Remedial Training Course in Marine Data Management for Cote d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire 21-29 March 2002.

Abstract

First ODINAFRICA II Training Workshop in Marine Data Management was held in Casablanca, Morocco, April 2-13, 2001. Subsequent to the Casablanca workshop, the nation of Cote d’Ivoire has joined the ODINAFRICA program, and in order to bring the Ivorienne student up-to-date with the materials and training experience already provided in 2001, a special workshop has been held in Abidjan from March 21-29, 2002, hosted by the Centre des Recherches Oceanographiques (CRO). This report describes the content and accomplishments of that special workshop. The workshop programme was based on the IOC OceanTeacher capacity building tool - an extensive collation of documents on marine data, formats, software, program and data management procedures, manuals, protocols, and associated tutorials. A set of intersessional assignments was formulated that included a wide range of specific dataset measures and products that will be assigned regularly through the recently-established ODINAFRICA.net communication network.