North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)

PICES, the North Pacific Marine Science Organization, is an intergovernmental scientific organization that was established and held its first meetings in 1992. Its present members are Canada, People's Republic of China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, and the United States of America. The purposes of the Organization are as follows;

• Promote and coordinate marine research in the northern North Pacific and adjacent seas especially northward of 30 degrees North;
• Advance scientific knowledge about the ocean environment, global weather and climate change, living resources and their ecosystems, and the impacts of human activities;
• Promote the collection and rapid exchange of scientific information on there issues;

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PICNIC: PICES Carbon Dioxide Related Data Integration for the North Pacific

PICNIC was established to integrate the CO₂ data which is held by 6 PICES member countries: Canada, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia, and US.

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Last update : May 6, 2003