At the EuroGOOS Annual meeting on 23 November 2012, it was agreed to start the process of creating a new EuroGOOS International Non-Profit Organisation, under Belgian Law. Several EuroGOOS members have already signed the founding declaration, and the new organisation, officially known as EuroGOOS AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif), will be established in Brussels as of February… Read more »
Representatives of Regional Alliances from around the world met in Sopot on 3 October and have the opportunity to stay on and attend the 6th EuroGOOS Conference, which will also include a dedicated session about GOOS Regional Alliances.
Advance and implement a marine monitoring and forecasting system using a European Centre(s) approach EuroGOOS and the Oceanography Center of the University of Cyprus invite you to participate in the strategic meeting organised on the 10th of October 2012 in Nicosia under the auspices of the Cyprus EU presidency. http://www.oceanography.ucy.ac.cy/home/eurogoos-strategic-meeting/
On April 1st, 2012 MyOcean2 took over from MyOcean for the final stage of transition to this long-term operational service. For more information and pictures visit MyOcean.
45 representatives of EuroGOOS member institutes met in sunny Rome on 13-15 December. One of the main items on the agenda was to discuss the future of EuroGOOS. The meeting decided that EuroGOOS should become a legal entity and will therefore look to become a Belgian international non-profit association. A decision was also made to… Read more »
Submit your abstract now! Don’t forget the EuroGOOS conference on Sustainable Operational Oceanography, to be held in the small seaside town of Sopot on the Baltic coast (close to Gdansk airport). The conference planning is well underway and abstract submission is filling up athttp://www.eurogoos2011.eu/.
The proceedings of the 5th EuroGOOS Conference held in Exeter in 2008 have finally been printed thanks to the help of the BSH printers. The EuroGOOS Office will be sending out the books to the conference participants during the summer.
GOOS and the EEA had a stand at OI10 in London Docklands (9-11 March), with posters representing each of the regional alliances, including EuroGOOS. In addition to the exhibition, with a record number of attendees, five one-day conferences were held, starting off with “Ocean Observation and Forecasting”. The GOOS Steering and Scientific Committee took the opportunity to hold… Read more »
Towards a European Network of Marine Observatories for Monitoring and Research 16 September 2010, Brussels Long-term time-series datasets from the marine environment are of critical importance to facilitate: Better understanding of ocean, earth and climate system processes; Monitoring the rate and scale of environmental change; Detection of hazards and events; Effective policy making for the… Read more »
The European Commission is holding a European Maritime Day Stakeholder Conference hosted in Gijón on 19-21 May by the upcoming Spanish Presidency of the European Union and the Government of the Principality of Asturias, as part of the official calendar of the Presidency. There will be a special EuroGOOS session “EuroGOOS: Operational Oceanography Services in support… Read more »
