National Oceanographic Data Center of Ukraine (Marine Biology) LaMIS, IBSS NAS Ukraine Results of work (October 2009 – October 2010) 3-d meeting of the ODIN Black Sea Steering Group October 2010, Oostende, Belgium

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Ukraine is an active member of the IOC Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Programme (IODE). Ukrainian National Oceanographic Data Centre was established in 1993 on a basis of the Department of Marine Information Systems and Technologies (MIST) at the Marine Hydrophysical Institute) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MHI NASU). In 2006 the MIST was transformed to the Department of Marine Environmental and Information Technologies (MEIT) that continued to carry out the duties of the Ukrainian National Oceanographic Data Centre

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende In 2008 Ukraine decided to shift to the distributed model of the NODC. From October 2008 in Ukraine in addition to the NODC based at the MHI Department of Marine Environmental and Information Technologies there is one more NODC based at the Laboratory of the Marine Information Systems (LaMIS) of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas (IBSS NASU). NODC on a basis of the MHI is dealing with the physical, chemical, and satellite data NODC on a basis of the IBSS is dealing with the marine biological data Both institutions are members of the Oceanological Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende OceanUkraine Cooperation Program between Flanders and Ukraine Hardware, software, internet connection

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende NODC staff (based on LaMIS) includes 5 persons and supports a lot of data and information management activities Scientific cruises metadata and database Coastal monitoring reports

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende E-repositories

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende GODAR: First station done within the Black Sea

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende UkrNODC (Marine Biology) web site

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende ODINBlackSea project web site

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende 64 Cruise of the R/V Professsor Vodyanitsciy June 30 – Julay 6, Black Sea. 17 stations

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Black sea species checklists

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Local services and websites for other organizations/departments

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Software development Historical biological data digitization Historical biological data digitization

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Biological NODC provides on-line data to OBIS CDI ODP

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Data provided to the ODP

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Training activity Technical training workshop on metadata and data management for Upgrade BlackSeaScene, Caspinfo and SeaDataNet October 2009, Oostende, Belgium. – 2 persons. OceanTeacher Academy Course DM: Introduction to Marine GIS May 2010, Oostende, Belgium. – 1 person. Ug BS SCENE 1st workshop on DQC for Physical Oceanography datasets. Sevastopol, Ukraine, 28th June - 1st of July – 2 persons. OceanTeacher Academy Course DM: Basic Marine Data Management: (i) ocean data collection development; (ii) intro to marine metadata; (iii) Ocean data products and synthesis September 2010, Oostende, Belgium. – 1 person.

ODIN Black Sea 3-d SG meeting October 2010, Oostende Organization of the close connections and information & data exchange with all Ukrainian marine biological organizations Completing of the full historical inventories on data got by all Ukrainian marine biological organizations Historical data digitization & QC and providing them to international projects and databases Development of the QC procedures for the marine biological data Application / development of the standard data / metadata formats for the marine biological data Main tasks for