Colour of Ocean Data
The Palais des Congrès, Brussels, Belgium
25-27 November 2002
Case studies
This session offers an opportunity to demonstrate new developments in data management, preferably with clear relevance to decision making. Some of the topics that might be covered are the role of data centers in monitoring obligations in the framework of international conventions like OSPAR, setting fishing quota…
Chairman: Sydney Levitus, Director, World Data Centre for Oceanography – Silver Spring, USA
- Presentation by the chair. Building global ocean profile-plankton databases for scientific research: World Ocean Database 2001 (presentation)
Invited presentations:
- Boris G. Trotsenko (Deputy Director Oceanic Scientific Researches YugNIRO, Ukraina), E.V> Romanov & B.P. Panov. Present and future state of integrated database on oceanology of Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanology (YugNIRO, Kerch Ukraine) (presentation)
- Michel Rixen (Georges Deacon Division, Southampton Oceanography Center, Southampton, UK), J.M. Beckers, C. Maillard. A hydrographic and biochemical climatology of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea: some statistical pitfalls (presentation)
Submitted oral presentations
- R. Orsini, C. Dabala, S. De Zorzi, and P. Campostrini (Italy) RIVELA: Database for the Research on Venice and the Lagoon (presentation)
- De Cauwer K., M. Devolder, S. Jans, and S. Scory (Belgium) The BMDC database: a tool for scientists and decision makers (presentation)
- B. Avril (Norway) and M. Conkright (USA) JGOFS Data Management: What has been done? What has been learned? (presentation)
- A. Edwards (EU) Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES): marine data management and policy issues (presentation)
- A. Vorontsov, N. Mikhailov, Yu. Nalbandov and V. Tuzhilkin (Russia) Using the integrated information technology based on GIS for marine environmental data management and creation of reference books of the hydrometeorological conditions (presentation)
Submitted poster presentations/demonstrations
- Solis-Weiss, V.; Granados Barba, A.; Ortiz Lozano, L. (Italy) Diagnosis of environmental impacts on the Mexican coastal zone with a comprehensive ad-hoc database
- Solis-Weiss, V.; Rossin, P.; Aleffi, F.; Bettoso, N.; Fonda Umani, S. (Italy) A regional GIS for benthic diversity and environmental impact studies in the Gulf of Trieste, Italy
- Palazov, A. (Bulgaria) Application of light attenuation measurement for determination of vertical plankton distribution in sea water
- Schroeder, F.; Petersen, W.; Petschatnikov, M.; Colijn, F. (Germany) A new system for automatic measurement of biological-chemical parameters from ferry boats
- Kaaijk, N.; de Bruin, T. (Netherlands)The Netherlands National Oceanographic Data Committee: a model for nationwide oceanographic data management
- Wallrabe-Adams, H.-J. (Germany) PANGAEA and the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
- Schaap, D. (Netherlands) Sea-Search: a pan-European network for marine and oceanographic data and information management
- Dumon, G.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Dehenauw, D. (Belgium) Hydrometeo System Flemish Banks