Participants of the Upwelling Research Focus planning workshop agreed to focus the activities on Eastern Boundary Upwelling regions in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions.

The 2015 GCOS Status Report, Status of the Global Observing System, is now open for public review. The deadline for contributions is 7 September 2015. The draft report can be downloaded from the GCOS website.

A compilation of all CLIVAR-realted sessions at the 2016 Ocean Sciences meeting is now availble on the US CLIVAR website

Several parellel sessions, proposed for the AGU Fall meeting (San Francisco, 14-18 december 2015), are related to CLIVAR science. Abstract submission deadline is on 5th August 2015.