Purpose

WESTPAC Region

The project aims to locate, rescue and make available marine data from the WESTPAC region that is in danger of being lost.  Data that is stored on paper or on old media and is not presently available to the WESTPAC scientists will be sort for this project.  Work will be undertaken to digitise the data or re-write the data onto modern media in an effort to safeguard it for future use.  The data will also be quality controlled and then made available through the IODE system.

It is also expected that the project will enhance the IODE activities in the region.

Note: At the 3rd International Workshop for GODAR-WESTPAC, Tokyo Japan, December 2006, it was decided to finish GODAR-WESTPAC as a project, but GODAR activity will be continued by each participated counties, and also agreed to start a discussion for establishment of Ocean Data Information Network (ODIN) in the WESTPAC region in order to improve a capacity of and cooperation on oceanographic data and information exchange in the region.