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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Overview Background and rationale Globally many countries face a significant hurdle in obtaining the necessary resources and knowledge to effectively monitor the coastal ocean. There is a common misconception that high end, expensive equipment is needed to monitor and study the coastal oceans. COLaB breaks this belief by using cost effective oceanographic instruments and methods …
Overview Background and rationale The Atlantic basin plays a unique role in the complex system of the ocean, influencing the weather, climate, ocean circulation, global carbon cycle, extreme weather patterns such as hurricanes and the ecosystem and larger fisheries. People living around the Atlantic Ocean are affected by these changes and heavily rely on e.g., …
An EOV based Atlantic Integrated Ocean Observing System Read More »
Overview Background and rationale Our understanding about the drivers, processes and teleconnections that cause large-scale marine heatwaves (MHWs) has substantially improved (Holbrook et al. 2019, 2020). However, the implications of MHWs on the inner continental shelf are much less understood, despite the ecological importance and the relevance of this zone for the global economy. In …
Coastal Marine Heatwave Interdisciplinary Research group (CMHIR) Read More »
For 2023, in addition to the normal annual call, POGO invited groups of members to apply for seed funding for programmes/projects either already endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade, or workshops to plan new project/programmes to be submitted to UNDOS for endorsement. The activity below is one of two successful proposals for this round of …
Marine eDNA monitoring network in Latin America and the Caribbean Read More »
For 2023, in addition to the normal annual call, POGO invited groups of members to apply for seed funding for programmes/projects either already endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade, or workshops to plan new project/programmes to be submitted to UNDOS for endorsement. The activity below is one of two successful proposals for this round of …
Consumer-grade drones as tools for tropical marine and coastal research Read More »
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 …
OpenMODs 3.0 (Open Access Marine Observation Devices Phase 3) Read More »
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 …
Action for Sustainable Ocean Acidification Research (ASOAR) Read More »
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 …
Gulf of Mexico Oceanographic and Meteorological Observation Group (GMOMOG) Read More »
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 »