The Gulf of Guinea (GoG) is an important global resource. Ranked among the most productive coastal and offshore waters in the world, the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem is rich in fishery resources, petroleum and is also an important global region of marine biological diversity. The large human populations of about 40% of the region’s 280 million heavily depend on the lagoons, estuaries, creeks and inshore waters surrounding them.
- About
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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.
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- Three pillars
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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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- Innovation in ocean observingObjective 1: To lead innovation and development of the crucial components of the ocean observing system
- > Task forces, projects and working groups
- Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Symposium
- SEAGRASS – South East Asia project for General Regional Awareness of Seagrass by Society
- COLLECT – Citizen Observation of Local Litter in Coastal ECosysTems
- Oceanographic Data Acquisition GoG
- BIOTTA (Building CapacIty in Ocean AcidificaTion MoniToring in the Gulf of GuineA)
- OpenMODs – Open Access Marine Observation Devices
- Action for Sustainable Ocean Acidification Research (ASOAR)
- Gulf of Mexico Oceanographic and Meteorological Observation Group (GMOMOG)
- CEODOS Chile: A consortium for surveying the coastal ocean in the eastern South Pacific
- BEACON – Capacity building for Biochemical obsErvation of AnthropogeniC pollutiOn, tropical traNsitional waters
- ERIKA – Women in Science
- Innovation in ocean observingObjective 1: To lead innovation and development of the crucial components of the ocean observing system
- Completed activities
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- > Member ocean observing systems
- > POGO Member case studies
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