The 3rd Blue Planet Symposium was held in College Park, Maryland, USA from 31 May to 2 June 2017. The symposium was co-hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Maryland and the University System of Maryland Foundation. The symposium served as a forum for discussion of societal information needs resulting from the important role the oceans play in Earth’s life-support system and the challenge of minimizing the impacts of human activities on the oceans while utilizing the resources of the oceans to meet our needs. The symposium also served as a platform for the participating communities to exchange information on their activities and discuss potential pilot and prototype projects for Blue Planet to focus on in the coming years.
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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
- An EOV based Atlantic Integrated Ocean Observing System
- Coastal Observing Lab in a Box (COLaB)
- OpenMODs 3.0 (Open Access Marine Observation Devices Phase 3)
- COLLECT – Citizen Observation of Local Litter in Coastal ECosysTems
- SEAGRASS – South East Asia project for General Regional Awareness of Seagrass by Society
- BIOTTA (Building CapacIty in Ocean AcidificaTion MoniToring in the Gulf of GuineA)
- Coastal Marine Heatwave Interdisciplinary Research group (CMHIR)
- 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
- > Task forces, projects and working groups
- Completed activities
- Innovation in ocean observingObjective 1: To lead innovation and development of the crucial components of the ocean observing system
- > Member ocean observing systems
- > POGO Member case studies
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