The Lounsbery Foundation was founded in 1959, with a goal to enhance US national strengths in science and technology and foster strong French-American cooperation. To this day, the Foundation has stayed true to its roots while expanding to promote science among youth and to support components of US policy issues pertaining to science. The Foundation attained a place in donor history in 2004 by becoming the first philanthropic supporter of Wikipedia. It was also instrumental in providing initial support which enabled POGO to begin life without taxing its members. More recently, the Lounsbery Foundation has provided a 50K USD grant to support POGO’s efforts in biological observations.
- 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
- 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)
- Consumer-grade drones as tools for tropical marine and coastal research
- Marine eDNA monitoring network in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 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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