Enhance Ocean Understanding and Impact – Join the EuroGOOS Ocean Literacy Survey!  Are you passionate about the ocean and its vital role in our world? We need your insights! EuroGOOS invites you to participate in our Ocean Literacy Activities Survey, live until 26 August 2024. Your input will help us empower Ocean Literacy, boost synergies, and… Read more »

New publication from the European Ocean Observing Community with urgent gaps and recommendations to implement during the UN Ocean Decade The European Ocean Observing Community (EOOC) contributes to observing, analyzing, and forecasting marine phenomena across coastal and open-ocean settings, spanning shallow to deep ocean layers. With the world undergoing rapid changes, addressing gaps in ocean… Read more »

The DOORS Black Sea project has launched a mobile film competition inviting young people to ask DOORS scientists questions. Michael Rea, EuroGOOS, GeoEcoMar, and other DOORS partners have co-developed this call. They say that 60 seconds can change the world. Young people are invited to submit a 1-minute smartphone produced film that asks DOORS scientists… Read more »

The Modelling and Forecasting Facility of our member SOCIB is looking for a Postdoc Scientist Ocean Modeler with experience in multi-platform observing data assimilation. Particularly, the candidate will be responsible for improving WMOP model forecast skills through multi-platform data assimilation, including new data sources (high-resolution altimetry, gliders and HF radar) in the Western Mediterranean Sea… Read more »

The CIPM Sectorial Task Group on Climate Change and Environment has been established to provide a global focal point for metrology activities related to climate change and environment. Abstracts for presentations/posters are invited that address progress on recommendations or new initiatives since the BIPM-WMO Workshop on Metrology for Climate Action (2022), and fall into one of… Read more »

Enhance Ocean Understanding and Impact – Join the EuroGOOS Ocean Literacy Survey! Are you passionate about the ocean and its vital role in our world? We need your insights! EuroGOOS invites you to participate in our Ocean Literacy Activities Survey, live until 31 July 2024. Your input will help us empower Ocean Literacy, boost synergies,… Read more »

On 30 May, on the occasion of the European Maritime Day Conference, our Ocean Literacy Working Group is releasing a long-awaited survey on public engagement activities in oceanography. From visualisation of ocean data, to developing teaching materials, sharing scientific knowledge, and citizen science – ocean observing and forecasting activities are fondamental and powerful resources to… Read more »

The UN Ocean Decade Conference marked a significant milestone in advancing global understanding and engagement with our ocean. The side event, titled “Diving from Local to Global Ocean Literacy: Exploring, Sharing, and Developing Successful Practices to Know, Feel and Join the Living Ocean,” was held on 9 April at the Institut de Ciències del Mar… Read more »

EuroGOOS was a co-organiser of the sessions ‘Co-designing a pan-Arctic ocean observing alliance’ at the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) 2024, in Edinburgh during Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW). The session featured a summary of the identified need for an Arctic alliance for ocean observing (such as a GOOS Regional Alliance) and a timeline of efforts… Read more »

The new EuroGOOS data policy is now available on OBPS. This policy is the European implementation of the IOC Data Policy and Terms of Use adopted in 2023. It requires its members’ commitment to share core ocean data openly according to the FAIR principles and clear licences. By core in situ ocean data we mean,… Read more »