Look for Cicese to further a marine science-oriented career

Carla Padilla / Overwatch
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In order to promote scientific careers in the student community, the Cicese Department of Physical Oceanography has held the first Festival for the Publication of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Sciences.
According to information provided by the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (Cicese), during the festival there were awareness talks and thematic exhibits about the research conducted at the center on the oceans and the species that affect them.
Students from Cetmar, Cbtis 41 and Telesecundaria Number 20 participated in the activity, which is part of Cicese’s 50th anniversary and commemorates five decades since the foundation’s first ocean-focused project, called Ocean Studies in Waters Adjacent to National Territories.
David Covarrubias Rosales, Cicese General Manager, shared that since 2022 Ensenada has been recognized as an ocean city through the Ocean Decade Network, a program promoted by the United Nations.
As part of the festival, Carlos Cabrera, from the Department of Physical Oceanography, gave a talk on “Artificial Intelligence in the Oceans,” in which he used open tools to request AI to create audiovisual messages about current ocean problems.
As a special guest, Bernardo Bastien, a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and science publisher of the Planeteando Project, invited young people to reflect on how they could participate in confronting climate struggles and climate changes that are regularly seen as an invisible disruption.

Scientific information
The festival was complemented by how-to presentations by graduate students and researchers from Cicese, relating to ocean observation platforms and instruments, artificial intelligence, how hurricanes and eddies are generated, fluid mechanisms at sea, and atmospheric pressure.
In addition, the Virtual Marine Laboratory project, which deals with the theme of hidden fish, and the Caracol Science Museum, whose publishers presented a scientific workshop using virtual reality for ocean observations, were invited.