DetailsPublished: 12 September 2022 The consultant will work closely with the GOOS Office Headquarters team (within the IOC Secretariat) in providing communications support to the team. Read more. Duration of consultant contract: 11 months. Deadline for application: 24 September 2022, by e-mail to:  a.fischer@unesco.org, with cc to: f.collins@unesco.org

We are delighted to announce the start of Dialogues with Industry – a forum for compact and meaningful dialogue with new and established companies, academia and government. The dialogue series aims to highlight opportunities for the public and private sectors to work in partnership towards achieving a mature, vibrant ocean observing enterprise that will help accelerate the […]

The latest UNESCO announcement on the endorsement of new UN Ocean Decade actions was great news to several projects under the GOOS UN Ocean Decade programmes – and many more initiatives are well underway in the process.  The United Nations Decade for Ocean Science and Sustainable Development, or the UN Ocean Decade, is halfway through its […]

More than 6,000 participants from a variety of sectors gathered in Lisbon during the last week of June for what could be called the principal event highlighting the importance of the ocean to society: the United Nations Ocean Conference 2022. Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel Miguel de Serpa Soares stated in his […]

DetailsPublished: 21 July 2022 We are delighted to launch the BioEco Portal of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS BioEco Portal) – an online platform that provides information on the sustained ocean observing programs which deliver information about the health of marine life. “We now have for the first time a resource in GOOS that allows us […]

On the 1st of July at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and its Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems (ETOOFS) announced the release of a comprehensive technical guide on “Implementing Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Systems”. “This technical guide sets a new highly-needed standard in digital oceanography. […]

GOOS is searching for a consultant to support GOOS National Focal Points and cross-GOOS data team. Duration: 6 months. Location: Paris (France) or remote.  Deadlline for application: 15 July 2022, by e-mail to: f.collins@unesco.org Read more …

The Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC-III) was held in Bali, Indonesia from 23 to 24 May at the Bali International Convention Centre (BICC) as a preparatory event for the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Its theme was “From Stock Take to Scaling Actions on Accelerating the Knowledge and Practice of Early Warning Systems for Risk Informed […]

Start of 11-month consultant contract: 1 July 2022. Deadline for application extended to: 17 June 2022, by e-mail to:e.heslop@unesco.org with cc to: f.collins@unesco.org Read more …

The recent publication of the sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and the launch of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Implementation Plan are helping to put ocean observing at the forefront of climate action. IPCC’s Climate, Change, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report is acknowledged as the world’s most authoritative assessment of climate change. It […]