Scientists from China, USA and Italy recently gathered in the city Hangzhou, which is well known for her beautiful West Lake as the Paradise on Earth, to convene the "Lakeside" brainstorming with the vision to promote the Indian Ocean science, on Nov. 24-25, 2019, with the kind host by Prof. In-Sik Kang and his newly affiliated Indian Ocean Center at the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) of Ministry of Natural Resources. The Agenda of the 2-day workshop is presented in Annex 1; the list of participants is shown in Annex 2.

The 15^th Session of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel took place in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 14-15 March 2019, in conjunction with other Indian Ocean Science meetings, including the 3rd Meeting of the second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) Steering Committee, the 9^th IndOOS Resource Forum, the 15^th Indian Ocean Global Observing System (IO-GOOS) and the 9^th meeting of Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER).

The Report of the 3rd WCRP Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts has been published recently.  The meeting was held on 14-15 October 2018 at Boulder, USA. ​