Contact and more information
NF-POGO Centre of Excellence
scientific coordinator
Dr Eva-Maria Brodte
Oceans have no boundaries
We depend on the ocean for food, transportation, minerals and recreation. All maritime nations should participate in knowledge-based governance of the ocean. Education in marine science is key to secure the oceans as a sustainable resource.
Venue and Background
The Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE) provides world class education and training courses in the field of observational oceanography, since 2008. Starting in 2013, the NF-POGO CofE had been hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany's foremost polar and marine research institution. The 10th and final cohort at the Alfred Wegener Institute began in May 2023 and will conclude in April 2024 with a grand closing event in Berlin. We are proud to have had teh Centre of Excelelnce in Oceanography for 10 years at the AWI. Now the programme has moved to Canada.
Located in the North Sea, the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence at AWI had been conducted on the offshore island of Helgoland and the UNESCO reserve Waddensea island of Sylt. Helgoland provides opportunities for the study of open-ocean sciences; shelf/basin interactions are topics of study at Sylt.
New host of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence
The next cohort of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography will start in October 2024 and will be hosted by the Ocean Frontier Institute in partnership with Dalhousie University, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University and Hakai Institute.
