From September 30 to October 6, 2018, the International School of Young Scientists and Specialists in Operational Oceanography was held for the second time at the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS (Sevastopol) within the framework of the “New Methods and Supercomputer Technologies for the Analysis and Forecast of the World Ocean and the Arctic Basin” RSF Project. The name of the School this year was Operational Observations and Data Management for Continuous Analysis and Forecasting Systems of the World Ocean.

The purpose of the School is to form a qualified scientific community in Russia that can conduct research in the field of forecasting changes in the marine environment at the world level.

Some leading scholars-oceanologists from Russia, France, Israel and Cyprus were invited to give lectures.

The School consisted of two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part included lectures on the acquisition of data on the marine environment parameters with the help of various methods and devices that can be used to promote functioning of continuous analysis and forecasting systems of the World Ocean. In training sessions, students gained experience in collecting and integrating data of operational hydrometeorological and oceanographic observations, database management and information portals of marine monitoring services.

The next School is to be held in the autumn of 2019. The organizers are planning to devote it to the numerical modeling and to invite some well-known scientists, including 6 foreign specialists in this field, as lecturers.