IOC/UNESCO is inviting applications for the position of Project Assistant (G-4) at JCOMMOPS Office in Brest, France. Vacancy notice available on UNESCO careers website for Project appointments.

The deadline to apply is 31 December 2016. Applications to be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at IOC/UNESCO.

The 1st International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges and Coastal Hazards, to be held in Liverpool, UK, September 10 to 15, 2017, marks the incorporation of 3 events:

• 15TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WAVE HINDCASTING AND FORECASTING
• 6TH COASTAL HAZARDS SYMPOSIUM, and
• 3RD JCOMM SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ON STORM SURGES

Sponsorship is by the Liverpool Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans (LISCO), the UK National Oceanography Centre, the Taylor Engineering Research Institute at the University of North Florida, Environment and Climate Change Canada and the WMO-IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM).

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 30th March 2017

Full papers (optional) deadline: 30th August 2017

Further Information is here and and registration details will be available soon on the website: www.waveworkshop.org. 

A special session addressing the real-time quality control of oceanographic data will be arranged at the MTS/IEEE OCEANS’16 Monterey Bay, CA (see http://www.oceans16mtsieeemonterey.org). 

Specific topics sought include:

1. Data management of QC information
2. Emerging QC at cabled observatories
3. Implementation of QARTOD tests
4. Quality assurance standards
5. Regional test thresholds
6. Application of QC information to real-world solutions
7. Case studies of challenging QC problems

Abstracts are due by April 22nd and should be identified as being submitted for the Real-Time QC special session. Full papers are due by July 15th.

WMO is recuiting Scientific Officer (P4) to support WMO-IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) and the Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) activities related to marine meteorological and oceanographic observations and data management. Details can be found at WMO e-recruitment VN:1957.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2016 

The Fourth International Workshop on the Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data (MARCDAT-IV) will be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK between the 18^th and 22^nd July 2016. Please see MARCDAT-IV for more details.

The workshop will be arranged around the following themes:

1.     Data homogenization (benchmarking, bias adjustments, step change analysis, metadata)
2.     Quantification and estimation of uncertainty
3.     Data recovery and reprocessing (digitisation efforts and reprocessing of previously digitised data)
4.     Reconstructing past climates
5.     Integrating In-situ / satellite data sources
6.     Consistency of the climate across domain (land, ocean, surface, subsurface, atmosphere) boundaries
7.     The role of marine climate data in biological and ecosystem studies
8.     Review of the 10-year action plan

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 18th March 2016

Registration closes: 31st May 2016