Patricia Lopez-Garcia

Dr Patricia López García is a marine scientist and industrial chemical engineer that works in the Ocean Technology and Engineering group at the National Oceanography Centre. The group invents, designs, builds, deploys and commercialises sensors and instruments for marine and environmental science with a beneficial societal impact. She has experience working with sensors and has been involved in the integration with several platforms including buoys, gliders and fixed marine structures. She is also the Delivery Lead of projects in the team such as TechOceanS project which is an ambitious project that has the potential to revolutionise how we measure and monitor our changing oceans. The exciting technology we're developing in TechOceanS will capture important data that will have a significant impact in diverse areas such as ocean conservation, resource management, blue economy and policy.

The Ocean Technology and Engineering (OTE) group invents, designs, builds, deploys and commercialises sensors and instruments for marine and environmental science with a beneficial societal impact. Our group includes expertise in chemistry, molecular biology and engineering that combines to fill gaps in ocean observation. Our technology has been deployed in fixed and mobile platforms, in depths ranging from the surface to the deep ocean and have increased our capability to expand scale of observation both in space and time domain. To ensure that the valuable data acquired is made safe at the earliest opportunity, we also telemeter these data to Data Centres such as the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) where quality control processes and best practice ensure the data is FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and Reusable) for the wider community.