Organized by GEO BLUE PLANET and MERCARTOR OCEAN, operator of the Copernicus Marine Service of the European Union, the 4th GEO BLUE PLANET International Symposium will serve as a forum for discussion of ocean and coastal information needs for sustainable development, Blue Growth and societal awareness. It will bring together producers of ocean and coastal information and […]

The 22nd PIRATA Conference (PIRATA-22), titled “PIRATA Project 20 Years Conference: Contributing to the Understanding and Prediction of the Tropical Atlantic Climates“, will take place in Fortaleza, CE. Brazil, on 5-10 November 2017. The PIRATA acronym, originally defined as “Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic” in 1997, has been changed in 2008 to “Prediction and Research Moored Array in […]

Three major initiatives (GOOS, OBIS and GEOBON MBON) signed a collaboration agreement to join efforts towards a sustained, coordinated global ocean system of marine biological and ecosystem observations to support management decisions and address relevant science and societal needs Globally coordinated and sustained ocean observing system is urgently needed to systematically assess the state of […]