Establishment of an IOC Project Office for the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): presented at the Twenty-first Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXI), Liège, Belgium, 23-26 March 2011.

The Committee will be briefed on the discussions to establish an IOC Project Office for IODE/Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The Committee will be invited to: • Take note of the general discussions on the Adoption by IODE of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System • Take note of the Business Plan describing the operation of OBIS within the context of IOC, and work plan as formulated by the OBIS Managers Committee and the Ad-Hoc session of the OBIS Steering Group • Study the offer of Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, and the d... Mehr ...