NF-POGO Centre of Excellence Year 2 Report

If you are from a developing country, explain how your participation in the programme willbenefit your home country when you return home at the end of the training period.If you are from a developed country, explain how you will use this training programme toimprove observational oceanography in poorly-observed areas of the world oceans.If you are selected as a NF-POGO Scholar, how will this impact your current situation? Forinstance, if you are employed, will your supervisor allow you to take time off for theProgramme? Will you be rehired into your position after the Programme? If you are astudent, will you have finished your degree before the programme starts or will participationin the NF-POGO Programme impact completion of your research and/or thesis defense? Ifyou are away during the middle of your degree, will your supervisor allow you to completeyour degree requirements upon your return?How sure are you that you will be able to arrive on the start date? Please consider any andall aspects (e.g., If you have a job, will you be able to leave or is your presence required for amajor project? If you are a student, are you sure that some aspect of your degree, such asyour defense date, will not impact your arrival on the designated date?)