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4 Mar.	GO-SHIP International Planning Meeting The GO-SHIP International Planning Meeting was held on 21 February in Portland, Oregon in conjunction with the 2010 AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting. Approximately 50 participants from 12 countries discussed on-going and planned cruises and the way forward with the development of an international program. A report of the meeting and national presentations will be made available on the Web shortly.
6 Jan.	Open sea and Ice trials for new icebreaker Araon. The Korean Polar Research Institute (KORPI) will launch its new research icebreaker the Araon later this month with open sea and ice trials between Christchurch and Cape Burks Antarctica. The Araon (“ara”=sea; “on”=all) has been designed to carry out multidisciplinary research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and to provide logistics support for Antarctic research stations. International cooperation is sought for future research programs. For more information, download the Araon brochure (pdf 780 KB) and presentation (ppt 8MB), or contact the Mr. Sang Heon NAM, Head of Polar Operation Department, KOPRI at shnam@kopri.re.kr.
4 Jan.	Reminder: GO-SHIP Open Community Meeting Planned. GO-SHIP will host a 1 day open community meeting on 21 February 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Portland Oregon, in conjunction with the 2010 AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting. Goals for this full day meeting are to inform the wider community about the initiative to develop a sustained coordination activity for hydrography, provide a status report on the revised hydrography program manual, review existing national plans and proposals for repeat hydrography, identify potential areas of duplication or sections that do not include the full suite of core variables, review data management and data assembly activities, and review on-going and planned ocean interior synthesis activities. Hydrography plans from 13 countries will be presented. Space is limited to 55 participants. Please contact Maria Hood if you would like to participate. For more information: Download the Meeting Goals and Draft Agenda (pdf 120 KB)
20 Nov.	GO-SHIP Text Adopted at JCOMM 3. The following text was adopted at the 3rd session (November 2009) of the IOC-WMO Joint Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM): "6.1.12.7 The Commission welcomed the progress made by the IOCCP-CLIVAR Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Panel (GO-SHIP), which brought together interests from physical hydrography, carbon, biogeochemistry, Argo, OceanSITES, and other users and collectors of hydrographic data to develop guidelines and advice for the development of a globally coordinated network of sustained ship-based hydrographic sections that would become an integral component of the ocean observing system. These guidelines, including a strategy for the next global survey, were presented at the OceanObs’09 conference and the community consensus was to move forward with the development of a sustained coordination effort for repeat hydrography. The Commission supported this initiative and noted that IOCCP and CLIVAR have developed an oversight committee to move this forward with the goal of presenting a plan for a sustained coordination effort to the next session of the UNESCO/IOC Executive Council for endorsement. The Commission also welcomed the GO-SHIP revision of the 1994 WOCE Hydrographic Programme Manual, which would be published electronically in January 2010."
16 Nov.	Welcome to the new GO-SHIP Web-site Following open community discussions at the OceanObs'09 Conference (21-25 September 2009), the GO-SHIP Panel recommended to sponsors IOCCP and CLIVAR the development of a sustained global program for coordination of ship-based repeat hydrography. An essential element of this coordination is communication. This web-site is intended to serve as an international forum for news and information for the repeat hydrography community with the goals of improving communication among research groups, limiting gaps and duplications in sections, harmonizing the suite of variables measured and methods used, and facilitating data sharing and joint scientific syntheses. For more information: About GO-SHIP Download the Sept 09 GO-SHIP Panel Meeting Report (pdf 75 KB) Download the OceanObs'09 Community White Paper (pdf 370 KB). Download the OceanObs'09 GO-SHIP Strategy (pdf 870 KB).
16 Nov.	GO-SHIP: From Panel to Program. The GO-SHIP Panel met during the OceanObs'09 Conference to discuss the way forward with developing a sustained global program for repeat hydrography. Read the full story in the October issue of CLIVAR Exchanges.
5 Nov.	US Plans to Repeat S04P in 2011 The US is planning a modified cruise track for the 2011 reoccupation of S04P from McMurdo to Punta Arenas with extensions southwards along sections P14, P15, P16, and P18. Tentative cruise dates are 13 February to 10 April. Contact Jim Swift for more information. For more information: Download the proposed section map (pdf 120 KB). See all available cruise updates on the Cruise Plans page.
27 Oct.	GO-SHIP White Papers Available. The short print-version of the GO-SHIP community white paper is on-line at the OceanObs'09 Conference site. The full version will be published as a joint IOCCP-CLIVAR publication. The full strategy is available as a download (pdf 1 MB).
12 Oct.	GO-SHIP welcomes new Committee Members. Following OceanObs'09, the GO-SHIP Panel has been expanded to include new members for the next phase of program development. The GO-SHIP Committee members are: Chris Sabine (NOAA, USA; co-chair) Bernadette Sloyan (CSIRO, Australia; co-chair) Masao Fukasawa (JAMSTEC, Japan) Toste Tanhua (IFM-GEOMAR, Germany) Gregory Johnson (NOAA, USA) Nicolas Gruber (ETH-Z, Switzerland) Masao Ishii (MRI-JMA, Japan) Brian King (NOCS, UK) Lynne Talley (SIO, USA) Richard Feely (NOAA, USA; ex-officio) Maria Hood (IOCCP) and Kate Stansfield (CLIVAR) provide project office support.