| Month & Year of Endorsement |
Endorsement Number |
Projects |
Science Theme |
Endorsement Form |
Principal Investigator (PI) |
Participant Nationalities |
| August, 2025 |
IIOE2-EP62 |
DERIVING KEY OCEAN CIRCULATION VARIABLES TO ENHANCE IMOS OBSERVATION OFF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
| ST-2, ST-4
|  |
Ming Feng
| Australia
|
| August, 2025 |
IIOE2-EP61 |
TRENDS AND ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES IN MARGINAL SEAS OF THE NORTHWESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: A SYNTHESIS OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DATA
| ST-1, ST-6
| |
Dr. Maryam Ghaemi
| Iran
|
| May, 2025 |
IIOE2-EP60 |
MECHANISM AND POTENTIAL OF CARBON STORAGE IN THE UPPER-MESOPELAGIC LAYER OF TROPICAL EAST INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-6
| |
Ying Wu
| China
|
| May, 2025 |
IIOE2-EP59 |
R/V HAKUHO-MARU EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN CRUISE 2024 (KH-24-3)
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-6
| |
Yukio Masumoto
| Japan
|
| May, 2025 |
IIOE2-EP58 |
ADVANCING PREDICTIONS OF MARINE HEATWAVES
| ST-4, ST-1
| |
Nicole Jones
| Australia
|
| April, 2024 |
IIOE2-EP57 |
THE ROLE OF THE AGULHAS CURRENT ON THE COASTAL ENVIRONMENT
| ST-4, ST-2
| |
Tamaryn Morris
| South Africa
|
| October ,2024 |
IIOE2-EP56 |
A REGIONAL MARINE SPATIAL PLAN FOR THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-1, ST-6
| |
Amanda Lombard
| South Africa
|
| July, 2024 |
IIOE2-EP55 |
VULNERABILITY OF KENYAN COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS UNDER CLIMATE AND NON-CLIMATIC STRESS ( VOKCE )
| ST-1, ST-6
| |
Dr. Marie-Alexandrine Sicre
| France, Kenya
|
| March, 2024 |
IIOE2-EP54 |
ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARABIAN SEA MARINE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH SCIENCE AND ADVANCED TRAINING (INDIAN COMPONENT)(EKAMSAT)
| ST-3
| |
Dr. Girishkumar Madathil Sivasankaran
| India
|
| March, 2024 |
IIOE2-EP53 |
WILL NITROGEN FIXATION OFFSET NITROGEN DEPLETION IN EXPANDING OCEAN DESERTS? (EXPAND)
| ST-6
| |
Mar Benavides
| France
|
| November, 2023 |
IIOE2-EP52 |
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF CARBON AND NITROGEN IN THE ARABIAN SEA: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL INDIAN OCEAN EXPEDITION 2
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-6
| |
Birgit Gaye
| Germany, Pakistan
|
| February, 2023 |
IIOE2-EP51 |
KIOST INDIAN OCEAN STUDY: KOREA-US JOINT OBSERVATION STUDY OF THE INDIAN OCEAN)
| ST-2, ST-4
| |
Dong-Jin Kang
| Republic of Korea
|
| December, 2022 |
IIOE2-EP50 |
EMC EXPERIMENT: EXAMINING THE FATE OF THE EAST MADAGASCAR CURRENT
| ST-4, ST-2
| |
Viviane Menezes
| USA, Norway
|
| October, 2022 |
IIOE2-EP49 |
MONACO EXPLORATIONS INDIAN OCEAN EXPEDITION
| ST-1, ST-2, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Xavier Prache
| MONACO, France, Australia
|
| March, 2022 |
IIOE2-EP48 |
VALUING THE GASCOYNE MARINE PARK
| ST-6
| |
John Keesing
| Australia
|
| March, 2022 |
IIOE2-EP47 |
QUANTIFYING VERTICAL AND LATERAL OCEAN TRANSPORT DUE TO SUBMESOSCALE FRONTS AND EDDIES
| ST-2, ST-6
| |
Nicole Jones
| Australia, Germany, France
|
| March, 2022 |
IIOE2-EP46 |
BLUEFIN LARVAE IN OLIGOTROPHIC OCEAN FOODWEBS: INVESTIGATION OF NUTRIENTS TO ZOOPLANKTON - INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-2, ST-3
| |
Michael Landry
| USA
|
| June, 2021 |
IIOE2-EP45 |
DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED COASTAL AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING (MSP) FOR SRI LANKA
| ST-1
| |
D.D.G.L. Dahanayaka
| Sri Lanka
|
| June, 2021 |
IIOE2-EP44 |
REPERCUSSIONS OF OCEAN WARMING ON BIOLUMINESCENT ZOOPLANKTON OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-3, ST-1, ST-6
| |
Dr. Jasmine. P
| India
|
| March, 2021 |
IIOE2-EP43 |
NEW NORMAL - NEAR SURFACE WARMING IN THE NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN AND RAINFALL MONSOON ANOMALY LINKAGES
| ST-4
| |
Alejandra Sanchez-Franks
| UK
|
| October, 2020 |
IIOE2-EP42 |
SUSTAINABLE OCEANS, LIVELIHOODS AND FOOD SECURITY THROUGH INCREASED CAPACITY IN ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN (SOLSTICE-WIO)
| ST-1, ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-5, ST-6
| |
Ekaterina Popova & Michael Roberts
| UK, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
|
| April, 2020 |
IIOE2-EP41 |
DINITROGEN FIXATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: AN INTERBASIN AND SEASONAL COMPARISON (DINDE)
| ST-6
| |
Mar Benavides
| France, India
|
| April, 2020 |
IIOE2-EP40 |
BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT OF AUSTRALIA'S INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORIES
| ST-6
| |
Tim O'Hara
| Australia
|
| February, 2020 |
IIOE2-EP39 |
MAHE PLATEAU ECOSYSTEM SURVEY (MAPS)
| ST-1, ST-3
| |
Francis Marsac
| France
|
| February, 2020 |
IIOE2-EP38 |
CRUISE SO276 (GEOTRACES-SIO)
| ST-2, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Eric Achterberg
| Germany
|
| July, 2019 |
IIOE2-EP37 |
R/V HAKUHO-MARU 2020 CRUISE
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Yukio Masumoto
| Japan
|
| November, 2018 |
IIOE2-EP36 |
R/V HAKUHO-MARU 2018 CRUISE
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Yukio Masumoto
| Japan
|
| April, 2019 |
IIOE2-EP35 |
THE ORIGIN OF 85 ° E RIDGE AND ITS ROLE IN THE PLATE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE BAY OF BENGAL
| ST-5
| |
Dr.Maria Desa
| INDIA
|
| March, 2019 |
IIOE2-EP34 |
DEEP MADAGASCAR BASIN (DMB) EXPERIMENT: A QUEST TO FIND THE ABYSSAL WATER PATHWAYS IN THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-4
| |
Viviane Menezes
| USA
|
| March, 2019 |
IIOE2-EP33 |
EXPLORING THE MARINE BIODIVERSITY OF THE SUBMARINE CAPE RANGE CANYON, NORTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA
| ST-1, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Nerida Wilson
| Australia
|
| March, 2019 |
IIOE2-EP32 |
OCEANOGRAPHIC DRIVERS OF ECOSYSTEM VARIABILITY IN THE CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO: CONSERVATION STRATEGIES FOR BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS AND SAFE HAVENS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
| ST-4, ST-3, ST-2
| |
Phil Hosegood
| UK
|
| December, 2018 |
IIOE2-EP31 |
A KOREA-US INDIAN OCEAN SCIENTIFIC (KUDOS) RESEARCH PROGRAM ON THE PHYSICAL, BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF THE SEYCHELLES-CHAGOS THERMOCLINE RIDGE
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Michael McPhaden
| Korea,USA
|
| April, 2018 |
IIOE2-EP30 |
PHYSICAL DETERMINISTIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM MODIS AND VIIRS RADIANCES
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4
| |
Prabhat Koner
| USA, India
|
| March, 2018 |
IIOE2-EP29 |
THE GLOBAL SEAMOUNTS PROJECT
| ST-1, ST-2, ST-5, ST-6
| |
Jim Costopulos
| USA, UK,South Africa, New Zealand, Germany,Denmark
|
| February, 2018 |
IIOE2-EP28 |
RESPONSES OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY AND FISHERIES TO CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN THE UPWELLING REGION ASSOCIATED WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COASTAL CURRENT (PEACC)
| ST-4, ST-2
| |
Shigalla Mahongo
| Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Uk, USA
|
| January, 2018 |
IIOE2-EP27 |
INDIAN OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION OF THE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2018
| ST-6, ST-2
| |
Sergey Travin
| Russia
|
| October, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP26 |
REGIONAL RESEARCH CRUISES IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-1, ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-5, ST-6
| |
Ashley Johnson
| South Africa, Kenya
|
| September, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP25 |
INTEGRATED HEAT DYNAMICS OF THE INDIAN AND GLOBAL OCEANS
| ST-4
| |
Alejandra Sanchez-Franks
| UK
|
| September, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP24 |
THE LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM OF THE ARAFURA SEA: WHAT ARE THE PHYSICAL DRIVERS
| ST-6, ST-2, ST-3
| |
Jochen Kaempf
| Australia
|
| August, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP23 |
INFLUENCE OF INDIAN OCEAN SECTOR OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN DYNAMICS AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY ON THE TROPICAL WEATHER AND CLIMATE (ISESO)
| ST-4, ST-6
| |
Dr. Rahul Mohan
| India
|
| July, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP22 |
NEKTON INDIAN OCEAN MISSION 2018-2021
| ST-1, ST-6, ST-2, ST-3, ST-4
| |
Oliver Steeds
| UK
|
| July, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP21 |
PHYSICAL STUDY OF THE NORTH WESTERNINDIAN OCEAN AND OF THE ADJACENT SEAS: PHYSINDIEN
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-5
| |
Xavier Carton
| France
|
| July, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP20 |
KIOST INDIAN OCEAN STUDY
| ST-1, ST-2, ST-3, ST-4
| |
TaeKeun Rho
| Korea
|
| May 2017 |
IIOE2-EP19 |
GO-SHIP OBSERVATION OF SECTIONS I8N AND I7S BY R/V MIRAI
| ST-1, ST-4, ST-3, ST-6
| |
K. Katsumata
| Japan
|
| May, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP18 |
IMPACT OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON THE INDIAN OCEAN: ROLE OF GELATINOUS ZOOPLANKTON STRUCTURING FOOD WEB STRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY ASSEMBLAGES
| ST-4
| |
Bijoy Nandan
| India
|
| May, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP17 |
REAL-TIME METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA COLLECTION USING MOORED BUOY NETWORK IN INDIAN SEAS (OON-INDIA)
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-5
| |
Venkatesan
| India
|
| March, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP16 |
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF TRACE ELEMENTS AND ISOTOPES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN (GEOTRACES-INDIA)
| ST-6
| |
Sunil Singh
| India
|
| March, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP15 |
EQUATORIAL CURRENTS AND UNDERCURRENT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-4
| |
Neimann
| Russia
|
| March, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP14 |
GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS OF THE EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN (GEODYNAMICS, TECTONICS AND EVOLUTION OF UNIQUE INTRAPLATE FEATURES)
| ST-4, ST-5, ST-6
| |
Levchenko
| Russia
|
| February, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP13 |
EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN UPWELLING RESEARCH INITIATIVE (EIOURI)
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Weidong Yu
| China, USA, Japan, Australia, Indonesia
|
| February, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP12 |
DUST STIMULATED NITROGEN FIXATION IN THE ARABIAN SEA- AN ASSESSMENT OF HNLC REGION HYPOTHESIS (DUSTNIF)
| ST-6
| |
Arvind Singh
| India
|
| January, 2017 |
IIOE2-EP11 |
INTERNATIONAL BUOY PROGRAMME FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN (IBPIO)
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-1, ST-5
| |
Shaun Dolk
| USA, France, South Africa, Australia
|
| October, 2016 |
IIOE2-EP08 |
THE CHALLENGER OCEAN GLIDER MISSION: INDIAN OCEAN
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Charitha Pattiaratchi
| Australia, USA
|
| October, 2016 |
IIOE2-EP07 |
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY-ATMOSPHERE PROCESSES IN THE BAY OF BENGAL: A CONTRIBUTION TO IIOE-2 (BIOCAT-IIOE2)
| ST-1, ST-6
| |
Hermann Bange
| Germany
|
| September, 2016 |
IIOE2-EP06 |
A COUPLED BIO-PHYSICAL, ECOSYSTEM-SCALE, EXAMINATION OF AUSTRALIA'S INTERNATIONAL INDIAN OCEAN EXPEDITION 110°E LINE
| ST-1, ST-2, ST-4, ST-6
| |
Lynnath Beckley
| Australia
|
| August, 2016 |
IIOE2-EP04 |
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN UPWELLING RESEARCH INITIATIVE (WIOURI)
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4
| |
Mike Roberts
| South Africa, UK, France
|
| February, 2016 |
IIOE2-EP03 |
RESEARCH MOORED ARRAY FOR AFRICAN-ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN MONSOON ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION (RAMA)
| ST-2, ST-3, ST-4
| |
Ravichandran
| India, USA
|
| December, 2015 |
IIOE2-EP01 |
FIRST SCIENTIFIC CRUISE UNDER IIOE-2
| ST-6
| |
Vinayachandran
| India, Mauritius, Israel, Singapore, Australia, UK
|
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