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Useful Resources and Links

National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODC)

Argentina: CEADO (Centro Argentino de Datos Oceanográficos) web site
Australia
: AODC (Australian Ocean Data Centre) Web site
Belgium
: BMDC (Belgian Marine Data Centre) Web site
Canada: ISDM (Integrated Science Data Management) Web site
China: COI (China Oceanic Information Network) Web site
Denmark: Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography, Oceanographic Department Web site
France: SISMER (Système d'Informations Scientifiques pour la MER) Web site
Germany: DOD (German Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
Greece: HNODC (Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre Website) Web site
Iceland: MRI (Marine Research Institute, Hydrographic Department) Web site
Japan: JODC (Japan Oceanographic Data Center) Web site
Korea: KODC (Korea Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
The Netherlands: NODC (National Oceanographic Data Committee of the Netherlands) Web site
Norway: IMR (Institute of Marine Research) Department: NOD Web site
Portugal: Instituto Hidrografico Web site
South Africa: SADCO (Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography) Web site
Spain: IEODC Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia Web site
Sweden: SODC (Swedish Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
UK: BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
USA: US NODC (U.S. National Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site

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World Data Centres (WDC)

World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC MARE; Germany) Web site
WDC for Oceanography
in Silver Spring (USA) Web site
World Data Centre Obninsk (Russie) Web site
WDC for Oceanography, Tianjin ( People's Republic of China) Web site

Specialized Data Centres

BCO-DMO: Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (marine biogeochemical, ecological and oceanographic data and information) Web site
CCHDO
: CLIVAR aand Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CTD and Hydrographic data sets) Web site
CDIAC
: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Web site
COPEPOD: a global plankton database of zooplankton data and phytoplankton data sampled from around the world Web site
OBIS Ocean Biogeographic Information System Web site

Other links

GCMD: NASA's Global Change Master Directory. Further info
IODE: International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. Further info
POGO: Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans. Further info
SeaDataNet: a Pan-European infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management. SeaDataNet (2006-2011) is a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. Further info


Useful to read

A series of articles about authorship in science - Document kindly loaned by Dr. Dennis Conlon, Lund University (Sweden).
Hunt, R. 1991 Trying an authorship index. nature 352:187
Galindo-Leal, C. 1996 Explicit authorship Bull. ecol. Soc. America 18:34-35
Lawrence, PA. 2002 Rank injustice Nature 415:835
Opinion. 2002 Thoughts on (dis) credit nature 415:819
Verhagen, JV, KJ Wallace, SC Collins and TR Scott. 2003 QUAD system offers fair shares to all authors Nature 426:602
Weltzin, JF, RT Belote, LT Williams, JK Keller and EC Engel. 2006 Authorship in ecology: attribution, accountability, and responsibility. Front. Ecol. Environ 4:435-441



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