10 October 2010: JOIN US for a DRY CRUISE! An interactive training workshop held before the IMBIZO II Conference, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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January 2010: New membership.

September 2009: The IMBER Data Policy is published. Read the data policy.

June 2009: Albert Piola (Argentina), member of the IMBER SSC, has been appointed as co-chair of the DMC. Alberto Piola has also accepted to become the chair of the DMC from 2010 until 2012 to replace Raymond Pollard.

10 March 2009: IMBER is seeking your advice!!! The IMBER Data Management Committee (DMC) has developed the "IMBER Data Management Cookbook" with simple “recipes” to guide marine researchers through data collection and documentation. Please help us to improve the Cookbook by taking a look at the draft version NOW available online at http://planktondata.net/imber/. Please send your comments to the IMBER Data Liaison Officer, Sophie.Beauvais@univ-brest.fr BEFORE May 15, 2009.

9 Nov 2008 : Informal Data Meeting (Miami, Fl, USA) - Next steps are finalisation of the Data cookbook and development of IMBER Data Policy. Read the Minutes of the Meeting.

9 Nov 2008 : BEER*: The secret to a successful project (Miami, USA)
The DMC organises a special workshop in cunjunction with the first IMBER IMBIZO Meeting.
*Being Efficient and Environmentally Responsible
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10-11 June 2007: The DMC met in Victoria (Canada) to plan a way forward for IMBER Data Management.
Read the article

May 2006: The Data Management Working Group has been appointed during the 3rd IMBER Scientific Steering Committee which took place in Brest (10-12th May 2006).