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The Atlantic – our Shared Resource: making the vision reality This event is the launch for all the ‘Galway Statement follow-up projects’ funded within the first Horizon 2020 Blue Growth calls – the main financial instrument on the EU side to make the  commitments reality. Registration is open now, please click here: https://scic.ec.europa.eu/fmi/ezreg/GALWAY2015/start. The programme… Read more »

Source: http://www.ot2015.org/ The Universidade do Algarve is organizing the second edition of the Ocean Technology Summer School, to take place from 06 July to 10 July 2015. Building upon the experience of previous schools (including OT2014) the OT2015 summer school is designed to provide an integrated view of theoretical, numerical and experimental tools related to… Read more »

In order to improve the understanding of the Marine Service topic by any public concerned, Mercator Ocean is currently organising various open webcasts. During the 1st webcast on February 6th, the new Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service was presented, followed by a Q&A session (see transcript here: http://mercator-ocean.fr/eng/mercator_ocean/programmes-copernicus/InfoDays). Another open webcast is organised on March… Read more »

There is emerging evidence that Climate Change (CC) already is impacting coastal and offshore marine phytoplankton communities, and that future trends may include increases in the frequency and severity of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). The 4-day conference will: Bring together algal physiologists, ecologists, oceanographers, modellers and climate change specialists to develop a consensus on the… Read more »

The University of Malta offers two scholarships for an EU and non-EU applicant respectively, to attend a one-year full time post-graduate course in applied oceanography with a focus on operational oceanography. The course is intended to train post-graduate students and professionals on state-of-the-art methodologies and tools to measure, understand and predict the marine environment, and derive… Read more »

EMODnet Physics, EuroGOOS and AZTI are organising a session on HF Radar to showcase advances in applications for coastal observation and ocean currents. The event will take place on 14 April in Vienna, Austria during the EGU General Assembly 2015. Meeting room Y1. Programme of presentations as follows: 10:30–10:45   Yukiharu Hisaki Inversion to estimate… Read more »

The MyOcean Follow On project organises a training workshop with a focus on Operational Oceanography in the Southern Mediterranean Sea. The workshop will take place in Alexandria, Egypt, between 4-5 March 2015. More information here. The workshop will deal with technical and theoretical aspects related to access of the MyOcean products, in particular to met-ocean… Read more »

The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) is an intergovernmental coordinating and integrating platform covering all European sea basins. It focuses on making better and more efficient use of national research budgets, which represent 88% of the research funding within Europe. JPI Oceans organises a Conference in Brussels on 7… Read more »

The Secretariat of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) in Ostend is recruiting a Project Officer to support its activities. The full post announcement can be found here. The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a long-term marine data initiative from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG… Read more »

The UK Met Office has announced a job opening for a Scientific manager role to work on Copernicus Marine Projects within the Ocean Forecasting Research & Development (OFR&D) group in Exeter, UK. The Met Office expect to be a significant contributor to the Copernicus Marine Service, the operational continuation of the EU MyOcean Marine Service,… Read more »