Posts By: Yota Antoniou

Season’s Greetings from EuroGOOS

We would like to thank our Members and Colleagues across the globe for a very fruitful year and hope for more cooperation in the years to come. Very best wishes for the holidays from EuroGOOS!

News on Horizon 2020 proposal submission

EuroGOOS is very excited that two proposals we are part of have been invited for Grant Agreement Preparation. AtlantOS and COLUMBUS have been favourably evaluated by the European Commission after submission on 26 June 2014. We wish to congratulate the coordinators and partners for the efforts and look forward to further fruitful collaboration! A few… Read more »

HF Radar special session at the EGU 2015

Deadline for abstracts is 7 January 2015. EMODnet Physics in collaboration with EuroGOOS and AZTI are organising a session on HF Radar to showcase advances in applications for coastal observation and ocean currents, which shall take place in Vienna, Austria, in the event of the EGU General Assembly 2015 (12-17 April 2015). High Frequency Surface… Read more »

Mercator Ocean signs delegation agreement with EC for the implementation of the Copernicus Marine Service

Source: Mercator Ocean website, DG Enterprise news The European Commission and Mercator Ocean, the French centre for analysis and forecasting of the global ocean and a EuroGOOS member, have signed on 11 November 2014 an Agreement to implement and manage the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service. The existing pre-operational Service has been under development since… Read more »

A successful European HF Radar meeting takes place in Lisbon

A European HF Radar meeting was held as a side event to the EuroGOOS Conference on 27th October. 55 participants, 21 presentations ranging from local, regional to global scale and besides European representatives also representatives from US IOOS and from the major HF Radar manufacturers (CODAR, WERA) contributed to a very successful and highly appreciated… Read more »

7th EuroGOOS Conference: Europe to take the global lead in operational oceanography

Nearly 200 enthusiastic participants gathered last week in Lisbon, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for our 7th Conference, titled “Operational Oceanography for sustainable Blue Growth”, which was co-organized with the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute. During the 3-day Conference (28-30 October), participants had the opportunity to learn about recent developments in operational oceanography and have interesting discussions… Read more »

EuroGOOS Strategy Implementation Plan

The EuroGOOS Board has developed a five-year which outlines its contribution to realising the Whereas the EuroGOOS Strategy 2014-2020 outlines the priorities of EuroGOOS as agreed and approved by the EuroGOOS Board and EuroGOOS members; the present document shall transfer the EuroGOOS Strategy into concrete goals, actions and deadlines.

Making the European Ocean Observing System a reality: messages from EurOCEAN 2014

A successful EurOCEAN 2014 Conference took place last week in Rome (7-9 October) where marine scientists from all over Europe gathered to talk about Blue Growth and how better and greater knowledge and understanding of marine ecosystems can support its sustainability. EuroGOOS was represented by its Chair, Dr Erik Buch, who spoke about the concept… Read more »

7th EuroGOOS Conference: full programme out now

The Organising Committee of the 7th EuroGOOS Conference “Operational Oceanography for Sustainable Blue Growth” has published the full conference programme, which can be viewed/downloaded . Registration is now closed, if you wish to attend please contact the Conference Secretariat. A number of side events and billateral project meetings shall take place at the Hydrographic Institute… Read more »