A workshop on Decadal Variability of the Tropical Pacific took place at Centro Nacional de Acuicultura e Investigaciones Marinas (CENAIM-ESPOL) in San Pedro de Manglaralto, Ecuador from 13 to 14 October 2018. 

The 13th Session of the CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel (PRP-13) and the 2nd Session of the CLIVAR Research Focus on ENSO in a Changing Climate (ENSO RF-2) took place at Centro Nacional de Acuicultura e Investigaciones Marinas (CENAIM-ESPOL) in San Pedro de Manglaralto, Ecuador on 15 October 2018. 

Northwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment (NPOCE) program is the first international collaboration program in Oceanography initiated by China, and it is joined by 19 institutions from 8 countries, such as China, United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippine, etc. 

A new article entitled ‘Exploring the Interplay Between Ocean Eddies and the Atmosphere’, written by Walter Robinson, Sabrina Speich and Eric Chassignet, has recently been published on Eos (https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO100609), summarising the workshop on ‘Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Interactions with the Atmosphere’.

The 3rd Open Science Symposium (OSS) on Western Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate (WPOC) will be held on May 8-10, 2018 in Qingdao, China.

The 12^th session of CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel (PRP) was held on 21 October 2017 at Busan, Rep of Korea. This session was held back to back with the ENSO complexity workshop organized by ICCP (IBS Climate Center for Climate Physics), Pusan National University.