The CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) had its quarterly telecon on 18 June 2020. During the telecon, the updates on the IndOOS-2 implementations, the key messages from 10^th IndOOS Resource Forum (IRF) Meeting, as well as the highlighted information on WCRP’s new structure and implementation strategy were discussed. The major updates from the telecon are:

1. Several advocacy activities have been organised in the last quarter, including the BAMS article, the EGU 2020 session, the US CLIVAR Webinar and IndOOS-2 webpage at CLIVAR website. IORP members are encouraged to identify more opportunities to advertise IndOOS-2;
2. IORP and IRF will work together for tracking the IndOOS-2 recommendations, and a task team has been initiated by IORP;
3. France, Canada, Australia, India and US are active in BGC-Argo and deep-Argo deployment in the Indian Ocean. Several capacity building activities are being planned for the island states in the Western Indian Ocean;
4. IRF will also act as an ‘IndOOS Coordination Forum’ by maximizing the existing resources, increasing the cooperation between IORP, IRF, IOGOOS and IIOE-2, as well as enhancing the coastal observations under the COVID-19 situation. Potential IRF candidates from China will be explored;
5. IORP will keep abreast of the WCRP re-structuring process.