The US-NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory has completed and published the World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09). You can access the WOD09 through http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD/pr_wod.html For more information contact Sydney Levitus ( This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it )

Today the Third Session of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM-III) elected Ms Sissy Iona (Head of the Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre, Greece) as Coordinator of the JCOMM Data Management Programme Area and Chair of the JCOMM Data Management Coordination Group. Ms Iona will bring to JCOMM her extensive experience in oceanographic data management at the national, regional (eg SeaDataNet) and international (IODE) level.

The students in the "Centre of Excellence Student Training in Observational Oceanography" received their certificate for successfully completing the Data Management module lectured by Dr Murray Brown. The goals of the Nippon Foundation (NF) - Partnership for Observations of the Global Ocean (POGO ) Centre of Excellence (C of E) at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) are to expand world-wide capacity to observe the oceans, to develop human resources in developing countries; to expand international networking in ocean sciences, with an emphasis on training young scientists from developing countries; and to strengthen ocean networking relations between developed and developing countries.More info on http://www.bios.edu/education/cofe.html