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ODINCARSA Activities
Reports
ODINCARSA work plan for 2007-2008
The ODINCARSA work plan as approved by the IODE
Officers is now available. [read more]
ODINCARSA activities report 2006-2007
The report on activities implemented in 2006 to March
2007 is now available. It is available for download from
HERE
ODINCARSA activities
report 2004-2005
The report on
activities implemented in 2004 and 2005 is now available. It is
available for
download from HERE
ODINCARSA activities report 2002-2003
The report on activities implemented in
2002 and 2003 is now available. It is available for download from
HERE
ODINCARSA Strategic Plan
The ODINCARSA Strategic Plan can
be downloaded from HERE
Success Indicators of
ODINCARSA
A
numerical evaluation of ODINCARSA performance is indicated using as
base line the start of the project in 2001 and the current status of
National Oceanographic Data Centers from Latin America and the
Caribbean in 2007. Click here to display the Indicators
monitoring.
Mailing lists established for ODINCARSA
partners
In order to
promote and facilitate communication and discussion between
ODINCARSA partners a number of email mailing lists have been
established. [read more]
ODINCARSA Newsletters
ODINCARSA has produced
Newsletters twice in a year that informs to members and
general public about the developments of National Oceanographic Data
and Information Centers in each country as well as regional
activities related with the Ocean. [Download the previous issues, from
here]
Regional Activities 2007
1.
ODINCARSA
participation in SPIN-CAM initiative
From
January 15-18th
2007
,
ODINCARSA Regional coordinator was invited for the Planning meeting
for a regional project on Integrated Coastal Management with the
participation of Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
and Chile.
This
project will be submitted to the Belgium Cooperation as SPINCAM -
Integrated Service Platforms and Information Networks for Ocean and
Coastal Area Management. One of the components of the project will
be related to Information systems. It is expected that ODINCARSA
assume an important role to contribute with this regional
initiative.
2.
ODINCARSA in IODE XIX
From March 12-16th
2007,
ODINCARSA Regional coordinator presented the Activities report to
IODE XIX, in Trieste, Italy and the Work Plan 2007-2008. A summary
of the intervention during the Commitee plenary as
follows:
"Mr Martinez informed the Committee
that after 5 years of activity and limited resources, ODINCARSA has
achieved several milestones which can be summarized as
follows:
·
ODINCARSA
made Ocean Data and Information Management a relevant issue at the
national level in about 60% of Member countries (mostly in
South
America);
·
ODINCARSA established and kept active a huge
regional network of more than 60 National Institutions with 237
experts from different sectors related to Ocean and Marine
activities;
·
ODINCARSA contributed to improving the
provision of ocean data and information products and services to
different users by sharing of expertise, knowledge transference and
capacity building;
·
ODINCARSA
became a useful partner/platform for other IOC programmes and
organizations such as GOOS, GCOS, IAMSLIC, IAI, CPPS, JCOMM, ASFA
and ICAM.
Mr Martinez called the attention of the Committee to a number
of important challenges remaining in the region:
these relate to the Caribbean Region, where the project has
not started. Despite the efforts and contribution of several Member
States
and the training provided to experts from the islands little
progress was made. During last year, important efforts were deployed
to build a regional group on marine information management, but without success. ODINCARSA was not invited to
participate in several important initiatives in the
Caribbean and the
visibility of the project is still
limited.
Mr. Martinez proposed that, based on the potential
opportunities, the next biennium should focus all efforts in the
Caribbean region, mainly devoting resources to the preparation of
project proposals and to obtaining support to implement the Action
Plan. It is highly recommended to increase the coordination and
interaction between IOCARIBE and ODINCARSA in order to ensure the
best way to get external funding in this region and complement the
upcoming initiatives.
Mr Martinez informed the Committee that the next phase of
ODINCARSA in Latin America should have two main outcomes: (i) the
consolidation of a regional network on Marine information that
provides permanent and valuable services to a wide community;
and (ii) the provision of data and information services to
Operational Oceanography, Coastal Management and Disaster Reduction
programmes in the regions.
The CPPS Representative informed the Committee that the
Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS) was established on
August 18th, 1952 to coordinate maritime policies of its
Member States which include Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with
the aim of promoting their development through cooperation in
marine-related matters. CPPS maintains since 1974 the Regional Programme for El Niño
Research (ERFEN). This Programme is executed with the participation of various research institutions of the member
countries. CPPS also participated in the process to create the GOOS
Regional Alliance for the South Pacific (GRASP) and currently hosts the GRASP
Technical Secretariat with the support of organizations such as IOC
and WMO. The CPPS Representative stated that
in this context the support received from IODE-ODINCARSA has
been very important in order to achieve ERFEN and GRASP objectives
regarding ocean data and information management. IODE and CPPS are
currently working together on the development of a Regional research
cruises data base. Considering all these aspects, the General
Secretary of CPPS strongly urges IODE to support the ODINCARSA work
plan.
The Committee noted with appreciation the success of
ODINCARSA and the positive impact of the project in Latin American
countries.
The Committee adopted the ODINCARSA work plan for 2007 and
2008-2009.
The Committee adopted Recommendation
IODE-XIX.6 (Ocean Data and Information
Network for the Caribbean
and South American Regions
(ODINCARSA)).
Regional
Activities 2006
1.
Training workshops on Ocean Data Management in
Ecuador
The
Oceanographic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy (INOCAR) planned for 2006,
three training workshops on Ocean data management. The first of them
was held from April 17th to 21st,
2006. The trainees
were from INOCAR and National Fisheries Institute. These workshops
were based on the Ocean teacher curricula, which was provided
previously by other ODINCARSA training workshops. The upcoming
activities will be held during July and September
2006.
2.
Training
Seminars on Ocean Data management in Peru
During
the last conference in the National
Ocean Data Center from Peru, held on October 19th
2005 in the Navigation and Hydrography Direction, a
training course was proposed. During 2006, several training
activities on Ocean Data management have been carried on using the
IODE/IOC Ocean Teacher Program. These training workshops have been
the continuation at national level of the regional training provided
by ODINCARSA. The national workshops were addressed to Institutions
from Lima and Callao, including: Callao National University, Marine
Institute of Peru, Geophysical Institute of Peru, National
Meteorological and hydrological Service, Agricultural National
University La Molina, National University Mayor de San Marcos and
National University Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion. A total of 81
professionals have been trained during this first semester.
3. Ocean data management is included in the
University curricula in Colombia
The Faculty of Physical Oceanography of the
Naval Cadets Academy “Almirante Padilla-ENAP” of Cartagena, Colombia, included in the Academic program, since this
year a complete course on ocean data management. The training course
is supported by Ocean teacher Program of
IODE/IOC. This successful implementation at
National level is one of the achievements of ODINCARSA.
4. National Ocean Data Center from Brazil,
launch new web site
On July 12th sponsored
by the Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil - MB -
www.mar.mil.br ) realized on Directorate of
Hydrography and Navigation (Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação -
DHN - www.mar.mil.br/dhn) site and promoted by the Navy
Hydrographic Center (Centro de Hidrografia da Marinha
- CHM - www.mar.mil.br/dhn/chm ) occurred the 1st Marine
Meteorology and Oceanography Workshop which aimed to promote the
synergy among all major Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic
Brazilian institutions.
With
presentations focused on METOC state-of-the-art major topics the
workshop had massive presence of the ocean related community
represented by military and civilian governmental authorities, METOC
scientists, private companies and students. Simultaneously occurred
a panel presentation of private companies acting on Brazil and the
CHM related activities held on Brazilians waters on Meteorology,
Oceanography, Hydrography and Navigation.
As CHM department and ODINCARSA/IODE member the
Brazilian National Oceanographic Data Center
(Banco Nacional de Dados Oceanográficos – BNDO - www.mar.mil.br/dhn/bndo ) panel summarized for the
community all responsibilities and activities as IODE member and
environmental database. Also, were presented all planned actions for
2006/2008 biennial strongly stressing the goal of fulfill the
IODE/ODINCARSA benchmarks and recommendations for all BNDO data set.
More information and the presentations realized can be obtained on
the Workshop website www.mar.mil.br/dhn/chm/workshop.htm
5. Progress of the Digital
Repository of ODINCARSA
After the last training workshop on Marine
information management. The ODINCARSA MIM group designated to Mrs.
Catalina López (Mexico) and Miss Patricia Muñoz
(Chile) as coordinators of the ODIPUBCARSA project.
Terms of reference of reviewers were established and a close work
with Dr. Marc Goaverts (Belgium) was done in order to start feeding the
system. The repository is being developed with the active
participation of the following ODINCARSA Member countries:
Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, México, Uruguay Trinidad y Tobago y Venezuela. From these countries
Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay have created their collections. The
coordinator team of the project was granted by IAMSLIC with 1000
USD. The repository is available on: http://doclib.uhasselt.be/carsa/. The progress of the project will be reported
in the upcoming IAMSLIC conference 2006 and the Dublin Core Annual
conference in October 2006 in Colima,
Mexico.
6. Library exchange in Latin America is enhanced
In according to the information disseminated by
Mr. Steve Watkins (USA) and active member of IAMSLIC,
Latin America has enhanced the inter library cooperation.
The reported information
indicates: “The most significant shift may be seen in the Latin
American region, where the first full year of availability of the
Latin American Union List of Serials and a sustained effort by the
Latin American Regional Group to promote regional resource sharing
have proven highly successful. In 2004/05, 31.5% of all borrowing
requests were submitted by Latin American libraries, while only 3.8%
of all requests were received by libraries in Latin America. In stark contrast, the numbers for 2005/06
show that the number of borrowing requests received by Latin
American libraries has quadrupled to 15.7% of the total, while the
number of requests submitted by Latin American libraries has risen
modestly to 38.6% of the total. Even more significantly, while only
5.8% of borrowing requests from Latin American libraries in 2004/05
were submitted to other libraries in the Latin American region, in
2005/06 30.7% of such requests were submitted to sister libraries
within the region”.
Congratulation to Latin American Group on
Marine Information!!
7. Oceanographic institutions of the South East
Pacific
agreed to develop a regional ocean data base
 
The Regional ODINCARSA Coordinator was
invited to the Technical meeting organized by the Permanent
Commission of the South Pacific, about information management within
the ERFEN framework: Climate alert bulletin and the regional ocean
data base from Regional research cruises. During the meeting,
national delegates acknowledged the ODINCARSA implementation
activities and agreed joint tasks as the establishment of a regional
ocean data base with the technical support of IODE/ODINCARSA, into
the Cooperation agreement between IOC and CPPS.
8. Latin American Group Coordinator ends a
fruitful period 2002-2006
The Latin American
group was born during the XXVIII IAMSLIC Conference, when by fisrt
time several Latin American delegates met together to discuss a
minimal regional agenda for interlibrary cooperation. The group
requested to ODINCARSA to coordinate the necessary actions to
constitute the group. The group elected to Mrs. Clara Ramirez
(Mexico), as Coordinator of the group, then the Latin
American Group was approved by IAMSLIC. The main achievements of the
coordinator were: the consolidation of the group since its start,
joining more than 41 members from 12 Latin American countries, to
motivate the joint work to offer information services through the
web: http://ola.icmyl.unam.mx/larg/,, the
Latin American Union List of serials with more than 8350 holdings
from 17 libraries, the funding from another sources to implement the
Regional Document Delivery system, the regional directory of
librarians and institutions and the outstanding representation of
the region during the International IAMSLIC conferences.
After a very hard but fruitful period
(2002-2006), the Coordinator of the Latin American group, Mrs. Clara
Ramírez, conveyed its position to Mrs. Guillermina Cosulich
(Argentina).
Other
Oceanographic activities…
9. Peru, reinstalled Oceanographic buoy
On October 29th
2005 at 09h00, with the firm commitment to observe
the Grau Sea in real time, the VIrgen del Carmen IV buoy
was installed in front of Paita port with the support of BIC
Humboldt ship.
The buoy is 924 Kg weight, made in
Norway, type WAVESCAN, 2.8 m diameter and 2 m high.
The buoy will sense atmospheric pressure, waves, temperature,
salinity from the surface to 500 m depth. Data is transmitted by
ARGOS and receipted by DHN.
Technical Responsibility of this installation
was in charge of Captain Juan Ponce de Leon and Commander Yerko
Jara. The deployment has the presence of some international invitees
from the Chilean Navy, Peruvian Officers in Qualification training
and students from the National Universities of San Marcos and Jose Faustino Sanchez
Carrion
10.
Second training phase on ocean data management
started in Peru.
The Direction of
Hydrography and Navigation of Peru, continued its training
activities on ocean data and marine information inside and outside
the institution. This training is within the institutional policy to
strrengthen the National Oceanographic data Center. As result of the ocean data management
dissemination, Peru has now a relevant group of experts who will
contribute in the consolidation of national mechanisms for data
exchange and management at national level.
11.
ODINCARSA experts attended to the Remote
Sensing and Training course in IODE Project Office in
Oostende.
Experts from
Brazil, Ecuador, Barbados and Chile attended on behalf of ODINCARSA the
International Training Course on Remote Sensing and GIS organized by
the IODE project Office in Oostende in September
2006. During this workshop, participants were trained on the use and
application of a diversity of sattellite information and its further
processing through GIS in order to have information and management
products on the coastal zone.
12. ODINCARSA experts attended the
Jamboree II at IODE Project Office in Oostende.
Experts from Brazil and Peru attended on behalf of ODINCARSA the
second
Jamboree II meeting, organized by JCOMM and the IODE which
was held in October 2006. In this event, participants had the
opportunity to handle waves forecast and circulation models
as data assimilation as well.
13. CPPS and ODINCARSA define actions to make a
regional data base operational.
During the last
Permanent Commission of the South Eastern Pacific, the joint project
between ODINCARSA and CPPS regarding the regional data base was
approved. This joint project will allow to make operational a
regional ocean data base starting withdata from 9 regional cruises
along the South Eastern Pacific region
14. ODINCARSA in III Forum of GOOS Regional
Alliances
The Regional ODINCARSA Coordinator participated
in the III Regional GOOS Forum. Because of The meeting concrete
actions were established within the GOOS regional alliances within
Latin America and the Caribbean. Specific activities will be developed with
the GOOS Regional Alliance for South Eastern Pacific, OCEATLAN in
the Atlantic and IOCARIBE-GOOS in the Caribbean region. Important contacts with
representatives of LME (Large Marine Ecosystems) project were
established.
15.
ODINCARSA during
the International Conference: The Humbodlt Ecosystem
The Regional ODINCARSA Coordinator,
participated in the International Conference: The Humboldt
Ecosystem. During this meeting the Oceanography of South Eastern
Pacific
was reviewed. ODINCARSA was promoted and it was possible to
discuss with experts of Latin America, the future actions for the year 2007,
and the priorities of the region.
16.
Oceanographic
Activities in Brazil
The Brazilian National Oceanographic Program in
2006 provides BNDO with the following data originated from well
succeed Oceanographic cruisers on Southwestern Atlantic:
|
Cruiser Name |
Ship |
Period |
Data Type |
|
OCEANO SUDESTE IV |
ANTARES |
25/01/06 to 04/04/06 |
METEOROLOGY, ADCP, CTD, SALINITY,
TERMOSAL, XBT |
|
POIT I/06 |
SIRIUS |
13/02/06 to 29/02/06 |
XBT, METEOROLOGY |
|
BARRA NORTE |
SIRIUS |
18/04/06 to 05/07/06 |
METEOROLOGY, BATIMETRY, CTD, XBT, TIDAL
|
|
POIT IV/06 |
SIRIUS |
15/08/06 to 29/08/06 |
METEOROLOGY, XBT |
|
OPERANTAR-XXIV |
ARY RONGEL |
10/10/05 to 17/04/06 |
CTD, XBT, TERMOSAL, ADCP |
From November 7th to 9th in Rio
Grande – RS - Brazil - with the audience of all major
Universities acting on the Brazilian waters, and supported by Rio
Grande University Foundation (FURG), CNPq/MCT, MME, CPRM, UFF and
SECIRM/MB the 37TH Annual Geology and Geophysics Program (PGGM)
Meeting. The BNDO took part presenting not only all possible
synergy issues between PGGM and BNDO but also introducing the
IODE/ODIN/ODINCARSA network to stimulate the audience to visit and
participate in IODE, ODINCARSA websites and projects.
Promoting
activities
Four
major areas were hightlighted here: data, services, partnerships and
news; this was launched on November 1st the newest redesign BNDO
webpage (www.mar.mil.br/dhn/bndo). Providing access to links,
services and data of Oceanographic, Meteorological, Numerical
and Remote Sensing centers, the new webpages is the result of the
second stage of the web focused policy of the Board of Hydrography
and Navigation and Navy Hydrographic Center to provide in a near
future an Hydrography Portal Service to Brazilian Coast Marine data
by improving and approaching substantially Brazilian contribution to
the IODE network.
17. II National Ocean data Management Training
course in Ecuador
The
Oceanographic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy
(INOCAR), developed during the year 2006, two training
workshops on Ocean Data management. The first was held from
17-21th April 2006 with participants from INOCAR and National
Fisheries Institute. The second workshop was held from
21-25th August
2006 with the participation of students of the
Polythecnical University of Litoral. Workshops were based on Ocean
Teacher and following the methodology of ODINCARSA training
courses.
18. The National Hydrographic Sevice of
the Navy in the project on Patagonia, Argentina
In
Argentina, the Project called: “Prevention of Marine
contamination and biodiversity” (Donation FMAM No. 28385-AR-PNUD
ARG/02/018) has started. It is also identified as Marine Patagonian
Project. It is partially funded by GEF, and coordinated by the
Environment and Sustainable Development Secretary with the
participation of the Hydrographic Service of the Navy and other
national institutions. Its geographical coverage includes the
coastal zone, the continental shelf in order to contribute with the
biodiversity conservancy.
The
specific role of the Service is.
1. The Component: Prevention of contamination,
which will be implemented using modern technologies such as multi
haz bathimetry and electronical charts. The final products will be
the critical identified areas such as beagle Channel, Puerto Deseado
and San Matias gulf.
2.
The component of Biodiversity which implies
acquisition and processing of environmental parameters through
oceanographic campaingns with the Puerto Deseado Vessel, the use of
two environmental buoys deployed alternatively and sattelite
imagery. With all this information, an Atlas of Environmental
sensitivity is being produced. Matemathical Modelling will be
also
applied.
The
Project will involve the following relevant institutions:
-
NATIONAL CENTER OF PATAGONIA
-
ARGENTINE ANTARTIC INSTITUTE
-
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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