United Nations Climate Change Conference, 7-18 December 2009 in Copenhagen (COP15).
IMDIS 2010 (International conference on Marine Data and Information systems)
conference first announcement is available on SeaDataNet website (http://www.seadatanet.org). The conference Websit (http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010) is under construction and will be operational in June 2009.
Ongoing
The IP is proposed to upgrade the existing Black Sea SCENE research network and infrastructure
with the following detailed objectives:
To extend and strengthen significantly the existing Black Sea Scientific Network with 17 leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes and universities from the countries around the Black Sea and 2 EU member states and 2 International bodies. This will result in a research infrastructure with an improved regional coverage and broader inclusion of marine disciplines, bringing together and supporting 51 partners from Ukraine (10), Russian Federation (8), Turkey (7), Romania (3), Bulgaria (7), Georgia (6), together with 7 partners from EU member states, 1 associated state and 2 international associations/bodies.
The SeaDataNet project (2006-2011) is constructing a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. By use of standards for communication and new developments in intormation technology, the 40 in-situ and satellite marine data platforms of the partnership are providing metadata, data and products as a unique virtual data centre. Standards development and adoption for communication and Quality Assurance issues on data, meta-data and products are providing integrated data sets of assessed quality. The implementation of common QA procedure allows the preparation of common regional and global data products.
http://www.seadatanet.org/
The main goal of the IP is: To initiate a concerted effort to use science, information technology and policy measures to understand and deal with the consequences of global warming in the Black Sea towards better governance, sustainable exploitation of resources and conservation of the marine environment.
The general scientific objectives of SESAME IP, supported by the European Commission, are to assess and predict changes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems as well as changes in the ability of these ecosystems to provide goods and services.
http://www.sesame-ip.eu/
Communications, data and information exchange are the key elements of the operational ocean monitoring and forecasting networks, defined in the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). Development of observing and closely related operational forecasting system in the Black Sea region requires the exchange of significant data and information volumes.
ASCABOS is designed to strengthen the communication system ensuring flexible and operative infrastructure for data and information exchange between partners and end users.