The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) is a consortium of the major oceanographic institutions around the world to promote global oceanography capacity building (http://ocean-partners.org/). The 2030 vision of POGO is to have worldwide cooperation for a sustainable, state-of-the-art global ocean observing system that serves the needs of science and society.

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In 2014, I was one among the 10 international scholars to participate in the 10-months intensive programme in Observational Oceanography at the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CoE) at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany (http://ocean-partners.org/centre-of-excellence).  The Centre of Excellence programme was conducted at AWI’s site on the island of Helgoland with emphasis on open-ocean sciences and at AWI’s site on the UNESCO reserve Waddensea island of Sylt where shelf and basin interactions were the major subjects of study.  Scholars also had the opportunity to attend classes and gain experience at the University of Jacobs in Bremen and at AWI Headquarters in Bremerhaven.

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I conducted my independent research thesis at the AWI site in Potsdam.  I investigated seasonal and inter-annual sea surface temperature variation in the Indian Ocean and the title of my research project was “Spatio-Temporal sea surface temperature variability in the Indian Ocean-a local, regional & basin-scale perspective using remote sensing as a tool”. 

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After completing the Observational Oceanography programme, I joined the NF-POGO Alumni Network for Oceans (NANO). The group provides several networking, education, and research activities for its members. In 2016, I participated in the NANO-Africa Group, which focused on Nearshore Hydrodynamics studies. A Nearshore Hydrodynamics station was set-up in the western coast of Mauritius and long-term wave, tide and atmospheric data are being recorded for future integration in local and regional modeling exercises.