International Marine Research Project Information

SCOR Project-Coordination Activities―In December 2003, SCOR and IGBP co-sponsored a meeting on data management for international marine research projects. This meeting was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and hosted by the British Oceanographic Data Centre in Liverpool, UK. The purpose of the meeting was to assemble scientists and data managers from marine research projects of SCOR, IGBP, and other organizations to discuss common opportunities and challenges in project data management. A specific goal was to help newly developing projects to determine what elements should be contained in their data management policies, and to recommend elements that all projects should include in their data policies, to make it easier for scientists to share data among projects. The report of the meeting can be found at www.scor-int.org/DataMgmt.htm.

In September 2004, SCOR sponsored a second meeting among ocean research projects with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This meeting was designed to bring together representatives of the major international ocean research and observation projects and programs to discuss common opportunities, issues and problems. The meeting agenda included several specific topics determined in advance to be important inter-project issues, including data management; interactions of projects with the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS); project coordination in the area of Southern Ocean research (including possible links to SCAR) and participation in the International Polar Year; project needs for time-series stations; and future project contributions to global environmental assessments. The report of the meeting can be found at http://www.scor-int.org/Project_Summit_1/ProjCoord.htm.

SCOR Summits of International Marine Research Projects: 2004, 2006, 2009