Remember that USS Enterprise-esque ocean research vessel we first ran across back in 2005?
Over the past 50 years, the UNESCO-IOC has led, coordinated and supported a complex, multilateral programme of oceanographic and related ocean research.
The deputies considered nominees for the Governance Coordinating Committee, worked to establish two Interagency Policy Committees, and solidified the connection with the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel.
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They agreed that there is an urgent need for an international framework of cooperation for both ocean research and governance, which will define the conditions for scientist to prepare accurate scenarios for the future.
Noting that current governance remains fragmented along both sectoral and geographical lines that ignore the interconnectivity and scale of ocean issues, they recognized that there is an urgent need for an international framework of cooperation for both ocean research and governance, which will define the conditions for scientist to prepare accurate scenarios for the future.
Through the exhibit, visitors will be able to appreciate the essential need for ocean measurements and the excitement of the new technologies utilized by GOOS. This exhibit includes a display of the Korean coastal observation system and was created with the kind support of the Government of Korea and Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI).
The UNESCO International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) promotes international cooperation in ocean scientific research and in the development of ocean services worldwide.
The IOC, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2010, is a largely autonomous body within UNESCO which promotes international cooperation in ocean scientific research and in the development of ocean services worldwide.
Five members will give IOC Assembly regional representation, while ten experts will assure active engagement from the ocean observation research, implementation and marine management communities.
Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, with funding from Google's Eric Schmidt, is building two three-person submersibles.
UNESCO-IOC is co-founder of the Ocean Acidification network, a central source of information for ocean scientists on research activities in this area.
"Shipwrecks help to fill in some of the unwritten pages of history, " said Frank Cantelas, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
One is Rhode Island, which in two decades lost 10% of its population, much of it to estate-tax-free Florida, according to the Ocean State Policy Research Institute.
Scientists later used the spill to research ocean current patterns.
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The IOC was established in 1960 as a body with functional autonomy within UNESCO with the purpose to promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in ocean and coastal research, services and capacity building.
This new paradigm of abrupt climate change has been well established over the last decade by research of ocean, earth and atmosphere scientists at many institutions worldwide.
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Navigating through the CD-Rom, a child can explore five different branches of Antarctic research: ocean life, glaciers, astronomy, albatrosses and a strange phenomenon called whistlers, which are faint echoes of Northern Hemisphere thunderstorms.
UNESCO-IOC is pledging to coordinate a global and regional assessment of capacity development needs in the field of marine scientific research and ocean observation in developing nations and SIDS, leading to the formulation and implementation of a global capacity development strategy to fill identified gaps.
As such, they form an essential component of marine observing systems established as part of the World Weather Watch, the World Climate Research Programme, the Global Ocean Observing System, the Global Climate Observing System and other meteorological and oceanographic operational and research programmes.
The crew are conducting research on the ocean and raise awareness for environmental causes.
Computer models of modern climate suggest that temperature changes could affect ocean currents, and recent research has found indications that it is happening now in the north Atlantic.
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Less than 5% of the Ocean has been explored and more research is needed to develop meaningful projections.
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Studies by the International Union for Quaternary Research conclude that some ocean levels have even fallen in recent decades.
They aim to provide an interdisciplinary forum to assess what is known about ocean acidification and priorities for future research every 4 years.
Eleven substantive publications were issued by Member States to commemorate the IOC anniversary and its input to the research and protection of the Ocean and coastal zones.
The IOC provides strategic counsel and guidance to member nations on matters of ocean governance in such areas as marine research, observation systems, hazard mitigation and capacity development.
Recently a South African education sailing ship, Lady Amber, has been enlisted to deploy the Argo floats in parts of the Southern Indian Ocean which are otherwise seldom visited by research or cargo vessels.
It was co-founded by Patri Friedman, a grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics, and until recently executive director of the Seasteading Institute, a group producing research on how to build ocean-based communes.
Keith Briffa, from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, said the tropical ocean regions were among the more reliable areas from which to infer large-scale temperature changes.
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