1. Ocean Data Management Training with OceanTeacher oceanteacher.org

2. OceanTeacher Objective The objective of Ocean Teacher is to provide training tools for Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. These tools are used during IODE Training Courses but can also be used for self training and continuous professional development.

3. OceanTeacher Structure Digital Library –Software –Data Examples –Exercises Course Manuals OceanPortal – Separate, but integrated website

4. Digital Library 6 years testing & use 7500 resource documents 4400 illustrations 17,500+ internal links 16,000+ external links 1.5 GB

5. Library Contents Oceanography Today Information Technology & Scientific Communication Information Management Principles Information Management Processes Data Management Principles Data Management Processes

6. Course Manuals Introductory/Inter- disciplinary –5 courses available Data Management –7 courses available –8 courses proposed or in preparation CATALOG

7. OceanPortal http://www.oceanportal.org Stand-alone catalog of websites for data & information –5000 indexed sites in a searchable, hierarchical system –Approximately 1300 data sites Now also the catalog for many resources in OceanTeacher

8. Software “Toolbox” of 30+ free programs –Ready to install –Documentation MENU Catalog of several hundred others in about a dozen topical areas 17 special format conversion programs

9. Exercises Information Technology & Scientific Communication –17 titles –CATALOGCATALOG Data Management –55 “Roadmaps” –5 special purpose –CATALOGCATALOG

10. OT Technical Scope Ocean station data Satellite data Bathymetry + topography Operational oceanographic data –Drifters –Buoys Almost no time series data instruction

11. Links OceanTeacher main site –oceanteacher.org Data management training information –ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/DMtraining OceanPortal –oceanportal.org murraybr@bellsouth.net