THE OCEAN RACE SCIENCE RACING WITH PURPOSE

METEOROLOGICAL BUOYS OR ONBOARD DATA FLOATS SCIENCE SCIENCE ‘RACING WITH PURPOSE’

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DURING ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE Unique opportunities for data collection, outreach and advocacy during The Ocean Race global sporting event

Remote sampling and an On-board in-situ exceptional platform for measurements outreach distributed in real-time

Professional sailors take underway oceanographic Sea Surface Temperature measurements during nine month round-the-world Sea Surface Salinity sailing race, including remote Southern Ocean and Partial pressure of CO under-sampled areas Microplastics (MP, ex-situ) 11th Hour Racing Team -Transatlantic 2020 (pCO2)

More than 30 surface drifter buoys deployed by racing boats to contribute to NOAA’s Global Drifter SOCAT Version 2019 Program NOAA NCEI Accession 0170967 Authors First of a kind sampling of microplastics to generate EMODnet: Ocean Race 2017/2018 Anne-Cécile Turner1, Mairéad O’Donovan1, Toste Tanhua2, a near-synoptic picture of microplastic pollution Sören Gutekunst1,2,3, 1 The Ocean Race, Atlant Ocean Racing S.L.U., , Vast quantity of meteorological data shared in 2 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research , real-time and integrated into GTS Germany 3 SCG Science Consulting – Dr.-Ing. Gutekunst Montabaur, Diverse global audience and platform for outreach Germany leveraging the power of sport to increase awareness of the pressures impacting ocean health Contact

2019 microplastic sampling during European Tour Anne-Cécile Turner 2020 measurements during training and deliveries [email protected] 2021 The Ocean Race Europe Dr Sören Gutekunst measurements [email protected] Mairéad O‘Donovan [email protected] 2017–18 microplastic measurements Team AkzoNobel – European Tour 2019 (pCO2) www.theoceanrace.com THE OCEAN RACE ROUTE 2022 – 2023