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SCOR - Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research

The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) is a non-governmental, non-profit international organization promoting international cooperation in ocean science. As It is a thematic organization of the International Science Council (ISC) and a partner organization of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) with whom SCOR shares a long history of collaboration.

The mission of SCOR is to address global and multidisciplinary ocean issues, plan and conduct oceanographic research, solve methodological and conceptual problems, and develop capacity for ocean science. SCOR promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion, supporting students and early career scientists. Since 1957, SCOR has shaped modern oceanography by planning and coordinating several large-scale ocean research projects and establishing nearly 170 working groups, involving thousands of scientists from all continents. Currently, several SCOR activities contribute and are endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

SCOR co-operates with national and international organizations concerned with scientific aspects of ocean affairs. It reviews and comments on scientific aspects of international ocean programs and supports an extensive portfolio of environmentally relevant projects, working groups and capacity development activities. SCOR examines problems in oceanic research and identifies elements that would benefit from enhanced international action. For this purpose, it organizes scientific meetings on topics of broad interest and importance for progress in the marine sciences. It also develops plans for appropriate kinds of international action and promotes their implementation. The SCOR Working Groups (WG) carry out detailed examination of problems related to international ocean activities and studies of the marine environment, including improvement of scientific methods, design of critical experiments and measurement programs, and relevant aspects of science and environmental policy.

SCOR’s activities are extremely relevant to the topic of plastic pollution in the marine environment. These activities are coordinated mainly by SCOR Working Group # 153 Floating Litter and its Oceanic TranSport Analysis and Modelling (established in 2017 chaired by Dr. Stefano Aliani (Institute Marine Science CNR, Italy), who is also a Vice-President of the Executive Committee of SCOR.

For more info about FLOTSAM visit: https://scor- int.org/group/153/

Info

Executive Director: Patricia Miloslavich
College of Marine & Earth Studies Robinson Hall University of Delaware - Newark, DE 19716, USA
Web site: http://www.scor-int.org/

Delegate

dott. STEFANO ALIANI

CNR
Istituto di Scienze Marine
Forte Santa Teresa - 19032 Pozzuolo di Lerici (SP)
Phone number: 0187 1788905
Email: stefano.aliani@cnr.it

Substitute delegate

dott. JACOPO CHIGGIATO

CNR
Istituto di Scienze Marine
Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F - 30122 Venezia
Phone number: 041 2407945
Email: jacopo.chiggiato@cnr.it

Reports SCOR

Last update: 13/06/2026