2009 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations

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The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and its partner, the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) work together to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation scheme for the oceans.

The POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship programme is open to scientists, technicians, graduate students (PhD) and Post Doctoral Fellows involved in oceanographic work at centres in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The deadline for applications for the 2009 programme is 12 April 2009, further information and an application form is available in attachment (pdf). Please save the file to your computer, complete the form (available to download from the bottom of this page) and send as an e-mail attachment and hard copy to

Mrs Chris Wing
POGO-SCOR Fellowship
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place
Plymouth PL1 3DH
UK
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For a list of Frequently Asked Questions on the the fellowship programme, see the attachment at the bottom of the page.

The Programme has been a success for 8 years and 2008 saw a record of 85 applications of which a total of 15 Fellowships have been awarded for the period 2008-2009. The Selection Criteria involved a number of factors including:

Quality of the application;
Relevance of the application to the priority areas identified in the Fellowship Announcement (Argo Floats; Fixed-Point Time-Series Observations; Large-scale, Operational Biological Observations including Biodiversity; Emerging Technologies for Ocean Observations; Data management; Coastal observations/ Coastal Zone Management; Ocean and coastal modelling)
Evidence that the training will lead to capacity-building with potential lasting impact on regional observations; and,
The need to maximise regional distribution of the awards.

Summary information on the successful Fellowships for 2008-2009 is provided below:

Parent institute	Host institute	Subject of Study
Unversidad Autonoma de baja California Sur, Mexico	University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA	Three months training in field and post processing methods for sea surface currents High Frequency Radar data
South African Environmental Observation Network, South Africa	BIOS (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences), Bermuda	Three months training in integrated, multi-disciplinary oceanographic skills and data handling including ship-based learning and ARGO float deployment and data handling
National Institute of Oceanography, India	JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Japan	Two months training in time-series data analysis and model simulation methods using Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) with reference to Madden-Julian Oscillations
Tanzania Fisheries research Institute, Tanzania	Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, USA	One month training in use of the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS) for application to the dynamics of the Zanzibar Channel
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	University of East Anglia, UK	Two months training in analysis of the OCCAM (Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling) model outputs and moorings data in the Antarctic Peninsula area
CICESE (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada), Mexico	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, USA	Three months field and laboratory training in collection and processing of data using Air-Sea Interaction Spar (ASIS) buoy
Wildlife Conservation Society Coral Reef Conservation Project, Kenya	National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK	Three months training in development and use of coastal altimetry training material in support of ALTICORE (value-added ALTImetry for COastal Regions) - Africa
Universidad de Concepcion,Chile	IFREMER (Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans), France	One and a half month training in Lagrangian analysis of numerical simulation runs using the ARIANE toolkit for application to the Southeastern Tropical Pacific
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia	LDEO (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Columbia University, USA	Two months training in processing and quantitative analysis of datasets from Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) moorings as deployed in the Makassar straits, Indonesia
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil	National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK	Three months training in the study and application of satellite data, statistical and signal processing techniques to study spatiotemporal variability of the Southwestern Atlantic ocean and related climate forcing
Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo, Croatia	University of Balearic Islands, Spain	Three months training in advanced analysis and modelling techniques for the investigation of unusual oceanography phenomena such as meteotsunamis
Nansen Environmental Research Centre, India	Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway	Three months training in computing the meridional heat transport in HYCOM simulations of the Indian Ocean
Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Tunisia	British Oceanographic Data Centre, UK	Three months training in quality control of time series sea level data from sea level gauges
Institute of Marine and Coastal Research, Columbia	University of Washington, School of Oceanography, USA	Three months training in the use of video-tracking technology and analysis to quantify movement characteristics and fine-scale distributions of harmful cells
Foundation for Applied Biological Research, Argentina	Institute of Science of the Sea, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Spain	Three months training in molecular methodologies to study abundance and distribution of picophytoeukaryotes for application to the Argentinean Sea

To download a form, please first save a copy to your computer (in Windows Explorer, right click on the link and select "save as"), you should then be able to complete the form and "save as" once you have completed the form. Please note it is not possible to submit the form online, it should be sent as an e-mail attachment and hard copy to Mrs Chris Wing at the address above.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
eligible_countries.pdf	developing countries and countries with economies in transition	31 Kb
Fellowship_Programme_2002.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2002	51 Kb
Fellowship-report-2003.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2003	31 Kb
Fellowship_Report_2004.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2004	102 Kb
Fellowship_Report_2005.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2005	20 Kb
Fellowship_Report_2006.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2006	68 Kb
Fellowship_Report_2007.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2007	74 Kb
fellowship_report_2008.pdf	Report of previous fellowship - 2008	26 Kb
FAQs_2009.pdf	Fellowship FAQs	27 Kb
fellowship_form5_2009.pdf	2009 application form	91 Kb

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