Estonia designated Prof. Urmas Lips as IODE National Coordinator for data management. Prof. Lips is Leading Researcher at the Marine Systems Institute in Tallinn. You can find more information on Prof. Lips HERE .

The IODE community welcomes Prof. Lips to the IODE family.

On 14 July 2010 the IOC project Office for IODE received a visit of over 100 Deputy Permanent Representatives (COREPER-I) which framed within the Chairing by Belgium of the Council of the European Union (http://www.eutrio.be/belgian-presidency-council-european-union ). During their brief visit we were able to introduce the wide range of activities implemented by the IOC of UNESCO thanks to posters provided by most IOC programmes. Find out more about COREPER here

The 5 minute presentation (video) as well as VR view of the expo area are available. click HERE to see the full page including the video.

On July 19th, 2010, President Barak Obama signed an Executive establishing the National Ocean Council.  The Executive Order established for the first time a comprehensive, integrated National Policy for the stewardship of the ocean, USA coasts,and Great Lakes, which sets the USA on a path toward comprehensive planning forthe preservation and sustainable uses of these bodies of water. The Executive Order can be downloaded through this link . [read more ]

The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE have announced a joint initiative to provide a customized version of DSpace using standards and controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences.

The Hasselt University Library produced a customized version of DSpace called OceanDocs for the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) and adapted it to the standards of the Oceanographic community. The OceanDocs Network, created in 2004, now has some 50 members. The FAO customized DSpace using the AGRIS Application Profile (AP) and is developing a plug-in for the use of controlled vocabularies for communities in food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences such as AGROVOC.      [more ]

Summer has come to the northern hemisphere which is the time when the staff of the IOC Project Office for IODE will be taking some leave. During the months of July and August the Office will be operating at reduced capacity so it may take more time before we can respond to your emails. Here is the overview of our leave days: