Event Overview

About the workshop:

The 2^nd Ocean Observers workshop is an online event focusing on educational activities linked with in situ ocean observations. It will be organized on November 29^th, 30^th and December 1^st, 2021.

If you are an ocean scientist, teacher or representative of an educational authority, marine communicator, and more generally a citizen involved in educational activities focused on ocean observations, you are invited to consider presenting your activities to the Ocean Observers’ community! Abstracts can be submitted until September 12^th.

Objectives of the workshop:

• Share experience and resources around ocean observing educational activities
• Generate and support discussions and collaboration between people engaged in marine science educational programmes
• Engage new schools, educators, scientists, NGOs, citizen, etc. in ocean observing educational activities

The workshop is organized in the framework of the Ocean Observers initiative, born in 2017 with the 1^st Ocean Observers workshop, and the Euro-Argo RISE H2020 European Union project, by the international Ocean Observers Working Group, jointly led by OceanOPS and Euro-Argo, as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. 

More information about the event and call for contributions is available on the event webpage.