| Special POGO visiting fellowships for on-board training on an Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise |
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About the programmeWith joint funding from the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), POGO offers special Visiting Fellowships for on-board training on the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Cruises. This initiative is now in its fourth year and has proved to be a very successful training programme providing hands-on, sea-going experience to young scientists from developing countries, and the opportunity to be involved in an internationally renowned scientific programme. The programme is designed to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation scheme for the oceans. This 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 selected candidate has the opportunity to visit either Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in the UK, for one month prior to the start of the cruise to participate in cruise preparation and planning; to go on the cruise and help make hydrological, bio-optical and ecological observations; and after the cruise to spend one additional month at PML, learning to analyse the results statistically and interpret them. Core measurements are planned to include phytoplankton, zooplankton and bacterioplankton diversity, 14C primary production, nitrogen cycling, respiration, pCO2, fast repetition rate fluorometry, optics, coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM), pigments and micromolar nutrients.
The fellowship provides a round-trip ticket to the UK and a stipend for living expenses for up to two months stay in the UK; flight and accommodation associated with joining the ship; ship messing fee; seafaring medical and sea survival course. ApplicationApplications for the 2011 AMT Fellowship are now open. The closing date is 1st May 2011.
Additional information about the Fellowship and the application instructions and past fellowship reports can be downloaded at th bottom of the page.
Past fellows
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