A kick-off symposium for the new GEO marine Task SB-01 “Oceans and Society: the Blue Planet” was held in Ilhabela, São Paulo State, Brazil, from November 19 to 21, 2012. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), GEO, INPE and POGO and took place just prior to the GEO-IX Plenary, held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil (November 22 and 23, 2012).
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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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