10th Anniversary Project Office

The IOC Project Office for IODE based in Oostende, Belgium was established on 25 April 2005. The Office therefore celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015. 

A special celebration event was organized on 16 March 2015 in Bruges, Belgium, preceding the 23rd Session of the IODE Committee.

On this page we summarize the programme of the celebration event.

 Photographs taken by Jurgen de Witte can be found here

Programme of the Celebration Event

Words of Welcome

1. Mr Peter Pissierssens, Head IOC project Office for IODE
2. Mr Philippe Mettens, Chairman of the Board of Directors of BELSPO (represented by Mr Frank Monteny)
3. Mr Dirk Van Melkebeke, Secretary-General EWI
4. Mr Tijs D'Hoest, Secretary-General of the Flemish Commission for UNESCO, Representing the Commission's President Prof Dr M. Vervenne (Honorary Rector of the KU Leuven)
5. Mr Carl Decaluwé, Governor Province West-Flanders

Virtual visit to the IOC Project Office for IODE

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Presentations

1. Global Access to Ocean Data and Information, Products and Services: IODE ( Ariel Troisi, IODE Co-Chair) - PPT - Video
   
2. Joining Ocean and Atmosphere: JCOMM
   
   • a- Dr Savithri Narayanan, fmr JCOMM Co-President PPT - Video
   • b- Prof Nadia Pinardi, JCOMM Co-President) - PPT  - Video
3. Flanders’ role in, and contributions to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO: a success story (Dr Vladimir Ryabinin, IOC Executive Secretary) PPT  - Video
   
4. Oceanography and the Blue Economy (Prof Dr Jan Mees, Director VLIZ) PPT - Video

Reception and Visit of the Exhibition

Scientific Conference

Keynotes

1. New developments in GOOS and their needs from IODE (Mr Patrick Gorringe/ Mr Erik Buch, EuroGOOS) - PPT  - Video
2. Data Management for 21st Century Ocean Research (Ms Cyndy Chandler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) - PPT  - Video
3. Presentation on OBIS contribution to international processes (Mr Patrick Halpin, Duke University, USA) - PPT - Video
4. Linking ocean and atmosphere: collaboration between WMO and IOC through JCOMM (Ms Nadia Pinardi, JCOMM Co-President & University of Bologna, Italy) - PPT  - Video
5. The IODE OceanTeacher Global Academy (Ms Lucy Scott, Chair of the SG-OTGA & ASCLME, South Africa) - PPT - Video
6. Closing the data/information gaps for marine policy – From local to global perspectives (Mr Julian Barbière, IOC/MPR, France) - PPT - Video
7. Use of ODP at the national level: Argentina’s SNDM (Mr Ariel Troisi, Servicio de Hidrografía Naval, Argentina) - PPT - Video

 Short papers

1. Aquatic Climate Change Adaptation Services Program (ACCASP) (Mr Paul Lyon, DFO, Canada) - PPT  - Video
2. Ocean data management for Ocean Information and Advisory Services (Mr P. Rama Rao, INCOIS, India) - PPT - Video
3. International Quality controlled Ocean Database (IQuoD) Initiative (Mr Toru Suzuki, MIRC, Japan) - PPT  - Video
4. Sea level and temperature rise, predictions up to 2100; case study in Togo, Gulf of Benin, West Africa (Mr Adoté Blivi, CGILE, Togo) - PPT  - Video
5. The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) (Ms Lucy Scott, ASCLME, South Africa) - PPT - Video
6. Mexico's advances on Ocean Data Integration, Product Generation and Ocean Observing Systems (Mr Carlos Torres Navarrete, UABC, Mexico) - PPT - Video
7. Copernicus Marine Service – An Introduction (Ms Sian de Koster, SMHI, Sweden) - PPT  - Video
8. How safe are your data? (Ms Lesley Rickards, BODC, UK) - PPT  - Video
9. Data for a sustainable future (Mr Mustapha Mokrane, World Data System, Japan) - PPT - Video
10. Unlocking the wealth of European marine data: the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) (Mr Jan-Bart Calewaert, EMODnet Secretariat (or alt.) - PPT  - Video
11. 4DEMON - 4 decades of Belgian marine monitoring (Ms Karien de Cauwer, BMDC, Belgium) - PPT - Video

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