Links to External Resources

• The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) announced a Visiting Professorship Programme for 2009. It is the successor to the highly successful NF-POGO Visiting Professorship programme. The Professorship will allow short visits of distinguished scientists from advanced oceanographic institutes to institutes in developing countries and economies in transition, to provide training and mentoring, to develop collaborations and enhance networking.
  
  Download application for POGO visiting professorship 2009

  http://www.ocean-partners.org/
  
  
• Thomson Scientific is a database publishing company that provides comprehensive coverage of the world's most important and influential research. Today its database covers over 16,000 international journals, books and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.
  
  The Impact of Open Access Journals: A Citation Study from Thomson ISI
  
  http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial
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• The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
  
  WCRP NEWS December 2007
  
  http://www.wmo.ch/web-en/about.html
  
  
  
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