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Oceanography Committee

The Committee's area of responsibility is physical, chemical, and pelagic biological oceanography, especially with regard to the processes relevant to living marine resources and environmental quality. Included are such issues as impacts of climate variability, physical, chemical and biological fluxes in coastal areas, shelf seas and the open ocean.

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Members

Documentation and Information

Timetable for 2002 Subsidiary Group activities
Terms of Reference for 2002 Subsidiary Group activities (PDF)
Reports from Committee/Working Group/Study Groups/Workshop

Working Groups/Study Groups (* indicates link to Home page). Please contact harry@ices.dk for more information
Oceanic Hydrography [WGOH]
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Marine Data Management[WGMDM] *
ICES-IOC Study Group on the Development of Marine Data Exchange Systems using XML [SGXML]
Zooplankton Ecology[WGZE] *
ICES-IOC Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics[WGHABD] *
Phytoplankton Ecology[WGPE]
Study Group on an ICES/IOC Checklist of Phytoplankton and other Protists [SGPHYT]
Seabird Ecology[WGSE]
Recruitment Processes[WGRP]
Study Group on Incorporation of Process Information into Stock Recruitment Models [SGPRISM]
ICES/GLOBEC Working Group on Cod and Climate Change[WGCCC]
ICES-IOC Steering Group on GOOS[SGGOOS]ICES GOOS Implementation Plan
Study Group on Modelling of Physical/Biological Interactions [SGPBI]
ICES-EuroGOOS Planning Group on the North Sea Pilot Project [PGNSP]

2002 Workshops

Workshop on New Perspectives in Understanding and Predicting Eutrophication [WKNUPE]
Workshop on the Transport of Cod Larvae [WKTCL]

Products

Environmental Status Reports
CRR 244 on Report of the Workshop on Gadoid Stocks in the North Sea during the 1960s and 1970s (The Fourth ICES/GLOBEC Backward-Facing Workshop) - in PDF