SeaDataNet

Kick-off Meeting Report

Heraklion 8-10 May, 2006

Chair : Catherine Maillard, project co-ordinatorCo-chairs : Dick Schaap, deputy co-ordinator, Stathis Balopoulos, Jean-Marie BeckersRapporteurs Sissy Iona and Michèle Fichaut

1. - MINUTES OF THE MEETING....................................................................................................2

1.1. Opening Session ......................................................................................................................... 2 Opening : Introduction..................................................................................................................... 2Meeting Organization...................................................................................................................... 2Overview of the project objectives and workplan.............................................................................2EC Reporting procedures for I3.......................................................................................................3

1.2. - Networking Activities Session .................................................................................................... 4 NA3 : Training and capacity buildings.............................................................................................4NA4 : Cruises Summary Reports Inventory (Roscop/CSR).............................................................5NA5 : Data sets and observing systems (EDMED, EDIOS)............................................................6NA6 : Common data index (CDI).....................................................................................................8NA7 : Project summaries (EDMERP)..............................................................................................9NA8 : Marketing and feedback......................................................................................................10NA2: TA System Monitoring – Data flows from TAs for remote data access and products,.........11

1.3. - Advisory Group Meeting .......................................................................................................... 12 US-NODC/WDC............................................................................................................................ 12MEDS- Canadian NODC, DMAC and JCOMM.............................................................................12Prospective presentation: New European Marine Strategy : European Data Management..........12Prospective presentation: International Polar Year (Fourth IPY 2007-2008).................................13Presentation: BlackSeaScene project...........................................................................................13

1.4. - Joint Research Activities Sessions - Technical Development .................................................. 14 JRA1 : Standards development : 1- Communication – Common dictionaries/Ontologies, XML, ISO-19115..................................................................................................................................... 14JRA1 : Standards development: 2. Common data quality control protocol....................................15JRA2 : Technical development of the interoperable system components.....................................15JRA3 : Portable data management software development...........................................................16

1.5. - Joint Research Activities Sessions – Scientific Products ......................................................... 18 JRA4 : Geostatistical analysis tools...............................................................................................18JRA5 : Mediterranean products.....................................................................................................18JRA6 : Black sea products............................................................................................................19JRA7 : Baltic products...................................................................................................................19JRA8 : North and Arctic seas products..........................................................................................19JRA9 : Atlantic and Global products,.............................................................................................19Harmonisation issues.................................................................................................................... 19

1.6. - Coordination Group Meeting .................................................................................................... 20

1.7. - Closure of the Meeting ............................................................................................................. 20

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2. - List of Participants............................................................................................................21

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1- Minutes of the Meeting

2 Opening SessionChair Catherine Mailllard, project Coordinator

Opening : Introductionby Andonis Magoulas, Director of the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete.

M. A. Magoulas addressed the Kick-Off Meeting of the SeaDataNet Project as an important contribution towards the assessment of the increase in the rate and scale of transformation of the marine environment with time, and its effect both locally and globally. He pointed out the importance of this research for maritime states like Greece, where Hellenic ships have been plying the waters of the Black Sea and the entire Mediterranean from Egypt to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from the ancient times to the present times.Finally M. A. Magoulas presented the activities of the Institute of the Cretan Marine Biology and Genetics of HCMR.

Meeting Organizationby Dr. by Stathis Balopoulos, HCMR

The Meeting organisation was presented including the social events (dinner, visit of the Cretan Aquarium, excursion on archaeological and historical sites).

Overview of the project objectives and workplanby C. Maillard, Ifremer

Recalling the main objectives of the project for developing an efficient Pan-European marine data management infrastructure, C. Maillard underlined the necessity of archiving and appropriate data management for ocean studies, and especially the climate change and environment following up. She pointed out further that the data management costs represents only a few percentage of the cost of sea data collection and that if these data were not safeguarded, it would be impossible to retrieve the observations made in such a variable environment.

Therefore SeaDataNet gathers 49 partners (47 + 2) from 35 countries around the NE Atlantic and its adjacent Seas and an External Advisory Board. The NODCs are assisted by expert Technical Units, Scientific modelling centres, and International Organizations for the important related issues that are the technical development, the training and capacity building, the preparation of qualified data products and the standardization of the procedures.

Appropriate data management means not only data safeguarding, but all the other services requested by the community to make the data easily available : data quality controls, reformatting, indexing, data search and dissemination tools, data products preparation etc. SeaDataNet develops this data management infrastructure by enhancing the existing “semi-distributed” network of National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODC) or Designated National Agencies, which participates in the UNESCO/IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange system (IODE) and satellite Data Centres (a total of 40 data platforms). They represent a network of experienced data centres, participating in the data management of important project and leaders in data management concerted actions. In each country, the NODC is linked to several national institutes.

SeaDataNet follows two key past projects for developing common meta-databases (SeaSeach) and databases (Medar/Medatlas and other global and regional databases). The major issues are to make the data centres interoperable, to deliver integrated datasets (instead of various heterogeneous formats), to deliver them on-line or off line via a unique request (and not successive requests to all), and to give access to remote sensing as well as in-situ data. Therefore an important work on standardization and on technological development will be necessary, under the responsibility of a Technical Task Team.

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To test the implementation of common standards and quality checks procedures, as well as to test the system operability, regional and global data products will be developed. Besides the qualification of data and infrastructure system, such products are also useful for enlarging the data users community, in particular modellers and non-specialists. Using in parallel the last results of a state of the art algorithm and software for objective analysis, harmonization between regional climatologies will be made possible.

Work plan for 5 years :The tasks and subtasks described in the Technical Annex belong to three types of inter-related activities:

Networking Activities (NA) Transnational Access (TA) to data, metadata and products Joint Research Activities (JRA) to develop the infrastructure:

o Technical developments (standards and software)o Scientific data products development to test the system and serve more users.

During the first 2 years there are critical milestones which are the Training sessions during the first year, international conference during the second year at which the first version of the on-line system should be presented. Consequently:- All the standards should be ready soon for the specification of the software (on-line and off-line).- Benchmark of data circulation have to be provided every 6 months, to test the compatibility of the data.

Organizational Structure and Management team :Project coordinator(IFREMER), NA coordinator (NCMR), TA coordinator (MARIS) and Scientific coordinator (Liège University), Steering Committee, Advisory Group, Coordination group. The composition and role of the groups are described in the Technical Annex and the Consortium Agreement. As an important technological activity will take place in the project to meet its objectives, a dedicated Technical Task Team has been created to design, develop and install the software.

The Project office and web site have been opened preliminary to the Kick-off Meeting.http://www.seadatanet.org

Next actionPreparation of the annual meeting and annual report will be the next management deliverable. It should follow a strict template that is similar to the technical annex with man/month along each workpackage activity. It is therefore important to keep track of the time spent on each.

EC Reporting procedures for I3 By Lorenza Saracco, European Commission

Start of the contract 1st April, 2006-06-08 47 partners (List 1) , 8,75 M€5 reporting periodsAudit certificates after Years 2, 4, 5 (guidelines online).

Audit certificates are required when contractors exceed a financial contribution > 150,000 EURO, so this will be required for a number of contractors during the project. All partners have to submit a final audit certificate at the end of the project at the latest 45 days after the final reporting period. Such a certificate has to be prepared and certified by an external auditor or in case of government by a controller, certifying that the costs incurred during that period meet the conditions required by the contract. Mid-term review after Year 2 : meeting and presentation of the work that have been done so far.

Please read with care the Guidelines and documentation for preparing the annual report available online.

http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/

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Periodic activity report : 3 sections = Progress report + list of deliverables + use and dissemination of knowledge :

Summary of progress and major achievements Management activity

o Justification of the major costs incurred and resources of each contractorso Financial statements (forms C) for each contractoro Summary financial report consolidating costs of contractors

Progress report for each individual activityo Work progresso Deviation from planned worko List of deliverableso List of major meetings or workshop

Update of the non confidential project information Detailed implementation for the next 18 months period

3 - Networking Activities SessionChair : Stathis Balopoulos, NA co-ordinator

NA3 : Training and capacity buildingsBy Vladimir Vladimirov (IOC/IODE)

Objective : Training of the data managers by Organisation of 3 Training Modules including the practise of standards developed in JRA1. Training sessions will be organized every two years, and the first one focused on data formatting and QC in support of the project data exchange. Therefore the training activities strongly depend on BODC activities (QC procedure and standards) and newer version of ODV.IOC/IODE has a long experience and expertise in training. It has developed Ocean Teacher as a training package in data management. In the framework of SeaDataNet, OceanTeacher will be updated to include the extended QC protocols and standards, which will enlarge their audience.

Milestones : Month 6 : workshop planning to be validated by the steering committee Month 11 : Start of the first training workshop with electronic material ready month 18: report on regional training

Deliverables : Training course program, Adapted content of the training course on electronic support, Report on the training course

Discussion and actions As the activities should start very quickly, a questionnaire will be prepared by IOC for the first Training Workshop and disseminated shortly to determine :

- list of possible trainers within the project?- number of trainees (a survey to obtain the real number of trainers, ~ 40)- number of training sessions(1,2 or 3 according to the number of trainees)- date of the sessions: back to back to plenary meeting February/March 2007?,- Venue Oostende (good facilities) and/or Morocco and other proposal (necessity of renting the

PCs, but good for promoting the regional data management and probably less travel costs)?- Duration: For practical reasons , the duration of each training session cannot exceed one

week.

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- Content of the training program: the first series of training will be entirely focused on data formatting and QC according to the new common procedure. However, one day will be dedicated to how to use web services.

- Milestone: Workshop planning to be validated at the next Steering Committee (foreseen October 2006).

Balopoulos comment: IODE has a great experience on data management and capacity building issues and its participation in SeaDataNet will benefit the Project by several means. Based on previous experience, the on-the-job training of data managers must not be excluded in the SeaDataNet Project.

NA4 : Cruises Summary Reports Inventory (Roscop/CSR)by Friedrich Nast

This information system, coordinated by BSH represents a powerful tool for data tracking. BSH will keep on maintaining the centralised CSR database (at present 37000 entries for 41 countries and more than 2700 ships) and process the updates, that are to be submitted by partners by using the online entry facility or by sending XML files, generated from their local CSR systems. One of the objectives of SeaDataNet is to migrate to a distributed network, whereby the local CSR systems of partners will be fully interconnected AND to make a relation between CSR and CDI entries, paving the path to data access. As experienced during the former Sea-Search project, a constant gain in CSR entries is foreseen by contacting more institutes of each country (not only the partner institute). As a tribute to the host country, F. Nast showed the PHILIA vessel (friendship in Greek) which is the spirit of our work.

The CSR system will be optimized and harmonized during SeaDataNet. At present it offers the following tools, that were developed during Sea-Search:

On-line entry by web forms. This is password protected and aimed at Chief Scientists. The entries end up in the BSH Oracle database

Processing of XML files, that are submitted by partners. These XML files follow a standard format, compliant to ISO19115, which is documented at the Sea-Search website

On-line search and retrieval application, which is public domain As part of the Technical Task Team work a number of items have been formulated for improvement next to the migration towards a distributed network. This include a.o.:

Enabling uploading of track charts Retrieval by geographical area Use of GML1 for ship tracks Improved exchange with ICES Streamlining of XML format and vocabularies, such as use of EDMO for organizations,

harmonization with other metadatabases, use of common platform name vocabulary, ..

Discussion1- Actions for national updating

- Each “old” partner should submit 20 forms by the end of September 2006.- Each “new” partner should submit 2 CSR (Albania, Algeria, Lebanon, Slovenia, Tunisia) by

the end of June through the CSR online entry tool:http://www.sea-search.net/roscop/

- Each “old” partner is also asked to check its existing entries and to report errors to BSH. BSH will not modify the content, but in case of obvious error or small modification, it should report to the originator.

- Each partner is also asked to check and to update the addresses of its national CSR related organisations in the EDMO database. (more details on EDMO under NA6 and NA7).

The new CSR entries can be sent through the CSR online entry tool, email or XML and are automatically fetched into BSH system.

2. Meta-Data flow with the international system (ICES, WDC):

The meta-data exchanges with ICES and other international nodes are now made by BSH on behalf of the SeaDataNet national data centres and there is no further need for each data centre to report this themselves to ICES and beyond. ICES is very motivated to work in SeaDataNet towards improving

1 Geographic Markup Language

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the overall CSR system, because CSR is also for ICES an important tool for tracking and archiving data sets.

Action: BSH and ICES will synchronize their entries, including the elimination of duplicate entries by close cooperation.

3. Harmonization regarding Research Vessels)

It appears from the present experience of BSH that there is a need to harmonize the naming of the Research Vessel in the CSR database. At present it is a free field, which leads to many different spellings and aliases. Also the CSR database has a long history, so many vessels are no longer operated or existing, but their names have to be maintained. So one of the items for improvement of the CSR format is the use of a Common vocabulary for Vessel names. This leads to a discussion of ongoing efforts in the Research Vessel domain.

Laurent Douzouville (EurOcean): EurOcean has a mandate to maintain a database on the European Research Fleet. EurOcean is very keen for cooperation with SeaDataNet on this information system to optimise the tasks and avoid duplication.Bob Keeley (MEDS, Canada also member of US-DMAC): what overlap exists between WMO ship list and others ship lists such as ICES, EUROCEAN, SeaDataNet?.

Roy Lowry (BODC, JRA1) : What is important is to be able to map the different lists. Many ships (same) are written with different ways. A new list should be made.

Julie Gillin (ICES): ICES, BODC and WDC cooperate on these issues.

Catherine Maillard (Ifremer): The overlap will be limited because :

- the objectives of EuOcean is to get a detailed view of the present fleet (including all the equipments and the chartering conditions)

- SeaDataNet should get a minimum information on the ships, including historical research and opportunity ships over more than a century, to get ship tracks during a cruise and allow data QC (check of the ship velocity between two consecutive stations, check of the coherency of the observations during the same cruise). For many years, ICES has been mandated, in the IOC/IODE system to maintain the reference “Ship and Platform codes List” and should continue to provide this support for SeaDataNet (excluding the drifters codes list which are maintained by JCOMOPS).

Action: BSH, ICES, BODC, IFREMER, EurOcean and IODE (JCOMM/OPS) will discuss and formulate together an action plan by September 2006 on:

Upgrading the ICES Ship and Platform codes list into a common Vocabulary by including the JCOMM/OPS list and upgrading the technical and content management basis (turn into a web service)

Consider how the EurOcean Research Vessel directory development can be extended towards an overall Research Vessel directory, that will give further details on vessels, that are named in the CSR database and that can serve as another SeaDataNet service (of course including tuning with the ICES Ship and Platform codes list (see above) and EDMO ).

ICES should be included in the NA4 workpackage (mailing list and annual report).

POGO Call for Tender:In the meeting pause an initiative by POGO was brought forward by Taco de Bruin, calling for tenders to set up and operate a global system for CSR’s and NOP’s (Planning) . Considering the overlap IODE has informed POGO immediately during the meeting of the SeaDataNet activities and this has resulted in a modification of the Terms of Reference of the POGO Call for Tender. The partners, as listed above for the Research Vessel activities, will try to prepare and submit a proposal to the POGO call on behalf of the SeaDataNet consortium.

NA5 : Data sets and observing systems (EDMED, EDIOS)By Roy Lowry

EDMED is top level (very general) discovery metadatabase and describes data sets collected by the source laboratories. Its comprehensive, over 3300 EDMED descriptions, but the data sets may be very

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heterogeneous. The metadata are in a relational data base with a query on line on Sea-Search and BODC Web sites.There is no mechanism to enter EDMED automatically on line; the current update mechanisms to submit information in the centralised EDMED database are :

A microsoft ACCESS database Export/import of XML files

As part of the Technical Task Team work the EDMED format will be reviewed and harmonised with the other metadatabases, e.g. by nominating and using common vocabularies, using EDMO for organizations and others. This will be highlighted in more detail in the coming presentations by Karen Vickers (JRA1) and Dick Schaap (JRA2). These activities will lead to an upgraded EDMED system in due time.

Actions for national updating BODC will send each national coordinating partner + satellite centres the EDMED Access

Entry system and database of present entries, plus instructions and documentation on the use of this offline entry package or the alternate use of submitting EDMED entries in XML format

Each “old” partner will check its existing entries and continue with updating its national entries, submitting these to BODC for further processing and inclusion in the central EDMED directory

Each “new” partner will start preparing EDMED entries for its own institute, followed by entrie for other institutes in its country, and submit these by any of the 2 modalities to BODC for processing and inclusion in the central EDMED directory

Each partner is also asked to check and to update the addresses of its national EDMED related organisations in the EDMO database. (more details on EDMO under NA6 and NA7)

EDIOS EDIOS launched in 2001 is a first level inventory on ocean observing systems operating repeatedly, regularly and routinely in European waters. It contains metadata on observing stations such as fixed platforms, repeated ship-borne measurements, buoys, remote imagery, etc. and on associated observing programmes and networks. EDIOS is an initiative of the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) and was developed during the EC-EDIOS project with the objective to help the planning of next operational oceanography projects. The data sets are described in EDIOS with more details than in EDMED (extended lists of sensors and parameters, sampling rate etc..). Input are presently supplied by 30 countries.

To update the database, the centres sent to BODC the MIFs forms. BODC maintain the Master database, the query interface is developed and maintained at MARIS. A content review is underway, for the redesign of the database, taking into account the problems met:

Over-complicated relational database, too many tables, difficult to populate and use Flawed data model, own local controlled vocabularies Population mechanism based on Word forms weakly mapped to the schema

The proposed improvements aims to: Simplify the database schema Harmonise with EDMED and CDI (and use EDMO for organizations) Enhance the technical and content governance of vocabularies in SEADATANET Develop a sandbox-based online content entry and maintenance tool (a sandbox is a copy of

the master database, it does not performs checks but allows to fulfil a full form and then to send it to the master database to check if it is correct).

Milestones : Specification under review Revised data model and main schema (June) Vocabulary harmonisation (July) Build new scheme (August) Sort out this issues with existing population (should be ready by end of the year) Build population tools (August-September).

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Once the population tools are available and the revision has taken place from the present database to the new datamodel all national coordinating partners and satellite centres will be asked to review their existing entries in EDIOS and to update these.

NA6 : Common data index (CDI)By Dick Schaap, MARIS

CDI, which started in SeaSearch, is a fine-grained index to all the data that can be delivered by request or online by the data centres. The pilot Pilot CDI was developed in 2005 during Sea-Search. NODCs are responsible to generate their own CDI records by an automatic process from their in-house database, MARIS has the overall CDI coordination. Presently the meta-database includes 96000 CDI from 9 data centres.The online interface on Sea-Search web site has direct links to the data centres interfaces.CDI contains :

Description of each deliverable data set (ISO 19115 standards); How to access to the data. Names and addresses of the data centres and originators

For harmonizing organisation addresses the European Directory of Marine Organisation (EDMO) database has been developed, which enables the national coordinating partners to maintain addresses and description of the data centres and data originators (source laboratories having collected the observation data) in their country by using an online Content Management System (CMS). EDMO is also used to provide cross links between all the catalogues (EDMED, EDIOS, CDI, EDMERP);

CDI will play a central role in the on-line data access from the inter-connected infrastructures, in particular during the first phase that will be implemented in the 11 data centres members of the TTT and operational from 2008 and from 2010 for all partner data centres..The present TTT work is focused inter alia on establishing a relation from EDMED, EDMERP, EDIOS and CSR towards CDI towards the actual data sets.

How to update CDI ?As for CSR and EDMED, tools are available for export CDI entries (meta-data) from local data centres database to XML files : Java tools developed by IFREMER and related documentation available on the Website.

Documentation for CDI at: www.sea-search.net/cdi_documentation

actions for CDI: End of June 2006: MARIS will send instructions, format descriptions, EDMO CMS log-in’s to

all national coordinating partners and satellite data centres September 2006: NODCs will check and update the EDMO entries for their countries online.

In case of new institutes (also related to EDMED, CSR, EDMERP, EDIOS) partners will ask MARIS to prepare new EDMO entries for their updating

December 06: NODCs which are already involved in the pilot CDI must update their entries May 2007: Other NODCs will start to generate their own CDI, using the documentation and

tools. CDI pilot partners will assists other partners. They will produce some test XML records for evaluation by MARIS.

September 2007: Full CDI coverage for all partners Meanwhile activity will be undertaken by the TTT on improving the CDI set-up and on

connecting CDI to the pilot data access system, involving the core group of 11 data centres. This is planned for launch by February 2008 and will set the path for other data centres in the following years.

QuestionsBob Keeley: a)CDI means millions of records. This could implicate performance problems when using the geographic interface. .

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Answer=yes, this is one of the issues that we have to overcome by optimizing the user interface, possibly make use of preprocessed maps etc. First we focus on populating the CDI index. Also considering the fact that the IT environment is changing over timeb)how are separated the cdi records for 1. real-time 2. delayed profiles 3. 10 years after profile?Answer Catherine Maillard: It is not good to disseminate several versions of one dataset. If there are several versions of the dataset, keep the best. Delayed mode version, when available, should be indexed in CDI and disseminated rather real time, and fully qualified rather than any intermediate version. For observational data, it should be also the data version as close as possible to the observation (no interpolated data) and the national source is preferred to any other copy. For technical reasons (reanalyses, sensors technical following up et..), the NODCs may archive the real time version of some datasets in parallel to the delayed mode, but these original datasets should be considered as restricted to the originator project and only the final version indexed in SeaDataNet.Answer Dick Schaap: in principle the data centres are responsible for generating the CDI records for their data holdings and are as such also responsible for which data sets CDI records are made. The problem of duplicates is one of the issues in the TTT work and this could lead to an extra data identifier in the CDI definition.

Bob Keeley has himself experience with data tagging for preventing duplicates and will send the TTT documentation on his applied solution.

Question Nickolay Mikhailov: will something new be developed to provide compatibility between data and metadata?Answer Dick: The CDI format will not alter too much, but will be further streamlined as part of the TTT work on harmonizing the different metadatabases (EDMED, EDIOS, CSR, CDI, EDMERP) , the formulation and adoption of common vocabularies and as part of the analysis of the data access system. In V1 of SeaDataNet the data access will be restricted to data delivery, whereby data sets can be downloaded in a standard format (ASCII and NetCDF). In V2 a model of data virtualisation will be persued, whereby an XML data protocol will be formulated for timeseries, profiles, and grids data ) and whereby also transparent data viewing services are foreseen. This will require building in a close relationship between CDI format and the data protocol in V2, but this will have no implications in this stage of V1, that we already have to take into account. Note: RNODC is member of TTT and can bring forward its ideas about this in the TTT.

NA7 : Project summaries (EDMERP)Dick Schaap

EDMERP, which was initiated in 1998 in EURONODIM project, is an inventory of marine research projects in Europe. It covers now 1250 projects in 300 institutes (which are included in the EDMO database). The NODCs are responsible of maintaining the entries. Entries for EDMERP are prepared by NODCs using an offline EDMERP Access Entry program (same basis as EDMED) and submitted to MARIS for QC and inclusion into the central EDMERP database, which is available for search and retrieval at the Sea-Search website.

Next to EDMERP MARIS also maintains an EC Marine Research projects database, which lists all EC funded projects with marine subjects over the various EC programmes. For this metadatabase a operation with EUROCEAN is advised. : SeaDataNet will provide extra technology and EUROCEAN could oversee contents

actions for EDMERP: End of June 2006: MARIS will send EDMERP instructions, existing national entries (Access

program), and EDMO CMS log-in’s to all national coordinating partners and satellite data centres

September 2006: NODCs will check and update the EDMO entries for their countries online. In case of new institutes (also related to EDMED, CSR, CDI, EDIOS) partners will ask MARIS to prepare new EDMO entries for their updating

February 2007: All NODCs will prepare and submit updated EDMERP entries to MARIS for QC and inclusion in the central EDMERP database

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Meanwhile activity will be undertaken by the TTT on improving the EDMERP set-up MARIS and EurOcean will finalize a plan for the EC Research Projects database

Question Peter Pissierssens : Would it be possible that SeaDataNet provide the existing tools to host information from other regions and make the related services available?

Answer: Depends on the situation. Tools are developed by partners within SeaDataNet for use by all partners on a free basis and can be applied on a larger scale but this should be beneficial for SeaDataNet. In other cases a cost – benefit analysis could be performed by the specific partners in charge and that could lead to a proposal with cost implications.

Question Julie: ICES has list with Projects. What is the definition of a project to include in the EDMERP database ?

Answer: The granularity of a project could differ between institutes. But the basic idea is that each institute makes and maintains a research Project planning as part of its own annual planning and reporting activities. The EDMERP entries can follow that overview, because these projects are well defined within the institute and relevant information should be available for turning into EDMERP entries.

NA8 : Marketing and feedbackBy Giuseppe Manzella, ENEA

This activity aims to raise awareness and enhance the dissemination of the SeaDataNet data, services and products:- Internally : to insure that all the partners are informed on what is going on and have homogeneous

systems in the SeaDataNet community.- Externally :to promote the infrastructure and the progress made in SeaDataNet data and

information services (Discovery, View, Download, Transformation, Spatial data) in support to conventions like the forthcoming INSPIRE directive, GEOSS etc. and major international programmes like the International Polar Year

The activity covers: Coordination and preparation of promotional material. University courses – together with the Ocean teacher from IODE Preparation of the Web site Production of a SeaDataNet newsletter. Preparation of two International Conferences (foreseen in March 2008 and 2010)

Actions End of June 2006: Review and update of the draft leaflet, poster, logo, website September 2006: submission of short notes for the first newletter October 2006: Edition of the first newsletters including the first announcement of the first

conference. Continuous: Maintenance of the list of the publications from SeaDataNet.

As the end of Sea-Search a portfolio brochure has been prepared about the objectives and partners of Sea-Search and its transgression into SeaDataNet. Also individual leaflets have been prepared of each of the Sea-Search services, which will be continued as part of SeaDataNet (EDIOS, EDMED, EDMERP, CSR, CDI) and of the SeaDataNet project. These leaflets are available from the Sea-Search website as PDF files, but also have been printed.

Action: MARIS will distribute early Juy 2006 a stack of portfolio brochures and leaflets to each partner, which can be used for internal and national promotional activities.

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NA2: TA System Monitoring – Data flows from TAs for remote data access and products , By Catherine Maillard

TA = Transnational activity4 tasks :

Coordination of the system control procedure Implementation of the procedure Control of the coherency of the data exchange Help desk with email and website for dissemination of software

o BSCW siteo Mailing lists : all, technical, regional, functions (steering committee, …) o User desk contact : sdn-userdesk@SeaDataNet.org

Continuous: Maintenance of the list of the publications using the work carried out under TA.

Actions

BSCW sites and mailing lists: (July 2006)Draft of system organisation (Oct 2006)Benchmark data sets (Oct 2006)

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4 - Advisory Group MeetingChair Catherine Maillard

US-NODC/WDCBy Zdenka Willis, Director, National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA

Zdenka Willis presented two major projects of the US NODC, of great interest for SeaDataNet:

1. The World Ocean Database (WOD 2005) that contains additional 900,000 temperature profiles compared to WOD01 as well as additional data for new other variables (freon, isotopes, gasses);The contribution to the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), the US contribution to GOOS GOOS which is the ocean component of GEOSS. Its data management and communications component (DMAC) has a architecture close to SeaDataNet and target principles including full and open data sharing.MEDS- Canadian NODC, DMAC and JCOMMBy Bob Keeley, MEDS, chair of DMAC International Caucus , chair of the Data Management team (DMPA) of JCOMMMEDS has long time experience in multidisciplinary data management (including contaminants and fisheries data) and international expertise in • standard procedures for quality assessment of profile data, standard quality flags• duplicate analysis procedures and • using unique tags for data• controlled vocabularies for variable names• data system monitoring toolsDMAC is a US project, composed of a number of expert teams : metadata, archives, transport and access, system engineering and an International Caucus to provide connections and working links to activities outside of the US. Several SeaDataNet colleagues are members of the IC. The first results of DMAC are planned as follows• netCDF with CF conventions (May 2006)• standards adoption process• building link to QARTOD work on data quality assessment (but there is an incompatibility with the GTSPP Quality flag already used by a great part of the oceanogprahic community).• working on controlled vocabularies as well2 independent conceptual designs should be completed by Sep 2006.JCOMM is the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology to provide maritime services including the provision of weather and sea bulletins and end-to-end data management support. The draft data management strategy will be circulated this year. In all these programs, adoption of common standards, links with the international community and other initiatives, capacity building appear repeatedly as common basic requirements. Bob Keeley will arrange that all relevant documents will be forwarded to the SeaDataNet TTT. Prospective presentation: New European Marine Strategy : European Data Managementby Demetrio De ArmasD. de Armas presented the Thematic Strategy for the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment elaborated in the framework of the Community’s 6 th Environment Action Programme. Cooperation and coordination for regional seas conventions & the need to bring in third countries play a key role to achieve sustainable development of marine areas. Access to bio-chemical data is a prerequisite to assess the spatial and temporal variabilities of the marine environment and the trend.Prospective presentation: International Polar Year (Fourth IPY 2007-2008)Taco de Bruin, NL-NODCIPY develops an Integrated data information service and a Sub-committee on Data Policy And Management co-chaired by Taco de Bruin. This IPY data policy is based on CLIVAR policy, with free and Open access with as few exceptions as possible (medical science and where local and traditional knowledge is involved).The data information service relies on existing data structure and each NODC around the table should receive data from the IPY.60 countries are concerned. The funding is entirely supported at national levels.Presentation: BlackSeaScene projectPeter Davis MARISPeter Davis gives a concise presentation on the BlackSeaScene project, which is also undertaken as part of the Research Infrastructures programme and can be considered as a satellite project to SeaDataNet. BSS will adopt the technological basis as developed in SeaDataNet, but is involving more Black Sea institutes and data sources into this work. So BSS helps Black Sea NODCs in setting up their national networks and getting more input from national institutes into SeaDataNet.

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5 - Joint Research Activities Sessions - Technical DevelopmentChair Dick Schaap, Deputy coordinator, MARISA TTT Technical Task Team, chaired by Dick Schaap, and composed of the technical units of 11 data centres coordinates the technical developments and report to the coordination group and to the steering committee. TTT communicates via group mailings (SYMPA software), BSCW to manage the documentation and the software (very good for versioning), ftp and website.JRA1 : Standards development : 1- Communication – Common dictionaries/Ontologies, XML, ISO-19115By Karen Vickers, BODCBODC is leader of JRA1 in close cooperation with the TTT.Objectives : Define and develop common standards for :Communication

Metadata and data exchange Checking of data quality

Reference documents produced will be made available on extranet : www.seadatanet.orgThe extranet is managed and developed by IFREMER and makes use of the BSCW platform.

Definition of a common tagging system :Unique identification of each data set.Definition must support duplicatesBeta tagging system (Dec 06)Validated tagging system (Feb 07)

Common vocabularies and OntologiesOntology = mapping between vocabularies

Started with CDI, must be developed furtherTTT responsible for the governance.BODC will provide the governance of the common vocabularies to SeaDataNetDelivery by Web ServicesBeta version (October 06), considering PDV, GCMD and CF

Common transport and service protocolsVersion 1 : NETCDF and ASCII exchange formatStandard controlled vocabulariesVersion 2 : Data Virtualisation (considering OGC and W3C)

Content standards and profiles:Dissemination of the standard technologies and products.

The metadata are already based upon the ISO19115 content model. The XML schema might be based upon the ISO19139 schema, which has ISO19115 as content model.

SeaDataNet will communicate and interact with other ongoing activities, such as Marine XML (IOC), GEOSS , MMI , GOOS, EuroGOOS and IOOS/DMAC. Thil will be a 2-way approach, which is feasible because partners of SeaDataNet are also involved in these other activities and initiatives.

Bob Keeley : How is the interaction with MMI2? Answer: SeaDataNet will use MMI technology for the common vocabularies and SeaDataNet results will be posted also on MMI website.JRA1 : Standards development: 2. Common data quality control protocolby Lesley Rickards, BODC and Jan Szaron, SMHI

Common data management protocols includes the data QC methodology for each data type, and the definition of a Quality flag scale protocol (the QC does not modify the data, but adds a quality flag to each numerical value).

2Marine Metadata Interoperability Project ( http://marinemetadata.org/), coordinated by USA colleagues

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A preliminary review of the current schemes in place at NODCs and other know schemes has been done for profile and time series data. Different quality flag scales are used. Some are very simple, some are very complicated. The recommendation is to use a simple quality flag scale. Most of the simple flag scales adopted in the data centres and lots of projects are close to GTSPP flag scale, except QARTOD scale that is more or less the opposite.

Actions- End of July: Draft the CQ procedure from the compilation list of existing implemented tests (beta-

version) including the adoption (if compatible) of ESEAS QC protocol for sea level data and SIMORC QC procedure for metocean data

- Define and adopt a common vocabulary for a simple flag scale - contact QARTOD and suggest them to revise their position- Review possible incoherencies and missing items for taking into account in the next version of the

protocol. The final QC document is planned for November 2006.

Lesley asks all NODCs to provide documents or relevant links to any other QC methods, that are in use among partners. It appears that also IODE (Peter Pissiersens) has recently launched a QC survey. Therefore it is advised that Lesley and Peter will coordinate their efforts into one survey and analysis.

Action: All partners to respond to Lesley’s request for QC documents a.s.a.p.

JRA2 : Technical development of the interoperable system componentsBy Dick Schaap, MARIS

5 groups of Tasks :

1. Discovery services

Harmonize and optimise the meta-databases and controlled vocabularies.Update the directories continuously (number of modalities to cope with all NODCs)Central master database must be maintained (driver who keeps the system working)3 types of maintenance : Online maintenance via Central systems, XML semi-automatic export, XML automatic export (Harvesting).

Milestones : o Optimise and document each Directory : 1st draft September _ Final version Feb 07o Define controlled vocabularies : Draft Oct 06 – Operational Dec 06o Entry systems for new formats operational in all 3 modalities by Sept 07

Make use of Web services :o Web services for controlled vocabularies V0 by BODC by Oct 06o Install intermediate Web service for each Directory so that NODCs can develop their

own user interface on top of this for local, regional and thematic portals o Specifications for intermediate Web Services by TTT (Feb 07)o Develop Web services for each directory by BODC, MARIS and BSH (Sep 07)#o Web Services and new User Interfaces including Geographical functionality fully

operational by February 2008 o NODCs choose their preferred modality for updating (between Sep 07 and Feb 08)

Tagging system to avoid duplicates.Duplicates will be in the system, because many centres manage same data sets, for example databases from joint cruises or projects like Mater, Medatlas 2002, World Ocean Atlas etc. We must prevent that users are confronted with duplicates, which can not be identified as such. CDI can hold the key to ban new ‘unknown’ duplicates in the future: a data centre should compare with each CDI update whether the data set matches with a data set already referred in the central CDI directory. The matching comparison should be done with a number of key fields (4 – 6), that together should provide sufficient evidence. Each CDI gets a unique tag, but duplicates get the

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same tag. For the comparison a generic tool should be developed, that enables each NODC to compare an d to tag its CDIs to the central CDIs in an efficient way.Actions:

Specification and development plan: IFREMER and RNODC will define a draft specification and development plan for such a generic software programme. Based upon TTT agreement of this plan, later on RNODC will write the programme - plan by Dec 2006.

Bob Keeley will provide documentation on a method, that MEDS is using for avoiding duplicates. That info will be studied by the TTT and might lead to other ideas.Security services = Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting (AAA)

Action : A TTT security subgroup chaired by IFREMER will define the roles, compare and select solution for log-on by Dec 06

2. Monitoring and statistics

Actions: Monitoring and usage : list of required web statistics will be defined by IFREMER (Sep 06)System monitoring : IFREMER and HNODC will select appropriate software for remote testing of system performance

3. Delivery services

Shopping request to be answered.

Version 1 : The user will be able to get copies of selected data sets in files (or part of original files) from the local systems. Operating this V1 will require local software to extract the data from the databases. This could be solved by a general JavaTool, the pilot to be tested on 4 data centres. The Roll out to other TTT data centres is planned for Sept 07, while V1 should be fully operational by Feb 08.

Actions: To define an Uniform Format for delivery : NetCDF, ASCII format both incorporating

the common vocabularies will be defined by the TTT - Data Access subgroup chaired by BODC, Oct 06

To define, develop, implement and test pilot for 4 data centres - TTT Data access subgroup – Feb 07

Note: using inter alia experiences and elements from RNODCs E2EDM pilot project.

Version 2: Data virtualization, thereby defining features for:• Points• Profiles• Grid• Trajectories.

4. Viewing services

No details yet.

JRA2 Actions List:The planned actions are validated in the subgroups of TTT.JRA3 : Portable data management software developmentBy Reiner Schlitzer, AWI

Ocean Data View (ODV) is a software package for the interactive exploration, analysis and visualization of oceanographic and other geo-referenced profile or sequence data. It has been developed for WOCE and other major international projects by AWI (Reiner Schlitzer).

Users may download any of the available ODV software versions and optional packages when registered on http://odv.awi.de/.Use: off-line on various Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix platforms.

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Ocean Data View will be further developed by AWI in JRA3 activities for integrating remote sensing data, new standards, perform training and build capacities in SeaDataNet data centres.Ocean Data View provides easy access to data and interactive controls for data exploration and visualisation.

ODV Visualisation types : property-property plots Scatter mode Section mode Surface mode : isodepth or isopicnal surfaces Vector plots Animations Patches

20 gigabytes of data are available on AWI website in ready-to-use ODV format : WOCE data (bottle, XBT, current meters, profiling floats, CTD, …), river discharge data

ODV’s role in SeaDataNet : Common data manipulation and visualisation tool Provide access to SeaDataNet data streams for scientific use Use ODV for quality control within SeaDataNet data centres

o Easy spotting and identification of outlineso Logging of all values or flags modificationso Automatic range checks and manual or automatic editing

Use ODV for capacity building (equipment of new data centres ) and training (NA3)

Help may be needed by some data centres to extract their data and make them available into ODV and then to include back (after QC) their data into their data management systems.

ODV displays original data values or gridded fields based on the original data. Two very fast weighted averaging gridding algorithms are employed. One of them, the VG Gridding method, evaluates the distributions on a variable resolution grid. ODV resolves small-scale features and provides high grid resolution in areas of high data density, whereas in domains with few or no data, larger averaging length-scales are used and a coarser grid is constructed. In contrast to objective analysis, this method is very fast and thus suited for interactive data browsing. The method is semi-automatic, requiring little or no user input, and produces fields of high accuracy and resolution in most cases. Objective analysis is not used in ODV because of too long computing times, and because of a general unavailability of data covariance information required by the objective analysis method..

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6 - Joint Research Activities Sessions – Scientific ProductsChair : Jean-Marie Beckers (replaced by Dick Schaap)

The similar working contents of the regional activities are not repeated, the specific issues are. JRA4 : Geostatistical analysis toolsBy Jean-Marie Beckers, University of Liège, presented by Serge Scory

The 5 tasks of the workpackage include 1) the coordination, 2) the specification and development of two versions of the methodology and software for objective analysis including:- Computation of the cllimatological fields- Cloud filling of the surface satelleite images by using same interpolation methos as for the

computation of the climatologies.

The method will be based on:- the Variational inverse model (VIM) for the horizontal interpolation- a multi-variate version of DINEOF approach (empirical orthogonal functions) for the vertical

computation from the surface to the deep layers.- The static stability condition and other constrains- The update of the DIVA software for the implementation.

All the available methods have critical points, which are:- biases in the means estimates due to un-homogeneous data distribution;- lack of synopticity in the cruises analysis (tides and instabilities);- difficult quantification of the errors: instrumental (low), representativeness (ex: skin effect for

temperature), interpolation and gridding errors.

Therefore parameter calibration will be made by cross-validation in the multivariate version, comparisons with observations and other climatologies. Strong connection with JRA3 and ODV is necessary and tools will be developed to present the data in both cases. ODV will be used for rapid assessments and DIVA/VIM or objective interpolation for computing as accurate as possible analysis and errors bars, which are necessary to estimate before any computation of means and detection of trends.

Actions- The Regional groups have to define the dataset they will send to GHER for the version 1 in order

to test the method and software (Serge will ask JMB to prepare a short note on what is expected from the partners).

- Make decision on Methological options o Regional correlation lenghtso For regions void of data: mask or extrapolate?o for vertical interpolation: 3D by stacking of 2D or EOF.

JRA5 : Mediterranean productsBy Marina Tonani and Nadia Pinardi, INGV

4 tasks in SeaDataNet: Coordination Preparation and dissemination of the best average annual and seasonal for satellite data

collocated with in situ data : surface data Preparation and dissemination of the best average annual and seasonal for in situ data : sub-

surface data Quality checks and harmonisation of the data.

INVG is working from several years on Mediterranean climatologies and is experienced in testing both datasets and methods. Comparison between MEDATLAS and MED6 climatology.

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JRA6 : Black sea productsBy Sukru Besiktepe

The 4 tasks of the workpackage will be facilitated by the NATO data base created in 1994 and continuously updated, combined with the MEDAR/MEATLAS data set (271 data sets, more than 30 000 stations, covering last 100 years). The quality flags scale of the data is compatible with MEDAR-MEDATLAS.For the objective analysis, the Regional Black Sea Group will collaborate with CLS and with Liège university.

It is foreseen that this workpackage will benefit from the enhancement of the data flow within the Black Sea SCENE (BSS) project (presented by Peter Davis).

JRA7 : Baltic productsBy Jacob Carstensens

With its average of 50 m, and its maximum depth 459 m, the Baltic Sea is a sensitive ecosystem due to its limited exchange with the open ocean. It is also an ecosystem that has received much attention due to the environmental problems, particularly eutrophication and harmful substances. It is therefore envisaged that the Baltic Sea products will be of high interests to scientists, authorities and the general public.The workpackage is similar to the other regional workpackages (JRA5-9), and therefore coordination of activities between JRA3 and JRA4 and theregional workpackages was suggested and later initiated.

JRA8 : North and Arctic seas productsBy Helge Sagen

This regional workpackage is very extended, covering different regions and environments: North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Polar Seas. Accordingly, the work on the regional parameterization is expected to be relatively important.

JRA9 : Atlantic and Global products,By Christine Coatanoan, Fabienne Gaillard, Emmanuelle Autret, Thomas LoubrieuOn the Atlantic and global ocean, an objective analysis is performed on the temperature and salinity profiles, in operational mode (daily + weekly + yearly). The goals are : - to detect residual outliers on the data and send alert signal- to provide a view of the base content and evolution of the in-situ overall observation availability- to follow in real time the evolution of the temperature and salinity fields- to calibrate the profilers in delayed mode- to improve the yearly climatologies with new cleaned data.The reduced gridded data on standard levels of the 3-D fields are disseminated on a FTP site with controlled access.

By feedback information to the sensors owners and continuous update of the QC methodology, the objective analysis contributes to improve the data quality to the results of the models. SeaDataNet should allow to compare the results of two methodologies for temperature and salinity, and extend the capacity to bio-chemical parameters.

Harmonisation issuesBy Vittorio Barale and Frédérique Blanc

The harmonization task will insure that the products and indicators computed in the different regions yields comparable results and vocabularies.

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7 - Coordination Group Meeting Chair Catherine Maillard

Financial deliverablesby Marie-Pierre Zelverte, Ifremer

The annual financial reporting is detailed in the presentation , including the definition of eligible costs and non eligible costs and the template. An important point is that the hours (and man/month) spent on each workpackage (NA1, NA2, NA3, NA4, NA5, NA6, NA7, NA8, JAR1, JRA2, JRA3, JRA4, JRA5, JRA6, JRA7, JRA8, JRA9) should be administered individually as the template for the activities report includes tables similar to the Technical Annex tables “Human Effort” in front of each activity. The expected time spent on the coordination of these activities should be close to the technical annex (divided by 5 for each year), including some time in NA4 for ICES (P19) and in JRA6 for the Black products for SIO-RAS (P32).

Steering committee report,By Catherine Maillard

The draft Steering Committee report was presented, witrh emphasis on the 18 months work plan and the critical points that are: - standards availability, availability of the software for the training.- Preparation of training : IOC questionnaire to volunteers for trainees and trainers- 2 international conferences: one back to back with the 2nd annual Workshop in Athens, one in

March 2010, possibly in Spain.- Benchmark of data circulation every 6 months.

Other questions discussed

Choice of a new logo: it was decided to make a competition (deadline end of June). This will be coordinated by George Zodiatis, who will collect draft logos from partners and set up a website for voting.

Attention was drawn to the ICES conference in next September : Poster for SeaDataNet because it is a starting project. An abstract has been sent for a poster and another for the standards. Dick Schaap has sent in an abstract for a presentation on Sea-search CDI results + introducing SeaDataNet

Next meetings Steering committee in October 2006 Next plenary meeting in March / April 2007. The possibility of the venue in Italy, back to back

with IODE conference is investigated.

8 - Closure of the MeetingBy Catherine Maillard, Co-ordinator

The meeting was closed with great thanks from all the audience to HCMR , Dr; Balopoulos and his colleagues for the outstanding organisation and the continuous support provided all along the meeting, a key factor of success.

It was followed by the visit of the Crete’s Aquarium managed by HCMR, one of the most important in Europe and hosting Mediterranean species as well as fishes from all around the world in beautifully reconstructed habitat, with explanations written in several European languages.

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9 - List of Participants

a/a NAME INSTITUTE COUNTRY

1. SELENICA AgimPOLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA

ALBANIA

2. BECKERS Jean-Marie ULG BELGIUM

3. HERNANDEZ FranciscoInstitution: Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ

BELGIUM

4. DENEUDT KlaasFLANDERS MARINE INSTITUTE/VLIZ

BELGIUM

5. MEERHAEGHE Angelino RBINS/MUMM BELGIUM

6. SCORY Serge RBINS/MUMM BELGIUM

7. SLABAKOV Hristo Institute of Oceanology, BAS BULGARIA

8. KEELEY Bob Marine Environmental Data Service CANADA

9. DADIC VladoInstitute of ocenaography and fisheries, Split

CROATIA

10. KARAOLIA AndriaOceanography Centre, University of Cyprus

CYPRUS

11. KONSTANTINOU IakovosOceanography Centre, University of Cyprus

CYPRUS

12. ZODIATIS GeorgeOceanography Centre, University of Cyprus

CYPRUS

13. CARSTENSEN Jacob National Environmental Research Institute

DENMARK

14. MANSCHER Ole H. NERI DENMARK

15. KÕUTS TarmoMarine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology

ESTONIA

16. LILOVER Madis-Jaak Tallinn University of Technology ESTONIA

17. HIETALA Riikka FIMR FINLAND

18. OLSONEN Riitta FIMR FINLAND

19. BLANC Frédérique CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) FRANCE

20. COATANOAN Christine IFREMER FRANCE

21. FICHAUT Michele IFREMER FRANCE

22. HARSCOAT Valérie IFREMER FRANCE

23. MAILLARD Catherine IFREMER FRANCE

24. TREGUER Mickael IFREMER FRANCE

25. ZELVERTE Marie Pierre IFREMER FRANCE

26. BILASHVILI Kakhaber Tbilisi State University GEORGIA

27. CHIKVILADZE Khatuna Tbilisi State University GEORGIA

28. NAST Friedrich BSH GERMANY

29. SCHLITZER Reiner Alfred Wegener Institute GERMANY

30. BALOPOULOS E. HCMR/HNODC GREECE

31. IONA Sissy HCMR/HNODC GREECE

32. KARAGEVREKIS Pelopidas HCMR/HNODC GREECE

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a/a NAME INSTITUTE COUNTRY

33. LYKIARDOPOULOS Aggelo HCMR/HNODC GREECE

34. ARVANITIDIS Christos HCMR/IMBG GREECE

35. FAULWETTER Sarah HCMR/IMBG GREECE

36. MAGOULAS Andonis HCMR/IMBG GREECE

37. VASILEIADOY Katerina HCMR/IMBG GREECE

38. HENNESSY Martina Marine Institute IRELAND

39. GERTMAN IsaacIsrael Oceanographic & Limnological Research

ISRAEL

40. LUNIN IrenaIsrael Oceanographic & Limnological Research

ISRAEL

41. BROSICH Alberto OGS, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

ITALY

42.BUONGIORNO NARDELLI Bruno

Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima- Sezione di Roma-CNR

ITALY

43. GIORGETTI Alessandra OGS, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

ITALY

44. MANZELLA Giuseppe ENEA ITALY

45. TONANI Marina INGV ITALY

46. POIKANE Rita University of Latvia, Institute of Aquatic Ecology

LATVIA

47. KABBARA Nijad National Centre for Marine Sciences LEBANON

48. AZZOPARDI Joel IOI-MOC MALTA

49. DRAGO AldoIOI-Malta Operational Centre, University of Malta

MALTA

50. LARISSI Jamila INRH MOROCCO

51. SAGEN Helge Institute of Marine Research NORWAY

52. KRZYMINSKI WlodzimierzInstytut Meteorologii I Gospodarki Wodnej

POLAND

53. BAPTISTA Rui Manuel Reino Instituto Hidrográfico PORTUGAL

54. D'OZOUVILLE Laurent EurOcean PORTUGAL

55. COMAN Claudia NIMRD “GRIGORE ANTIPA” ROMANIA

56. MIKHAILOV Nicolay RIHMI-WDC RUSSIAN FEDERATION

57. SHIGANOVA TamaraP.P.Shirshov Institute of oceanology RAS

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

58. MALACIC Vlado National Institute of Biology SLOVENIA

59.DE ARMAS Demetrio Instituto Español de Oceanografía SPAIN

60. GARCÍA María Jesús Instituto Español de Oceanografía SPAIN

61. SÁNCHEZ LEAL Ricardo F. Instituto Español de Oceanografía SPAIN

62. FYRBERG Lotta SMHI SWEDEN

63. SZARON Jan SMHI SWEDEN

64. BORST J.C. RIJKSWATERSTAAT - RIKZ THE NETHERLANDS

65. DAVIS Peter MARIS B.V. THE NETHERLANDS

66. DE BRUIN Taco NL-NODC THE NETHERLANDS

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a/a NAME INSTITUTE COUNTRY

67. SCHAAP Dick M.A. MARIS THE NETHERLANDS

68. SAMMARI Chérif INSTM TUNISIA

69. BESIKTEPE Sukru METU-IM TURKEY

70. LOWRY Roy BODC UK

71. VICKERS Karen BODC UK

72. GODIN Eugeny Marine Hydrophisical Institute UKRAINE

73. KHALIULIN Alexey Marine Hydrophisical Institute UKRAINE

74. WILLIS Zdenka S. DoC/NOAA/NESDIS/National Oceanographic Data Center ( NODC)

UNITED STATES

75. BARALE Vittorio EC Joint Research Centre INTERNATIONAL

76. SARACCO Lorenza European Commission INTERNATIONAL

77. GILLIN Julie ICES INTERNATIONAL

78. PISSIERSSENS Peter IOC/IODE (OF UNESCO) INTERNATIONAL

79. VLADYMYROV Vladimir IOC/IODE (OF UNESCO) INTERNATIONAL

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