The Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) and Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) are pleased to announce that the POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship programme for 2019 is now open for applications. The scheme is designed to promote training and capacity development, leading towards a global observation scheme for the ocean, and is aimed at scientists, technicians, graduate students (preferably PhD) and post-doctoral fellows involved in oceanographic work at centres in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Priority is given to applicants in the early stages of their career development. The fellowship offers the opportunity to visit other oceanographic centres for a short period (1 to 3 months) for training on aspects of oceanographic observations, analyses, and interpretation. It provides financial support to cover the return airfare from the fellow's home country to the host institution, and a contribution towards accommodation and subsistence for the period of the visit. 

The deadline for applications is 30 April 2019. For more information and details on how to apply please see: http://ocean-partners.org/pogo-scor-fellowship. All applications should be submitted through http://www.marinetraining.eu/POGOSCOR19. Please e-mail pogoadmin[at]pml.ac.uk should you have any queries and feel free to circulate this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.

We are pleased to inform you about a technical workshop on "Underway and sensor CO₂ data and metadata quality control procedures" to be held on 1-3 April 2019 at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Science in Sopot, Poland. The workshop is sponsored by the EU project AtlantOS and EU BONUS INTEGRAL (Integrated carbon and trace gas monitoring for the Baltic Sea) project. The goal of this workshop is to update the participants on the protocols enabling globally coherent quality control of surface ocean CO₂ data, using a series of lectures and practicals given in the context of the most comprehensive surface ocean CO₂ data set: the Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT; www.socat.info). 

Registration is free and on a "first come-first served" basis (max. 20 participants). To register please send an email by 22 March to Maciej Telszewski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Karol Kuliński (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with your name, title and full affiliation, as well as a brief description of your post in relation to the workshop agenda. No travel support is offered to participants. For more information please check the attached announcement and the agenda. 

We would like to let you know that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group 149 are organizing a training course on best practices for ocean acidification experiments in multi-stressor scenarios. The course will take place on 24-28 June 2019, at IAEA Environmental Laboratories in Monaco. The objectives of this training course are to become familiar with the modes of learning available in the new SCOR WG149 web-based best practice guide (to become available in April 2019). This best practice guide will provide a valuable platform to test methods and best practices for ocean acidification studies within a multi-stressor context that were developed at an IAEA Technical Meeting held in Monaco in June 2017. The course will include both lectures and discussions in plenary sessions and hands-on laboratory sessions in smaller groups to support the online tools. Subjects to be covered include: introduction to multiple-driver studies and to a newly developed online best practices guide for multi-stressor experiments, including a decision support tool, and the MEDDLE (Multiple Environmental Driver Design Lab for Experiments) simulator.

 Deadline for applications through competent official authorities: 5 April 2019.

We would like to inform you about an upcoming webinar on "The development & validation of a profiling glider pH sensor for high resolution observations of coastal & ocean acidification". On 5 March 2019, 4:00-5:00 PM CET, Elizabeth Wright-Fairbanks of Rutgers University will focus on a recent and ongoing collaborative project that has developed the first integrated underwater profiling glider platform and sensor system for sampling carbonate chemistry throughout the water column of the coastal ocean. This effort contributes to the US Mid-Atlantic Coastal Acidification Network (MACAN). The results presented will demonstrate the ability for gliders to routinely provide high resolution water column data on regional scales that can be applied to acidification monitoring efforts in other coastal regions.

To register for the GoToMeeting webinar, please follow this link: 

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3742795152214546179

An intensive four-week, cross-disciplinary, graduate-level course in Optical Oceanography will be offered in June 2019 at the University of Maine’s Ira C. Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, USA. This class is a continuation of the Optical Oceanography course first offered at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in 1985 and since 2001 at the Darling Marine Center. Past graduates are many of today’s leaders in oceanography. The course instructors are: Emmanuel Boss (coordinator), Ivona Cetinic, Curt Mobley, Collin Roesler, Ken Voss, and Jeremy Werdell. A grant for qualified participants will cover the University of Maine tuition, and room & board.

Apply by March 10, 2019, with notification by April 1, 2019. Online application is available at: https://dmc.umaine.edu/ocean-optics-2019-application-form/. For further details see the full announcement at: http://ioccg.org/ocean-optics-summer-class-june2019/ 

The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) is now accepting proposals for new SCOR working groups. Proposals are due by 12:00 p.m. UCT on 15 April 2019. Decisions about which proposals will be funded will be made at the 2019 SCOR Annual Meeting in Toyama, Japan, on 23-25 September 2019. Each new group will be provided US$45,000 over a 3-4 year period to conduct its work. Please submit your proposals to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Attached please find the 2019 Call for SCOR Working Groups.

We would like to let you know that applications are open for the next Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE) at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) on the islands of Helgoland and Sylt. The course is open to 10 participants. Trainees must have at least a first degree in science. Preference will be given to applicants who currently hold a position in a research or academic institution in a developing country and anticipate returning to the country after completion of training at the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence at AWI. The 10-month training will promote excellence in integrated, multidisciplinary oceanography at a global scale by emphasizing core skills (e.g. writing, scientific presentations, statistics and experimental design) and specialised scientific topics such as modelling, remote sensing, ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Your application should be submitted by 1 March 2019. Applicants will be notified if they have been selected by end of May 2019. Scholarships will be provided from NF-POGO through the CofE that cover travel, room, board, tuition, and a modest allowance for those students accepted into the programme. For more information on course synopsis, eligibility and prospects, please see the website HERE.

We would like to inform you that the Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 (TPOS 2020) Project released its Second Report draft for community review. TPOS 2020 released its First Report in 2016 and the Second Report builds on that document. It updates the evolving design of the Backbone observing system, drawing on new research and evidence including feedback received on the First Report, and responds to gaps identified by sponsors of the Project. If you would like to be a reviewer of the Second Report, please find it on the TPOS 2020 website (http://tpos2020.org/project-reports/second-report/), along with the Review Template. The marine biogeochemistry community might be particularly interested to review the contents of Chapter 4: Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Observations.

Please provide all comments by February 28, 2019. Note that this is the ONLY review period for the Second Report. Correspondence and questions should be addressed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..