On August 9, 2018, at 15:00 GMT Juliet Hermes from the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) will give a webinar as part of the GOOS series. She will speak on the Ocean Best Practices global initiative, run by an international working group supported by a number of organisations including JCOMM, UNESCO-IOC/IODE, GOOS, AtlantOS, ODIP and IEEE (amongst others). Click this LINK to join the webinar to register and be reminded to join at the appropriate time.

Earlier this year the Oxygen Theme was added to IOCCP's portfolio and Véronique Garçon was appointed as the SSG member responsible for related IOCCP activities. Now we are happy to invite you to check out the new Oxygen Theme site at: www.ioccp.org/oxygen. You will find information about ongoing IOCCP activities related to oxygen observations, projects and programs involved, as well as links to relevant databases, information products, references and other resources potentially useful to the marine biogeochemistry observing community. If you have any questions or suggestions for how the website could be improved, please don't hesitate to contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

As the deadline for submitting abstracts and Town Halls for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is drawing near (1 August 2018, 11:59 P.M. EDT), please take a look at a subjective selection of some of the sessions which might be of interest to the marine carbon and biogeochemistry community.  The meeting will take place in Washington, D.C., USA, on 10-14 December 2018. Please let us know if there are any other sessions you think should be on this list.