Ecuador

Latin America and the Caribbean

In August 2009, a national seminar was organized to develop a national plan for oceanographic research for the years to come, in which a national contribution to the Anniversary was further explored. Jointly with CPPS, an international seminar on the study of climate change was implemented on 26–28 August 2009, at which the contribution of IOC to the climate studies was presented. In September 2009 the country implemented an oceanographic cruise under the IOC 50th Anniversary flag along the section Guayaquil–Galapagos.

It is envisaged that all oceanographic cruises in March–April 2010 and in September 2010 will bear the Anniversary flag. INOCAR will publish short information briefs on the IOC and its activities which will be distributed among the students and the visitors to the Institute and Planetarium. There is a plan to have a special issue on the Oceans for Ocean Day, the 8th of June 2010, in which IOC activities will be highlighted. In July 2010 in Guayaquil, a workshop on oceanographic research will be organized with the presentation of posters describing IOC activities.

• 10-05-2010