2004 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Event	*GPO Staff*	GOOS Rep.	Meeting Contact	Place	Dates
SCAR-XVIII Planning Meeting	CS			Bremerhaven	Jan 20-21
COOP-VI	TA			Wellington, New Zealand	Jan 26-29
2nd Indian Ocean GOOS Mtg	WE			Mombasa	Jan 28-30

IGOS International Themes meeting	TA			Tokyo	Feb 4-6
2nd Regional GOOS Forum	CS, JT			Nadi, Fiji	Feb 7-9
GLOSS Training Workshop on Sea Level Data Analysis	TA			Kuala Lumpur	Feb 8-21
Celebration of UK Sea Level Science - meeting UK Royal Society	TA			London	Feb 16-17
6th CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel meeting jointly with the 1st CLIVAR-IOC Indian Ocean Panel meeting	WE			Pune, India	Feb 18-20
GEO-3 Meeting	BL, PB			Cape Town	Feb 23-27
IGOS Coastal Theme Meeting	TA			Paris	Feb 23-25

WCRP Joint Scientific Committee 25th Session	AF			Moscow	Mar 1-6
Second Annual ARENA Meeting	TA			Sofia	Mar 3-5
Guinea Current LME Planning Meeting	JA			Vienna	Mar 3-7
GLOSS Technical Expert visit	TA			Iran	Mar 7-14
GCOS Steering Committee XII	AF			Geneva	Mar 15-18
Oceanology International 2004	CS			London	Mar 16
JCOMM Management Committee III	CS, YT, BL, AF			Geneva	Mar 17-20
6th Consultative Committee Meeting on Large Marine Ecosystems	CS, TA, JA			Paris	Mar 29-30

COOP Socioeconomic Sub-Committee	TA			Halifax	Apr 15-16
NEAR-GOOS Workshop on Development of Data & Products in Operational Oceanography, in conjunction with 6th WESTPAC Scientific Symposium	KH, MF			Hangzhou, China	Apr 19-24
ICES-IOC Steering Group on GOOS	TA			Tenerife, Spain	Apr 20-21
2nd Session of Expert Group for Development of THORPEX Intl Research Impl. Plan	AF			Geneva	Apr 21-23
GEO-4 Meeting & EOS-II	BL, PB			Tokyo	Apr 21-25
GSC-VII	CS			Brest, France	Apr 26-29
Climate Variability Studies in the Ocean Workshop	AF			Trieste	Apr 26-30

JCOMM Workshop on New Ocean Products & MPERSS	YT, JT			Toulouse, France	May 10-15
GEO Implementation Plan Task Team Meeting	PB, BL			Paris	May 13-14
JCOMM ad hoc Task Team on MPERSS	BL			Toulouse, France	May 17-18
CGMS-XXXII			Hiroshi Kawamura	Soci, Russia	May 17-20
JCOMM SCG-II	BL			Toulouse, France	May 19-21
2nd Meeting of the International Steering Committee of BILKO	JA			Southampton, UK	May 19-21
CEOS Working Group on Education, Training & Capacity Building	ED			Paris	May 24-27
Annual Meeting of CEOS Working Group on Education (in the context of UNESCO Crosscutting Project on Remote Sensing and GOOS)	JA			Rome	May 24-27

OOPC-IX	AF, MH			Southampton, UK	Jun 7-10
COOP-VII	TA			Tokyo	Jun 7-11
WMO Executive Council (56th session)	PB, AF, BL			Geneva	Jun 8-18
Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee meeting	TA			Kiev	Jun 15-16
6th Benguela Large Marine Ecosystem Programme (BCLME) Steering Committee Meeting	JA			Luanda, Angola	Jun 16-17
IOC Executive Council (37th session)	all			Paris	Jun 23-29
GLOSS tide gauge installation	TA			Accra	Jun 23-Jul 8

Meeting of ODINAFRICA-III Project Steering Committee	JA			Nairobi	Jul 12-14
COSPAR-2004 Capacity Building Conf.	?			Paris	Jul 18-25

ISABP-X	JT			Rio de Janeiro	Aug 2-6 ?
Workshop for Review of GCOS Implementation Plan	AF			Geneva	Aug 16-18

JCOMM Secretariat meeting	YT, BL, CC			Geneva	Sep 8
SCOR Meeting on Coordination of International Marine Research Projects	PB, KA, HE			Venice	Sep 23-24
GEO Special Session on Governance	PB, BL			Brussels	Sep 27-29

Bruges Airborne Imaginng Spectroscopy Workshop	JA			Bruges	Oct 8
PICES Annual Meeting	MH, MF			Hawaii	Oct 15-23
5th African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) Conference on Geo-Information Sciences in Support of Africa's Development	JA			Nairobi	Oct 18-21
DBCP 20th session	BL, YT, EC	WE		Chennai, India	Oct 18-22
JTA 24th session	BL, YT, EC			Chennai, India	Oct 25-27
Ocean Optics Conference		WE		Fremantle, Australia	Oct 25-29
Artic Observation Network meeting	KA			Washington DC	Oct 27-28

US Agency Representatives meeting	KA			Washington DC	Nov 1-2
2nd GODAE Symposium - GODAE in Operation: Demonstrating Utility	ED	WE		St Petersburg, USA	Nov 1-3
ESEAS and MedGLOSS mtg	TA			Malta	Nov 1-3
GODAE 2nd Symposium		WE		St Petersburg, Florida	Nov 1-3
9th NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee meting	?			Sendai, Japan	Nov 3-5
CLIVAR Ocean Reanalysis Workshop				Boulder	Nov 8-10
International Workshop on Forecasting & Data Assimilation in the Benguella & Comparable Systems	JA	Kwame Koranteng, GOOS Africa Chair		Cape Town	Nov 8-11
CLIVAR Global Synthesis & Observations Panel - 1st session				Boulder	Nov 10-12
PIRATA-X (in association with AGU)	JT			Fortaleza, Brazil	Nov 13-17 ?
2nd International Geophysical Conference	--	--	SGfA	Luanda	Nov 24-26
GEO-5 Meeting	PB, KA, BL			Ottawa	Nov 27-Dec 1
6th POGO Meeting	ED	John Field, Chair ELECT		Brest, France	Nov 29- Dec 1
CLIVAR Indian Ocean Modelling Workshop		Gary Meyers		Honolulu	Nov 29-Dec 3
NEAR-GOOS-IX Coordinating Committee	?			Sendai, Japan	Nov

Workshop on Operational Approaches to Managining Weather Risk	--			Atlanta	Dec 2-3
Co-ordination meeting for the Symposium New Space Services for Maritime Users: The Impact of Satellite Technology on Maritime Legislation, 21-23 Feb. 2005	TA			Brussels	Dec 10
PI-GOOS Meetings		WE		Honolulu & La Jolla	Dec 13-21

GCOS Planning Meetings				?	?
GOOS for IOCEA Region				?	?
IO-GOOS for IOCINDIO Region				?	?
WIOMSA Training Course on Satellite Data			MO	?	?
S. Atlantic GOOS				?	?
IOCARIBE-GOOS Steering Committee	CT			Margarita	?
WESTPAC-JCOMM				?	?
Pacific Islands GOOS		WE		?	?
GRASP Mtg				?	?

Staff members initials ----
KA	Keith Alverson	JT	Janice Trotte
CC	Candyce Clark	MB	Mathieu Belb�och
AF	Albert Fischer	MF	Miguel Fortes
BL	Boram Lee	MH	Maria Hood
CS	Colin Summerhayes	MO	Mika Odido
CT	Cesar Toro	PB	Patricio Bernal
EC	Etienne Charpentier	PP	Peter Pissierssens
ED	Ehrlich Desa	TA	Thorkild Aarup
KH	Kazuya Hashimoto	UU	Umit Unluata
HE	Henrik Enevoldsen	WE	Bill Erb
JA	Justin Ahanhanzo	YT	Yves Tr�glos
JB	Julian Barbiere

GOOS Project Office 2004 Calendar of Events

GOOS Project Office
2004
Calendar of Events