IODE 50th Anniversary International Conference

21 - 22 March 2011,

Liège
Belgium

Annotated Agenda

21/3 <h2>DAY 1</h2>
21/3 08h30 Registration and Poster Display Preparation
21/3 09h30 <b>OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE</b>
21/3 09h30. Welcome by local host
21/3 09h40. Welcome by the IODE Co-Chairs
21/3 10h00. Address by Dr. W. Watson-Wright, ADG/IOC and Executive Secretary IOC
21/3 10h15. Address by Mr Dirk Van Melkebeke, Secretary-General, Department Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI)
21/3 10h35 <i>BREAK AND POSTERS</i>
21/3 11h00. Address by Jean-Pascal van Yperseele de Strihou, Vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – (by videoconference)
21/3 11h15. IODE: 50 years of serving the global community (I. Oliounine)
21/3 11h45 <b>SESSION 1: Ocean Data Products and Services</b>
21/3 11h45. Paper 1.1: Is sea level rising along African Coasts? (A. Aman)
21/3 12h00. Paper 1.2: Application of the World Ocean Database to climate studies (S. Levitus)
21/3 12h15. Paper 1.3: EMODNET (J. Mees)
21/3 12h30. Paper 1.4: The Essential Climate Variables (ECV) Data Access Matrix (C. Lief)
21/3 12h45. Paper 1.5: Ocean Data Portal: Past, Present and Future (S. Belov)
21/3 13h00 <i>LUNCH + POSTERS</i>
21/3 14h00. Address by Minister Jean-Marc Nollet, Vice-Minister-President of Wallonia and the French Community, Walloon Minister for Sustainable Development and the Civil Service, Community Minister for Childhood, Research and the Civil Service
21/3 14h15. Paper 1.6: Oceanographic data, products and services offered by the National Oceanographic Data Centre – India (P. Rao)
21/3 14h30. Paper 1.7: Australia’s Interface to Open Access Marine Data. (G. Reed)
21/3 14h45. Paper 1.8: High-Resolution Water Level Data in Support of Tsunami Research (M. Gregg for K. Stroker)
21/3 15h00. Paper 1.9: SeaDataNet – pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management, present state and relations to other initiatives, such as EMODNet (D. Schaap)
21/3 15h15. Paper 1.10: 170 years of oceanography in Belgium: Evolving needs, evolving means (S. Scory)
21/3 15h30 <i>BREAK + POSTERS</i>
21/3 16h00. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 1
21/3 16h15 <b>SESSION 2: Marine Information Products and Services</b>
21/3 16h15. Paper 2.1: AgriOcean Dspace (S. Dister)
21/3 16h30. Paper 2.2: Quelles contributions de l’IODE dans la mise en œuvre de plans de Communication dite « Grand Public » dans ses programmes de formation destinés aux institutions membres de Odinafrica , (I. Sakho)
21/3 16h45. Paper 2.3: Establishing open institutional repositories in Ukraine – achievements & perspectives (O. Akimova)
21/3 17h00. Paper 2.4: Open Access to Scientific Information (L. Pikula)
21/3 17h15. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 2
21/3 17h30 Group Photo
21/3 18h30-21h00 <b>Dinner at the Cloister of the Saint-Paul Cathedral (including IODE Achievement Award Ceremony)</b>
22/3 <h2>DAY 2</h2>
22/3 09h00 <b>SESSION 3: Benefits of IODE Training and Capacity Building</b>
22/3 09h00. Paper 3.1: Impact of IODE on establishment and capacity building of the Ukrainian NODC-Biology (V. Vladymyrov)
22/3 09h15. Paper 3.2: African Marine Atlas: an opportunity for Africa coastal management (F. Cuff)
22/3 09h30. Paper 3.3: Capacity Development for Marine Sciences in Africa (D. Masalu)
22/3 09h45. Paper 3.4: OceanTeacher: IODE’s Capacity Development Strategy for Marine Data and Information (G. Reed)
22/3 10h00. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 3
22/3 10h30 BREAK
22/3 11h00 <b>SESSION 4: Future perspectives</b>
22/3 11h00. Paper 4.1:Marine Knowledge 2020 (I. Shepherd)
22/3 11h15. Paper 4.2: Data Publication: a New Paradigm for IODE Data Management? (R. Lowry)
22/3 11h30. Paper 4.3: A Study on the Application of Distributed Database Management System (DDMS) at NIO (G. Reddy)
22/3 11h45. Paper 4.4: Developing the new ICSU World Data System (WDS) (L. Rickards)
22/3 12h00. Paper 4.5: OBIS (E. Vanden Berghe)
22/3 12h15. Paper 4.6: Marine Spatial Planning (C. Ehler)
22/3 12h30. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 4
22/3 12h45 LUNCH
22/3 14h00 <b>ROUNDTABLE: 50 years of IODE: Achievements, emerging requirements and future plans</b>
22/3 14h15. Introduction (S. Iona)
22/3 14h30. Discussions
22/3 15h00 BREAK
22/3 15h30. Address by Minister Sabine Laruelle, Minister for SMEs, the Self-Employed, Agriculture and Scientific Policy (Federal Government)
22/3 15h45 Closing remarks
22/3 16h15 <b>END OF CONFERENCE</b>