The 2023 Eugene LaFond Medal is awarded to Dr. Helenice Vital from Brazil for her oral presentation ‘SeabedMap Project - Sensing, integration and analysis of digital information in marine geological mapping, Brazilian equatorial margin’. This presentation was delivered on July 17 2023 within the IAPSO Session ‘Bringing Scientific and Technological Ocean Information Together for Advancement of Sustainable Development in the Framework of the UN Ocean Decade’ in Berlin, Germany.
To promote the study of the oceans and the interactions that take place at its boundaries with the sea floor, coastal environment and atmosphere, through the use of physics, chemistry, mathematics and biogeochemisty.
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IAPSO gives importance to involving scientists and students from developing countries in oceanographic activities.
