Colour of Ocean Data - Sessions
The Palais des Congrès, Brussels, Belgium
25-27 November 2002
COD sessions
The symposium consisted of an opening session, five technical sessions with invited presentations, selected oral and poster presentations, and a final panel discussion. Follow the links below to find more details on each of the sessions, and a downloadable copy of the presentations.
All sessions were consecutive and consisted of one or two invited contributions, followed by submitted oral presentations. After each of the technical sessions, there was a poster session with the relevant posers.
- Opening session
- Marine capacity building in global programmes;
Chair: Murray Brown, Phoenix Training Consultants, USA
- Biodiversity data;
Chair: Mark Costello, Director, Ecoserve, Ireland
- Ecological and community data;
Chair: Carlo Heip, Director, Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands
- New internet developments;
Chair: Peter Pissierssens, Head, Ocean Services IOC (IOC/OCS), France;
- Case studies;
Chair: Sydney Levitus, Director, World Data Centre for Oceanography – Silver Spring, USA
- Panel discussion;
Chair: Savi Narayanan, Marine Environmental Data System, Canada