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SCOR is a non-governmental organisation set up by the International Council for Science in 1957.
VISION: To advance ocean research within and across disciplines by stimulating
international cooperation in ocean sciences.
What does SCOR do?
• Help the international ocean science community develop large-scale international research
projects from the bottom up, to answer scientific questions ranging from the fundamental to
questions that are of more immediate societal concern.
• Provide mechanisms for the international ocean science community, through funding of SCOR
working groups, to advance specific areas of ocean science; usually US$45,000 for a total of 3
meetings of up to 10 members.
• Work with other sponsors and partners to provide ongoing support to sustain the development
of specific areas of ocean science and the implementation of observations.
• Identify areas of ocean science that are not being handled adequately by existing SCOR
working groups or other organizations, for special SCOR support.
• Help develop the capacity for ocean science in developing regions of the world.
Successful SCOR activities led by Australian researchers
Thermodynamics and Equation of State of Seawater (Trevor McDougall and David Jackett)
Phytoplankton Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems: Comparative Analysis of Time Series
Observation (Kedong Yin and Susan Blackburn)
International Quality Controlled Ocean Database: Subsurface temperature profile
(Catia Domingues and Rebecca Cowley)
Changing Ocean Biological Systems: how will biota respond to a changing ocean?
(Philip Boyd and Christina McGraw)
Active Chlorophyll fluorescence for autonomous measurements of global marine primary
productivity (David Suggett and Philippe Tortell)
Get
involved
in SCOR
>
• Sign up for the SCOR email list and Twitter feed.
• Check out Opportunities link on the SCOR Website.
• Make contact with your Australian SCOR committee:
Peter Doherty (AIMS), Andreas Schiller (CSIRO),
Trevor McDougall (UNSW)
• Submit a proposal for a SCOR working group.
Guidance can be found from the SCOR Website and by consultation with
local members and from the SCOR Executive Director.
www.scor-int.org
[email protected]
@SCOR_Int