Being the IODE Regional Coordinator for the Black Sea region I, in the first place, maintained contacts and collaborated with Chairman of the IOC Black Sea Regional Committee (BSRC) Prof. Valery Eremeev from the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. As is generally known, one of the main tasks of BSRC is to coordinate and conduct activities on Pilot Project 1 «Black Sea GOOS». The «Black Sea GOOS» aims at developing and evolving system able to acquire, integrate and distribute oceanic observations and data, and to generate analyses, forecasts and other useful products to provide information for decision-makers at governmental level, as well as for industry, science and general public to deal with marine related... |