An important milestone towards Black Sea GOOS:
Black Sea GOOS Workshop, Poti (Georgia), 22-25 May,
2001
IOC
Reports of Meetings
Experts and Equivalent Bodies
Black Sea GOOS Workshop Second Session,
Georgia, 2001
(GOOS Report 109)
The purpose of the meeting was:
- to advance the strategy and implementation plans for the Black Sea GOOS;
- to discuss user needs;
- to finalize the Memorandum of Understanding of the Black Sea GOOS;
- to establish a formal Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee to oversee the further implementation of
the observing system for the Black Sea.
This meeting was chaired by Valeriy Eremeev (Ukraine), and was attend by 39 people, from the 6 Black Sea coastal states, (Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania,
Bulgaria and Turkey), UNESCO, GEF, the Netherlands, and the EuroGOOS Office. Generous host facilities were
provided by the Port Authority of Poti. The Meeting approved a draft MoU for the constitution and management of
the Black Sea GOOS, and discussed a draft MoU which would provide for working relationships with
the EuroGOOS. The latter will be reviewed, revised, and circulated for comment to all Members of
the EuroGOOS, and then submitted for acceptance at the EuroGOOS Annual Meeting. There is strong interest in developing
a Ferry Box in the Black Sea: the contact is Ilkay Salihoğlu. The meeting discussed the possibility of
operrating profiling floats in the Black Sea. One representative from each of the Black Sea GOOS countries will attend the European Commission “Cluster” meeting for operational oceanography
from 18-20 June.
All the countries bordering the Black Sea are Members of the Council of Europe, and so, in principle the agencies from these countries could apply for Membership of
the EuroGOOS
Background information was provided on GOOS, EuroGOOS, Black Sea environmental programs, SeaNet, national observing activities/plans in the riparian countries, user needs for marine products. The workshop approved in principle, a draft strategy and implementation plan, a memorandum of understanding that
would establish a formal Black Sea GOOS
organization and a subsequent Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee.
List of Participants
Bulgaria
Ministry of Education and Science:
GANCHEV Mihail
Maritime
Administration:
SIMEONOV Nikolai
Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences Institute of Oceanology: SLABAKOV Hristo
Georgia
Tbilisi State University Faculty of Geography-Geology:
JOASHVILI Shalva
Faculty of Geography Tbilisi State University:
KHOMERIKI Irakli,
KORIDZE Avto
Romania
National Institute for Marine Research
&
Development ”Grigore Antipa”: BOLOGA Alexandru
National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology: CORDONEANU
Elena
National
Institute for Marine Research & Development ”Grigore Antipa”:
MALCIU Viorel
Russian Federation
Hydrometeocentre of Russia:
ABOUZIYAROV Zyiadin R.
Rushydzomet:
KHODKIN Sergey S.
Southern Branch of the Shirshov Oceanological Institute:
KOS’YAN Ruben D.
Russian
Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography: METREVELI Mikhail
Research
Center State Research Navigation and Hydrographic Institute of the Russian
Navy:
OPARIN Alexandre
Rushydzomet State Oceanography
Institute: POSTNOV
Alexandr
Turkey
Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council:
ALTINER Demir
Dept. of Navigation,
Hydrography & Oceanography:
ÇUBUKÇU Nazım
METU
Institute of Marine Sciences: SALIHOGLU
Ilkay
Ukraine
(Chair) The Oceanography Centre of
UNAS:
EREMEEV Valeriy
Marine
Branch of Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute: ILYIN Yuriy
Marine Hydrophysical Institute: KOROTAEV
Gennady
Marine Hydrophysical Institute of
Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences:
KUBRYAKOV
Alexander,
Proectgidrostroy: ZIZAK Vilemir P.
Other participants
Tbilisi State University:
BILASHVILI Karhabez
Tbilisi
State University: DOLIDZE Jemal
Port
of Poti:
GVALIA Devi
Megaflot Georgia: KAVLASHVILI George
State
Department of Hydrometeorology of Georgia:
KORDZAKHIA George,
KIKNADZE Archil
Kolcheti Hydro Service Tbilisi:
KVACHAKIDZE Avtandil
Tbilisi State
University Chair of Meteorology and Oceanology: METREVELI George
Megaflot:
PAPASHVILI Irakli
Tbilisi State
University Faculty of Physics:
SAKVARELIDZE Evgeni
IOC Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission UNESCO:
AARUP Thorkild
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission UNESCO:
TRAVIN Dmitri
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission UNESCO: WHELAN Cherie
The Black Sea Commission and
the Black Sea Environmental Programme
The Black Sea Environmental
Programme:
ACAR Sema
PIV Active Centre for
Monitoring:
MIKHAILOV Valery
Euro GOOS
EuroGOOS, Southampton Oceanography
Centre, VK:
FLEMMING Nic
OCN
The Netherlands
OCN
The Netherlands: VAN DONGEN Frans A.
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