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February 25, 2008 — UK Students to do their PhD field work in Bermuda
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January 21, 2008 — 2008 BIOS EXPLORER: on the Rock Kicks off Next Week with 2000 School Children Expected to Attend
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January 17, 2008 — The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) has been awarded $500,000, in the first year of a five year programme, to establish the Nippon Foundation (NF) and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) Centre of Excellence (CofE). These funds will be used to train young scientists from developing countries in Observational Oceanography, with the intention of educating a core group of researchers who will continue to study the marine ecosystems in their home countries well into the future.
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January 11, 2008 — International co-operation and co-ordination are vital for understanding the ocean and the impact of climate change, the executive director of Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) told The Royal Gazette.
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December 04, 2007 — Bermuda: Associate Research Scientist Dr. Michael Lomas at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) in collaboration with University of Rhode Island (URI) has been awarded grants totaling $800,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Polar Programs and the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) to study the impact of climate change-induced variability in this extremely important ocean ecosystem of the Bering Sea.
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November 26, 2007 — The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is pleased to be hosting the Human Health Working Group of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) from November 27th to 30th, 2007. Public health representatives from the entire Arctic region will be in attendance.
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November 8, 2007 Matthew R. Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (2005), will speak on the state of the world's oil supply on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 6:30 pm (AST)
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July 9, 2007 — Programme Manager for the Risk Prediction Initiative, Dr. Richard Murnane, to Discuss the Future of Hurricane Activity in Response to Climate Change

May 31, 2007 — BIOS Scientist, Dr. Nicholas Bates Appointed to the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group

May 8, 2007 — The Bermuda Institute of ocean Sciences to Screen The MEANING OF THE 21st CENTURY A documentary by JAMES MARTIN about this MAKE-OR-BREAK CENTURY
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April 9, 2007 — Facing our Future; Bermuda On the Cusp of Oceanic Change – Global Authority on Climate Change, Sir Crispin Tickell, will Speak in Bermuda

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 — BIOS Senior Research Scientist's paper gets special Recognition by Science Magazine

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 — Director of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to participate Disaster Roundtable in Washington D.C.

February 13, 2007 — The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Launches New Educational Programme BIOS Explorer 2007

February 1, 2007 — BIOS Scientist and Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Data Contribute to Climate Change 2007 IPCC Report
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Tuesday, November 1, 2006 — The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences research vessel the R/V Bank of Bermuda Atlantic Explorer settles in her new home along side the dock facility in Ferry Reach

A proclamation by Minister of the Environment, the Hon. K.H. Randolph Horton, JP, MP


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