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  • WASPA Workshop
    Next WAPSA Regional Working Group Workshop will be held as a side meeting at SCAR2020 on 1st August 2020, in Hobart, Australia.
  • Censusing Animal Populations from Space

    Antarctic ice seals are the most abundant mammals in the Southern Ocean, but surprising little is known about their populations or distribution. 

  • From the EO Oct 19

    It has been a long time between newsletter issues so there is a lot to report! The SOOS community and Project Office have been very busy in 2019!

  • SOA Week

    The Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration hosted SOOS for a week in May 2018 for three annual meetings and a Southern Ocean modelling workshop.

  • OSD Call for Participants

    The Observing System Design Working Group is seeking interested participants to assist the mission and enhance collaboration on this important topic.

  • KOPRI Week

    SOOS spends a week at the Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) in May this year for five meetings and workshops.

  • Annual Report 2018
    The SOOS annual report for 2018 highlights the progress made against each of the SOOS Objectives, and for each of the SOOS Working Groups and Task Teams
  • Data Hack 2019

    Scientists and data managers met in May this year to solve a series of challenges that are getting in the way of making Southern Observation data free and FAIR.

  • SOOS New Partnership Agreement

    SOOS is excited to announce a new partnership agreement for hosting of the SOOS International Project Office!

  • New cruises in DueSouth

    Are you planning your fieldwork and gear deployments this summer? Trying to find logistical support? DueSouth could be just what you need!

  • New data in SOOSmap!

    21,000 new CTD profiles have been added to SOOSmap!

  • Robots ROAM the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone

    The ROAM-MIZ team have had a busy year with a summer (2018-2019), winter (2019) and currently the spring (2019) voyages to deploy an array of platforms at and in the ice in the Weddell Sea.

  • First Saildrone Southern Ocean Circumnavigation

    A Saildrone completed the first autonomous circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean in August, 2019.

  • MEASO and eEOVs

    Marine Ecosystem Assessment of the Southern Ocean (MEASO) to deliver into the SOOS Ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables (eEOVs) Task Team.

  • WS-DML Workshops

    The Weddell Sea - Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group held their 1st workshop in January 2019 and are planning their 2nd workshop to be held in April 2020, Delmenhorst Germany.

  • Polar AUV Exploration

    A new SOOS Task Team on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in Antarctica.

  • Amundsen 1st Workshop Report
    Report for the 1st workshop of the Amundsen & Bellingshausen Sea Regional Working Group.
  • Realistic Ice shelf ocean State Estimates (RISE)

    The Realistic Ice shelf ocean State Estimates (RISE) project aims to meet this need by coordinating the rapid advances in modelling and observations of ocean-driven melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

  • 2nd Weddell Sea working group workshop
    The 2nd workshop of the Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group will take place in April 2020, in Germany.
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