Name of Centre:
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
Full Address:
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
Bidston Observatory
Birkenhead
Merseyside
L43 7RA
United Kingdom
Communication:
Telephone: +44 151 653 8633
Fax: +44 151 652 3950
E-mail: bodcmail@pol.ac.uk
Web pages: http://www.nbi.ac.uk/bodc/bodcmain.html
Contact Person:
External enquiries should be addressed in the first instance to the BODC Enquiries Office, BODC, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead, Merseyside, L43 7RA, United Kingdom
Background and role:
BODC was formed on 1st April 1989 from the Marine Information and Advisory Service (MIAS) Data Banking Section and is hosted by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory on behalf of the Marine Science and Technology Board of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The role of BODC is to (i) provide data management support for UK marine science, particularly NERC community research projects, (ii) maintain and develop the UK's national oceanographic data base, (iii) make high quality oceanographic data available to UK research workers, industry and centraland local government, (iv) collaborate in the international exchange and management of oceanographic data, and (v) . The Data Centre has a staff of 20 data scientists and computer professions.
National activities:
UK national oceanographic database
Data centre for the marine component of UK LOIS RACS
Data centre for the UK LOIS Shelf Edge Study (SES)
Data centre for UK WOCE data
Data centre for the UK Arabesque project
Data centre for the UK PRIME project
Data centre for the United Kingdom Offshore Operators Assocation (UKOOA)
Centre for the UK Digital Marine Atlas Project
Host for the IACMST National Marine Environmental Data Coordinator
International activities:
Coordination of the international exchange of UK oceanographic data
Archive data centre for JASIN 78 project
Archive data centre for JONSDAP 76 project, together with ICES Oceanographic Data Centre and DOD, Hamburg
Archive centre for MEDALPEX Sea Level Data
International Moored Current Meter Inventory
Data centre for NANSEN current meter and thermistor chain data
WOCE 'Delayed-mode' Sea Level Data Assembly Centre
CEC/MAST Ocean Margin Exchange (OMEX) Project Data Center
INternational centre for the GEBCO Digital Atlas
Plans for new activities:
Data/Information Products:
North Sea Project CD-ROM
North Atlantic BOFS CD-ROM
UK Digital Marine Atlas
International Current Meter Inventory
European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED)
GLOSS CD-ROM
GEBCO 97 CD-ROM
General description of the data bank:
Data-Holdings (digital):
Exchange Media: