Source: EC, DG MARE Marine Knowledge 2020 – 15 May 2014 In its recent Communication to the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the EU Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions titled “Innovation in the Blue Economy”, the EC sets out its strategy to address issues specific to the blue economy…. Read more »
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ICES launches call for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
ICES seeks data providers for regional overviews Source: ICES news archive This call for expressions of interest in providing Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (OOPS) to the ICES advice process is aimed at the expert groups in ICES, as well as the MyOcean community and the satellite earth observation community, who produce, or are planning… Read more »
Euro-Argo receives recognition as ERIC
Euro-Argo – Global ocean observing infrastructure gets EU legal status Source: EC DG Research & Innovation & Euro-Argo European Commission recently granted the ERIC legal status to Euro-Argo, the European contribution to Argo – a global array of autonomous instruments deployed over the world ocean and reporting near-real time subsurface ocean properties to a wide… Read more »
Proceedings of the 6th EuroGOOS Conference out now
Sustainable Operational Oceanography Sopot, 4-6 October 2011 EuroGOOS is pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings of the 6th international Conference, held in Sopot, Poland 4-6 October 2011. It was two and a half years ago, when an enthusiastic audience of scientists, engineers, technical experts, policy makers and administrators, representatives from the public sector as well as… Read more »
News from the Baltic Operational Oceanographic System
The 5th volume of the BOOS Newsletter has just been published and offers a good opportunity to find out more about recent developments in the Baltic. In this spring issue focus is on projects related to operational oceanography. Click here to read the Newsletter.
Commission Action Plan for Innovation in the ‘Blue Economy’
EC presents plan to help use ocean resources sustainably and drive growth and jobs in Europe Source: EUROPA, Press release database The Commission action plan proposes to: Deliver a digital map of the entire seabed of European waters by 2020. Create an online information platform, to be operational before the end of 2015, on marine research… Read more »
Postdoctoral fellowship in coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling at SMHI
The Oceanography Unit at the Research Department of SMHI seeks a postdoctoral fellow to strengthen the expertise of our group in the field of marine biogeochemical modeling. The successful candidate will work with: • Development of SMHI’s one-dimensional basin model for physical and biogeochemical cycling in the coastal zone. Process studies, climate impact studies, and… Read more »
JERICO Summer School 2014 in the Netherlands
The FP7 project JERICO will organize a 2nd summerschool after the successful 2013 one at Malta, 14-20 June 2014 in the Netherlands. The preliminary title of this summer school is “From data to decisions”. The summer school will cover the entire marine and coastal information cycle, from data gathering via data management, data dissemination, data analysis,… Read more »
PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change
PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change – Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Italy) CALL FOR APPLICATIONS A.Y. 2014-2015 The PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change is jointly organized by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), an integrated, multi-disciplinary frontier research center for understanding, controlling and adapting… Read more »
Baltic Symposium 2014: measuring and modeling of multi-scale interactions in the marine environment
The 6th IEEE/OES Baltic Symposium 2014 will be held in Tallinn, Estonia on 26-29, May 2014 . The symposium theme “Measuring and modeling of multi-scale interactions in the marine environment” highlights research towards improved understanding of the marine environment as a system. Topics • Waves and coastal processes. Papers dealing with research related to modeling… Read more »
