SOOS Regional Working Groups
Objectives 
- Co-ordinate and implement the observing system in their region, bringing together efforts in planning, logistics and resources, through to data management and access.
- Work with circumpolar observing programs and projects to ensure coverage, facilitate logistics and resource sharing.
Existing Regional Working Groups
- Southern Ocean Indian Sector (SOIS)
- West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc (WAPSA)
- Ross Sea (Ross)
- Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land (WS-DML)
- Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sector (Amundsen)
SOOS Regional Working Groups are open to anyone interested to be involved.
Regional Working Group Consortium
The Regional Working Group Consortium consists of the chairs of each individual regional working group and ensures that scientific and observational efforts are consistent across the regional working groups (and SOOS as a whole), delivering enhanced sustained observations in each of the SOOS regions and linking between regions to provide an integrated, circumpolar and cohesive observing system across the entire Southern Ocean.
