INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN OCEANOGRAPHY (ITO-98)

GOA, INDIA 12-16 OCTOBER 1998

PLENARY LECTURES

LECTURE I	LECTURE II	LECTURE III	LECTURE IV	LECTURE V
LECTURE VI	LECTURE VII	LECTURE VIII	LECTURE IX

LECTURE I

Developments and Innovations in Marine Data Management

Dr. Ben Searle, Director, Australian Oceanographic Data Centre and Chairman

Ben Searle has 19 years marine data management experience as Director of the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre. He is active in many marine data related activities including past Vice Chairman of the IGOSS, a member of the GTSPP Steering Committee and is the Chairman of the Committee on International Oceanographic Data and information Exchange (IODE). Dr Searle has written a number of papers on marine data management and is a co-editor of a new Elsevier Journal on Marine Data Management. He has worked on a number of overseas and global projects.

LECTURE II

Your Screen: a Window on the Oceans

Dr. Paul Geerders, IOC Consultant, The Netherlands.

Dr. Paul Geerders was born in 1947 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He graduated from Technological University, Delft in 1970 on the main subject of electronic image processing for medical and remote sensing purposes. Since then he joined a Dutch governmental Remote Sensing research group where besides on image processing, he worked on general data processing and the organization of fieldwork expeditions, in which he also participated.

In 1980 he obtained a position with the Netherlands Council for Sea Research, to establish and develop a Netherlands Centre for Oceanographic Data, as a national focal point of the IOC/IODE network for national and international exchange of marine data and information, including remote sensing data.

From 1990-1995 he worked as a part time consultant for IOC, seconded by the Netherlands government. In this period he also carried out several projects for the EC. In 1995 he founded his own company working as an independent consultant on marine data and information management and in Remote Sensing of the marine environment.

LECTURE III

Accessing online oceanographic data/information and Information Security in Distributed Processing Environment

Dr. Parmesh Dwivedi, Chief, Information and Systems Management Division, NOAA/NESDIS/NODC, USA

Dr. Dwivedi received his B.Sc from India and M.S and Ph.D degrees from the University of Oklahoma in 1976. From 1976 to 1980, he taught Physics and Engineering and conducted research at the University of Oklahoma, Windsor and Denver. He worked in the private sector between 1981 and 1992 as a Technical Area Manager/Senior Staff Scientist. Since 1992, Dr. Dwivedi has been Chief of the "Information and Systems Management Division" at NOAA/NESDIS/NODC. As such he provided technical and Management support to various Scientific R&D and Systems Development Projects at NASA and NOAA involving retrieval and acquisition of in situ and data from instruments onboard Geostationary and Polar satellite. Dr. Dwivedi's current area of interest include: Data Management in support of Scientific research and data access, Information Security, and implementation of Complex Scientific and Systems projects in support of "Virtual Data Systems". Dr. Dwivedi received outstanding awards and special recognition from the government, industry, and Universities. He has authored over 50 publications and reports.

LECTURE IV

The MERMAID-OPMOD System for Integrated Marine and Coastal Monitoring

Hans-Diethard Knauth, Friedhelm Schrodder, Klaus D. Pfeiffer, Hartmut Nies, Dieter Kohnke, Klaus Grisard

LECTURE V

Library and Information Services in Oceanography

Prof. A. Neelameghan, India

Hon. Executive Director, Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Bangalore, Prof. Neelameghan was with UNESCO/PGI during 1978-82 as Project Coordinator for UNESCO-UNDP Post Graduate course for Scientific Information specialists at University of Philippines. During 1982-86 he was with UNESCO, Paris. He has been member of many national and international committees. He is visiting professor for many American and European countries. He has more than 150 research papers, 25 technical reports and 10 books to his credit. He has been awarded with FID/CR Ranganathan Award, ASIA/SIG award for promoting international cooperation in information sciences.

LECTURE VI

Subsea Cyberspace : Harnessing Computers for Under-water communications

Dr. Anand Parthasarathy, India

Dr. Parthasarathy completed his B.E. from University of Pune and did his Masters in Underwater systems Engineering from Birmingham University, UK in 1975. He headed Marine Instrumentation Division at Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi and later the DRDO-Cochin University Computer Centre. He has worked on parallel computing systems development and served as a Systems Manager for Surface-Air Missile on the Indian Missile Programme in Hyderabad. Currently he is IT correspondent and columnist for The Hindu.

LECTURE VII

Prof. Yasuhiro Sugimori, President, PORSEC, Professor, Tokai Univ. & Chiba Univ. Japan.

LECTURE VIII

THE INTERNATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IODE) SYSTEM: ADAPTING TO A NEW AGE

Dr. Peter Pissierssens, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO, Paris, France.

LECTURE IX

Dr. Ehrlich Desa, Director, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India.

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