IOC. Reports of Governing and Major Subsidiary Bodies; Vol.:37; 1991
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intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Reports of Governing and Major Subsidiary Bodies Sixteenth Session of the Assembly Paris, 7-21 March 1991 UNESCO intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission 09 JUL1991 Reports of Governing and Major Subsidiary Bodies / \\ kteenth Session if the Assembly aris, 7-21 March 1991 UNESCO SC/MD/97 Paris, 17 April 1991 Original: English In this Series Languages Reports of Governing and Major Subsidiary Bodies, which was Initiated at the beginning of 1984, tho reports of the following meetings havo alroady been Issued: 1. Eleventh Session of the Working Commitloe on international E, F, S, R Oceanographic Data Exchange . 2. Seventeenth Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R, Ar 3. Fourth Session of the Working Committee for Training, E, F, S, R Education and Mutual Assistance 4. Fifth Sossion of the Working Committeo for the Global E, F, S, R Investigation of Pollution in tho Marino Environment 5. First Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for tho Caribbean E, F, S and Adjacent Regions 6. Third Session of the ad hoc Task Team to Study tho Implications, E, F, S, R for the Commission, of the UN Convention on tho Law of tho Soa and tho New Ocean Regime 7. First Session of tho Programme Group on Ocean Processes and Climato E, F, S, R 8. Eighteenth Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R, Ar 9. Thirteenth Session of the Assembly E, F, S, R, Ar 10. Tenth Sossion of the International Co-ordination Group E, F, S, R for the Tsunami Warning System In tho Pacific 11. Nineteenth Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R, Ar 12. Sixth Session of tho IOC Scientific Committeo for tho Global E. F, S Investigation of Pollution in the Marino Environment 13. Twelfth Session of the IOC Working Committoe on E, F, S, R International Oceanographic Data Exchange 14. Second Sossion of the IOC Sub-Commission for E, F, S the Caribbean and Adjacont Regions 15. First Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Eastern Atlantic E, F, S 16. Second Session of the IOC Programme Group on Ocean E, F, S Processes and Climate 17. Twentieth Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R, Ar 18. Fourteenth Session of the Assembly E, F, S. R, Ar 19. Fifth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Southern Ocean E, F, S, R 20. Eleventh Session of the International Co-ordination E, F, S, R Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific 21. Second Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Co-operative E, F Investigation in the North and Central Western Indian Ocean 22. Fourth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Western Pacific E only 23. Twenty-first Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R 24. Twenty-second Session of the Executive Council E, F. S, R 25. Fifteenth Session of the Assembly E, F, S, R 26. Third Session of the IOC Committee on Ocean Processes and Climate E, F, S, R 27. Twelfth Session of the International Co-ordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific E, F, S, R 28. Third Session of the Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions E, S 29. First Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific E only 30. Fifth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Western Pacific E only 31. Twenty-third Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R 32. Thirteenth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange E only 33. Seventh Session of the IOC Committee for the Global Investigation of Pollution in the Marine Environment E, F, S, R 34. Fifth Session of the IOC Committee for Training, Education and Mutual Assistance in Marine Sciences E. F, S, R 35. Fourth Session of the IOC Committee on Ocean Processes and Climate E. F, S, R 38. Twenty-fourth Session of the Executive Council E, F, S, R 37. Sixteenth Session of the Assembly E, F, S, R SC/MD/97 page (i) TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY REPORT Page 1. OPENING 1 2. BRUUN MEMORIAL LECTURES 1 3. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS 1 3.1 ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA 1 3.2 DESIGNATION OF THE RAPPORTEUR 1 3.3 CONDUCT OF THE SESSION, TIMETABLE AND 1 DOCUMENTATION 4. REPORT ON THE COMMISSION’S ACTIVITIES, 1989-1990 2 4.1 SECRETARY’S REPORT ON INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2 4.2 REPORT ON THE COMMISSION’S ACTIVITIES IN 1989-1990 2 5. OCEAN SCIENCES 2 5.1 THE OCEAN’S ROLE IN CLIMATE AND GLOBAL CHANGE: 2 OCEAN PROCESSES AND CLIMATE 5.1.1 Fourth Session of the IOC Committee on Ocean Processes 3 and Climate 5.1.2 Eleventh Session of the SCOR-IOC Committee on 4 Climatic Changes and the Ocean 5.1.3 Study of Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) 5 5.1.4 World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) 5 5.1.5 Ocean Dynamics and Circulation on the 6 Continental Shelf 5.1.6 Other Climate and Global Change Related Ocean Studies 7 5.1.7 The Second World Climate Conference and the Intergovernmental 7 Panel on Climate Change 5.1.8 IGBP Ocean-Related Projects (including JGOFS) 8 5.2 OCEAN SCIENCE IN RELATION TO LIVING RESOURCES (OSLR) 8 5.3 OCEAN SCIENCE IN RELATION TO NON-LIVING RESOURCES IO (OSNLR) 5.4 OCEAN MAPPING 11 5.5 MARINE POLLUTION RESEARCH AND MONITORING 13 (G1PME/MARPOLMON) AND RELATED PROGRAMMES 5.6 MARINE ACOUSTICS 15 SC/MD/97 page (ii) Page 6. OCEAN SERVICES 16 6.1 GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS 16 6.1.1 Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) 16 6.1.2 Global Sea-Level Observing System (GLOSS) 16 6.1.3 Global Coastal Zone and Shelf Seas Observing System 19 6.1.4 Drifting-Buoy Co-operation Panel (DBCP) 20 6.1.5 Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS) 20 6.2 PREPARATION OF GLOBAL OCEAN DATA-SETS 21 6.2.1 Global Temperature-Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) 22 6.2.2 Ocean Personal Computer Project (OCEAN-PC) 23 6.2.3 New Technologies for Data and Information Exchange 24 6.3 TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMS AND RELATED MARINE 24 NATURAL DISASTERS 7. TRAINING, EDUCATION AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN THE MARINE 26 SCIENCES (TEMA) 8. REGIONAL SUBSIDIARY BODIES AND CO-OPERATION 29 8.1 JOINT CCOP-IOC WORKING GROUP ON POST-IDOE STUDIES 29 OF EAST ASIAN TECTONICS AND RESOURCES (SEATAR) and JOINT CCOP/SOPAC-IOC WORKING GROUP ON SOUTH PACIFIC TECTONICS AND RESOURCES (STAR) 8.2 IOC REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE SOUTHERN OCEAN (IOCSOC) 30 8.3 MATTERS ARISING IN OTHER REGIONAL SUBSIDIARY BODIES 31 8.3.1 IOCARIBE 31 8.3.2 WESTPAC 32 8.3.3 IOCINCWIO 33 8.3.4 IOCINDIO 34 8.3.5 IOCEA 35 8.3.6 Collaboration with ROPME 35 8.3.7 Other Regions 37 8.4 MEDITERRANEAN 38 9. CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS OF THE 39 UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM AND OTHER BODIES 9.1 THE INTER-SECRETARIAT COMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC 39 PROGRAMMES RELATING TO OCEANOGRAPHY (ICSPRO) 9.1.1 Twenty-eighth Session of ICSPRO 39 9.1.2 Study of Legal Aspects of Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (ODAS) 40 SC/MD/97 page (iii) Page 9.2 CO OPERATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT 41 PROGRAMME (UNEP) 9.3 CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER BODIES 42 10. PREPARATIONS FOR THE 1992 UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE 43 ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 11. PROGRAMME AND BUDGET 46 11.1 PROGRAMME AND BUDGET FOR 1991 46 11.2 DRAFT' PROGRAMME AND BUDGET FOR 1992-1993 47 12. ENHANCING THE ROLE OF THE COMMISSION 48 13. ELECTIONS 52 13.1 ELECTION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE COMMISSION 53 13.2 ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 53 14. DATES AND PLACES OF THE SEVENTEENTH SESSION OF THE 53 ASSEMBLY, AND THE TWENTY-FIFTH AND TWENTY-SIXTH SESSIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 15. ADOPTION OF THE SUMMARY REPORT 54 16. CLOSURE 54 SC/MD/97 page (lv) ANNEXUS I Agenda II Resolutions III Addresses A. Opening address by Professor Ulf Lie, Chairman of IOC B. Address by Mr. Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO C. Address by Professor Adnan Badran, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Science IV Memlier States of the Commission and its Officers A. List of IOC Member States (as of 22 March 1991) B. Officers of the Commission (as of 22 March 1991) V Bruun Memorial Lectures 1991 (Abstracts) VI Summary of the Statement by the Delegate of Kuwait on Agenda Item 8.3.6 VII Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: A Strategy for the Future YHI Modalities of support that Member States could provide to ensure the success of activities promoted and co-ordinated by the IOC IX List of Participants X List of Working Documents XI List of Acronyms SC/MD/97 h OPENING 1 Tho Chairman, Professor Ulf Lie, opened the Sixteenth Session of the IOC Assembly at 10.00 on 7 March 1991. 2 The Assembly took note with appreciation of the statements made by the Chairman, by the Director-General of UNESCO (given on 13 March), Mr. Federico Mayor, and the Assistant Director- General of UNESCO for Science, Mr. Adnan Badran, on the occasion of the opening of the Assembly (Annex III-A, B and C). 3 The Chairman called on the participants to stand in silence for one minute as a mark of respect for distinguished individuals who had collaborated with the Commission or had been concerned with marine science and had passed away since the Fifteenth Session.