We are seeking candidates for the position of technical coordinator for the IOC-WMO Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) and the OceanSITES, which form part of the JCOMM in situ Observing Programme Support centre (JCOMMOPS), located within CLS in Toulouse, France.

Qualified candidates are invited to apply for the position, by 10 August 2010. Practical details regarding the position, required skills and experience, and the application procedure are provided in the vacancy notice at the UNESCO Recruitweb.  

To Apply to the post, please use the UNESCO online recruitment system here . 

For more information, please see here . 

The JCOMM Newsletter Issue No. 7 is now available online. It includes;

JCOMM Newsletter #7 online: http://www.jcomm.info/newsletter07.

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John Lyman, an oceanographer at NOAA's Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research,   led an international team of scientists that analyzed nine different estimates of heat content in the upper ocean from 1993 to 2008.  The Argo profile data were used to calibrate the older data and show that the warming signal can be discerned as six times larger than noise estimates.  The researchers claim the warming of 0.16 degree C, is 80% of the excess heat captured by greenhouse gas effect in the past 16 years.  It may not sound like much, but due to the high heat capacity of water and the vast size of the ocean it corresponds the amount of heat from "Five-hundred 100-watt light bulbs per person on earth burning continuously - that would be the trend we've seen over the last 16 years just being sucked up by the ocean." (J. Lyman)..... 

The IOC sponsors "Storm Surges Congress - Risk and management of current and future storm surges", to be held in September 2010 in Hamburg, Germany. The deadline for submission of abstracts is by  31 March 2010, scientists are invited to participate in this event that will be an important milestone for addressing societal benefits and impacts by the storm surge events in coastal zones. For additional information please see here .

The JCOMM Newsletter Issue No. 6 is now available online. It includes;

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