WG 118 on New Technologies for Observing Marine Life

Co-chairs: David Farmer (USA) and Van Holliday (USA)

Other Full Members

	Geoff Arnold (UK)	Olav Godo (Norway)
	Emanuel Boss (USA)	Gaby Gorsky (France)
	Elgar Desa (India)	Mariano Gutierrez Torero (Peru)
	Masahiko Furusawa (Japan)

Sponsors: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Date Approved: 1999

Date Disbanded: 2003

Terms of Reference

• To identify and bring to the attention of the international community of fisheries scientists, marine biologists and others, the potential benefits of emerging technologies in the detection of marine life.

• To explore the relative merits of different technologies and identify those that deserve further research based on their potential for making significant contributions to the detection of marine life.
• To prepare a summary of the results of the Working Group's discussion so as to make it as widely available as possible.

Meetings:
#1—9-11 November 2000
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

#2—28 October 2001
Mar del Plata, Argentina - Subgroup Meeting with Census of Marine Life Pilot Project leaders

#3—28-30 October 2002
Lima, Peru

#4—21-22 October 2003
Washington, D.C., USA

Product:

Website for Activity: http://www.coml.org/scor/scor.htm/

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