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 issues, including the effects of the global climate change on the Black Sea region. While discussing problems on international exchange of oceanographic data and information concerned the Black Sea region, it was proposed the existing IODE mechanism could be used for this purpose.

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Sixteenth Session