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The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) is posting a position within the ocean modelling section, Centre for Ocean and Ice (COI), with focus on data-assimilation. For more information and to apply online, please click here. For details about the position please contact the Head of COI, Peter S. Rasch, by telephone +45 39157210 or by email,… Read more »

With the motto “HOPE for our seas and oceans”, the HOPE conference (Healthy Oceans Productive Ecosystems) held in Brussels 3-4 March 2014 brought together government, NGOs, academia, industry and other stakeholders working with or in relation to the European marine environment, giving them the opportunity to discuss progress made during the last 5 years, when… Read more »

Abstract submission is now OPEN! Please visit the Conference website for guidelines and to submit an abstract online. Deadline is 30 April 2014. For more information, please see the

Source: EC, DG ENV, 20 February 2014 “Greater efforts are needed to reach the 2020 EU goal for healthy and productive European seas” says European Commission in the report of the first phase of implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which was published today. The report offers the first comprehensive overview of the… Read more »

The Physical Oceanography Unit of the IOI-Malta Operational Centre at the University of Malta is offering a new Master course in Applied Oceanography. It will be held at the University of Malta and is open to both local and foreign students. The course is intended to train post-graduate students and professionals on state-of-the-art methodologies and… Read more »

The EMODnet Physics team organized a workshop in the Adriatic, mainly with a focus on the Eastern Adriatic, to inform about EMODnet Physics activities and the underlying infrastructures (EuroGOOS, ROOSs, ROOS data portals, MyOcean, SeaDataNet) and for the institutes in the eastern Adriatic to present their respective activities related to EMODnet Physics. 26 enthusiastic participants… Read more »

oGOOS participated in the 2013 ESA Living Planet Symposium, which was held between 9-13 September at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The objectives of the symposium were to present the results of ESA Earth Observation missions and introduce missions in development. There was a wide variety of themes covered among which Oceanography, Atmosphere, Climate &… Read more »

OceanTeacher Academy & MyOcean Training Course: “Discovery and Use of Operational Ocean Data Products and Services” This course will demonstrate the data resources available from operational programs, which can be assembled, synthesized and displayed in public-domain software platforms (mainly Integrated Data Viewer, with auxiliary use of Ocean Data View). This course is a joint collaboration… Read more »

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its foundation IO-BAS along with partners organized an International Conference on Regional Ocean Research to share achievements and outline future prospects in marine science during the next decade. In line with the recent advance in ocean science and technologies and important science-policy developments such as Horizon 2020, the International forum,… Read more »

EuroGOOS invites current and potential users of the pre-operational Copernicus marine service to participate to the GMES-PURE Marine User Requirements Consolidation Workshop: “Shaping the Operational Copernicus Marine Monitoring Service”, to be held at its premises in Brussels, on 29 and 30 October 2013. This User Workshop will: bring together experienced users of the current pre-operational… Read more »