Conference secretariat

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Vismijn, Pakhuizen 45-52
B-8400 Oostende
Belgium

Email: obi@vliz.be
URL: www.vliz.be

Local host

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie
Bernhard-Nocht Straße 78
20359 Hamburg, Germany

URL: www.bsh.de

Local organisers at BSH: Friedrich Nast and Maren Fabricius

Organising committee

• Sunhild Wilhelms (BSH)
• Edward Vanden Berghe (IOC/IODE and VLIZ)
• Peter Pissierssens (IOC/IODE)
• Mark J. Costello (OBIS)
• Friedrich Nast (BSH)

Scientific committee

• Stan Blum (Taxonomic Databases Working Group)
• Mark J. Costello (OBIS; International Association for Biological Oceanography)
• Fred Grassle (CoML)
• Syd Levitus (World Data Centre for Oceanography, Silver Springs)
• Peter Pissierssens (IOC/IODE)
• Tony Rees (OBIS)
• Lesley Rickards (British Oceanographic Data Centre; Chair IODE)
• Edward Vanden Berghe (VLIZ; Chair IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices)
• Sunhild Wilhelms (BSH)