Estonia designated Prof. Urmas Lips as IODE National Coordinator for data management. Prof. Lips is Leading Researcher at the Marine Systems Institute in Tallinn. You can find more information on Prof. Lips HERE .
The IODE community welcomes Prof. Lips to the IODE family.
On 14 July 2010 the IOC project Office for IODE received a visit of over 100 Deputy Permanent Representatives (COREPER-I) which framed within the Chairing by Belgium of the Council of the European Union (http://www.eutrio.be/belgian-presidency-council-european-union ). During their brief visit we were able to introduce the wide range of activities implemented by the IOC of UNESCO thanks to posters provided by most IOC programmes. Find out more about COREPER here
The 5 minute presentation (video) as well as VR view of the expo area are available. click HERE to see the full page including the video.
On July 19th, 2010, President Barak Obama signed an Executive
establishing the National Ocean Council. The Executive Order
established for the first time a comprehensive, integrated National
Policy for the stewardship of the ocean, USA coasts,and Great Lakes,
which sets the USA on a path toward comprehensive planning forthe
preservation and sustainable uses of these bodies of water. The Executive Order can be downloaded through this link . [read more ]
The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE have
announced a joint initiative to provide a customized version of DSpace using standards and controlled vocabularies
in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development,
fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences.
Summer has come to the northern hemisphere which is the time when the staff of the IOC Project Office for IODE will be taking some leave. During the months of July and August the Office will be operating at reduced capacity so it may take more time before we can respond to your emails. Here is the overview of our leave days:
The State of Eritrea designated Mr Sammy Mahmud (Managing Director, Marine Resources Division, Ministry of Marine Resources) based in Massawa, as IODE National Coordinator for oceanographic data management. Mr Salih Hassan as been designated as IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information (Library) Management. More info on Mr Mahmud is available here. The IODE community welcomes the State of Eritrea to the IODE family!
The Summary Report of the 11th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM-XI) is now available for download HERE . The Group reviewed progress during the past inter-sessional period (which took place in November 2008)and discussed the way forward.
Estonia designated Prof. Urmas Lips as IODE National Coordinator for data management. Prof. Lips is Leading Researcher at the Marine Systems Institute in Tallinn. You can find more information on Prof. Lips 
On July 19th, 2010, President Barak Obama signed an Executive
establishing the National Ocean Council. The Executive Order
established for the first time a comprehensive, integrated National
Policy for the stewardship of the ocean, USA coasts,and Great Lakes,
which sets the USA on a path toward comprehensive planning forthe
preservation and sustainable uses of these bodies of water. The Executive Order can be downloaded through 
The State of Eritrea designated Mr Sammy Mahmud (Managing Director, Marine Resources Division, Ministry of Marine Resources) based in Massawa, as IODE National Coordinator for oceanographic data management. Mr Salih Hassan as been designated as IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information (Library) Management. More info on Mr Mahmud is available 