On the morning of Friday 14 December, the group toured the NIWA laboratory at Greta Point in Wellington where they were hosted by Dr Els Maas, a member of the UNESCO Natural Sciences Sub-commission.
The Fourth Technical Workshop of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) on Ocean Forecasting System will take place in Bogor, Indonesia, 5-6 March 2013 with the kind host of the Research and Development Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia.