A meeting report from the 3rd SOOS meeting held in St Petersburg in July 2008 will soon be available. Talks and additional information such as a timeline for publication are available now

The group are currently working on an extensive outline of the SOOS document that is available for comment. A new general SOOS presentation is also available. Please send any comments to Mike Sparrow

The 2nd SOOS meeting was held in Bremen on 1-3 October 2007.See article in CLIVAR Exchanges 43. A meeting report is available

The second meeting of the Expert Group was held in Hobart on July 10-11, 2006. A meeting report is now available in pdf or word formats

The Expert Group set up and maintained a website on Interdisciplinary Observations (note that from 2008 this is no longer being regularly updated)

The first official meeting of the Expert Group was held in Venice, Italy on October 7-8, 2005. A meeting report can be downloaded in pdf or word fomats

Two informal meetings were held in Cambridge, U.K. at the end of June, 2005 and in Cairns, Australia in August 2005