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The OceanObs' 19 will be held on September 16-20, 2019 at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. With the efforts of all panels and research foci, CLIVAR submitted 10 white papers to contribute to the conference as well as the ocean observing system.

The CLIVAR Science Steering Committee (SSG) coordinated the co-chairs of its panels and research foci to produce a white paper for OceanObs’19 entitled ‘Ocean Climate Observing Requirements in Support of Climate Research and Climate Information’, that has recently been published in Frontiers in Marine Science.

The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) is seeking for applicants to the Administrative Assistant position. Application is now open until 27 September 2019.

The major scientific and observational progress of the last decade and  an assessment of key priorities for the coming decade with the goal of achieving the SOOS vision and delivering essential data to all end-users were presented in the paper jointly contributed by SOOS and SORP, in addition with other authors.

The 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting will be held February 16-21 in San Diego, California. A list of US CLIVAR-sponsored sessions along with Town Halls, events, workshops, and other sessions was put together that may be of interested to the US CLIVAR community. The list is being regularly updated until September 11, 2019.

Several Institutions in Ecuador organized an international panel to discuss the possible contributions of the country to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) 

Prof. Lixin Wu has been awarded the AGU Ambassador Award according to the press release announced by AGU on August 22, 2019.  AGU Fellow is conferred on recipients of the Award. 

Prof. Lixin Wu served as a CLIVAR SSG member from 2013 to 2017, he is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM), and the vice president of the Ocean University of China (OUC).

A workshop was held in December 2018 (pre-AGU) focused on estimating freshwater fluxes from the Greenland Ice Sheet. It was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and co-hosted by CLIVAR and CliC projects OMDP, NORP, and ISMIP6

Under the auspices of the WCRP Climate Science Week at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019.  Applications to attend the workshop are now open and will close on 7 September 2019.