News from the Baltic
Read the latest news from the Baltic Regional Operational Oceanography System (BOOS). In this issue: operational remote sensing of ice and application of profiling floats and seafloor climate stations in the Baltic. Boos 72 Vol.6 933.19 KB Read More >>

Kostas Nittis Scientific and Strategic Workshop, Athens 26-27 May 2015
The Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) and the PERSEUS FP7 project organize a two day Scientific and Strategic Workshop in memory of Kostas Nittis that will focus on state of the art contribution of operational oceanography (modelling and observations) and its application… Read more » Read More >>

FixO3 Workshop: An Introduction and practical use of European marine data infrastructures
Source: FixO3 website 15-16 April 2015, Atlantic Hotel, Bremen, Germany A two-day workshop “An introduction and practical use of European marine data infrastructures” will be held in April 2015 in Bremen. The agenda will be built around the following topics: Obtaining data from e… Read more » Read More >>

Seminar: Cooperation in Marine Science around the Baltic Sea
The Estonian Liaison Office (ELO) for EU Research and Innovation, representing the Estonian Research Council in Brussels, is organizing a seminar on “Cooperation in Marine Science around the Baltic Sea and beyond: a contribution to Europe’s Societal Challenges”. The event will ta… Read more » Read More >>

First joint meeting of EuroGOOS ROOS, Working Groups and Task Teams
The first joint meeting between EuroGOOS ROOS’s, Working Groups and the newly established Task Teams took place last week in Brussels (4 March). The main purpose of the meeting was to get everyone informed/updated on the activities in the different groups, seek synergies and enha… Read more » Read More >>

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the opening of IODE in Oostende
Source: IODE The 10th Anniversary of the Opening of the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Belgium, will be celebrated on 16 March in Brugge (Provincial Court). The celebration session will be followed by a scientific conference. The programme of the event can be found IODE… Read more » Read More >>

EuroGOOS welcomes new Secretary General
We are pleased to announce that the Members of EuroGOOS AISBL during their Extraordinary Meeting on 5 March in Brussels have endorsed Dr. Glenn Nolan of the Irish Marine Institute (MI) as the new EuroGOOS Secretary General. Glenn is well known to EuroGOOS Members and the operatio… Read more » 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 Con… Read more » Read More >>

EuroGOOS Strategy Implementation Plan
The EuroGOOS Board has developed a five-year EuroGOOS Strategy Implementation Plan 518.41 KB which outlines its contribution to realising the EuroGOOS Strategy 2014-2020 1.04 MB Whereas the EuroGOOS Strategy 2014-2020 outlines the priorities of EuroGOOS as agreed and approved by… Read more » Read More >>

Making the European Ocean Observing System a reality: messages from EurOCEAN 2014
EurOCEAN 2014 at CNR, Rome (credit: Marine Board) 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 ecos… Read more » Read More >>
