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 first official regional node of POGO – the Western Pacific Regional Node – is jointly hosted by the First Institute of Oceanography, the Ministry of Natural Resources (FIO), the Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), and the Ocean Decade International Cooperation Center (ODCC), and located at Qingdao, China.
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In 2023, the POGO Board of Trustees appointed an External Review Panel consisting of 6 experts, selected to represent a range of POGO stakeholders including the marine science community (POGO members and non-members), representatives of other international or regional organisations, and other stakeholders. The report and recommendations were presented to the POGO Board in June 2024, and
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POGO was endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Implementing Partner (DIP) on 29 March 2023.
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Since its registration as a UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2018, POGO has submitted Trustees’ Annual Reports to the Charity Commission, but 2022 saw our first publication of a more visual and interactive version of it for our members, collaborators and the community at large.
Annual Report for Sept 2021- Aug 2022 Read More »
In October 2021, POGO launched its new, interactive 5-year strategy document. The purpose of this strategy is to look forward to POGO’s priorities for future years. It describes who we are, what we want, and what we aim to do – updating our previous strategic document to take into account the current international context, including
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December 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the first POGO Annual meeting, which was held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA from 1-3 December 1999.
POGO Marks 20th Anniversary Read More »
At the POGO-19 annual meeting, members agreed to change the organisation’s name from ‘Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans’ to ‘Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean’ (singular). This is a small but important change, which brings POGO into line with the first principle of Ocean Literacy, ie The Earth has one big ocean
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In Feb 2017, POGO registered as a UK CIO, registered and regulated by the Charity Commission of England and Wales, No 1171692. We transitioned over to a UK legal entity on 1st July 2018.
POGO registered as UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation Read More »
Press Release 25 January 2016 – The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) presented the new observational strategy at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan today ahead of the annual meeting of the organisation, which brings together the directors of 40 oceanographic institutions from around the world. Read more…
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