Third Session of the ODINBlack Sea Steering Committee

Third Session of the ODINBlack Sea Steering Committee, 21-22 October 2010 at UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium.

Minutes of the meeting

Presentations of the participants:

• Black Sea Commission
• Bulgaria
• Georgia
• Romania
• Russia
• Ukraine, IBSS
• Ukraine, MHI

Agenda

Thusday, 21 October 2010

• Introduction and background information
• Welcome and local information (M. Odido)
• Approval of the workshop agenda
• ODIN Black Sea objectives and action items for 2009-2010
• Presentations of the Black Sea NODCs (recent situation, problems, achivements)
  • Bulgaria
  • Georgia
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine (MHI)
  • Ukraine (IBSS)
• Discussion
• Ocean Data Portal – experience to work with ODP, existing problems and future collaboration
• Results of the Meeting of the IODE Steering Group for the IODE OceanDataPortal, 20 - 22 September 2010, Oostende, Belgium.
• Administrative and other problems related to data provision to ODP
• Types of data and variables to be loaded in the ODP
• Future use of the ODP within the ODINBlackSea

Friday, 22 October 2010

• Collaboration with other main international DIM projects in the region
• ODINECET
• Upgrade BlackSeaSCENE
• SeaDataNet II
• Capacity building. Participating in the IODE training activity
• Coordination of the ODIN Black Sea work plan with the work of the Permanent Secretariat of the Black Sea Commission (V.Myroshnychenko)
• Draft ODIN Black Sea action plan for 2010 – 2013
• Final discussion
• Approval of the meeting decisions and action plan
• Closure of the meeting