Information about Publication of the Proceedings for ICIWPf99
The International Conference on the International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange in the Western Pacific 1999 (ICIWPf99) was held in Langkawi, Malaysia from 1st to 4th November 1999. The Conference was aimed to bring together scientists & data managers to discuss new challenges facing the International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange (IODE) system in the region and to identify measures for increasing the effectiveness of the system.
The conference was organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, in collaboration with the Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC) and the Oceanographic Research Coordination Committee of Malaysia, and financially supported by the Nippon Foundation, Science and Technology Agency, Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency.
The first two days of the seminar were dedicated to presentations related oceanography and marine science with the focus on data requirement, data and products needs. The last two days was held workshop for an exchange of views and ideas on how the IODE centers can better respond to the needs of research program and users of marine data. The conference was attended by 113 participants from 14 countries and successfully finished and made many outcomes for activating the IODE system not only in WESTPAC region but also in another regions.
JODC published proceedings of the Conference and sent all participants, related organizations and so on. If someone who attended that meeting has not been received it yet, personal information will be requested for confirmation.
The proceedings will be the most valuable for ocean sciences in the region. Therefore, all authors and co-authors can require proceedings, and researchers and data managers who are interested in the ocean data management in the region will be able to request if they need it. However, there is a limit to the number of copies, so that not all requesters will be able to obtain it.
With regard to outlines of manuscripts of seminar, you can find in eAbstracts for ICIWPf99 (PDF, 278 KB)f on the top page of JODC homepage. However, not all manuscripts in the abstracts are printed in the proceedings because some authors did not give presentations for their absence.
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Toshio NAGAI
Director of Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
WESTPAC Regional Coordinator