This EOS Topical Meeting on ›Blue Photonics‹ –- Optics in the Sea (Blue Photonics 3), to be held at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in Den Hoorn, Texel, The Netherlands, will provide a major international forum for the discussion of marine optics and its applications. Its aims are to review recent progress in the field, to promote the formation of a community of scientist and engineers working in related areas, and to stimulate the interdisciplinary collaboration required to meet the rapidly developing challenges of the future.

Topics
• Environmental Monitoring
• Crowdsourcing
• Topic related Smartphone/iPhone Apps
• Ocean Colour
• Radiative transfer and modelling
• Marine bio-optics and remote sensing
• Fluorometry
• AOP - IOP 2D and 3D
• Underwater imaging
• Innovative sub-sea optical techniques and instrumentation

Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract of a maximum of two pages and preferably with at least one figure. Abstracts can be submitted from 1 October to 16 November 2012 at the site listed below.