Visiting Scientists Provide Capacity Development: Lessons Learned by POGO and SCOR

This paper by Ed Urban and Sophie Seeyave describes the lessons learned from visiting scientist programs conducted for more than a decade by the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) that dispatched ocean scientists to developing countries to train hundreds of individuals in a variety of ocean science and observation topics and techniques.