2019

This course will focus on integrated coastal zone management, in the sense that it needs to take on board the ecological, environmental, social and economic aspects of managing a coastal area or zone. The course provides an overview and hands approach on GIS applications necessary towards integrated coastal zone management including the data acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation of spatial data. Participants will develop and build their own case study and make a short presentation at the end of the training course.

The MBON Pole to Pole effort seeks to develop a framework for the collection, use and sharing of marine biodiversity data in a coordinated, standardized manner leveraging on existing infrastructure managed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS; IOC-UNESCO), the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The MBON Pole to Pole aims to become a key resource for decision-making and management of living resource across countries in the Americas for reporting requirements under the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Aichi Targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This course a follow up of the M…

This is a support course to the IOC Training Course and Certification in Identification of Harmful Marine Algae.

The course provides students with both background reading assignments that cover the main course topics and hands-on exercises that explore the essential elements of ocean currents data quality control and analysis methods. The course assists participants in developing specific technical skills and methods for usingocean currents data.

El curso proporcionará las herramientas necesarias para evaluar la calidad de los datos QA/QC que permitan seleccionar sólo aquellos que cumplan con la calidad requerida para el indicador ODS 14.3.1. Aplicar las mejores prácticas para estandarizar y organizar los datos de acuerdo a la metodología 14.3.1. Identificar cuales son las herramientas de análisis más apropiadas  y utilizarlas adecuadamente. Por último los participantes aprenderán a visualizar los resultados de los análisis de manera que sean entendibles para públicos no especializados, incrementando las capacidades en los países para reportar el indicador.

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences

This course provides an overview of regional/international marine observation, application and quality control of CTDs (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth) and their measurements. It will provide an opportunity for participants to exchange the research progress on regional marine observation, and to learn the quality control procedures of CTDs to improve the in-situ oceanographic measurements.

The course provides an introduction to the capabilities of the Remote Sensing for the coral reefs mapping. This includes practices in processing of high spatial resolution remotely sensed data for mapping the nearshore coral reef communities. After the workshop, the trainees will be able to select the most appropriate satellite data in case, and to conduct required image processes on satellite image, as well as to produce final coral maps in GIS software.

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences

Research Design, Data Management & Data Communication in Marine Sciences


Module 6

Marine scientist are usually evaluated by their scientific communication productivity. It is fundamental for getting PhDs, grants, projects and jobs.  Scientific Communication is the output that normally leads to a formal publication of the results, findings, observations and views arising from a scientist’s research project. Most often, the official results are published in the form of printed materials, such as academic journals. Verbal communication channels, such as personal contacts with colleagues and teachers, seminars, workshops, lectures, and conferences, are also vital to the exchange of information among scientists. These types of communications work toward the advancement of the various scientific disciplines. In this Module we address those formal channels of communication…

The 2019 SeaDataCloud training session addresses the whole range of new developments recently made to improve the efficiency of the infrastructure and of the services it offers. Some topics are relevant for the technicians taking care of the availability of the data through the network. Some others will be more relevant to data managers and data analysts, for example in the perspective of a better quality control of the data we provide to our customers or in the process of making data products.

El curso ofrece una introducción para los gestores de datos marinos aplicando el Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG) en el medio marino utilizando el software ArcGIS. Esto incluye la adquisición, procesamiento, análisis e interpretación de los datos y en la creación de productos para apoyar los programas marinos y costeros.