Under the support from NIPPON Foundation (NF) and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), from July 6th -7th, the Institute of Oceanography had hosted the kick-off meeting of the NANO (NF – POGO Alumni Network for Oceans) Project “Harmful Algal Bloom Remote Sensing Model for Southeast Asian Region”. Participants of the meeting were scientists from Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (France), Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines (the Philippines), Centre of Excellence in and Observational Oceanography, Bermuda (United Kingdom) and Vietnamese alumni who had participated in former NF-POGO training courses

   Under the arrangement of the Vietnamese Embassy in France and the People Committee of Khanh Hoa province, the Director of Monaco Oceanographic Museum, Mr. Robert Calcagno, had visited and worked with the Institute of Oceanography in the period of 10-12 June 2012.

   Recently, with the financial support from IOC/WESTPAC Sub-Commission and the Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, the University of Tokyo, Japan, IOC/WESTPAC-HAB workshop on “Future HAB research and study” and IOC/WESTPAC-TMO and HAB joint training workshop on “Immunological method for detection of domoic acid in plankton and shellfish” were held at the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang, Viet Nam.