Registration has now begun for the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s second summer school session, focusing on Oceanography and Fisheries in the Mediterranean, on September 2-6, 2019, on the Greek island of Alonissos, located in the Aegean Sea’s Northern Sporades archipelago, building on the success of last year’s ground-breaking ODYSSEA summer school. The summer school is being co-organised in partnership with the School of Biology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace, and with the support of the Thalassa Foundation. “The 2nd ODYSSEA Summer School introduces trainees to all stages of operational oceanography and fisheries, aiming towards the Blue Growth of the Mediterranean Sea,” said Prof. Georgios Sylaios from DUTH, who coordinates ODYSSEA. Organisers noted the importance of monitoring and forecasting phenomena related to the marine environment, as well as the challenges faced by oceanographers in doing so, due especially to climate change and the rising intensity of human coastal activities and their impacts (pollution, extensive fishing and aquaculture, coastal erosion, over-exploitation by tourism) over the past several decades. “The protection and sustainable economic exploitation of marine ecosystems requires real-time monitoring and operational prognostic modelling....