Welcome to Cyprus Oceanography Center
The Oceanography Center is the Cyprus institution for ocean research and one of the operational marine core and downstream forecasting and monitoring centers in the Mediterranean. The Oceanography Center was established in 2003 following an agreement between the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research of the Ministry of Agriculture Natural Resources and Environment and the University of Cyprus. In early 2008 the Board of Minister of the Cyprus Government approved the consolidation of the Center, while the same period, following the decision of the Senate of the University of Cyprus, the Oceanography Center became a Research Unit within the faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences.
The mission of the Oceanography Center is to conduct basic and applied research in the fields of ocean physics and dynamics, remote sensing, operational oceanography, biological and chemical oceanography and dedicated ocean and marine data and metadata bases and information systems, etc.
The Oceanography Centre developed and operates the operational Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System (CYCOFOS), which constitutes one of the ocean forecasting and observing system of relevant European and Mediterranean operational oceanographic forecasting and observing networks. The Oceanography Center has also developed and maintain an online marine database, the Cyprus Oceanographic Online Database (BYTHOS), for browse and search scientific metadata and data information about the Eastern Mediterranean.
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10-14 May 2010
Dr. George Zodiatis, Vice-Director of the Cyprus Oceanography Centre participated as national delegate at the meeting of CIESM Board Members, which took place in the magnificent Hall of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice during the 39th CIESM Congress.
3-4 June 2010
Dr. Daniel Hayes represented Cyprus and the Oceanography Center at the Spring 2010 Plenary Meeting of the Marine Board of the European Science Foundation. The meeting took place in Istanbul on 3-4 June, 2010.
The Marine Board provides a pan-European platform for its member organisations to develop common priorities, to advance marine research and to bridge the gap between science and policy,in order to meet future marine science challenges and opportunities.
Interested scientists and policy makers are encouraged to visit the Marine Board website http://www.esf.org/marineboard and to consider attending the 2nd Marine Board Forum: Towards a European Network of Marine Observatories for Monitoring and Research (16/9/2010, Brussels) and EurOCEAN 2010 Conference (12-13 October, 2010, Ostende)
23 June 2010
The General Staff of the National Guard (GEEF) in the social service and public awareness in matters concerning the activities of the Navy as a factor in national power and the merchant navy as a growth factor in the country, organized in cooperation with government and other bodies, Maritime Week from the 20-27 June. Therefore, on Wednesday, 23 June 2010, Dr. George Zodiatis, Vice Director of Oceanography Center presented « The variability of oceanographic parameters in the wider marine region of Cyprus – Eastern Mediterranean».
7 – 9 June 2010
Mrs. Xenia Panayidou from Oceanography Center participated in 7th EMSA-CSN Meeting (User Group meeting ) & 13th EGEMP (European Group of Experts on satellite Monitoring of sea-based oil Pollution) meeting that was held in Ispra, Italy. She presented two presentations with titles: «The use of Satellite images for Oil Spill Detection and Prediction in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin» and «LEV DESS, a Marine Security Service in the Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean».
17, 18 and 19 May 2010
3rd UBSS Network Meeting 17, 18 and 19 May 2010
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