scientists in Ukraine and internationally as well as leveraging expertise in O:I to develop existing NASC capabilities and new observational and analytic skillsets. The focus on physical oceanography and meteorology builds on existing research programmes in Ukraine and extends them to applications with the new Ukrainian research vessel Noosphera. WISH-OI will also maintain and develop key Antarctic science objectives and ensure a new generation of scientists will remain in research given the difficult environment now faced by Ukraine.