Representatives from 14 Pacific island country meteorological services and other ocean observing agencies met last week during a 4-day Pacific Islands Workshop on Ocean Observations and Data Applications.
This workshop, the fifth in a series that started in early 2015, was hosted by the Pacific Community (SPC) in collaboration with the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel, a joint initiative of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
Following the event, two important decisions were made by the participants: a call for a regional strategy to optimise future ocean sensor deployments and a request to support more national ocean stakeholder engagement activities.