WESTPAC TRAINING COURSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate

Qingdao, China, 7-18 September 2015

The UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (hereinafter referred to as “ODC Center”) was officially established through one Agreement signed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and the host institute, the First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration (FIO, SOA) of China, at the Eighth Intergovernmental Session of UNESCO/IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-VIII) in Bali, Indonesia in May 2010.

As the first UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center, ODC center was inaugurated on 9 June 2011 at the host institute of the First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration of China. During the past 4 years, 4 training courses with the subjects of Ocean Modeling, Ocean Dynamics, Air-sea Interaction and Climate Models respectively had been held successfully. Totally, 204 trainees from 28 countries have been trained.

The Climate and Ocean - Variability, Predictability, and Change (CLIVAR) project will co-organize the training course this year by inviting some of its panel members to lecture at the course, and organizing a CLIVAR workshop as part of the training course. CLIVAR, one of four core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), was launched in 1995 and its mission is “to understand the dynamics, the interaction, and the predictability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system”. Capacity Development is a key activity within CLIVAR, through provision of training courses and summer schools, and by entraining early career scientists (ECS) to the Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community (www.yess-community.org). CLIVAR is a partner of the YESS community, an initiative led by ECSs to establish an early career network that reaches out to all young scientists in the climate related natural sciences, with additional focus on the socio-economic fields that deal with climate change questions. 

The training course is now open for applications. The deadline to submit application forms is 20 July 2015. Please find more details in the ODC training course homepage:  www.fio.org.cn/en/training_center