Training & Education
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As summary of the POGO Capacity Building activities can be found in this presentation.
The Nippon Foundation is the main sponsor of POGO Capacity Building programmes. As such, the Nippon Foundation is working with POGO to build and maintain a Network of Alumni.
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Lack of trained personnel is considered to be a major obstacle to development of a global ocean observing system. Therefore, a central element of the POGO agenda is capacity building and training. POGO has developed an extensive array of training and education activities targeted primarily at scientists from developing countries and those with economies in transition.
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In partnership with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), POGO has developed a Visiting Fellowship programme on Oceanographic
Observations under which young professionals from developing countries can spend up to three months training in their speciality at a major oceanographic institution. This programme has been very successful in providing training for scientists and students from developing countries as well as in developing collaborations between institutes. |
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POGO also runs a Visiting Professorship Programme under which marine scientists of international standing teach at marine institutions in the developing world for periods of up to three months. This exposes young scientists, particularly from developing countries, to the best oceanographers world-wide and facilitates the formation of professional contacts, invaluable in the development of their scientific careers. |
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In collaboration with the Nippon Foundation, POGO established the Centre of Excellence in Ocean Observations, the first phase of which ran for 4 years and was hosted at the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences. This is an intensive training course for young professionals at the doctoral level, ten months in duration, with an intake of ten trainees per year.
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POGO also runs a Visiting Fellowship Programme for on-board training on the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) cruise. This offers the opportunity for a scientist from a developing country to participate in cruise preparation and planning, to help make hydrological, biological and ecological observations on board the ship, and to analyse and statistically interpret the results after the cruise. In 2013, a similar scheme was set up in partnership with the EU project GreenSeas to provide training on-board the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) cruise.
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POGO also contributes to funding the Austral Summer Institutes (ASI), which take place at the University of Concepcion in Chile around December-January every year.
Since 2009, POGO has been offering a Postgraduate Bursary every year to one student from Africa to study for a Masters in Applied Marine Science at the University of Cape Town.
Other training opportunities may arise on an ad hoc basis, such as the POGO grant for attending the SAHFOS-MBA Phytoplankton Identification Workshop in 2012.
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Taken together, these initiatives have made, and continue to make, a very solid contribution to raising the world capacity to make ocean observations.
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