SCOR Capacity-Building Activities
SCOR promotes the enhancement of scientific capacity in developing
countries and those with economies in transition by ensuring that
every SCOR working group and other activity includes scientists from such
countries. SCOR also administers a grant from the U.S. National Science
Foundation to provide travel support to scientists from such countries to
attend scientific meetings, participates with the Partnership for
Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) in supporting a program of visiting
fellowships for oceanographic observations, and supports a program of SCOR
Visiting Scholars. SCOR created a
Committee on Capacity Building in 2007 to coordinate SCOR's
activities in capacity building, develop new activities, and help
develop funding for these activities. The following are the major
ongoing SCOR capacity-building activities:
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Travel Grants―SCOR continues to offer travel awards to ocean
scientists from developing countries and those with economies in
transition, as it has for the past 25 years. This program is supported
through a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation and
approximately 60 scientists are awarded full or partial travel grants
each year to participate in major international ocean science meetings
and short-term training programs. Instructions
for Travel Grants
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POGO-SCOR
Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations―SCOR
has committed funds for this fellowship program in partnership with the
Partnership for Observations of the Global Oceans (POGO). This program is designed to promote training and capacity building
leading toward a global observation scheme for the ocean. The program is
open to scientists, technicians, Ph.D.-level graduate students, and
post-doctoral fellows from centers in developing countries involved in
oceanographic work. It offers the opportunity for such individuals to
visit other oceanographic centers for a short period (1-3 months) for
training on any aspect of oceanographic observations, analyses, and
interpretation. The first set of awards were made in 2001, and awards
have been made annually since then.
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Regional Graduate Education Networks for Ocean Sciences―SCOR is also developing an activity
that will promote regional networks for ocean science graduate
education,
which will foster the establishment of regional centers of excellence in
Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and
South Asia. These networks would bring together students from a region with
faculty from the region and from developed countries for specialized
short-term courses and would fund students through
scholarships. Draft
design
principles for regional networks have been developed.
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Catalog of international activities related to marine sciences.
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SCOR Visiting Scholars--The
first SCOR Visiting Scholar was approved in 2009 and additional calls
will be made annually, as funding allows.
Questions or Comments?
Please
contact SCOR.
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