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Book of Abstracts INTERNATIONAL MARINE DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE IMDIS 2010 29-31 March 2010 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris France Book of Abstracts Editors Michèle Fichaut, Vanessa Tosello Organised by IFREMER/SISMER EU SeaDataNet project International Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange IODE International Marine Data and Information Systems, IMDIS 2010 - 1 International Marine Data and Information Systems, IMDIS 2010 - 2 Organizing committee Michele Fichaut – Ifremer France Gilbert Maudire, Chair – Ifremer France Loic Petit de la Villéon – Ifremer France Vanessa Tosello – Ifremer France Sissy Iona – HCMR Greece Giuseppe M.R. Manzella – ENEA Italy Dick Schaap – MARIS The Netherlands Peter Pissierssens – IOC Unesco Lorenza Saracco – EC EU International Scientific Committee Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, Chair – Italy Lorenza Saracco - EU Catherine Maillard – France Efstathios Balopoulos – Greece Robert Keeley – Canada Stephen Miller – USA Sidney Levitus - USA Gilbert Maudire – France Dick Schaap – The Netherlands Lesley Rickards – UK Peter Pissierssens – IOC Unesco Reiner Schlitzer – Germany Friedrich Nast – Germany Jean-Marie Beckers – Belgium Nadia Pinardi – Italy Vittorio Barale – EU Nickolay Mikhailov – Russia Michele Fichaut – France Marina Tonani – Italy Helge Sagen – Norway IFREMER/SISMER local Organizing committee M. Fichaut V. Tosello A. Bonnat N. Carn F. Gourtay L. Petit de la Villéon B. Milosavljevic G. Maudire S. Tarot International Marine Data and Information Systems, IMDIS 2010 - 3 International Marine Data and Information Systems, IMDIS 2010 - 4 Table of contents Session 1 - Data quality issues in Ocean science .............................................................................................. 9 Oral presentations ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R): Automating Quality Assessment Across the US Research Fleet........... 11 Quality control of oceanographic data with the Sea of Azov database being exemplified............................ 13 Outcome of IODE’s first workshop on the Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Chemical Oceanographic Data Collections, Ostend, Belgium, 8-11 February 2010.................................................... 15 A Prototype Database and Web Portal for Comparing Argo Delayed Mode QC with that of Operational Centres ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 U.S. Quality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Data (QARTOD).................................................................... 17 SeaDataNet standards for quality control..................................................................................................... 18 Building SensorML Systems for Describing Ocean Observing Systems...................................................... 19 Posters.............................................................................................................................................................. 20 Computing reference profiles of fluorescence to validate historical and incoming data ............................... 20 Data Synthesis and Quality Control of Carbon and Relevant Chemical Parameters in the Pacific Ocean... 21 Integrated data management onboard R/V Aranda ..................................................................................... 22 Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) standardised quality control of sea level observations ....... 23 Project RAIA. Towards a North Portugal - Galician Oceanographic Monitoring Network: Quality control data. ..................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Operation and Data Management of the E1M3A integrated ocean observing system................................. 26 Producing a meaningful visualization of confidence for marine digital datasets........................................... 27 Electronic posters ............................................................................................................................................. 28 Data processing and quality control for the autonomous ocean moored profiler AQUALOG....................... 28 Deriving of oceanographic parameters ranges for the data quality control from the climatological frequency distribution.................................................................................................................................................... 30 Quality control of sampling and measurements at field researches ............................................................. 31 Quality check software for oceanographical data......................................................................................... 34 Mediterranean and Black Sea Stabilized Temperatures and Salinity gridded Climatology. ......................... 36 Session 2 - Data circulation and Services in Ocean science........................................................................... 37 Oral presentations ............................................................................................................................................ 39 SeaDataNet : Project objectives, achievements and future plans................................................................ 39 The Rolling Deck to Repository Project: Transforming the United States Academic Fleet Into an Integrated Global Observing System ............................................................................................................................ 41 Oceanographic Database System at NIO, Goa, India: Recent Improvements............................................. 43 Data services for Pacific Island communities: developing the Pacific Integrated Ocean Observing System 45 Archive and Access of Global Water-Level Data: from the Coast to the Deep-ocean.................................. 46 The JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology: A Report from the Third Session.................................. 47 World Ocean Database 2009....................................................................................................................... 48 NAIAD : a new advanced system to access satellite data............................................................................ 49 A web interface for gridding and visualizing oceanographic data sets ......................................................... 50 The Genes Mapserver: A web based information system on microbial genes and genomes in the ocean.. 51 Quadrige2: Operational information system for French coastal monitoring.................................................. 52 Data Centre for French Coastal Operational Oceanography: Metadata and data access ........................... 53 The Fisheries Observatory of Ifremer - Monitoring network of fisheries resources, practices and economics ..................................................................................................................................................................... 55 Alg@base: a tool for research, management and visualization of the Baltic Sea monitoring data............... 56 Development of a Marine Biological Data Portal within the framework of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNet)..................................................................................................................... 57 International Marine Data and Information Systems, IMDIS 2010 - 5 Biobank: An integrated system to collect and publish marine mammals informations : in situ observations, necropsy results, tissue samples available for further scientific research. ................................................... 58 Geo-Seas - a pan-European infrastructure for the management of marine geological and geophysical data. ..................................................................................................................................................................... 59 Establishing clusters of data providers to ensure sustainable access to quality data in ocean science: The case of the MAREMIP initiative.................................................................................................................... 62 Freeing oceanographic and polar data through The Polar Information Commons....................................... 63 Posters.............................................................................................................................................................. 64 MyOcean In-Situ Thematic Assembly Centre : a new In-situ service for operational oceanography ........... 64 CASPINFO and Black Sea Scene projects and meta-data on environment ................................................ 65 HiSeasNet: Providing Internet services to the US Academic Oceanographic Fleet ..................................... 66 Establishment of Clearing House System for Marine Information in Japan.................................................. 67 In-situ delayed mode dataset at the Coriolis Data Center............................................................................ 68 Development of Korea Ocean Biogeographic Information System .............................................................. 69 Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme..................................................................................
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