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The EuroGOOS Office hosted and attended a DATA-MEQ meeting at Belspo 10-11th September. Since the last meeting a lot of activities have been carried out through projects such as MyOcean, EMODnet Physics, SeaDataNet, Jerico, GROOM etc. to enhance the current data exchange activities within EuroGOOS and the ROOSs. The meeting reviewed the progress made within… Read more »

Towards a long term EU funding for the in-situ component of the Copernicus Marine Service   The benefits of the EU investments in the Copernicus Space Component and Marine Service will not be fully achieved without significant additional EU investments in insitu observations. Lack of sustained funding for in-situ observations is today putting the Copernicus… Read more »

Two full years of planning and dedication are now maturing as the Master Course in Applied Oceanography will commence as from next October. The course is run by the Physical Oceanography Unit of the IOI-Malta Operational Centre at the University of Malta with the participation of an international faculty made up of top experts in… Read more »

After 11 years as EuroGOOS Director, Hans Dahlin has left the EuroGOOS Office for a new life as a pensioner. Kostas Nittis shall take the role of Secretary General in the new EuroGOOS AISBL. A farewell event was held in Norrköping for Hans, attended by many of the Board members as well as Hans’ colleagues from… 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.