IODE Steering Group for OceanExpert

Establishment

The IODE Steering Group for OceanExpert was established by IODE-XXIII (2015) through Recommendation IODE-XXIII.2

Members

The Steering Group membership can be found here: SG-OceanExpert membership

Sessions

 No sessions have taken place so far.


 

Recommendation IODE-XXIII.2

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OCEANEXPERT PROJECT

The IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange,

Recalling that OceanExpert is an activity of the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) since 1997 and was initially named GLODIR, the global directory of marine and freshwater professionals,

Welcoming the great progress made by OceanExpert and recognizing that the OceanExpert directory is now the underlying technology used by all IOC web sites to manage information on experts participating in IOC events,

Encourages ocean professionals to enter professional contact information into the OceanExpert database and to update these annually, ,

Recommends the establishment of OceanExpert as an IODE project, with the terms of reference as attached in annex A to this Recommendation,

Recommends the establishment of a IODE Steering group for the IODE OceanExpert Project with Terms of Reference as attached in annex B to this Recommendation.

Annex A to Recommendation IODE-XXIII.2

Terms of Reference of the IODE OceanExpert Project

Objectives

The objective of the IODE OceanExpert project is to provide and maintain a global directory of marine (and freshwater) professionals and their institutions, including names, addresses, institutional affiliation, specialization and bibliographic information on publications of the experts.

Annex B to Recommendation IODE-XXIII.2

Terms of Reference of the IODE Steering Group for the IODE OceanExpert Project

Objectives

The IODE Steering Group for IODE OceanExpert (SG-OE) shall oversee the further development and maintenance of the database and report to the IODE Committee on its achievements and progress.

Membership

The Project will be managed by an IODE Steering Group for the IODE OceanExpert project (SG-OE), initially composed of Mr Aditya Naik Kakodkar, Ms Linda Pikula, Ms Jane Stephenson, Ms Joanna Ruxton and Mr Richard Awah Nche.

 
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