The 23rd Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXIII) was held in Bruges, Belgium between 16-20 March 2015. The Session was preceded by the Celebration Session and Scientific Conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Belgium.
The events were held at the Provincial Court. Click on the map to see more details on the location.
Report of the Session
The Report of the Session is available HERE.
The IODE Session was attended by 105 participants from 40 IOC Member States and 10 Organizations. The Session adopted 4 decisions and 5 recommendations. The decisions establish inter-sessional working groups to (i) propose a re-structuring of IODE; (ii) revise the IOC strategic plan for oceanographic data and information exchange; and (iii) create an IOC communication and outreach strategy for data and information management, and also to formally establish OceanTeacher Global Academy as an IODE project. The 5 recommendations concern ODINBlackSea, the establishment of the OceanExpert project, the establishment of the IODE project for an international quality controlled ocean database (IODE-IQuOD), the establishment of the IODE pilot project expanding OBIS with environmental data (OBIS-ENV-DATA) and the IODE work plan and budget 2015-2017.
Adopted Work Plan (2015-2017)
A comprehensive work plan and associared budget was adopted by the Session. More information is available HERE.
Documents and List of Participants
Information on documents and participants is available HERE
Election of new IODE Co-Chairs (2015-2017)
As the outgoing Co-Chair (Ms Sissy Iona and Mr Ariel Troisi) had completed two terms in Office, the IODE Committee elected two new Co-Chairs: Ms Cynthia Chandler (USA) and Prof Yutaka Michida (Japan). More info See here
Session Sponsors
The IODE-XXIII was sponsored by the Government of Flanders, Government of Belgium and ESRI
Dinner Sponsors
The Conference Dinner was kindly sponsored by the Marine Information Research Center (MIRC) in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Japan Oceanographic Data Center. ( http://www.mirc.jha.jp)
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