NEW SELF-PACED COURSE
🌊 Discover the Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ /OTGA Biological Data Management Course
📅open until 30 August.
This course provides a comprehensive introduction for the management and archive of marine biological data oceanexpert.org/event/4213

We've just released the latest updates from OBON, including our new Strategy publication, activities in Barcelona and Bangkok, new project intros, and the launch of our new website. Read our May Newsletter (Issue 5) here: bit.ly/OBON_NL5

📚 Are you a PhD students working in marine sciences related fields ?

Join the Synergy Summer School and learn about the most important theoretical and experimental challenges in the context of open ocean seascape ecology !

👉Subscribe & get more info:
marinetraining.org/node/5881

Calling ocean communicators! The 2024 Ocean Decade Conference Trello Board is your one-stop-shop for content on #OceanDecade24 and its outcomes, with:

👉Conference summary
👉Highlight videos and photos
👉Content to promote the Barcelona Statement

🔗ow.ly/yhLA50Ruyrz

We are back online folks - but please contact the POGO Secretariat if you have any unexpected problems with the website.

Don't miss Communications INC next webinar on #OceanComms !

If you could not be at the #OceanDecade24 , 2️⃣ new webinars are run about the findings, discussions and outcomes of the UN Ocean Decade Ocean Communications Symposium.

Register today ➡️ communicationsinc.co.uk/ocean_isu_blog… #OceanLiteracy

POGO website offline:
Apologies if you are trying to access information on the POGO website - all links are currently defaulting to the Home page.
We are working on the problem and hope to be back on line shortly.

Looking for capacity building opportunities in oceanographic observations, analysis, and interpretation? POGO-SCOR Fellowship programme applications now due 12 May 2024! See details at mailchi.mp/12046a067e34/p…

Deadline for applications to the 2024 POGO-SCOR Fellowship Programme has been extended to 12 May 2024 (23:59 CET). Check all details at mailchi.mp/12046a067e34/p…

Do you have questions about the #OceanDecade Call for Decade Actions No. 07/2024?

Join one of our online Q&As on 30 April:

🗓️07:30-08:30 (UTC).
Register: ow.ly/mckH50RnP42

🗓️13:30-14:30 (UTC).
Register: ow.ly/B1Kp50RnP43

More info: ow.ly/mbhg50RnP44

I was thrilled to co-host this topical workshop with engaging speakers and an enthusiastic audience. There is clearly an appetite for more global cooperation on eDNA sampling; a regional Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) hub for this biodiversity hotspot? This audience think so!

Thank you to all the speakers and participants who attended the OBON Ocean Decade Action Workshop in Bangkok today!

Orca-workshop ✨ more than 50 alumni from the centre of excellence gathered for discussions and connections at AWI-Postdam POGO AWI Media

The Trevor Platt Science Foundation announces small-duration outreach projects open to its members.

For more info - trevorfoundation.org/outreach-2024/

#TrevorPlatt

Are you attending the #IOCWESTPAC2024 meeting in Bangkok this week?

On Wed 24 April, members of @obon_ocean will be convening a session within the @unoceandecade Action Workshops track.

Please join us:
➡ Wed 24 April
➡ 1pm to 5pm
➡ Mayfair B, 11F
bit.ly/3U7f7c7

🌊📢Registration and abstract submission are now open for #CommOCEAN2024 !

Join our global community of passionate #ScienceCommunication professionals to connect, learn, and grow together🌍

🔗commocean.org

🗺️ Malaga (Spain) hosted by Instituto Español de Oceanografía
📅 26-27 Nov

🚨 Attention, #teachers ! You still have some days to apply for ProBleu Grants with your #WaterLiteracy Projects. Our 2nd funding call is open until April 30th!💡Make your #WaterLiteracy project real, contributing to EU Mission Ocean! 👉🏼probleu.school/probleu-fundin…
#blueschools

It was a pleasure to be part of this initiative led by Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) POGO.
Check the main event outcome 'Barcelona Biomolecular Ocean Observation Declaration' and support this call for action
🔗 mailchi.mp/ab56d3a36cc3/b…

📢 The Call for Decade Actions No. 07/2024 is live!

Are you working on an initiative that can help fill gaps in resource mobilization and capacity development for a sustainable ocean? Apply now to be endorsed by the #OceanDecade !

How to apply: ow.ly/cub550Ri4Qi

Thanks to our panellists and Co-hosts for the @obon_ocean @marinelife_2030 @pogo_ocean satellite event during last weeks’s excellent #oceandecade24 conference Barcelona.