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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. View PhotosDr. 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) 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». 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». Cyprus Oceanography Center is participating in the cruise MSM 14/1 on board the German research vessel “Maria S. Merian” in the South Levantine from 17 December 2009 until 14 January 2010. The Oceanography Center is responsible for the Physical Oceanography during the cruise and on board the vessel participating the collaborators and on behalf of the Center: Dmitry Solovyov, Evagoras Isaias, Anja Schneehorst. View Photos See articles in Cyprus Mail ,Cyprus Weekly EuroGOOS (the European part of the Global Ocean Observing System) is an association of 35 members in 18 countries with the goal of developing operational oceanography capabilities in Europe. June 2009: The first seagliders have already been deployed by the Cyprus Oceanography Center. You can view our seagliders mission through Google Maps. For more information on gliders visit our Seagliders page . April 2009: Press Release: Cyprus Oceanography Center deploys the first autonomous underwater vehicles in Cyprus. Read the newspaper article here: Maxi Newspaper April 2009: University of Cyprus Announcement: The first glider missions in the Eastern Mediterranean by the Cyprus Oceanography Center. (In Greek) November 2008: PassageWeather is using CYCOFOS Wave Forecast to provide predictions to mariners and sailors on a Global and regional scale September 2008: GLIDERS - The first gliders in the Eastern Mediterranean have been finally deployed! 22/08/2006: Overview of the oil spill modeling in Lebanon, a contribution to MERSEA/GMES 01/08/2006: JRC announcement n1 for Lebanon Oil Spill - View announcement 31/07/2006: Medslik application for the Lebanon Oil Spill - View presentation |
 
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Welcome
We would like to bring to your attention the products and results of the Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System (CYCOFOS), a sub-regional forecasting and observing system in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin, which covers the coastal and open sea areas of Cyprus, Cilician and Lattakian basins and the Eastern Levantine Base.
The CYCOFOS was initially developed by the Cyprus Oceanography Centre in early 2002. The CYCOFOS constantly improving within the framework of several European oceanographic research projects promoting the operational oceanography, such as the MFSPP, MFSTEP, MAMA, MERSEA-1, ESEAS-RI, MERSEA-IP. CYCOFOS is related also to operational oceanographic initiatives, such as the EuroGOOS, MedGOOS, MedGLOSS, ESEAS, MOON, MERCY, ECOOP and MYOCEAN.CYCOFOS is the Cyprus contribution to the GMES.