WIOMSA and HUB Ocean, with SeaSketchWorkshop

Free Online Ocean Data Training Course

Nov 09, 2026 23:59:00 Africa/Dar_es_Salaam

Opportunity type

Workshop

Funding

No Funding

Location

Global

Deadline

Nov 09, 2026 23:59:00 Africa/Dar_es_Salaam

About this opportunity

WIOMSA (the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association), HUB Ocean and SeaSketch are running a free five-week online course that teaches you to find, analyse and map ocean data in the cloud. It is built around datasets and problems from the Western Indian Ocean, needs no coding experience, and takes about two to four hours a week from 9 November to 10 December 2026.

What you get:

A free place on a guided online course, with recorded lessons, weekly tasks and small-group work
A digital certificate signed by HUB Ocean and WIOMSA, plus a certificate for each module you complete
A free Ocean Data Platform account that you keep after the course
Eligibility for further, more advanced training cohorts in 2027 once you complete the course

What you'll do:

Explore: find, access and upload regional marine datasets on the Ocean Data Platform
GIS: stream cloud datasets straight into QGIS or ArcGIS
Code: try basic analysis workflows in Python or R
Plan: link ocean data to decision-making and marine zoning in SeaSketch
Join two live webinars, on 12 November and 10 December, 12:00 to 13:30 East Africa Time

Key dates:

Applications close 9 November 2026
Course runs 9 November to 10 December 2026
Opening webinar and Module 1 (Explore) 12 November 2026
Module 2 (GIS) opens 16 November; Module 3 (Code) 23 November; Module 4 (Plan) 30 November
Closing webinar 10 December 2026, 12:00 to 13:30 East Africa Time (10:00 to 11:30 CET)

More information:

Register through the form on HUB Ocean's site; course information is emailed by 9 November
Questions go to the course team via the contact link on the registration page

Who can apply

Aged 18 or older (the registration form asks you to confirm this)
Open to everyone; the course is tailored to the Western Indian Ocean region (Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion, as WIOMSA defines it)
No coding experience needed
A computer, an internet connection, and QGIS (free) or ArcGIS installed
About 2 to 4 hours a week

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Good to know

+Free, stated on all three organisation pages
+Clear cohort dates and module schedule
+WIOMSA is a regional marine science NGO founded in 1993
+No coding experience required; certificate and lasting platform account

Worth checking yourself

!The registration page gives later dates (10 and 12 November) than the course page (9 November); apply by 9 November to be safe
!No time or timezone is given for the deadline; 23:59 East Africa Time is ours
!No money or stipend; a free training course only
!You need QGIS or ArcGIS installed and a reliable internet connection
!Tailored to the Western Indian Ocean, outside LOT's core regions

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