NF-POGO alumni apprecia on CofE-AWI experience!!! Folly Serge Tomety Researcher, University of Lomé, Togo Wikipage: h p://www.nf-pogo-alumni.org/~Folly+Tomety
I
s ll remember my happiness when I got a message from Gerry which said: ‘’This is an unofficial email. I am happy to report that you have been selected to par cipate in the Year 2 NF-POGO CofEAWI, which will commence this October and run for 10 months in Germany”. I was very happy and excited to travel to Europe for the first me. And at the same me I was aware of the possible challenges that I will face during these 10 months. Arrived in Germany in October 2014, the first months were very hard for me. So far from my family, I had difficulty to integrate into my new POGOnian family due to my very poor English. I could not well understand my colleagues and lecturers and I could not make myself understood. At the CofE-AWI, we POGOnian fellows had courses from eminent and nice scien sts from Germany, UK, USA and Australia with a good experience in teaching. Biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, oceanography, geological processes and methods, benthic ecology, physical oceanography, remote sensing as well as some courses and prac ces concerning experimental methods such as stas cs in R, me series analysis, Ocean Data management modelling with Powersim and R, and some applica on to Seas Worldwide such as coastal management were all the modules we accomplished in this training. This unique experience to learn embedded in a mul disciplinary training program helps me to be an Figure 1 - Satellite image of the Lena Delta ‘’all-rounder’’. I have not only broadened my
Alumnus Pavanee Annasawmy in ac on, sampling corals for taxonomic iden fica on in Mauri an coral reefs. Read more on Pavanee’s steps into marine science in page 23.
Contact us: tedwango10@gmail.com, info@nf-pogo-alumni.org, lilian.krug@nf-pogo-alumni.org NANO website: www.nf-pogo-alumni.org
19
