The Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) was founded in 1999 by directors of oceanographic institutions around the world as a forum to promote and advance the observation of the global ocean. POGO is a UK-registered charity with member institutions from around the world, and works closely with other international and regional programmes and organisations.
POGO seeks to expand international support for ocean observing, through innovation of the ocean observing system, capacity development and outreach/advocacy.
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The OpenMODs – Open Access Marine Observation Devices – project has been extended for a third phase, from February 2023 to March 2024. Why a project follow-on? The OpenMODs 2.0 project concluded in late 2022. In that phase of the project, three platform/probe/transmission systems were completed and tested in the laboratory and in the water …
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POGO is providing support for the Trevor Platt Science Foundation (TPSF) Symposium, to be held at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (9 – 11 August 2023). It will be preceded by a training course “Satellite-based tools for investigating aquatic ecosystems“. Together, these events aim to carry forward Trevor’s legacy in ocean research and international collaboration. The symposium will …
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Overview Scientific rationale, societal benefits and policy relevance Changes in carbonate chemistry, termed ‘Ocean Acidification’ (OA), and the biological impacts this causes, don’t occur uniformly, but instead vary regionally across a range of spatial scales. The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) highlighted this and identified a pressing need for targeted regional monitoring strategies that …
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POGO is providing support for the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Symposium “Southern Ocean in a changing world”, to be held in Hobart, Australia from the 14 to the 18 of August 2023. The funding from POGO will be used to cover travel and subsistence for early-career scientists from developing countries to attend the Symposium. …
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Overview The CEODOS program (co-coordinated by the COPAS center) is a new chilean initiative that will follow the present and future status of the biological pump along the entire coast of Chile every 5 years. There is a global agreement in the scientific community that the combination of climate change and human activities has a …
CEODOS Chile: A consortium for surveying the coastal ocean in the eastern South Pacific Read More »
Overview Monitoring is key to numerical modelling efforts for predicting hurricanes and frontal systems, assessing and sustaining ecosystem health and function, managing marine resources, optimising restoration efforts and assessing anthropogenic impacts from climate change, eutrophication, loss of biodiversity, deoxygenation, acidification, overfishing and sea level rise. However, when in situ monitoring efforts are examined at a basin or …
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Overview The Straits of Malacca is the second busiest ocean maritime trade route in the world with a passage of over a thousand ships a day transiting its waterways. Naturally, this brings with it a lot of environmental pressure and risks to existing natural habitats. However, there are still very special pockets of marine habitats …
SEAGRASS – South East Asia project for General Regional Awareness of Seagrass by Society Read More »
Background & Rationale There is a need to build capacity to monitor human activities (e.g., pollution) on benthic communities and chemical tracers within the biota and sediment in the coastal waters of the Gulf of Guinea. The capacity building will increase access to state-of-the-art sampling methodologies, laboratory processes, and instrumentations useful for expanding the knowledge …
POGO project funded by the Richard Lounsbery FoundationJanuary 2021 – September 2022 Goal The goal of this project is to acquire data on marine plastic debris distribution and abundance on the coasts of African countries, by training citizen scientists (secondary school students) and promoting knowledge transfer between local communities, researchers and members of the Partnership …
COLLECT – Citizen Observation of Local Litter in Coastal ECosysTems Read More »
Women in Science: ERIKA (Empowerment /Employment of female researchers in Key Assignments Overview Sustainability of marine management and thus marine systems is dependent upon maximum efficiency and use of human resources, ability and associated capacity. Especially in the realm of marine science in the developing world, we currently are not even close to utilizing and …