Welcome to ODINWESTPAC-PP Homepage:
This is a preparatory homepage towards the development of an Ocean Data and Information Network for WESTPAC region.
ODINWESTPAC-PP Pertners

7th Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the WESTPAC
WESTPAC-VII will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia from 26-29 May 2008. [read more]


IOC/WESTPAC International Scientific Symposium
7th IOC/WESTPAC International Scientific Symposium "Natural Hazards and Changing Marine Environment in the Western Pacific will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia from 21-25 May 2008.[read more]


RNODC Activity Report No.18
RNODC Activity Report No.18 is published by Japan Oceanographic Data Center on 25 July, 2007 and it is available at JODC website.


1st NEARGOOS-NOWPAP Joint Training Course on Remote Sensing Data Analysis
1st NEARGOOS-NOWPAP Joint Training Course on Remote Sensing Data Analysis will be held in Nagasaki, Japan from 3-7 September 2007. [read more]


New chair and New coordinator
Mr. Satoshi SATO was appointed as Chair/Coordinator of IWG-ODINWESTPAC and Regional Coordinator for ODINWESTPAC-PP instead of Mr. Kunikazu NISHIZAWA who was changed on April 1, 2007.


ODINWESTPAC-PP was approved by Session of IODE
The proposal to initiate a pilot project of ODINWESTPAC was unanimously adopted at the 19th session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XIX) that was held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy between 12 and 16 March, 2007.
This is also introduced at Website of IOC/WESTPAC, http://westpac.unescobkk.org/index.html.


Prep-Meeting
A preparatory meeting towards the development of an Ocean Data and Information Network for the WESTPAC region (Prep-ODINWESTPAC) was held on 5-6 December 2006 as a symposium session in the 3rd International Workshop for GODAR-WESTPAC which was held in Tokyo, Japan. [read more]