Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
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The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) was established by resolution 2.31 adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

. It first met in Paris at Unesco Headquarters from 19 to 27 October 1961. Initially, 40 States became members of the Commission.

The IOC is composed of its Member States (129 in 2004), an Assembly, an Executive Council and a Secretariat. The Secretariat is based in Paris, France. Additionally the IOC has a number of Subsidiary Bodies.

For the coordinated exchange of information and data between the member states and its national oceanographic data centers, in 1961 the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) was established.

IOC oversees the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific.

History

The founding 40 member states were: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Viet-Nam.

See also

  • Global Ocean Observing System
    GOOS
    GOOS is a global system for sustained observations of the ocean comprising the oceanographic component of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems...

  • Global Climate Observing System
    Global Climate Observing System
    The Global Climate Observing System is an international institution co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization , the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme , and the International Council for Science...

  • Integrated Ocean Observing System
    Integrated Ocean Observing System
    The Integrated Ocean Observing System is an organization of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems...

  • Ocean Observations
    Ocean Observations
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  • Ocean Observatories Initiative
    Ocean Observatories Initiative
    The Ocean Observatories Initiative is an NSF Division of Ocean Sciences program that focuses the science, technology, education and outreach of an emerging network of science driven ocean observing systems...

  • Argo
    Argo
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  • World Ocean Database Project
    World Ocean Database Project
    The World Ocean Database Project, or WOD, is a project established by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission . The project leader is Sydney Levitus who is director of the International Council for Science World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring...


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