We are excited to announce that the Oostende Declaration in which the 100+ ocean experts and stakeholders call for concerted international and intergovernmental efforts to create a robust, resilient and sustainable surface ocean carbon observing system has been officially recognized as a commitment at the UN Ocean Conference 2025.

We would like to inform you that an international data workshop on the role of biology in storing carbon in the ocean has been announced. This workshop is organised as part of the UK NERC BIO-Carbon research programme, with the support of the Marine Biogeochemistry Forum from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). The workshop is planned to take place on 2-4 March 2026 in Glasgow (UK), immediately after Ocean Sciences 2026.

The workshop will bring together scientists from around the world, to pool data on key processes and to determine how we should go about capturing those processes in the next generation of climate models. A major aim of the workshop is to bring modellers, observationalists and experimentalists together to co-design roadmaps for how this should happen.

We are pleased to share that the POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme for 2025 is now open for applications. The deadline for applications is 27 April 2025 (23:59 CET).

The primary goal of the POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme is to strengthen sustained ocean observations and their applications, with a focus on training and capacity building to support a global ocean observation framework. Since its launch in 2001, the programme has been highly successful, awarding 200 fellowships to date.