Enhancing oceanography capacities on CCLME Western Africa Countries
The IOC is implementing the second phase of the project “Enhancing oceanography capacities on the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem's Western Africa countries”. The overall goal of the project is to improve our understanding of the oceanographic features and processes in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) region and increase the delivery of services to end users.
The project relies on three main types of activities, focused around:
(i) making existing data accessible,
(ii) developing a GIS dynamic analytic tool aimed to create meaningful data products at regional scale, adding value to raw data and producing new scientific knowledge on the ocean and coastal areas of the CCLME countries, and
(iii) enhancing oceanographic capacities in the region.
The key expected output of this project is developing a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based dynamic analytic tool that can create meaningful data products for the West Africa region. This tool will add value to raw data and lead to the production of new scientific knowledge on the ocean and coastal areas of the CCLME countries.
Among other activities, two reports were issued during the initial phase: Directory of Atmospheric, Hydrographic and Biological datasets for the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem, and Oceanographic and biological features in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem.
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Following the initial phase of the project (April 2013-May 2015), Phase II was structured as a natural continuation, retaining focus on ecological modelling in the Canary Current LME.
A new edition of the Directory was published during the second phase: Directory of Atmospheric, Hydrographic and Biological datasets for the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem. 2nd Edition: Revised and Expanded, including new metadata sheets and updated information. The 2nd edition of the Directory refers to 107 datasets, databases and time-series sites.
How can you contribute?
The Directory of Atmospheric, Hydrographic and Biological datasets for the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem needs to be updated on a routinely basis. It is important that countries in the region are well represented in the Directory.
To help us achieve this objective, we need the support of the international, regional and national scientific communities to add new metadata.
We encourage universities and marine laboratories as well as authorities to contribute to make this inventory as complete as possible. We would like to remind potential contributors that only metadata are requested at this stage.
For more information and/or to obtain a metadata form for your data sets, please contact Itahisa Déniz González (i.deniz-gonzalez@unesco.org).
