The 3rd Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modeling of Climate Dynamics: Tropical Oceans, ENSO and their Teleconnections, scheduled from 3-14 August 2020, in Trieste, Italy, will be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemics. 

We regret to announce that the CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on ‘Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate’, scheduled to take place in Qingdao, China, from 6-11 July 2020, will be postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The WCRP Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts is now coordinating a specific research topic on ‘Climate Services for Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise’ in Frontiers in Marine Science.

A workshop on ‘Building an international Transparent Ocean Community’ was organised by the Pilot Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, in Qingdao, China on 19th January 2020.

The POGO-21 was held in January 20-22, 2020 in Qingdao. ICPO staff were invited to attend the open meeting. Over 100 participants were present at the event, including 48 POGO members and representatives from other partner institutes. 

Report on the PICES WG-40 Workshop: Towards an Integrated Approach to Understanding Ecosystem Predictability in the North Pacific is available.

On 5-6 September 2019, the ICPO staff participated East Asia Marine Environment Cooperation Forum and Workshop on UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable development, sponsored by Qingdao Municipal People’s Government and IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (IOC-WESTPAC).