IOC Circular Letters

Circular letters are issued by the Executive Secretary of the IOC in order to inform, consult, and/or request action of Member States. Listed in reverse chronological order.

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CL-3011 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030): Updates on Ocean Decade Implementation including Call for Applications for the 2nd Edition of the Mario Ruivo Memorial Lecture and Call for Nominations for the Ocean Decade Gender Expert Working Group (08/11/2024)
<p>Among a series of information on the development...
CL-3010 Withdrawal of Vice-Chair (electoral Group IV) of the Commission and nomination of the Technical Secretary of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS) (30/10/2024)
<p>For information</p>
CL-3009 Invitation to the Fifteenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-XV), Tokyo, Japan, 11–13 March 2025 (22/10/2024)
<p>Member States are invited to send detail of their...
CL-3008 Sixth annual data compilation towards Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations (22/10/2024)
<p>National contributions are expected via the SDG...
CL-3007 Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS-XIV), Jakarta, Indonesia, 16–19 November 2024 (07/10/2024)
<p>ICG/IOTWMS TNCs, TFPs, National Tsunami Warning...
CL-3006 Cessation of fax transmissions of tsunami information products by Tsunami Service Providers by 31 March 2025 (09/10/2024)
<p>Tsunami National Contacts (TNC), Tsunami Warning...
CL-3005 Nomination of Experts to serve on the IOC Working Group on Sustainable Ocean Planning and Management (IOC/WG-SOPM) (20/09/2024)
<p>IOC Member States and Officers are invited to send...
CL-3004 Call for nominations for a vacant IOC representative at the GEBCO Guiding Committee (GGC) (06/08/2024)
<div>The IOC is calling for applications for one of...
CL-3003 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period September 2024 – June 2025 (09/08/2024)
<p>IOC Member States to send nomination by 13 September...
CL-3002 Request to update IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management, and invitation to establish IODE National Oceanographic Data Centres or IODE Associate Data Units (ADU) (23/07/2024)
<p>IOC Member States to provide any changes/designations...
CL-3001 Nomination of Experts for the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development (follow-up to IOC Decision EC-57/4.6) (03/07/2024)
<p>IOC Member States and the Chairpersons of the IOC...
CL-3000 Venice Declaration for Ocean Literacy in action – survey and dissemination (02/09/2024)
<p>[New deadline] On the occasion of the publication...
CL-2999 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Exercise Pacific Wave 2024 (PacWave24), September–November 2024, including live Tsunami Service Provider Communication Test on 5 November 2024 at 0000 UTC (31/05/2024)
<div>PTWS Member States should choose to participate...
CL-2998 ITIC Training Programme on Tsunami Early Warning Systems and the PTWC Enhanced Products, Tsunami Evacuation Planning and Tsunami Ready Programme (ITP-TEWS-Chile), Valparaiso, Chile, 19–30 August 2024 (24/05/2024)
<p>Interested members of the Intergovernmental Coordination...
CL-2997 Invitation to the Nineteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XIX), 27–29 November 2024, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (France) (09/09/2024)
<p><u>25 </u><u>October</u>: deadline for the online...
CL-2996 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered focal points of NWPTAC Advisories scheduled on 28 May 2024 at 0500 UTC (30/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Registered NWPTA focal points...
CL-2995 Data Buoy Cooperation Panel Training Workshop on Ocean Observations for Weather Forecast and Climate Prediction – Indian Ocean, 6–8 August 2024 (26/04/2024)
<p>To nominate participants for the Data Buoy Cooperation...
CL-2994 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points, 8 May 2024 at 0600 UTC (18/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp;&nbsp;The registered SCSTAC...
CL-2993 Rev. [Revised] Invitation to online training for seismic and tsunami warning operators in the South China Sea region on theories, applications and operations of tsunami numerical models, 22 May 2024, Zhenjiang, China (19/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; ICG/PTWS Tsunami National...
CL-2992 Announcement-New Project “Scaling-Up and Strengthening the Resilience of Coastal Communities in the North-Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Regions to the Impact of Tsunamis and Other Sea Level-Related Coastal Hazards (CoastWAVE 2.0 Project) (08/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope. Online information meeting on the...
CL-2991 Short-term secondment of international staff from National Tsunami Warning Centres of WG-SCS Member States to South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) (29/03/2024)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp;&nbsp;Interested candidates...
CL-2990 Invitation to the Seventeenth session of the IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE-EWS-XVII), Managua, Nicaragua, 6–9 May 2024 (02/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope: TNC, TWFP and NTWC of CARIBE-EWS...
CL-2989 Ocean Mapping Stakeholder Survey in the framework of the IOC Working Group on User Requirements and Contributions to General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Products (16/03/2024)
<p>IOC Member States and&nbsp; Major IOC Subsidiary...
CL-2988 Ocean Literacy World Conference, Venice, 7–8 June 2024 (29/03/2024)
<p>Registration to attend in person will be open until...
CL-2987 Invitation to the 57th Session of the IOC Executive Council, UNESCO HQ, Paris, 25–28 June 2024 (14/03/2024)
<p>Deadlines: full list of delegation + individual...
CL-2986 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Program Year 21 (2024–2025) (26/02/2024)
<p>Applications should be sent directly to the course...
CL-2985 Call for nominations for ICG/PTWS Working Groups and Task Teams (22/01/2024)
<p>Regional scope: ICG/PTWS Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2984 Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai Volcano Permanent Monitoring and Warning Procedures of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, 2024 (24/04/2024)
<p>For information: The letters conveys the&nbsp;permanent...
CL-2983 Nomination of Experts for the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Steering Committee (29/02/2024)
<p>IOC National Coordinating Bodies for Liaison with...
CL-2982 Update on Ocean Decade Implementation, including process for registration for 2024 Ocean Decade Conference (Barcelona, April 2024) (07/02/2024)
<p>Provides an update on key information on the UN...
CL-2981 Nomination of experts to serve on the IOC Working Group on User Requirements and Contributions to General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Products (20/12/2023)
<p>Interested Member States and Chairpersons of relevant...
CL-2980 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points, 8 January 2024 at 0600 UTC (20/12/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Registered SCSTAC focal points and...
CL-2979 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 24 Tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 21 March 2024 (15/12/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Each ICG Member State through its...
CL-2978 Establishment of a National Tsunami Ready Focal Point for each Member State of the ICG/IOTWMS (18/12/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Member States of the&nbsp; Intergovernmental...
CL-2977 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period January–June 2024 (08/12/2023)
<p>IOC Member States to send nominations by 20 January...
CL-2976 Update of the UNESCO/IOC List of Experts on Marine Scientific Research for use in Special Arbitration under Annex VIII of UNCLOS (21/12/2023)
<p>IOC Member States are invited to update the List...
CL-2975 Seventeenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XVII), 22–23 February 2024, Sendai, Japan (21/11/2023)
<p>TOWS-WG members are invited to confirm their availability...
CL-2974 Appointment of the new Executive Secretary of IOC and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Vidar Helgesen, as of 1st March 2024 (15/11/2023)
<p>For information.&nbsp;</p>
CL-2973 Reporting on in-kind contributions for calendar year 2023 (08/11/2023)
<p>IOC Member States are invited to report on their...
CL-2972 Backup South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (BSCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points on 20 November 2023 at 0200 UTC (07/11/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Registered SCSTAC focal points...
CL-2971 Call for nominations for the ad hoc intersessional Working Group on Ocean Observations in Areas under National Jurisdiction (IOC/WG-OONJ) (10/11/2023)
<p>Member States to provide nominations for an ad&nbsp;hoc...
CL-2970 Fifth annual data compilation towards Sustainable Development Goal 14 Indicator 14.3.1: average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations (14/10/2024)
<p>IOC Member States are invited to send annual national...
CL-2969 Nomination and/or updating of details on IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management (25/10/2023)
<p>Member States are invited to confirm/update national...
CL-2968 Development of a new IOC-wide Strategy on Sustainable Ocean Planning and Management and deployment of user-needs survey [deadline extended to 10 December 2023] (24/11/2023)
<p>[deadline extended to 10 December 2023]IOC Member...
CL-2967 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered focal points of NWPTAC Advisories scheduled on 5 December 2023 at 0500 UTC (20/10/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Registered NWPTA focal points...
CL-2966 New composition of the Scientific Committee for the UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (SC-ODTP) for the period 2024–2025 (11/12/2023)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2965 Call for nomination for ICG/CARIBE-EWS Working Groups and Task Team (11/10/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; ICG/CARIBE-EWS Tsunami National...
CL-2964 Invitation to the “Map the Gaps” Symposium, 7 & 8 November 2023, Monaco (27/09/2023)
<p>Register on line by 13 October 2023</p>
CL-2963 Presentation of the updated State of the Ocean Report concept note (06/10/2023)
<p>Member States are invited to a presentation of the...
CL-2962 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points, 20 October 2023 at 0800 UTC (22/09/2023)
<p>Registered SCSTAC focal points and Tsunami Warning...
CL-2961 rev Invitation to the Eighteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XVIII), 6–8 February 2024, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France (18/12/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp;ICG/NEAMTWS-18 was initially...
CL-2960 Hosting of the Pacific Islands – Global Ocean Observing System Regional Alliance (PI-GOOS) Secretariat/Office (20/09/2023)
<p>(Regional scope) Further to IOC Circular Letter...
CL-2959 Training course on the general principles of installation and maintenance of sea level stations and the use of tide gauge data (14/09/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; GLOSS National Focal Points...
CL-2958 Interim Arrangements – Acting Head of the Secretariat of the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA) (14/09/2023)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2957 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Call for Nominations to the Decade Advisory Board for the period from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2025 (05/09/2023)
<p>Nominations should be submitted online at&nbsp;<a...
CL-2956 Invitation to Member States to submit a letter of adhesion to the newly adopted IOC Sub-Commission for the central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) in accordance with Resolution A-32/1 (31/08/2023)
<p>IOC Member States wishing to become members of the...
CL-2955 Thirty-ninth Session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP-39), Bali, Indonesia, 24–27 October 2023 (hybrid meeting) (24/08/2023)
<p>(i) provide national reports on current and planned...
CL-2954 Appointment of a Tsunami Programme Specialist as Technical Secretary of ICG/PTWS and ICG/CARIBE EWS (18/08/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; ICG/PTWS and ICG/CARIBE EWS...
CL-2953 IOCARIBE Coordination of the Ocean Decade United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) in the Tropical Americas and the Caribbean (TAC): Ocean Decade Task Force and Decade Coordination Office (17/07/2023)
<p>Regional scope: IOCARIBE Member States are invited...
CL-2952 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points, 11 August 2023 at 0600 UTC (17/07/2023)
<p>Registered SCSTAC focal points and Tsunami Warning...
CL-2951 Call to include Ocean Literacy in school curricula by 2025 as a part of the Education for Sustainable Development (19/07/2023)
<p>IOC Member States are invited to inform progress...
CL-2950 NEAMWave23 - a Tsunami Exercise of the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS) (24/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2949 Short-term secondment of international staff from NTWCs of WG-SCS Member States to the SCSTAC (11/06/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Secondment from 18 September to...
CL-2948 ITIC Training Programme-Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII) on Tsunami Early Warning Systems and the PTWC Enhanced Products, Tsunami Evacuation Planning and Tsunami Ready Programme, Honolulu, Hawaii, 7–18 August 2023 (02/06/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Applications from Tsunami National...
CL-2947 Invitation to the Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXX), Nuku’alofa, Kingdom of Tonga, 11–15 September 2023 (14/06/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Member States of the Pacific Tsunami...
CL-2946 Rev. Change of dates: Eleventh Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG/SCS-XI), Guangzhou, China, 25–27 September 2023 (13/07/2023)
<p>Regional scope: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...
CL-2945 Announcement of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Exercise (IOWave23) on 4, 11, 18, and 25 October 2023 (04/05/2023)
<p>Regional scope: IOTWMS members to&nbsp;provide by...
CL-2944 Invitation to the Seventeenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (SC-IOCARIBE-XVII), 9–11 May 2023 and International Marine Science Conference on IOCARIBE-GOOS on 8 May 2023, Bogota, Colombia (12/04/2023)
<p>IOCARIBE Member States are invited to send detail...
CL-2943 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points on 24 April 2023 at 0600 UTC (07/04/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp;Registered SCSTAC focal points...
CL-2942 Sixth Meeting of the Regional Working Group for Central America of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS), Heredia, Costa Rica, 24 April 2023 (16/03/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2941 Consultation process for the designation of applicants in the context of the appointment of the Executive Secretary of the IOC/Assistant Director-General of UNESCO (22/03/2023)
<p>IOC Executive Council members are invited to communicate...
CL-2940 Invitation to the Thirty-second Session of the IOC Assembly, 21–30 June 2023 and Fifty-sixth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 20 June 2023, UNESCO HQ, Paris (03/04/2023)
<p>Deadlines: individual online registration from 15...
CL-2939 Backup South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (BSCSTAC) fully operational from 29 March 2023; BSCSTAC Communication Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points on 10 April 2023 at 0600 UTC (09/03/2023)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Registered SCSTAC focal points...
CL-2938 Member State feedback regarding sustained ocean observations in Areas under their National Jurisdiction (11/12/2023)
<p>New deadline:&nbsp; Following the recent&nbsp;IOC...
CL-2937 Seeking support for The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project – Participation in the online survey (02/03/2023)
<p>The survey will close on Friday 31 March 2023.</p>
CL-2936 Invitation to the Sixteenth session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-XVI) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Heredia, Costa Rica, 25–28 April 2023 (02/04/2024)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp;ICG/CARIBE-EWS Member States...
CL-2935 Appointment of the Head of the Tsunami Unit (IOC/TSU) and recruitment of a Tsunami Programme Specialist (P4) (21/02/2023)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2934 Launch of the Ocean CD-Hub – An invitation to contribute information on capacity development opportunities in a global repository (20/02/2023)
<p>Invite IOC Member States'&nbsp;submission(s) of...
CL-2933 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Program Year 20 (2023–2024) (15/02/2023)
<p>Applications should be sent directly to the course...
CL-2932 Second draft Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research and Development Plan for comments (15/02/2023)
<p>Members of TOWS-WG, of inter-ICG Task Teams and...
CL-2931 Updated Terms of Reference for Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) National Focal Points (NFP) (13/03/2023)
<p>Member States to&nbsp;(i) Provide feedback on the...
CL-2930 Twelfth Session of the Ship Observation Team (15–18 May 2023) and the XBT scientific workshop (11–12 May 2023) in Melbourne, Australia (hybrid) (10/02/2023)
<p align="left">Member States and SOT focal points...
CL-2929 First Data Buoy Cooperation Panel Mediterranean Training Workshop on Ocean Observations and Data Applications (DBCP-Medi-1-Part 2), 2–4 May 2023 (Tunisia, hybrid) (08/02/2023)
<p><em>IOC Member States via their DBCP national focal...
CL-2928 New Head of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE) Secretariat – Dr Lorna Inniss (20/01/2023)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2927 Seventh Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA-VII), Nairobi, Kenya, 15–17 March 2023 (19/01/2023)
<p>Confirmation of attendance and information on national...
CL-2926 Invitation to the Ninth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO-IX), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28–30 March 2023 (05/01/2023)
<p>IOCINDIO Member States and other IOC Member States...
CL-2925 Sixteenth Session of the IOC-FAO Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XVI), 27–29 March 2023, Rome, Italy (16/03/2023)
<p>Member States to send detail of their delegation,&nbsp;comments...
CL-2924 Recruitment of the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (26/12/2022)
<p>For information. The deadline for applications is&nbsp;21...
CL-2923 Ninth Meeting of the PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (ICG/PTWS-WG/PICT-IX), 2–3 February 2023, Nadi, Fiji (20/12/2022)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2922 Call for Expressions of Interest to host the Pacific Islands – Global Ocean Observing System Regional Alliance (PI-GOOS) Secretariat/Office (31/01/2023)
<p>Regional scope: Pacific islands States are invited...
CL-2921 Review of the Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Research and Development Plan (04/01/2023)
<p>Tsunami national contacts are invited to send comments...
CL-2920 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered focal points of NWPTAC Advisories scheduled on 7 February 2023 at 0500 UTC (08/12/2022)
<p>Regional scope: Countries recipients of the NWPTAC...
CL-2919 Invitation to contribute information for the compilation of the first edition of the IOC Ocean Science Tracker and inputs to the IOC Capacity Development Needs Assessment Survey (12/01/2023)
<p>Invitation to complete both online questionnaires...
CL-2918 Invitation to the Fourteenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-XIV), Jakarta, Indonesia, 4–7 April 2023 (18/11/2022)
<p>Member States are invited to send detail of their...
CL-2917 Thirteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS-XIII), Bali, Indonesia, 28 November–1 December 2022 (15/11/2022)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; <span style="font-size: 11.0pt;...
CL-2916 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 23 Tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 23 March 2023 (08/11/2022)
<p>Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS national tsunami focal...
CL-2915 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period December 2022–June 2023 and reporting on in-kind contributions (26/10/2022)
<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Source...
CL-2914 Sixteenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XVI), 27 February–3 March 2023 (22/11/2022)
<p>TOWS Working Group members are invited to communicate...
CL-2913 Update of status of implementation of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 (19/10/2022)
<p>For information.</p>
CL-2912 Follow-up to Internal Oversight Service Evaluation of the Strategic Positioning of IOC (02/12/2022)
<p>This letter invites Member States to comment further...
CL-2911 Fourth annual data compilation towards Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations (20/10/2022)
<p>IOC Member States to send annual national data compilation...
CL-2910 3rd International Conference on Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) (07/10/2022)
<p>For information. Registration by 15 November 2022.&nbsp;</p>
CL-2909 Eighth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Working Group 2 Task Team on Seismic Data Sharing in the Southwest Pacific, 20 October 2022, Nukua’lofa, Tonga (19/11/2022)
<p>(Regional scope) The Tsunami National Contacts (TNCs)...
CL-2908 Pacific Island Countries and Territories Regional Exercise during Pacific Wave Exercise 2022 (PacWave22-PICT) on 9 November 2022 (Registration on 7 October and Informational Webinar on 2 November) (28/09/2022)
<p>Regional scope: Pacific Island Countries and Territories...
CL-2907 Invitation to the Seventeenth Session of the Group of Experts on the Global Sea-Level Observing System (GE-GLOSS-XVII), 7–10 November 2022, Paris, France (19/09/2022)
<p>&nbsp;National GLOSS focal points to complet and...
CL-2906 Nomination of Experts for the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development following IOC Decision A-31/3.5.3 (12/09/2022)
<p>Nominations should reach the Secretariat&nbsp;<u>not...
CL-2905 Workshop on the Requirements, Challenges, Opportunities for Local Tsunami Warning Systems in the Context of Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Mitigation in the North-Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Region, 4–5 October 2022, Ispra, Italy (31/08/2022)
<p>Regional scope: National Tsunami contacts of the...
CL-2904 Exercise Pacific Wave 2022 (PacWave22), including a live Tsunami Service Providers Communication Test on 13 October 2022: publication of the Exercise Manual and invitation to an Informational Webinar on 13 September 2022 (01/09/2022)
<p>(Regional scope) Member States of the Pacific Tsunami...
CL-2903 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points on 13 September 2022 at 0600 UTC (26/08/2022)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Registered SCSTAC focal points...
CL-2902 PTWC Interim Procedures and PTWS products for Tsunamis developed after the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai Volcano event (User’s Guide and informational webinar on 6 September 2022) (17/08/2022)
<p>Regional scope: tsunami contacts in the Pacific.&nbsp;</p>
CL-2901 Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap and Call for Nominations to the Africa and Adjacent Island States Ocean Decade Taskforce for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) (28/07/2022)
<p>The Circular letter disseminates the&nbsp;Ocean...
CL-2900 Twenty-Seventh Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXVII) and Scientific Conference, Paris, 20–24 March 2023 (26/08/2022)
<p>IOC Member States of the&nbsp;International Oceanographic...
CL-2899 Second Consultation on the pilot edition of the ‘IOC State of the Ocean Report’ (StOR) (20/07/2022)
<p>Member States are invited to use the template annexed...
CL-2898 IOC and VLIZ-SHOA Workshop for National Tsunami Warning Centres in the Southeast Pacific, Valparaiso, Chile, 27 September–1 October 2022 (15/07/2022)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and...
CL-2897 Call for Expressions of Interest to host Second International Ocean Decade Conference (extension of deadline to 15 September 2022) (12/07/2022)
CL-2896 UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme and the establishment of the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme (TRRP): notification to Member States and instructions for launching the recognition process (12/07/2022)
CL-2895 Appointment of new two IOC-affiliated members to the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (26/09/2023)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2894 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Exercise Pacific Wave 2022 (PacWave22), September–November 2022, including a live Tsunami Service Provided Communication Test on 13 October at 0000 UTC (24/06/2022)
<p>This Circular letter provides an initial description...
CL-2893 Acting Head of the IOCARIBE Secretariat – Interim arrangements (24/06/2022)
<p>The CL informs about the nomination of&nbsp;Mr Jean-Paul...
CL-2892 Nomination and/or updating of details on IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management (03/06/2022)
<p>Member States are invited to confirm/update national...
CL-2891 Request for updated information on the status of marine spatial planning (MSP) (24/06/2022)
<p>IOC Member States are&nbsp;invited to complete the...
CL-2890 IOC Capacity Development Compendium Survey (10/05/2022)
<p>Responses to the survey should be submitted by 1<sup>st</sup>...
CL-2889 Vacancy Notice – Head of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE) Secretariat (03/05/2022)
<p>The application deadline is 27 June 2022 (Midnight...
CL-2887 Call to nominate members of the IOC Group of Experts on Ocean Literacy (25/04/2022)
<p>The deadline for submissions is 27 May 2022</p>
CL-2886 Notification and instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points on 21 May 2022 at 0600 UTC (21/04/2022)
<p>Regional scope</p>
CL-2885 Call for Candidatures for the Positions of IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Co-Chair for the Inter-sessional period 2023–2025 (17/08/2022)
<p>IOC Member States of IODE are invited to send candidatures...
CL-2884 Invitation to the 55th Session of the IOC Executive Council, UNESCO HQ, Paris, 14–17 June 2022 (19/05/2022)
<p>Detail of delegation should be communicated to the...
CL-2883 Call for nominations of two IOC-affiliated members to the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (28/04/2022)
<p>The deadline for sending nominations is extended...
CL-2882 Interim Volcano-generated Tsunami Alert Products and Procedures of the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (17/03/2022)
<p>This Circular letter disseminate the&nbsp;Hunga...
CL-2881 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center Communication Test scheduled on 12 April 2022 (11/03/2022)
<p>Recipient TWFPs of&nbsp;Northwest Pacific Tsunami...
CL-2880 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Program Year 19 (2022–2023) (25/02/2022)
CL-2879 Appointment of new IOC-affiliated member to the Joint IHO-IOC Guiding Committee for the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) (24/02/2022)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2878 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Update 01/2022 (22/03/2022)
<p>#New deadline for providing report on Ocean Decade...
CL-2877 Post-event assessment of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami of 15 January 2022 (31/01/2022)
<p>Regional scope: Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS)...
CL-2876 Nominated Members and Chair of the Scientific Committee for the UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (SC-ODTP) (25/01/2022)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2875 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTA Focal Points, 11 February 2022 at 0600 UTC (18/01/2022)
<p>Regional scope:&nbsp; Registered Tsunami National...
CL-2874 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 22 Tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 10 March 2022 (14/01/2022)
<p>Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS Member States are invited...
CL-2873 Towards a Safer Ocean in the Caribbean through Tsunami Ready Communities Project in Barbados, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago (13/01/2022)
<p>Regional scope for information.</p>
CL-2872 Invitation to Member States to nominate members of the open-ended intersessional Working Group on the Status of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) (05/01/2022)
<p>Send nominations by 25 January 2022</p>
CL-2871 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Appointment of Expert Members of the Decade Advisory Board (15/12/2021)
<p>The letter provide for information the list of 15...
CL-2870 Online meeting on 20 January 2022 at 10:00 UTC to select a candidate to serve as the representative on the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Steering Committee for Electoral Group V (06/01/2022)
<p>Electoral Group V (Africa and Arab States) IOC Member...
CL-2869 Publication of Ocean Science and International Cooperation – Historical and Personal Recollections by Gunnar Kullenberg (03/12/2021)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2868 IOCINDIO Training Workshop on Methodologies and Approaches of Coastal Vulnerability, Sea Level Rise and Advances in Operational Oceanography Science and Technology in the Indian Ocean, Hyderabad, India, 13–17 December 2021 (24/11/2021)
<p>Regional scope: IOCINDIO Member States and partner...
CL-2867 Call for nominations for a vacant IOC representative at the GEBCO Guiding Committee (GGC) (01/12/2021)
<p>The deadline for nominations is 11 January 2022.&nbsp;</p>
CL-2865 Regional Kick-off Conference for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 for the Tropical Americas Region (online 16–17 December 2021) (15/11/2021)
<p>Regional scope: IOCARIBE Member States and regional...
CL-2864 Revision of the IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy: proposed way forward (12/11/2021)
<p>For information: detail the process in 8 steps from...
CL-2863 Invitation to the Twenty-Ninth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXIX), 1–2 & 7–8 December 2021 (online, 22:00-24:00 UTC) (09/11/2021)
<p>Regional scope: ICG/PTWS-XXIX&nbsp;Member States...
CL-2862 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period December 2021–June 2022 (20/10/2021)
<p>IOC Member States to send nominations by 30 November...
CL-2861 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Implementation progress (22/10/2021)
<p>In addition to an implementation progress report...
CL-2860 Invitation to the 17th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XVII), UNESCO, 24–26 November 2021 (hybrid mode) (14/10/2021)
<p>Regional scope: ICG/NEAMTWS Member States to designate...
CL-2859 Third annual data compilation towards Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations and invitation to participate in an online information workshop (27 or 28 October 2021) (22/10/2021)
<p>IOC Member States to send annual national data compilation...
CL-2858 Regional Kick-Off Conference for the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development for Africa and the Adjacent Island States, 13–15 December 2021 and Pre-Conference Workshop (online, 6–8 December 2021) (19/10/2021)
<p>IOCAFRICA Member States to prepare a report on the...
CL-2857 Fifth meeting of the Regional Working Group for Central America of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the Pacific (ICG/PTWS), 15 November 2021 (online, 14:00-16:00 UTC) (13/10/2021)
<p>Regional scope (Costa Rica, El&nbsp;Salvador, Honduras,...
CL-2856 Project “Strengthening the Resilience of Coastal Communities in the North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean Region to the Impact of Tsunamis and Other Sea Level-Related Coastal Hazard” (16/09/2021)
<p>For information:&nbsp;The letter contains a detailed...
CL-2855 Tenth meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS WG-SCS), 28 & 30 September 2021 (0700-0830 UTC, online) (10/09/2021)
<p>Regional scope: Member States of the&nbsp;Tsunami...
CL-2854 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTA Focal Points, 28 September 2021 at 0600 UTC (07/09/2021)
CL-2853 Nomination of Members of the Inter-ICG Task Teams on Disaster Management and Preparedness and Tsunami Watch Operations (08/09/2021)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;...
CL-2852 Cancelled (26/01/2022)
CL-2851 Appointment of the Head of Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS) (20/08/2021)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2850 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered focal points of NWPTAC Advisories scheduled on 3 August 2021 at 0500 UTC (13/07/2021)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;...
CL-2849 Release of the First Global Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) Status Report (GHSR) (01/07/2021)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2848 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Call for Nominations to the Decade Advisory Board (09/07/2021)
<p>Call for nominations through online form open until...
CL-2847 Arrangements for the Election of Officers of the IOC’s Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA) (17/05/2021)
<p>(Regional scope) IOCAFRICA Member States are invited...
CL-2846 Results of the IOC Capacity Development Needs Assessment Survey and Transfer of Marine Technology Clearing House Mechanism Needs Survey now available (03/05/2021)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2845 Nomination of experts for Online Training Courses on Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Systems, 14–16 June 2021 and 22–24 June 2021 (27/04/2021)
<p>Experts from oceanographic and meteorological communities...
CL-2844 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTAC Focal Points, 28 May 2021 at 0600 UTC (22/04/2021)
<p>Regional scope: Countries recipients of the SCSTAC...
CL-2843 Consultation on the proposal of an ‘IOC State of the Ocean Report’ (StOR) (15/04/2021)
<p>IOC Member States are invited to send their views...
CL-2842 Arrangements for the Fifty-fourth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 14 June 2021, and the Thirty-first Session of the IOC Assembly, 14–25 June 2021 (online sessions) (17/05/2021)
<p>Main deadlines: 29 May: composition of your delegation...
CL-2841 Arrangements for the Eighth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO-VIII), 17–19 May 2021 (online) (16/04/2021)
<p>IOCINDIO Member States and others are invited to...
CL-2840 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Update (15/10/2021)
<p>IOC Member States are invited to answer the online...
CL-2839 Invitation to the Sixteenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (SC-IOCARIBE-XVI), 3–6 May 2021 (online session) (22/03/2021)
<p>IOCARIBE Member States are invited to send detail...
CL-2838 Arrangements for the Sixth Session of the IOC’s Sub Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA-VI), 13–16 April 2021 (online)
<p>IOCAFRICA Member States are invited to send detail...
CL-2837 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period April 2020–June 2021 (18/03/2021)
<p>IOC Member States to send nominations by 10 April...
CL-2836 Seventh Meeting of the PTWS Working Group 2 Task Team on Seismic Data Sharing in the Southwest Pacific and Eighth Meeting of the PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), 29th March–1st April 2021
<p>Regional scope: Tsunami National Contacts (TNCs)...
CL-2835 Proposed arrangements for the 31st Session of the IOC Assembly (12/03/2021)
<p>Consultation of IOC Member States until 31 March...
CL-2834 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Program Year 18 (2021–2022)
CL-2833 Invitation to the Fifteenth session of the IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-XIV), 27–29 April 2021 (online) (08/03/2021)
<p>Regional scope: ICG/CARIBE-EWS Member States and...
CL-2832 (Revised) Nomination of IOC representatives to the GEBCO Guiding Committee (GGC) and information on new Chair and Vice-Chair of GGC (24/02/2021)
<p>For information</p>
CL-2831 Fourteenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XIV), 25–26 February 2021 (online) (11/02/2021)
<p>Member of TOWS-WG are invited to inform the Secretariat...
CL-2830 Release of the Global Ocean Science Report 2020 (GOSR2020) (25/01/2021)
CL-2829 Arrangements for the (online) Twenty-Sixth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXVI), 20–23 April 2021 (22/01/2021)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">IOC...
CL-2828 Invitation to the rescheduled 53rd session of the IOC Executive Council to be conducted online from 1 to 9 February 2021 (22/01/2021)
CL-2827 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered focal points of NWPTAC Advisories scheduled on 15 February 2021 at 0500 UTC (18/01/2021)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Regional...
CL-2826 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTA Focal Points, 28 January 2021 at 0600 UTC (15/01/2021)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Regional...
CL-2825 Inventory of actions being considered under the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) in the field of tsunamis and other sea-level related hazards warning and mitigation (07/01/2021)
Member States are invited to send their response using...
CL-2824 Consultation on the potential transformation of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) into an IOC Sub-Commission (05/01/2021)
IOC Member States are informed of the launch of a consultation...
CL-2823 Arrangements for the Thirteenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-XIII), Virtual, 27–29 April 2021 (10/12/2020)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">(Regional...
CL-2822 Announcement for Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas – NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise – ‘NEAMWave21’, 8–10 March 2021 (18/12/2020)
(Regional scope): ICG/NEAMTWS are invited to update...
CL-2821 Tsunami Ready Programme in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation Systems (ICG-NEAMTWS): Nomination of Experts and Expression of Interest to Pilot Community Tsunami Ready (08/12/2020)
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size:...
CL-2820 Nomination of two IOC representatives at the GEBCO Guiding Committee (GGC) (09/12/2020)
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;...
CL-2818 The 53rd Session of the IOC Executive Council, 3–9 February 2021 as an on-line meeting and an update on the proposed arrangements (07/12/2020)
CL-2817 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 21 Tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 11 March 2021 (19/11/2020)
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;...
CL-2816 Fifteenth Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XV), 23–25 March 2021 (online) (13/11/2020)
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;...
CL-2815 Annual Data compilation towards Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations (24/11/2020)
<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;...
CL-2814 Operaciones de prueba del Centro de Asesoramiento sobre los Tsunamis de América Central (CATAC) y ejercicio de simulacro CATAC 20 el 11 de noviembre de 2020, como parte de PacWave20 (29/10/2020)
(Regional scope) This circular letter is meanly intended...
CL-2813 Proposed arrangements for the 53rd Session of the IOC Executive Council (29/10/2020)
CL-2812 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Exercise Pacific Wave 2020 (PacWave20), 5 & 11 November 2020 (22/10/2020)
(Regional scope) Member States are invited to actively...
CL-2811 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Call for Decade Actions (30/10/2020)
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;...
CL-2810 5th World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 November 2020) (08/10/2020)
For information. Calls also Member States to share...
CL-2809 Postponement to 2021 of the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas Tsunami Exercise—NEAMWave20—and seventeenth session of the Intergovernmental Coordinating Group of NEAMTWS (27/08/2020)
Regional scope: Respectively to March 2021 and November...
CL-2808 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Transmission of the ‘Decade’ Implementation Plan and its summary to the UN General Assembly (11/08/2020)
For information.
CL-2807 Call of Support for the IOC Ocean Info Hub Project (LAC Regional node) (28/06/2020)
LAC Member States are invited to express interest by...
CL-2806 Release of the Capacity Assessment of Tsunami Preparedness in the Indian Ocean, Status Report 2018 (23/06/2020)
For information
CL-2805 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTAC focal points of 14 July 2020 at 0500 UTC (09/06/2020)
Regional scope: recipient national focal points of...
CL-2804 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Process for the review and transmission of the ‘Decade’ Implementation Plan and its Summary to the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly (19/06/2020)
Second review of the revised Implementation Plan open...
CL-2803 Launch of the second IOC Capacity Development Needs Assessment Survey (03/09/2020)
Online survey available until 1st February 2021.
CL-2802 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTA Focal Points, 8 June 2020 at 0600 UTC (25/05/2020)
Regional scope: Tsunami Warning Focal Points in the...
CL-2801 International Day for Biological Diversity and 20th Anniversary of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS new name) (18/05/2020)
For information
CL-2800 Call for a review of the Draft IOC Ocean Literacy Action Plan (21/04/2020)
Deadline extended to 22 June. IOC Member States to...
CL-2799 The 53rd Session of the IOC Executive Council (06/04/2020)
EC Member States are invited to send position on the...
CL-2798 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Update on preparations, call for a review of Draft Implementation Plan and for joining the Global Ocean Decade Alliance (04/06/2020)
CL-2797 Invitation to the 53rd Session of the IOC Executive Council, Paris, 30 June–3 July 2020, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (16/03/2020)
CL-2796 Election by correspondence of the Officers to the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) (06/03/2020)
Regional scope limited to the ICG/NEAMTWS Member States....
CL-2795 Call for proposals to host a OceanTeacher Global Academy (OTGA) Regional or Specialized Training Centre (New deadline) (28/02/2020)
New deadline for applications: 1st June 2020.
CL-2794 Request for information on the status of marine spatial planning (MSP) (New deadline) (27/02/2020)
New deadline: 15 June 2020 IOC Member States to provide...
CL-2793 Designation of national IOC focal points for Capacity Development (27/01/2020)
Member States to designate an IOC CD focal point by...
CL-2792 Data compilation towards Sustainable Development Goal 14.3.1 Indicator: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations (17/01/2020)
IOC MS to send contribution by 10 February 2020.
CL-2791 Nomination of experts to serve on the IOC Working Group on User Requirements and Contributions to General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Products (21/01/2020)
Member States to designate one expert by 20 February...
CL-2790 Extension of Deadline for Nominations of Officers (Chair, Vice-Chairs) to the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS). Deadline for nominations: 28 February 2020 (15/01/2020)
Regional scope
CL-2789 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 20 Tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 19 March 2020 (08/01/2020)
Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS Member States to register...
CL-2788 Regional Consultation for Africa and the Adjacent Island States as part of the preparation of the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021–2030), 27–29 January 2020, Nairobi, Kenya (20/12/2019)
Member States and partner organizations are invited...
CL-2787 Notification and Instructions regarding the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Communications Test for the Registered SCSTA Focal Points, 13 January 2020 at 0600 UTC (16/12/2019)
Regional scope
CL-2786 Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) Leadership workshop for developing the “Regional Framework for Coastal Vulnerability towards the Safety, Security and Sustainable Development of Member States in the Indian Ocean and Regional Planning Workshop of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, Chennai, India, 6–7 & 8–10 January 2020 (09/12/2019)
<p>IOC Member States to nominate participants to both...
CL-2785 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Update on preparations and call for extra support (05/12/2019)
CL-2784 Revival and Reactivation of GOOS-AFRICA, the Global Ocean Observing System in Africa (27/11/2019)
Member States to nominate experts to the GOOS-AFRICA...
CL-2783 Announcement of IOTWMS Indian Ocean Tsunami Exercise (IOWave20) on 6, 13 and 20 October 2020 (25/11/2019)
Regional scope: IOTWMS Member States to nominate a...
CL-2782 Thirteenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XIII), 20–21 February 2020, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (24/10/2019)
TOWS Working Group members are invited to communicate...
CL-2781 NWPTAC Communications Test for the Registered NWPTAC focal points on 5 November 2019 after the termination of its interim services to the South China Sea Region (14/10/2019)
Regional scope: NWPTAC Communications Test with changed...
CL-2780 Indian Ocean Regional Workshop on Strengthening Tsunami Warning Chain to Critical Infrastructure (Ports, Harbour and coastal Airports), 20–22 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia (11/10/2019)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWMS National Tsunami Contacts...
CL-2779 Invitation to the 16th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XVI), Cannes, France, 2–4 December 2019 (03/10/2019)
Regional scope: ICG/NEAMTWS Member States to register...
CL-2778 Nominations for at-large members of the Joint WMO-IOC Collaborative Board, representing IOC Member States (18/09/2019)
IOC Member States to send nominations for three at-large...
CL-2777 Full operation of the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) starts on 5 November 2019 (17/09/2019)
Regional scope: tsunami contacts of the Pacific Tsunami...
CL-2776 Building the IOC Ocean Data and Information System “Catalogue of Sources” (ODISCat) (30/08/2019)
Invitation to IOC MS and major programmes to register...
CL-2775 Invitation to the IOC South China Sea training for seismic and sea level operators, 21–25 October 2019, Hangzhou, China (30/08/2019)
(regional scope) open to South China Sea Member States...
CL-2774 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period November 2019–June 2020 (16/09/2019)
MS to designate members of IFAG by 30 October 2019....
CL-2773 Contributions to the 4th World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 November 2019) (25/07/2019)
MS invited to share information about events for the...
CL-2772 International Symposium on the Lessons Learnt from the 2018 Tsunamis (11/07/2019)
Regional scope: invitation to IOTWMS Member States.
CL-2771 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 31 July 2019 at 0500 UTC (12/07/2019)
Regional scope: Registered focal points of Northwest...
CL-2770 ITIC Training Programme—Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII) on Tsunami Early Warning Systems and the PTWC Enhanced Products, Tsunami Evacuation Planning and Tsunami Ready Programme, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3–13 September 2019 (21/05/2019)
ICG/PTWS and ICG/CARIBE-EWS Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2769 Equatorial Guinea: New Member State of the IOC / Guinée équatoriale: nouvel Etat membre de la COI (21/05/2019)
CL-2768 Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS): Call for nomination of experts to the ICG/IOTWMS Working Groups (02/05/2019)
Regional scope: Member States of the ICG/IOTWMS to...
CL-2767 IOC History Project (02/05/2019)
Deadline for sending contributions: 15 September 2019....
CL-2766 Two secondments of short-term international staff from National Tsunami Warning Centres (NTWCs) in Member States of the Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the South China Sea Region (WG-SCS) to the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) – 2nd call (25/04/2019)
Regional scope: TNCs/TWFPs of Brunei Darussalam, China,...
CL-2765 Seventh Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO-VII), Hyderabad, India, 31 May–1 June 2019 and associated workshop (27–30 May 2019) (23/04/2019)
Regional scope: Detail of delegations to be sent by...
CL-2764 Invitation to the Fifteenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (SC-IOCARIBE-XV), 6–10 May 2019, Oranjestad, Aruba (12/04/2019)
Regional scope. Registration of participants by 20...
CL-2763 Ocean Science Day 2019 – Ocean Science for Sustainable Development: Investing in the Ocean/Human Future, 27 June 2019, UNESCO, Paris (16/04/2019)
CL-2762 Invitation to the Thirtieth Session of the IOC Assembly, 26 June–4 July 2019 and Fifty-second Session of the IOC Executive Council, 25 June 2019, UNESCO HQ, Paris (02/04/2019)
IOC Member States and partner organisations are invited...
CL-2761 Consultation on the Future of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) (08/03/2019)
IOC Member States to provide feedback by 1st April...
CL-2760 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) - Update on the engagement of nations to the preparatory phase (13/03/2019)
For information. 13-15 May 2019: Global Planning Meeting...
CL-2759 Nomination of an IOC Representative at the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (26/03/2019)
Nominations to be received before 30 April 2019
CL-2758 Sixth Meeting of the PTWS Working Group 2 Task Team on Seismic Data Sharing in the Southwest Pacific, and Sixth Meeting of the PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), 7 & 8 March 2019, Noumea (New Caledonia) (05/03/2019)
Regional scope: Australia, Cooks Islands, Fiji, France...
CL-2757 Invitation to the Fourteenth session of the IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-XIV), Punta Leona, Costa Rica, 8–11 April 2019 (07/03/2019)
Regional scope: ICG/CARIBE-EWS Member States to send...
CL-2756 ICG/PTWS Framework for Future Goals and Performance Monitoring of Tsunami Risk Reduction, Hazard Warning, and Mitigation – First Cycle (2017–2018) of Reporting on Key Performance Indicators against the Framework agreed Goals (13/02/2019)
Regional scope: relevant Pacific Tsunami Warning Systems...
CL-2755 Invitation to the Twenty-eighth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXVIII), Montelimar, Nicaragua, 2–5 April 2019 (06/02/2019)
Regional scope: Countries members of the Pacific Tsunami...
CL-2754 Fourth Meeting of the Regional Working Group for Central America of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS), Managua, Nicaragua, 11 February 2019 (28/01/2019)
Regional scope: Tsunami National Contacts of Costa...
CL-2753 Full transition to NWPTAC enhanced products as from 28 February 2019 (25/01/2019)
Regional scope: For information. User's guide attached.
CL-2752 Eighth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG/SCS-VIII), Jakarta, Indonesia, 4–6 March 2019 (25/01/2019)
Regional scope: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...
CL-2751 Fifth Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA-V), Nairobi, Kenya, 25–27 March 2019 (23/01/2019)
Regional scope: IOCAFRICA Member States to communicate...
CL-2750 Election of IODE Co-Chairs during the Twenty-Fifth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXV), Tokyo, Japan, 20–22 February 2019 (18/01/2019)
The deadline for nominating candidates for co-chairship...
CL-2749 Twelfth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-XII), Manila, the Philippines, 2–5 April 2019 (09/01/2019)
Regional scope: WESTPAC Member States to communicate...
CL-2748 Recommendation ICG/CARIBE-EWS-XIII.7 on Tsunami Ready (logo) (20/12/2018)
Regional scope: to send comments if any by 21 January...
CL-2747 Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS-XII), Kish Island, Islamic Republic of Iran, 9–12 March 2019 (10/12/2018)
(Regional scope) ICG/IOTWMS Member States to register...
CL-2746 Twenty-Fifth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXV) and Scientific Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 18–22 February 2019 (03/12/2018)
Member States involved in the International Oceanographic...
CL-2745 Twelfth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XII), 21–22 February 2019, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (17/12/2018)
TOWS Working Group members are invited to communicate...
CL-2744 Follow-up to the preparation of the second edition of the IOC Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR-II): new deadline (16/11/2018)
Deadline extended to 15 February 2019 (see also CL-2729)
CL-2743 Fourteenth Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XIV), UNESCO, Paris, 24–26 April 2019 (16/11/2018)
Member States to send detail of their delegation by...
CL-2742 Survey of Capacity Assessment of Tsunami Preparedness of the IOTWMS Member States (09/11/2018)
Regional scope: Tsunami National Contacts from the...
CL-2741 Appointment in Fiji of a Programme Officer for Disaster Risk Reduction and Tsunami Warning for the South Pacific region (22/10/2018)
Regional scope for information
CL-2740 Appointment of a Programme Officer for Coastal Hazards and the Caribbean Tsunami Information Centre (CTIC) in Barbados (19/10/2018)
Regional scope for information
CL-2739 Feasibility study for the adaptation of the ‘Ocean School’ programme to Central and South America (10/10/2018)
Regional scope: Costa Rica, Chile, Panama, Colombia,...
CL-2738 IOC Capacity Development Needs Assessment Survey and Transfer of Marine Technology Clearing House Mechanism Needs Survey (05/10/2018)
Member States to designate an IOC CD focal point and...
CL-2737 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period November 2018–June 2019 (02/10/2018)
MS to designate members of IFAG by 30 October 2018....
CL-2736 Invitation to the training on Tsunami Emergency Maps, Plans and Procedures (TEMPP-3), 22 November–1 December 2018, Citeko, Bogor, Indonesia (21/09/2018)
Regional scope: Tsunami National Contacts for Australia,...
CL-2735 Invitation to Post-IOWave18 Regional Workshop on lessons learnt from community participation and evaluation of Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready indicators in pilot communities during Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18), 15–17 November 2018, Jakarta, Indonesia (21/09/2018)
Regional scope:Tsunami national contacts of States...
CL-2734 GOOS, JCOMM, GLOSS, Argo, SOT and DBCP National Focal Points (04/10/2018)
Further to CL-2666, this CL informs MS of the national...
CL-2733 Invitation to nominate experts to the ICG/CARIBE-EWS Group of Experts (GoE) on work and implementation plan to enhance the warning system by including other coastal hazards (12/09/2018)
Regional scope: ICG/CARIBE-EWS Member States to nominate...
CL-2732 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 19 Tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 14 March 2019 (05/09/2018)
Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS Member States to inform...
CL-2731 Invitation to the 15th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XV), UNESCO HQs, Paris, 26–28 November 2018 (03/09/2018)
Regional scope: ICG/NEAMTWS Member States to send details...
CL-2730 Contributions to the 3rd World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD, 5 November 2018) and announcement of the WTAD 2018 High Level Panel Discussion, 16 October 2018 (UNESCO HQs) (30/08/2018)
MS invited to share information about events for the...
CL-2729 Invitation to contribute information for the compilation of the second edition of the IOC Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR-II) (05/09/2018)
Member States to designate their national focal point...
CL-2728 Nomination and/or updating of details on IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management (27/08/2018)
Confirmation, update or nomination of designated IODE...
CL-2727 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 20 September 2018 at 0500 UTC (23/08/2018)
Regional scope: Registered focal points of Northwest...
CL-2726 Invitation to Comment on the GOOS 2030 Strategy (09/08/2018)
Member States to provide comment on the GOOS 2030 Strategy,...
CL-2725 Call for Candidatures for the Position of IODE Co-Chairs (2019–2021 inter-sessional period) (24/08/2018)
Not later than 15 November 2018.
CL-2724 Secondment of one short-term international staff from a National Tsunami Warning Centre in WG-SCS Member States to the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) (17/07/2018)
Regional scope: open to South China Sea Member States...
CL-2723 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) – Call for nomination to the Executive Planning Group (EPG) (16/07/2018)
Nominations to be sent the IOC Secretariat by 5 September....
CL-2722 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development: Expression of Interest for supporting start-up activities (2018–2020) (23/05/2018)
IOC Member States, partners and funding Organizations...
CL-2721 ITIC Training Programme—Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII in CHILE) on Tsunami Early Warning Systems and the PTWC Enhanced Products, Valparaiso, Chile, 1–10 August 2018 (03/05/2018)
Candidatures endorsed by the TNC or TWFP to be sent...
CL-2720 Atelier de formation régional sur l’aménagement de l'espace marin, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 7-9 mai 2018 (06/04/2018)
Les Etats membres de l'IOCAFRICA sont invités à désigner...
CL-2719 Invitation to the 51st Session of the IOC Executive Council, Paris, France, 3–6 July 2018, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France (06/04/2018)
Member States representatives and participants to register...
CL-2718 Invitation to Regional Training on “Strengthening Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and the use of the ICG/PTWS SCSTAC Tsunami Advisory Products”, Beijing, China, 8–11 May 2018 (08/03/2018)
Regional scope: South China Sea Member States of the...
CL-2717 Invitation to the Thirteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-XIII), Willemstad, Curaçao, Kingdom of Netherlands, 24–27 April 2018 (08/03/2018)
Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS Members States to register...
CL-2716 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 15 March 2018 at 0500 UTC (05/03/2018)
Regional scope
CL-2715 Invitation to attend the ICG/IOTWMS 2nd Integrated Intersessional Meetings, Hyderabad, India, 26 June–14 July 2018 (06/03/2018)
Regional scope: IOTWMS Member States to designate 1...
CL-2714 Evolving capabilities of the Argo Profiling Float Network (19/03/2018)
To provide feedback on the technical information provided,...
CL-2713 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Project Year 15 (2018–2019) (19/02/2018)
MS to send application form directly to the Course...
CL-2712 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2021–2030 – Start-up Phase (19/02/2018)
MS to provide comments/inputs on the roadmap document...
CL-2711 Nomination of two IOC representatives at the GEBCO Guiding Committee (GGC) (29/01/2018)
MS to send candidatures by 26 February 2018.
CL-2710 Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS) Subregional Working Group for the North West Indian Ocean: call for nomination of experts (24/01/2018)
Regional scope: India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan and Yemen...
CL-2709 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Exercise Pacific Wave 2018 (PacWave18), during the period 1st September to 30 November 2018 (24/01/2018)
Regional scope: Countries participating to the regional...
CL-2708 Turkmenistan: New Member State of the IOC (15/01/2018)
CL-2707 Seventh Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG/SCS-VII), Hanoi, Vietnam, 6–8 March 2018 (15/01/2018)
Regional scope: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...
CL-2706 Starting of trial operations of the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) on 26 January 2018 (09/01/2018)
Regional scope: user countries of the SCSTAC products...
CL-2705 Publication of the User's Guide for the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Enhanced Products for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CARIBE-EWS) (09/01/2018)
For information
CL-2704 Announcement of the CARIBE WAVE 18 tsunami Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 15 March 2018 (19/12/2017)
Regional scope: Member States of the CARIBE-EWS to...
CL-2703 Announcement of IOTWMS Indian Ocean Tsunami Exercise (IOWave18) on 4th and 5th September 2018 (18/12/2017)
Regional scope: States member of the regional tsunami...
CL-2702 Starting of issuance of experimental NWPTAC Enhanced Products (14/12/2017)
Regional scope: user countries of the North West Pacific...
CL-2701 Nomination of four IOC Representatives at the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (14/12/2017)
Candidatures to one of the four IOC vacant seats on...
CL-2700 Sixth Short Course on Sea Level Data Quality Control, Analysis and Applications for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CARIBE-EWS), Mexico City, 26 February–2 March 2018 (13/12/2017)
Open to sea-level station professionals nominated by...
CL-2699 Free subscription to services for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas offered by new Candidate Tsunami Service Provider, the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) (12/12/2017)
Subscribe through the ICG/NEAMTWS Secretariat by 15...
CL-2698 Eleventh Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XI), 16–17 February 2018, Paris, France and adjacent meetings and symposium starting from 12 February 2018 (04/12/2017)
TOWS-WG members to confirm attendance by 10 January...
CL-2697 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period December 2017–June 2018 (17/10/2017)
MS to designate members of IFAG by 30 November 2017....
CL-2696 International Ocean Literacy Conference, Venice (Italy), 4–5 December 2017 (11/10/2017)
Online registration.
CL-2695 Invitation to the 14th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XIV), Lisbon, Portugal, 21–23 November 2017 (10/10/2017)
Regional scope: ICG/NEAMTWS Member States to register...
CL-2694 Pilot Implementation of Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready2 (IOTR) Programme and Training of Trainers on Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans and Procedures (04/10/2017)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWMS tsunami contacts to propose...
CL-2693 New Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) (27/09/2017)
For information.
CL-2692 International Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development – Consideration of IOC Resolution XXIX-1 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at its 72th Session (05/09/2017)
IOC Member State delegations to the UN to support the...
CL-2691 Contributions to the Second World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 November 2017) (04/09/2017)
Member States to send information on events organized...
CL-2690 Second announcement for Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas –NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise ‘NEAMWave17’, 31 October-3 November 2017 (05/09/2017)
Reminder of CL 2685 with additional detail. New deadline...
CL-2689 Invitation to Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) New Enhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS Regional Training Workshop, Colombia, 31 October–2 November 2017 (04/09/2017)
Regional scope: a selected number of ICG/CARIBE-EWS...
CL-2688 Resumption of IOTWMS Public Tsunami Bulletins on the IOC Public List Server and WMO Global Telecommunication System (GTS) starting 22 September 2017 (23/08/2017)
Conveys to the TNCs/TWFPs/NTWCs of all the ICGs that...
CL-2687 Call to Member States for Letters of Intent to host a coordinator for WCRP Regional Activities (24/07/2017)
Interested Member States, national, regional and international...
CL-2686 Women’s Marine Leadership Workshop, [relocated from Bali to Geneva, WMO HQ], 21-22 October 2017 (24/07/2017)
IOC Member States to submit candidates matching criteria...
CL-2685 Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas – NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise – ‘NEAMWave17’, 31 October – 3 November 2017 (24/07/2017)
Regional scope: NEAM Member States to provide details...
CL-2684 Thirty-third Session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP-33), Brest, France, 14-17 November 2017Thirty-third Session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP-33), Brest, France, 14-17 November 2017 (13/07/2017)
CL-2683 Call to join the IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange network: national coordinators for marine information management, IODE/IAMSLIC Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) and new Associate Information Unit(s) (AIU) membership (13/07/2017)
reply by 1st September 2017
CL-2682 Nomination of Members of the JCOMM-IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP) nominated by the IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Programme (IODE) (13/07/2017)
To send nominations not later than 1st September 2017
CL-2681 IOC Capacity Development Strategy Implementation: Call for support through the new IOC Capacity Development Funds and Staffing Assistance (21/07/2017)
CL-2680 Nomination of Experts for the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development (Decision IOC-XXIX/10.1) (13/07/2017)
To send nominations not later than 1st September 2017...
CL-2679 Nomination of a Technical Expert to the PTWS Working Group 2 Task Team on Seismic Data Sharing in the South West Pacific and invitation to the 5th Meeting of the Task Team (Honiara, Solomon Islands, 9 August 2017) (13/07/2017)
Regional scope: ICG/PTWS Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2678 Fifth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (ICG/PTWS-WG PICTs), 7–8 August 2017, Honiara, Solomon Islands (13/07/2017)
Regional scope: ICG/PTWS Member States to nominate...
CL-2677 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 1 August 2017 at 05:00 UTC (13/07/2017)
Regional scope: NWPTA focal points.
CL-2676 WESTPAC Training Workshop on Distribution, Source, Fate and Impacts of Marine Microplastics in Asia and the Pacific, Phuket, Thailand, 20–22 September 2017 (13/07/2017)
Regional scope: WESTPAC Member States to nominate suitable...
CL-2675 WESTPAC Training Course on Molecular Taxonomy based on Single DNA Barcoding and Metabarcoding – IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health, Jakarta, Indonesia, 25 September–6 October 2017 (06/07/2017)
Regional scope: to nominate one or more participants...
CL-2674 Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS) Working Group 1 on Tsunami Risk Community Awareness and Preparedness and Working Group 2 on Tsunami Detection, Warning and Dissemination: Call for nomination of experts (06/07/2017)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWMS to designate experts by...
CL-2673 Invitation to attend the ICG/IOTWMS Workshops on IOTIC Indian Ocean TsunamiReady (IOTR) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Jakarta, Indonesia, 6-8 September and 11-14 September 2017 (06/07/2017)
Regional scope: to nominate candidates by 24 July 2017
CL-2672 Nomination of experts to serve on a regular working group on user requirements and contributions to GEBCO products (10/07/2017)
IOC Member States to send nominations no later than...
CL-2671 IOC engagement in the UN Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, the Ocean Conference, 5–9 June 2017, UN Headquarters, New York (17/05/2017)
CL-2670 (IOC-XXIX/Inf.4: IOC Messages) Follow up to decisions of the 49th session of the IOC Executive Council (10/05/2017)
CL-2669 Sixth Session of IOC Regional Committee for Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO-VI), Kuwait City, Kuwait, 24-25 May 2017 and IOCINDIO Strategic Revitalisation Scoping Workshop, 22-23 May 2017 (25/04/2017)
MS and partner organizations to send nominations forms...
CL-2668 Regional “Seismic Network Operators Short Course on Best Practices” and ICG/CARIBE-EWS Working Group 1 meeting, 6–9 June 2017, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA (12/04/2017)
Regional scope: Member States of the Caribbean and...
CL-2667 Invitation to the Fourteenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (SC-IOCARIBE-XIV) (04/04/2017)
Regional scope: MS to register their delegation by...
CL-2666 Nomination and/or updating of details on GOOS, JCOMM, GLOSS, Argo, SOT and DBCP National Contact Points (06/06/2017)
IOC Member States to provide information by 30 June...
CL-2665 Regional Workshop on the contribution of oceanographic data and information management and exchange to Ocean and Coastal Sustainability and SDG-14, Tianjin, China, 16-18 May 2017 (15/03/2017)
Regional scope: WESTPAC MS to nominate participants...
CL-2664 WESTPAC Training Course on Development of Coupled Regional Ocean Models– IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate, Qingdao, China, 12-23 June 2017 (11/03/2017)
Regional scope: WESTPAC Member States to nominate candidates...
CL-2663 Invitation to the Twenty-ninth Session of the IOC Assembly, 21–29 June 2017 and Fiftieth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 20 June 2017, UNESCO HQ, Paris (14/03/2017)
IOC MS and Partner Organizations to nominate delegates...
CL-2662 Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS): Call for Nomination of Experts to Working Groups and Task Teams (21/02/2017)
Regional scope: NEAMTWS Tsunami National Contacts to...
CL-2661 Invitation to the Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-XII), Punta Leona, Costa Rica, 10–12 May 2017 (21/02/2017)
Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS Member States to nominate...
CL-2660 New Head of the IOC Ocean Sciences Section (15/02/2017)
For information
CL-2659 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Project Year 14 (2017–2018) (15/02/2017)
Applications by 31 March 2017.
CL-2658 Eleventh Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS-XI), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-20 April 2017 (20/02/2017)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWMS Member States to register...
CL-2657 UN Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, 5–9 June 2017, New York and Proposal for the International Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development – Towards the ocean we need for the future we want (03/02/2017)
Member States to send comments on the proposed “International...
CL-2656 Second Meeting of the ICG/IOTWMS Sub-Regional Working Group for the North West Indian Ocean (ICG/IOTWMS/WG-NWIO-II) 27-28 February 2017, Tehran, Iran (27/01/2017)
Regional scope: India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Yemen...
CL-2655 Test of the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center Products (SCSTAC) during Pacific Wave 2017 (PacWave17), 15-17 February 2017 (23/01/2017)
Regional scope. See also Circular letter 2636 for the...
CL-2654 CARIBE WAVE 2017 Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 21 March 2017 (17/01/2017)
Participant Handbook for the exercises available as...
CL-2653 Fourth Session of the IOC Sub Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA-IV), Alexandria, Egypt, 6-8 March 2017 (16/12/2016)
IOCAFRICA Member States are invited to register delegates...
CL-2652 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 17 January 2017 at 0500 UTC (16/12/2016)
Regional scope: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China,...
CL-2651 Thirteenth Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XIII), UNESCO, Paris, 3–5 May 2017 (14/12/2016)
By 1st April 2017, Member States to send detail of...
CL-2650 Sixth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG/SCS-VI), Shanghai, China, 1–3 March 2017 (07/12/2016)
Regional scope: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...
CL-2649 Eleventh Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-XI), Qingdao, China, 21–23 April 2017 (15/02/2017)
Regional scope: WESTPAC country members o inform detail...
CL-2648 Invitation to the Twenty-seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXVII), Tahiti, France, 28–31 March 2017 (15/12/2016)
ICG/PTWS Member States to send/register detail of their...
CL-2647 Invitation to Workshop on Lessons Learnt from IOWave16 and ICG/IOTWMS Working Group 1, 5-8 December 2016, Bandung, Indonesia (09/11/2016)
Regional scope: Participants of IOTWMS Member States...
CL-2646 Tenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-X), 23-24 February 2017, Paris, France (23/11/2016)
Invitation to WG members. Registration by 20 January...
CL-2645 Nomination and/or updating of details on IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management (08/11/2016)
Information to be sent to the IOC Secretariat not later...
CL-2644 Nominations for a member of GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (10/10/2016)
Candidatures to be sent by 2 December 2016.
CL-2643 Follow-up to the 49th session of the IOC Executive Council: Transmission of the finalized IOC Complementary Additional Programme of Extrabudgetary Resources (Proposals 2016-2017) and the 2016 Audit Report on the IOC by the External Auditor of UNESCO (29/09/2016)
For information
CL-2642 Twenty-Fourth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXIV), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 28-31 March 2017 and Scientific Conference, 27 March 2017 (27/09/2016)
Member States involved in the International Oceanographic...
CL-2641 Second Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Task Team on Establishment of the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC), 24–26 October 2016 (05/09/2016)
Regional scope: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...
CL-2640 Contributions to the World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 November) (31/08/2016)
Member States to send information on events organized...
CL-2639 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group for the period October 2016–June 2017 (11/08/2016)
IOC Member States to send nominations by 30 October...
CL-2638 WESTPAC Training Course on Crustacean Taxonomy – Regional Training and Research Center on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health (RTRC-MarBEST), Jakarta, Indonesia, 17-29 October 2016 (11/08/2016)
Regional scope: WESTPAC Member States to nominate candidates...
CL-2637 IOC and CME-NOC Programme Training Course for Operators of Sea-Level Stations in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, 17–21 October 2016 (12/08/2016)
Regional scope: Country récipients of the letter to...
CL-2636 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Exercise Pacific Wave 2017 (PacWave17), 15-17 February 2017 (17/08/2016)
Informs PTWS Tsunami Warning Focal Points and Tsunami...
CL-2635 Invitation to the 13th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XIII), Bucharest, Romania, 26-28 September 2016 (19/08/2016)
Regional scope: ICG/NEAMTWS Member States to nominate...
CL-2634 Request for update of national representations to the IOC: designation of the national coordinating body for liaison with the Commission (02/09/2016)
Member States to review their national representation...
CL-2633 Designation of members for the IOC Intersessional Working Group on issues related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (14/07/2016)
MS to designate members by 1st August and members to...
CL-2632 Fourth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South-West Pacific (ICG/PTWS/WG-SWP), 22–23 August 2016, Honiara, Solomon Islands (07/07/2016)
Regional scope: Australia, Cooks Islands, Fiji, France,...
CL-2631 Notification and Instructions regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 25 July 2016 at 0500 UTC (30/06/2016)
Regional scope: TWFPs to acknowledge receipt of the...
CL-2630 Nominations of candidates for membership to the IIOE-2 Steering Committee Science Themes and Working Groups (01/07/2016)
Member States to send nominations (nomination form...
CL-2629 ITIC Training Programme – Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII), Hawaii, United States of America, 6–16 September 2016 (13/06/2016)
Regional scope: Pacific and Caribbean sea Tsunami National...
CL-2628 Invitation to the World Oceans Day celebration at UNESCO, 8 June 2016, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France (26/05/2016)
CL-2627 Nominations for members of GEBCO Guiding Committee (GGC) and GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) (16/05/2016)
Nominations to be sent by 20 June 2016.
CL-2626 Nominations for Science Theme and Working Group Chairs of the 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) Steering Committee (18/04/2016)
Member States to provide nominations on the joint form...
CL-2625 Launch of the New IOC Capacity Development Web Site (22/04/2016)
For information.
CL-2624 Call for comments to the document "Tsunami Advisory Products for the South China Sea Regional Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System" (06/04/2016)
Regional scope: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...
CL-2623 2nd March 2016 Southwest of Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami Event Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (06/04/2016)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWMS TNC and TWFP to email the...
CL-2622 Regional pre-IOWave16 Exercise Workshop on Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response for Indian Ocean Countries, 9-13 May 2016, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia (18/03/2016)
Regional scope: preparation to the conduct the IOWave16...
CL-2621 Invitation to the 49th Session of the IOC Executive Council, Paris, France, 7–10 June 2016, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France (26/02/2016)
CL-2620 Fifth Session of IOC Regional Committee for Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO-V), Chennai, India, 25–27 April 2016 (26/02/2016)
Regional scope: IOC Member States in the region to...
CL-2619 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Project Year 13 (2016–2017) (15/02/2016)
One year scholarship to lead to a Postgraduate Certificate...
CL-2618 The Republic of Nauru: New Member State of the IOC (15/02/2016)
CL-2617 Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) – Reorganization and Governance Survey (16/02/2016)
Regional scope: States members of the ICG/NEAMTWS invited...
CL-2616 Invitation to the Eleventh Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-XI), Cartagena, Colombia, 5–7 April 2016 (29/01/2016)
Regional scope: ICG/CARIBE-EWS Member States to register...
CL-2615 Nomination of experts for the NEAMTWS Candidate Tsunami Service Providers (CTSPs) Accreditation (21/01/2016)
(Regional scope) Tsunami Warning Focal Points and Tsunami...
CL-2614 Invitation to Nominate Participants to Attend a Training Workshop on Coastal Hazard Assessment: Applications in Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation for Western Indian Ocean Countries, Seychelles, 7-11 March 2016 (15/01/2016)
Regional scope: Western Indian Ocean and small islands....
CL-2613 Fifth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG/SCS-V), 2–4 March 2016, Manila, Philippines (13/01/2016)
Relevant States Members of the Pacific Tsunami Warning...
CL-2612 Announcement of IOTWMS Indian Ocean Tsunami Exercise (IOWave16) (21/12/2015)
Regional scope: States member of the regional tsunami...
CL-2611 CARIBE WAVE 2016 Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (21/12/2015)
Regional scope: Online seminars in English, Spanish...
CL-2610 OTGA-CRODT/ISRA Cours de Formation sur les ‘Principes fondamentaux de la Gestion des Données Océanographiques’ – CRODT-ISRA, Dakar, Sénégal, 25–29 janvier 2016 (08/12/2015)
French speaking African MS to designate participants...
CL-2609 Organisation d’un colloque sur le niveau de la mer, du 2 au 4 février 2016, au Siège de l’UNESCO, Salle IX (30/11/2015)
Invitation to French-speaking Member States.
CL-2608 Ninth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-IX), 25–26 February 2016, Paris, France (14/12/2015)
Members confirn their presence by 10 February 2016.
CL-2607 OTGA-INCOIS Training Course on Marine Geographic Information System (GIS) for Operational Oceanography – INCOIS, Hyderabad, India, 14–18 December 2015 (10/11/2015)
Regional scope: IOC Member States in the Indian Ocean...
CL-2606 Last call to contribute national information to the IOC Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) (26/10/2015)
Extension of the deadline for sending contribution...
CL-2605 Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Enhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS, Bridgetown, Barbados, 7–10 December 2015 (20/10/2015)
Regional scope: Nominations to be received by 27 October...
CL-2604 IODE Training Course on Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) – NMDIS, Tianjin, China, 8–10 December 2015 (20/10/2015)
Western Pacific Member States to designate one or more...
CL-2603 Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) during the 16 September 2015 Chile central Earthquake and Tsunami Event (13/10/2015)
The post-event assessment questionnaire to be filled...
CL-2602 Nomination of Technical Experts to the PTWS Working Group 2 Task Team on Seismic Data Sharing in the South West Pacific and invitation to the 4th Meeting of the Task Team (Suva, Fiji, 3–4 November 2015) (12/10/2015)
Regional scope: Nominations to be sent by 15 October...
CL-2600 PTWC Start of Issuance of Enhanced Products for Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, on 26 October 2015; User's Guide for the PTWC Enhanced Products for CARIBE-EWS; Caribbean Tsunami Information Center (CTIC) relocation and funding (12/10/2015)
CL-2599 Update on the IOC contribution to the 21st UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP 21), Paris, 30 November–11 December 2015 (14/10/2015)
For information
CL-2598 Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS) Working Group 2 on Tsunami Detection, Warning and Dissemination: call for nomination of experts (13/10/2015)
Regional scope: Nominations to be addressed to the...
CL-2597 Revised Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure for the IHO-IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee (02/10/2015)
For information
CL-2596 Regional Workshops on Post-IOWave14 Exercise Assessment and Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response for Indian Ocean Countries, 6–10 November 2015, INCOIS, Hyderabad, India (28/09/2015)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWMS Member States to designate...
CL-2595 IODE-OTGA Training Course on Marine GIS – OTGA Regional Training Centre INOS-UMT, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, 25-29 October 2015 (23/09/2015)
IOC Member States in Western Pacific to designate one...
CL-2594 Inaugural Meeting of the ICG/IOTWMS Sub-Regional Working Group for the North West Indian Ocean (ICG/IOTWMS-WG-NWIO/I) 14–15 October 2015, Muscat, Oman (04/09/2015)
Regional scope: India, Iran (Islamic Republic of),...
CL-2593 Notification of e-mail address change of the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) and announcement of a Communications Test for the registered NWPTAC focal points, 01 October 2015 at 0500 UTC (01/09/2015)
Regional scope: points of the following countries:...
CL-2592 Update of the UNESCO/IOC List of Experts on Marine Scientific Research for use in Special Arbitration under Annex VIII of UNCLOS (21/08/2015)
Member States to appoint or reconfirm, if they so wish,...
CL-2591 Invitation to the 12th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XII), Dublin, Ireland, 16–18 November 2015 (21/08/2015)
ICG/NEAMTWS Member States to send nominations by 16...
CL-2590 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group, 2015-2016 (25/08/2015)
Member States to nominate members of the Group by 30...
CL-2589 Nomination of experts to serve on the Review Group with regard to IOC’s Role and Involvement in the GEBCO Project (13/08/2015)
This CL is pursuant to a decision of the IOC Assembly...
CL-2588 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Tsunami Exercise “PacWave16”, 1–5 February 2016 (12/08/2015)
Regional scope: 16 Member States that receive products...
CL-2587 Invitation to participate to the sixth Communication Test Exercise in the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS-CTE6) – 29 July 2015 (13/07/2015)
Regional scope. Includes the Exercise Manual (IOC Technical...
CL-2586 Joint IOC-CBD letter on the 204 marine areas meeting the criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (12/08/2015)
CL-2585 WESTPAC Training Course on Climate Change – IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate, Qingdao, China, 7–18 September 2015 (15/07/2015)
Regional scope: deadline for receiving applications:...
CL-2584 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 22 July 2015 at 0500 UTC (15/07/2015)
Regional scope: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China...
CL-2583 Invitation to participate in the workshop “From Early Warning to Early Response: Tsunami Exercise NEAMWave14” (11/06/2015)
At UNESCO Headquarters on Tuesday 23 June 2015.
CL-2582 Nomination of expert to serve on GOOS Steering Committee for appointment by Member State Electoral Group V (01/06/2015)
CL-2581 Invitation to the Meeting of IOC Regional Subsidiary Bodies (RSB), Monday 15 June 2015, 15:00-18:00 UNESCO Headquarters, Paris-France (04/06/2015)
CL-2580 Invitation to the World Oceans Day Celebration, 8th June 2015, UNESCO HQ, France (27/05/2015)
CL-2579 Invitation to nominate participants to attend a Regional Workshop on Training Modules for Tsunami Exercises Policy Support, Jakarta, Indonesia, 15–17 June 2015 (07/05/2015)
Participants from IOTWS Member States to send application...
CL-2578 Curso piloto de preparación básica frente a los tsunamis: planes, mapas y procedimientos de evacuación en caso de tsunami – Llamado a propuestas de acogida del curso (17/05/2015)
Interested countries to complete the online Pilot Questionnaire...
CL-2577 Invitation to Nominate Participants to Attend a Training Workshop on Coastal Hazard Assessment: Applications in Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 12–15 May 2015 (10/04/2015)
Regional scope: ICG/IOTWS Member States to nominate...
CL-2575 Invitation to the Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-X), Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, 19–21 May 2015 (07/04/2015)
ICG/CARIBE-EWS Member States to register their delegation...
CL-2574 Invitation to the Regional Technical Training Workshop on the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) System, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25–30 May 2015 (03/04/2015)
Regional scope: Some States members of the Tsunami...
CL-2573 Invitation to participate to the fifth NEAMTWS Communication Test Exercise (NEAMTWS-CTE5) on 26 March 2015 (11/03/2015)
If need be update detail of NEAMTWS National Tsunami...
CL-2572 Testing offer of Inexpensive Device for Sea-Level Measurement (IDSL) developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) (06/03/2015)
NEAMTWS Member States interested in testing the device...
CL-2571 Invitation to a “Forum on Sustained Ocean Observations and Services in IOC Group V (Africa and Arab countries)’’, 11–13 April 2015, Nairobi, Kenya (19/02/2015)
IOC Member States of Group V to nominate one or two...
CL-2570 Invitation to the Twenty-eighth Session of the IOC Assembly, 18–25 June 2015, Forty-eighth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 16 June 2015, and the IOC Science Day, 17 June 2015, UNESCO HQ, Paris (13/03/2015)
IOC Member States to send complete list of their delegation...
CL-2569 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Project Year 12 (2015–2016) (18/02/2015)
One year scholarship to lead to a Postgraduate Certificate...
CL-2568 Questionnaire about future Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Enhanced Products (05/02/2015)
The letter conveys a questionnaire to seek the views...
CL-2567 Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-X), Muscat, Oman, 24-26 March 2015 (30/01/2015)
Member States of ICG/IOTWS to register delegation by...
CL-2566 Invitation to the 26th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXVI), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, 22–24 April 2015 (30/01/2015)
ICG/PTWS Member States to send/register detail of their...
CL-2565 Eighth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-VIII), 12–13 March 2015, Morioka, Japan (26/01/2015)
Members of the TOWS-WG to send détails of participats...
CL-2564 Review of the World Ocean Assessment (WOA) under the UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socio-economic Aspects (23/01/2015)
Deadline for submitting comments is 15th March 2015...
CL-2563 Updating information on National Tsunami Warning Centres (NTWC) and Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) for the PTWS region according to new definitions (26/01/2015)
Regional scope: PTWC members to complete and send Nomination...
CL-2562 Updating information on National Tsunami Warning Centres (NTWC) and Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) in the IOTWS region according to new definitions (26/01/2015)
Regional scope: IOTWS members to complete and send...
CL-2561 Updating information on National Tsunami Warning Centres (NTWC) and Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) for the NEAMTWS region according to new definitions (26/01/2015)
Regional scope: NEAMTWS members to complete and send...
CL-2560 Invitation to provide national information important for the production of the IOC Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) (16/01/2015)
IOC Member States to provide information for the Global...
CL-2559 Retirement of the Executive Secretary of IOC – New Executive Secretary and Assistant Director-General of the IOC, Dr Vladimir Ryabinin (09/01/2015)
Interim: 12 January–28 February 2015 by Ms Flavia Schlegel,...
CL-2558 Updating information on National Tsunami Warning Centres (NTWC) and Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) For the CARIBE-EWS region according to new definitions (26/01/2015)
Regional scope: CARIBE-EWS members to complete and...
CL-2556 Tenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-X), Phuket, Thailand, 12–15 May 2015 (20/02/2015)
WESTPAC Member States to designate delegation to the...
CL-2555 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Centre (NWPTAC) Communications Test for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 21 January 2015 at 0500 UTC (16/12/2014)
Regional scope (Registered focal points of the Northwest...
CL-2554 Publication of a new IOC guide: “A guide to Evaluating Marine Spatial Plans” (05/12/2014)
CL-2553 Invitation to financially support the production of the IOC Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) (04/12/2014)
Member States to send letters of support and Financial...
CL-2552 International Tsunami Symposium Commemorating 50th Anniversary of the PTWS, “Making the Pacific Ready for the Tsunami Threat”, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 20–21 April 2015 (20/11/2014)
50th Anniversary of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System....
CL-2551 Informe de la Tercera Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo Regional para América Central del Grupo Intergubernamental de Coordinación del Sistema de Alerta contra los Tsunamis y Atenuación de sus Efectos en el Pacífico (ICG/PTWS), Managua, Nicaragua, 29-30 Septiembre 2014 (14/11/2014)
Establishment of a Regional Tsunami Warning Centre...
CL-2550 WESTPAC Training Workshop on Research and Monitoring of the Ecological Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reef Ecosystems, 19–21 January 2015, Phuket, Thailand (25/11/2014)
Regional scope: To nominate suitable experts to the...
CL-2549 Nomination and/or updating of details on IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management (04/11/2014)
IOC Member States to inform of any changes in name,...
CL-2548 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Pacific-wide Tsunami Exercise “PacWave15”, 2-6 February 2015 (06/11/2014)
Regional scope: Provides initial information on the...
CL-2547 Twelfth Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XII), UNESCO, Paris, 28-30 April 2015 (29/10/2014)
CL-2546 Support for the organization of the Fifth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) towards the revitalization of the Committee (03/11/2014)
Provide financial and/or in-kind contribution to support...
CL-2545 Revision of the Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure for the GEBCO Guiding Committee (27/10/2014)
IOC Member States to send inputs to document IOC/EC-XLVII/2...
CL-2544 Fourth Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG SCS/IV) (10/10/2014)
ICG/PTWS Tsunami National Contacts and Tsunami Warning...
CL-2543 International Conference to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Jakarta, Indonesia, 24-25 November 2014 (26/09/2014)
Registration can be completed online at www.ioc-unesco.org/IOTconference2014
CL-2542 23rd Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXIII), Bruges, Belgium, 17–20 March 2015 and Scientific Conference, 16 March 2015 (26/09/2014)
Member States to designate delegation to the intergovernmental...
CL-2541 Planning of the International Indian Ocean Expedition - 2 (25/09/2014)
MS to nominate potential expert members of the IIOE-2...
CL-2540 Fourth Training Course for Operators of Sea Level Stations in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 3–7 November 2014 (01/10/2014)
Regional scope: Caribbean TWFPs and TNCs to nominate...
CL-2539 Intersessional working group on the Future of IOC (15/09/2014)
IOC Member States to send nominations by 31 October...
CL-2538 Work of the Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group (15/09/2014)
IOC Member States to send nominations (and email) by...
CL-2537 Invitation to the 11th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-XI), 11, 12–14 November 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus (12/09/2014)
Member States to nominate their delegation by 27 October...
CL-2536 Provision of new tsunami watch services for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS) (12/09/2014)
Regional scope: New service offered by the Italian...
CL-2535 Start of Issuance of PTWC Enhanced Products for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) by 0000Z on 1 October 2014 (05/09/2014)
CL-2534 WESTPAC Training Course on Climate Models – IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate, Qingdao, China, 3–14 November 2014 (19/08/2014)
WESTPAC focal point to nominate one or more participants...
CL-2533 North-Eastern Atlantic Tsunami Monitoring by CENALT (France) (19/08/2014)
Regional scope: NEAMTWS members can request new watch...
CL-2532 Tercera Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo Regional para América Central del Grupo Intergubernamental de Coordinación del Sistema de Alerta contra los Tsunamis y Atenuación de sus Efectos en el Pacífico (ICG/PTWS), Managua, Nicaragua, 29-30 Septiembre 2014 (20/08/2014)
Regional scope: registration form to be sent by 22...
CL-2531 Designation of members of the Intersessional Working Group for the Development of the IOC Capacity Development Strategy (21/08/2014)
Re-constitution of this intersessional Working Group....
CL-2530 Announcement of IOTWS Indian Ocean Tsunami Exercise (IOWave14) on 9 and 10 September 2014 (17/07/2014)
Regional scope: Through Tsunami Warning Focal Points...
CL-2529 Regional Workshop on Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response for the North-Eastern Atlantic, Medtierrannean and connected seas (NEAMTWS), 23-24 September 2014, Rabat, Morocco (10/07/2014)
Regional scope: Member States from south-western Mediterranean...
CL-2528 Second announcement for Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas – NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise – ‘NEAMWave14’, 28–30 October 2014 (01/07/2014)
Regional scope: Tsunami Warning Focal Points of NEAMTWS...
CL-2527 Call for candidatures for IODE Co-Chairs (25/06/2014)
IOC Member States through national IODE coordinators...
CL-2526 Notification and Instructions Regarding the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Centre (NWPTAC) Communication Tests for the Registered NWPTA focal points, 14 July 2014 at 0500 UTC (19/06/2014)
CL-2525 International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) Training Programme – Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII) Hawaii, United States of America, 18-29 August 2014 (05/06/2014)
Regional scope: Through their Tsunami Warning Focal...
CL-2524 Change of dates for the Third Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA-III), Nairobi, Kenya, 13-15 April 2015 (29/09/2014)
Revised dates: IOCAFRICA Member States are invited...
CL-2523 Invitation to participate to the fourth Communication Test Exercise in the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS-CTE4) – 30 June 2014 (28/05/2014)
Regional scope: Tsunami Warning Focal Points and National...
CL-2522 Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas – NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise – ‘NEAMWave14’, 28-30 October 2014 (15/05/2014)
Regional scope: ICG/NEAMTWS Tsunami Warning Focal Points...
CL-2521 Invitation to Regional Training: “ICG/PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Tsunami Products”, 2-4 June 2014, Guayaquil, Ecuador (28/04/2014)
Regional scope: Tsunami National Contacts and Tsunami...
CL-2520 Regional Workshop on Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response for Northern and Western Indian Ocean Countries, 23-27 June 2014, INCOIS, Hyderabad, India (18/04/2014)
Regional scope: northern and western Indian Ocean countries...
CL-2519 Invitation to a workshop convened for Group I Member States on The Role and Scope of the IOC in Marine Science and in the Global Ocean Observing System, 26-27 May 2014 in Utrecht, The Netherlands (11/04/2014)
CL-2518 Invitation to Regional Training Workshop on the PTWC Enhanced Products for the Pacific Tsunami Warning System, Nadi, Fiji, 22-24 May 2014 (04/04/2014)
Regional scope: Pacific island countries to send application...
CL-2517 Invitation to the 47th Session of the IOC Executive Council, Paris, France, 1-4 July 2014, UNESCO Headquarters, meeting room IV (03/04/2014)
Member States are invited to send the list of their...
CL-2516 The Republic of Palau: New Member State of the IOC (28/03/2014)
CL-2515 Pilot project for the intercomparison of seawater salinity measurements (25/03/2014)
Regional scope: Group IV Member States to consider...
CL-2514 IOC/WMO Fifth DBCP In-Region Capacity Building Workshop for countries of the Western Indian Ocean, (12-15 May 2014) (21/03/2014)
Regional scope: Group IV and V Member States to nominate...
CL-2513 Consultation process for the designation of applicants in the context of the appointment of the Executive Secretary of the IOC of UNESCO (24/03/2014)
Transmission of the fourteen most highly qualified...
CL-2512 Liaison Group for Marine Instrumentation in the Asia Pacific region (27/02/2014)
Regional scope: Group IV Member States to nominate...
CL-2511 Third Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG SCS/III), 8-9 April 2014, Hong Kong, China (27/02/2014)
Regional scope: South China sea States to nominate...
CL-2510 Call for nominations to the ICG/PTWS Task Team on Establishment of the South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) (27/02/2014)
Regional scope: South China Seas countries to nominate...
CL-2509 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Programme Year 11 (2014-2015) (29/01/2014)
MS to consider candidates for Post-graduate Diploma...
CL-2508 Training Course for Operators of Sea Level Stations, 17-21 March 2014, Royal Thai Navy Hydrographic Department, Bangna, Bangkok, Thailand (22/01/2014)
GLOSS and Tsunami national contacts to nominate a sea...
CL-2507 Invitation to a Western Indian Ocean Regional Focus Group Meeting to help plan the International Indian Ocean Expedition 50th Anniversary Initiative (IIOE-2), Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, 6 and 7 March 2014 (23/01/2014)
Regional focus: Western Indian Ocean IOC Member States...
CL-2506 Open-ended Intersessional Working Group to further review and improve the Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) proposal (17/01/2014)
MS to nominate members to the intersessional working...
CL-2505 Invitation to the Ninth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-IX), St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, 13-15 May 2014 (28/01/2014)
MS of the regional ICG, through their official contact...
CL-2504 Joint CARIBE-Wave 2014 and LANTEX 2014 Exercise in the Western Atlantic, Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 26 March 2014 (16/01/2014)
Regional scope: Provides detail of the 2 scenario exercises...
CL-2503 Ocean Data and Information Network for the Western Pacific Region (ODINWESTPAC) Planning Workshop, 4-7 March 2014, Tianjin, China (13/01/2014)
Regional scope: IOC focal points in WESTPAC to designate...
CL-2502 Notification and Instructions Regarding NWPTAC Communication Tests for the Registered NWPTA focal points (10/01/2014)
Regional scope (China, France, Indonesia, Rep. of Korea,...
CL-2501 Seventh Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-VII), 12-13 February 2014, Paris, France (06/12/2013)
Member States are invited to communicate to the secretariat...
CL-2500 Caribbean Tsunami Information Center (CTIC) Director (a.i.) appointed; informational items about publications and key dates in 2014 (03/10/2013)
For information
CL-2499 Invitation to the Second planning meeting of the Reference Group for the International Indian Ocean Expedition 50th Anniversary Initiative (IIOE-2), Qingdao, China, 20&ndash;21 November 2013 (03/10/2013)
Regional scope
CL-2498 Invitation to the 10h Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-X), 19&ndash;21 November 2013, Rome, Italy (11/09/2013)
Member States to nominate their delegation by 1st November...
CL-2497 Republic of Vanuatu: New Member State of the IOC (04/09/2013)
Vanuatu: 146th Member State of IOC as from 2 September...
CL-2496 Intersessional Working Group for the Development of IOC Capacity Development Strategic Plan (29/08/2013)
Invites nominations of members to the group by 10 October...
CL-2495 Invitation to participate to the third NEAMTWS Communication Test Exercise (NEAMTWS-CTE3) on 1 October 2013 (29/08/2013)
Tsunami Warning Focal points and Tsunami National Contacts...
CL-2494 Invitation to the Indo-Pacific Ocean Forum on &ldquo;Charting the Future of Sustained Ocean Observations and Services&rdquo;, 26&ndash;28 November 2013, Bangkok Thailand (29/08/2013)
Regional scope: Group IV MS. To nominate one or two...
CL-2493 Nomination of Members of IOCAFRICA Regional Working Groups (09/08/2013)
Invitation to nominate suitable national experts for...
CL-2492 Update of the UNESCO/IOC List of Experts on Marine Scientific Research for use in Special Arbitration under Annex VIII of UNCLOS (09/08/2013)
Invitation to appoint expert(s), and/or to reappoint...
CL-2491 Intersessional working group on the Future of IOC (12/08/2013)
Member States are invited to send letters of nomination...
CL-2490 Re-constitution of the IOC Open-ended Intersessional Financial Advisory Group, 2013&ndash;2014 (12/08/2013)
Member States are invited to send letters of nomination...
CL-2489 Invitation to Regional Training on “Strengthening Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and the use of the ICG/PTWS PTWC New Enhanced Tsunami Products”, Beijing, China, 21–25 October 2013 (23/07/2013)
Regional scope: South China Sea countries. Call for...
CL-2488 Notification and instructions regarding NWPTAC communication tests for the registered NWPTAC focal points (24/07/2013)
Regional scope: The Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory...
CL-2487 Invitation to Regional Training and Consultation Workshops on “Strengthening Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and the use of the ICG/PTWS PTWC New Enhanced Tsunami Products”, Wellington, New Zealand, 12–16 August 2013 (05/06/2013)
Regional scope: Through this CL the IOC invites Pacific...
CL-2486 Nomination of Members of the Ad Hoc Team to Review the JCOMM Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) Implementation Plan (29/04/2013)
Member States and respective IODE National Coordinators...
CL-2485 IODE National Coordinators for Data Management/ IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management (WESPTAC Region) (29/04/2013)
WESTPAC Member States to confirm national focal points...
CL-2484 WESTPAC Training Course on Air-Sea Interaction and Modelling – IOC Regional Training and Research Centre on Ocean Dynamics and Climate, Qingdao, China, 12–23 August 2013 (23/04/2013)
WESTPAC Member States to nominate one or more participants...
CL-2482 IOC-WMO Second Capacity Building Workshop of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) for the North Pacific Ocean and Its Marginal Seas (NPOMS-2) (Hangzhou, China, 15–18 July 2013) (29/03/2013)
Regional scope: East Asia Region. Workshop designed...
CL-2481 PTWC Start of Issuance of Pacific Experimental Products, 15 April 2013; User's Guide for the PTWC Enhanced Products for PTWS (IOC TS-105) ; PTWS Pacific-wide Tsunami Exercise “PacWave13”, 1–14 May 2013 (28/03/2013)
Updates CL 2460 with new dates: Preparation of the...
CL-2480 Call for Nomination -- UN Secretary-General Oceans Compact Advisory Group (25/03/2013)
The CL invites IOC Member States to submit names for...
CL-2479 Nippon Foundation – GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Project Year 10 (2013–2014) (20/03/2013)
One year scholarship to lead to a Postgraduate Certificate...
CL-2478 Invitation to the Eight Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-VIII), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 29 April to 1 May 2013 (05/03/2013)
IOC MS in the region are invited to communicate the...
CL-2477 Twelfth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (SC-IOCARIBE-XII), 9–12 April, 2013, Panama City, Panama (25/02/2013)
Member States are invited to designate their representatives...
CL-2476 Nomination of expert to serve on GOOS Steering Committee required by 31 March 2013 for appointment by Member State Electoral Group (01/03/2013)
IOC Member States of each of the five electoral groups...
CL-2475 Second Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and Adjacent Island States, Cape Town, South Africa (IOCAFRICA-II), 3–4 April 2013 (19/02/2013)
Member States to send detail of their representatives...
CL-2474 Invitation to the Twenty-seventh Session of the IOC Assembly, 26 June–5 July 2013, and Forty-sixth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 25 June 2013, UNESCO HQ, Paris (02/03/2013)
CL-2473 Regional Workshop on Coastal Hazard Assessment: Applications in Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19–22 March 2013 (11/02/2013)
Regional scope: Indian Ocean. ICG/IOTWS Member States...
CL-2472 Invitación a nominar participantes a un Taller Regional de Formación sobre Tsunamis, Reforzamiento de Procedimientos Operacionales Estándar para la Alerta de Tsunami y la Respuesta de Emergencia, Nuevos productos de información internacional para tsunami de PTWC (04/02/2013)
Regional scope for TNC of Colombia, Chile, Ecuador...
CL-2471 IOC-WMO Fourth DBCP In-Region Capacity Building Workshop for countries of the Western Indian Ocean (Zanzibar, Tanzania, 29 April–3 May 2013) (29/01/2013)
Regional scope: IOC Member Strates in the WIO region...
CL-2470 Questionnaire on “The Future Needs for Intergovernmental Coordination and Governance for Sustained Ocean Observations and Services” (01/02/2013)
Member States invited to answer the questionnaire by...
CL-2469 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: New Member State of the IOC (23/01/2013)
For information
CL-2468 Invitation to a Workshop on “The Present Status of Sustained Ocean Observations and Services in Caribbean and Latin America Countries (Group III)”, 6–8 March 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (21/01/2013)
Regional scope: Group III Member States to designate...
CL-2467 Data and Information Survey in the Area of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea (16/01/2013)
Regional scope. Request of information by mid-February...
CL-2466 Notification and Instructions Regarding NWPTAC Communication Tests for the Registered NWPTA Focal Points (07/01/2013)
Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center will conduct...
CL-2465 Invitation to the Twenty-fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXV, Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 9&ndash;11 September 2013) (07/01/2013)
CL with a regional scope. Revised dates of the ICG/PTWS...
CL-2464 Nomination of experts for the NEAMTWS Candidate Tsunami Watch Providers Accreditation Procedure (20/12/2012)
TWFP and TNC to nominate experts by 8 February 2013.
CL-2463 Twenty-Second Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXII), Ensenada, Mexico, 11–15 March 2013 (20/12/2012)
Invitation to partner organizations to propose presentations...
CL-2462 Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-VI), 20-21 February 2013, Paris, France (10/12/2012)
NEW DATES: 20-21 February 2013. TOWS-WG members to...
CL-2461 Joint CARIBE-Wave 2013 and LANTEX 2013 Exercise in the Western Atlantic, Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 20 March 2013 (07/12/2012)
Dissemination of the Exercise Participant Handbook...
CL-2460 PTWC Start of Issuance of Pacific Experimental Products, 1 February 2013; PTWS Pacific-wide Tsunami Exercise “PacWave13”, April 2013 (07/12/2012)
Preparation of the Exercise Pacific Wave April 2013:...
CL-2459 UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socio-economic Aspects —The World Ocean Assessment (WOA) (15/11/2012)
Update on the status of implementation of the first...
CL-2458 Eleventh Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XI), UNESCO, Paris, 28–30 April 2013 (08/11/2012)
Member States who declared interest in participating...
CL-2457 Twenty-second Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXII), Ensenada, Mexico, 11–15 March 2013 (05/11/2012)
Member States to designate representative experts in...
CL-2456 NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise NEAMWave12, 27 and 28 November 2012, Second Announcement (04/10/2012)
NEAMTWS Member States to provide information on their...
CL-2455 Ninth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-IX), Jakarta, Indonesia, 27–30 November 2012 (26/09/2012)
Member States of the Indian Ocean region to designate...
CL-2454 Provision of tsunami watch services for the NEAMTWS (National Observatory of Athens now operational, Greece) (07/09/2012)
Fourniture des services de veille aux tsunamis pour...
CL-2453 Re-constitution of the Open-ended Intesessional Financial Advisory Group to develop the draft IOC Medium-term Strategy for 2014–2021 (07/09/2012)
MS to nominate representatives to IFAG Group by 15...
CL-2452 Nominations of experts for the WESTPAC Advisory Group (05/09/2012)
WESTPAC MS to nominate experts to the WESTPAC Advisory...
CL-2451 Seísmo y tsunami sobrevenidos el 27 de agosto en la costa del Pacífico frente a El Salvador, Seísmo sobrevenido el 5 de septiembre en la costa del Pacífico frente a Costa Rica: Evaluación subsiguiente del desempeño del Sistema de Alerta contra los Tsunamis y Atenuación de sus Efectos en el Pacífico (07/09/2012)
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras,...
CL-2450 Second Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG SCS/II), 16-18 October, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (31/08/2012)
IOC MS in the region to send nominations before 18...
CL-2449 WESTPAC-ICG/PTWS Training Workshop on Tsunami Models and Risk Assessment, Beijing, China, 24-27 September 2012 (21/08/2012)
ICG/PTWS focal point to nominate experts by 31 August.
CL-2448 Launch of the UN Secretary-General Oceans Compact: Healthy Oceans For Prosperity, a new initative to protect the ocean and its citizens (21/08/2012)
For information
CL-2447 Provision of tsunami watch services for the NEAMTWS (21/08/2012)
France and Turkey candidate Tsunami Watch Providers...
CL-2446 Invitation to the 9th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-IX) and associated meetings, Southampton, United Kingdom, 10–13 September 2012 (21/08/2012)
NEAMTWS focal point to designate representatives to...
CL-2445 ITIC Training Programme – Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII), Hawaii, United States of America, 20–31 August 2012 (18/06/2012)
Deadline for applications is no later than 30 June...
CL-2444 Notification and Instructions Regarding Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) Communication Tests for the Registered NWPTA focal points (18/06/2012)
TWFPs should check to ensure that the test message...
CL-2443 Nomination of Members of the JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP) nominated by the IOC International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme (IODE) (08/06/2012)
IOC MS to nominate candidates to the Expert Team by...
CL-2442 Task Teams of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS): call for nomination of experts (13/06/2012)
MS (Tsunami warning focal points and Tsunami national...
CL-2441 Request for contributions to the IOC special account for the support of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) (24/05/2012)
CL-2440 Ocean Events prior and at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20 (20–22 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (17/05/2012)
For information
CL-2439 Regional Workshop on Effective Tsunami Disaster Reduction Implementation Progress in Pacific Island Countries and PTWC Proposed Enhanced Products, 12-13 July 2012, Apia, Samoa and Third Meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South-West Pacific Region( 3rd ICG/PTWS-WG SW Pacific), 14 July 2012, Apia, Samoa (04/06/2012)
Intended to ICG/PTWS Member States through their TNC...
CL-2438 Kiribati: New Member State of the IOC/Kiribati: nouvel Etat membre de la COI (17/05/2012)
For information
CL-2437 NEAMTWS Tsunami Exercise — “NEAMWave12” (09/05/2012)
NEAMTWS Member States to designate national contact...
CL-2436 11th April 2012 West of North Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami Event – Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (24/04/2012)
Members of ICG/IOTWS (Indian Ocean) to fill out and...
CL-2435 Invitation to attend the IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) Task Team meetings, Honolulu, USA: PacWave11 Task Team meeting, 21 May 2012; Enhanced Tsunami Products Task Team meeting, 22–23 May 2012 (24/04/2012)
Tsunami National Contacts (TNCs) to nominate members...
CL-2434 Notification and Instructions Regarding PTWC Communication Tests for the ICG/PTWS (24/04/2012)
CL-2433 GTS availability of 16 additional sea level stations from the Japan Meteorological Agency (24/04/2012)
CL-2432 Invitation to the 45th session of the IOC Executive Council, Paris, France, 26–28 June 2012 and to the work of the Intersessional working groups (25 June 2012) (25/04/2012)
IOC EC MS and partner organizations to send official...
CL-2431 Invitation to participate to the second NEAMTWS Communication Test Exercise (NEAMTWS-CTE2) on 22 May 2012 (09/05/2012)
NEAM region Member States to designate receiver of...
CL-2430 Third Caribbean Training Course for Operators of Sea Level Stations, June 4–9 2012, Merida, Mexico (13/04/2012)
ICG/CARIBE EWS Member States to nominate a sea level...
CL-2429 Honduras: New Member State of the IOC/Honduras: nouvel Etat membre de la COI (04/04/2012)
For information
CL-2428 Forty-fifth session of the IOC Executive Council (04/04/2012)
Proposals of the Executive Secretary on the preparation...
CL-2427 Questionnaire Survey to aid Strategic Planning for the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and Adjacent Island States (23/03/2012)
Member States of the Africa region and the Adjacent...
CL-2426 Update on the status of the IOC Programme and Budget for 2012–2013 (36 C/5) (16/03/2012)
Appeal to support the IOC with extrabudgetary funds...
CL-2425 IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on Ocean Dynamics, Qingdao, China, 16–22 July 2012 (06/03/2012)
MS to nominate participants to the Training Course,...
CL-2424 Call for Experts – UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socio-economic Aspects (06/03/2012)
CL-2423 Invitation to the Seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-VII), Willemstad, Curacao, from 2 to 4 April 2012 (15/02/2012)
MS to register their delegates by 15 March 2012
CL-2422 Nippon Foundation – GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) Training Project Year 9 (2012–2013) (10/02/2012)
MS to consider candidates for Post-graduate Diploma...
CL-2421 Nomination of long-term Members of the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) (10/02/2012)
MS to send nominations to p.pissierssens(at)unesco.org...
CL-2420 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) Deadline for Member States to submit amendments proposals on Draft-Zero Rio+20 outcome document (The Future we want) (10/02/2012)
MS to propose amendments by 29 February 2012 through...
CL-2419 Invitation to Fifth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-V), 15 February 2012, Tokyo, Japan (10/02/2012)
CL-2418 Official dissolution of IOCEA and IOCWIO and Launching of the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and Adjacent Island States, Nairobi, Kenya, 2–3 May 2012 (20/01/2012)
MS to designate representatives to the session by 24...
CL-2417 Intersessional Financial Advisory Group and Ad hoc open-ended working group to develop a draft of the Medium-term Strategy for 2014–2021 (16/01/2012)
to nominate country’s representative(s) to the Intersessional...
CL-2416 URGENT: financial situation of UNESCO and the IOC and Programme and budget for 2012–2013 (36 C/5) (16/01/2012)
CL-2415 The Japan –UNESCO/UNU Symposium on The Great East Japan Tsunami on 11 March 2011 and Tsunami Warning Systems: Policy Perspectives, 16–17 February 2012, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan (09/12/2011)
Participate to the symposium organized by the IOC of...
CL-2414 Ninth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-IX), Busan, Republic of Korea, 8–12 May 2012 (05/12/2011)
WESTPAC Member States to nominate delegation no later...
CL-2413 Inter-agency Report ‘A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability’ as a contribution to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development- UNCSD (RIO+20) (07/11/2011)
CL-2412 Intersessional open-ended working group for the revision of the Guidelines for the Preparation and Consideration of Draft Resolutions (14/02/2012)
MS to send comments by 15 march 2012.
CL-2411 First meeting of the ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the South China Sea Region (ICG/PTWS-WG SCS/I), 12-14 December, Sanya, Hainan Province, China (13/12/2011)
CL-2410 Extension of the deadline for responding to the Questionnaire on the IOC Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (IOC/ABE-LOS) (25/10/2011)
Member States to answer the attached questionnaire...
CL-2409 Montenegro: New Member State of the IOC/Monténégro: nouvel Etat membre de la COI (17/01/2012)
CL-2408 Confirmation and/or updating on national members of the IOC/WESTPAC Coordinating Committee for the North-East Asian Regional-Global Ocean Observing System (NEAR-GOOS) (04/10/2011)
China, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation...
CL-2407 8th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-VIII), Santander, Spain, 22 – 24 November 2011 (07/10/2011)
CL-2406 Preparation for the 2012 United Nations Conference on sustainable development (Rio +20) (04/10/2011)
MS & stakeholders to provide inputs and contributions...
CL-2405 Nomination and/or updating of details on IODE National Coordinators for Oceanographic Data Management and IODE National Coordinators (04/10/2011)
To update not later than 1 November 2011
CL-2404 Notification and instructions regarding PTWC Communication Tests for the ICG/CARIBE EWS (05/10/2011)
CL-2403 IOTWS Indian Ocean Tsunami Exercise - IOWave11 (15/09/2011)
Member States to send nomination of their national...
CL-2402 Sending PTWS Operational Users Guide and Exercise Pacific Wave 2011, Exercise Manual (15/09/2011)
Relevant documentation for the Pacific Wave 11 Exercise....
CL-2401 Segunda Reunión Regional de Sistemas de Alerta de Tsunami en Centroamérica, 28-30 Septiembre 2011, San Salvador, El Salvador (15/09/2011)
Nominaciones deberán enviarse a Bernardo Aliaga, Secretario...
CL-2400 Curso de Modelación Numérica de tsunamis basado en el modelo NEOWAVE, Valparaiso, Chile, 21-25 de Noviembre de 2011 (15/09/2011)
Nominaciones y CV debarán enviarse a Bernardo Aliaga,...
CL-2399 Invitation to the Eigth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-VIII), Santander, Spain., 22–24 November 2011 (31/08/2011)
NEAMTWS MS to communicate participants by 1st November;...
CL-2398 Nomination of Long-Term Members of the IODE Group of Experts on the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (GE-OBIS) (12/08/2011)
To send nomination by 1 November 2011.
CL-2397 Invitation to submit nominations for members of the interim GOOS Steering Committee by 31 October 2011 (05/09/2011)
Submit nominations for the ten scientific and technical...
CL-2396 Invitation to participate to the first NEAMTWS Enlarged Communication Test Exercise (NEAMTWS-ECTE1) on 10 August 2011 (06/07/2011)
CL-2395 ITIC Training Programme, 22 August-2 September 2011 (21/07/2011)
IOC Member States to provide names and CVs of candidates...
CL-2394 Niue, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Tuvalu: New Member States of the IOC (25/07/2011)
CL-2393 Establishment of an IOC Sub-Commission for Africa (20/05/2011)
Proposal
CL-2392 Meeting of the Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on IOC’s Regional Activities, 20 June 2011 (14:30–17:30), Room VII, UNESCO HQ, Paris (09/05/2011)
To confirm attendance by 31 May 2011.
CL-2391 27th February 2010 Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Event: Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System– report available (05/05/2011)
CL-2390 PTWS Pacific-wide Tsunami Exercise “PacWave 11”, 9–10 November 2011 (20/05/2011)
ICG/PTWS Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) to designate...
CL-2389 Invitation to participate to the Tsunami and Civil Protection Workshop: “Tsunami hazard in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (NEAM region) – A challenge for Science and Civil protection”, 15 to 16 June 2011 in Ispra, Italy (27/04/2011)
CL-2388 Questionnaire on the IOC Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (IOC/ABE-LOS) (28/04/2011)
MS to fill out the questionnaire and return it to the...
CL-2387 Nomination of Mr Mitrasen Bhikajee (18/04/2011)
CL-2386 11 March Pacific Coast off Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake and Tsunami Event: Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (18/04/2011)
PTWS Member States to complete and return questionnaire...
CL-2385 Invitation to the Twenty-fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXIV), Beijing, China, 24–27 May 2011 (18/04/2011)
PTWS Member States to register their details directly...
CL-2384 UN Regular Process on Global Reporting and Assessment on the State of the Marine Environment, including socio-economic aspects (14/04/2011)
Member States to comment, by 30 April 2011 to the secretariat...
CL-2383 Meeting of National Oceanographic Committees, 23 June 2011, 12:30-14:00, UNESCO, HQ, Paris (18/04/2011)
Member States to communicate attendance by 15 May.
CL-2382 Eleventh Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, SC-IOCARIBE-XI (08/04/2011)
IOCARIBE MS to send registration form by 1 May 2011.
CL-2381 IOC/WESTPAC-PICES Joint Workshop on Rapid Assessment Survey Methodologies for Detecting Marine Non-Indigenous Species, Phuket, Thailand, 19–21 July 2011 (09/04/2011)
To identify and nominate suitable participants before...
CL-2380 Contribution to the Closing Ceremony of the IOC 50th Anniversary (09/04/2011)
To send asap the list of material you would be ready...
CL-2379 Preparation Process for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) – Rio+20 (24/03/2011)
Preparation of a Declaration by IOC on the role of...
CL-2378 Eighth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-VIII), Melbourne, Australia, 3–6 May 2011 (15/03/2011)
Register nominations by 11 April. Submit national...
CL-2377 (i) Implementation of the NEAMTWS, (ii) Tsunami Communication Test and associated planning workshop at JRC (Ispra, Italy) June 2011, (iii) Customized Earthquake Information Service by GFZ, (iv) tsunami forecast points (29/03/2011)
To States members of the Intergovernmental Coordination...
CL-2376 IOC/WESTPAC TRAINING COURSE ON OCEAN MODELS, Qingdao, China, 10-16 June 2011 (16/02/2011)
To nominate one or more participants to the Training...
CL-2375 Invitation to the Twenty-sixth Session of the IOC Assembly, 22 June–5 July 2011, and Forty-fourth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 21 June 2011, UNESCO HQ, Paris (17/02/2011)
Member States and partner organizations to send nominations...
CL-2374 Eighth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Western Indian Ocean (IOCWIO), Grand Baie, Mauritius, 25 – 27 May 2011 (17/02/2011)
Partner organizations in IOCWIO region to send nomination...
CL-2373 Eighth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Western Indian Ocean (IOCWIO), Grand Baie, Mauritius, 25–27 May 2011 (17/02/2011)
IOC Member States in IOCWIO region to send nominations...
CL-2372 Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-IV), 21–22 March 2011, Paris, France (11/02/2011)
CL-2370 Invitation to the Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-VI) (Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, from 26 to 29 April 2011) (14/02/2011)
To confirm attendance by 15 March. To send national...
CL-2369 REVISION: Nomination of long-term members of the IODE group of experts on biological and chemical data management and exchange practices (GE-BICH) (31/03/2011)
NEW DEADLINE: To send us nominations, by e-mail to...
CL-2368 Update of the UNESCO/IOC List of Experts on Marine Scientific Research for use in Special Arbitration under Part VIII of UNCLOS (02/02/2011)
To reappoint or replace the experts designated in the...
CL-2367 Tenth Session of the IOC-WMO-UNEP Intergovernmental Committee for the Global Ocean Observing System (I-GOOS-X), June 2011, Paris, France (28/04/2011)
Submission of name(s) of Representatives by 1 March...
CL-2366 Nomination for the IOC 50th Anniversary Medal (12/01/2011)
Nominations to be submitted by 7 February 2011 using...
CL-2365 Joint CARIBE-Wave 2011 and LANTEX 2011 Exercise in the Western Atlantic, Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 23 March 2011 (13/01/2011)
The exercice manual is available online in English,...
CL-2364 Tenth Session of the IOC Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms IPHAB-X (24/11/2010)
Answers expected by 1 March 2011
CL-2363 Joint CARIBE-Wave 2011 and LANTEX 2011 Exercise in the Western Atlantic, Caribbean and Adjacent Regions on 23 March 2011 (01/10/2010)
Requests comments to draft "Exercise CARIBE-WAVE’11/LANTEX’11...
CL-2362 Implementation of IOC Resolution EC-XLI-4 (01/10/2010)
Designation of Japan Argo National Focal Point
CL-2361 Questionnaire to support the work of the Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on IOC’s Regional Activities (26/11/2010)
Online questionnaire to be filled in by 31 December...
CL-2360 Candidatures for IODE Co-Chairs (04/10/2010)
Candidatures to be sent by 15 November 2010
CL-2359 Twenty-first session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXI), Liege, Belgium, 23–26 March 2011 (Organizations) (04/10/2010)
Also see CL-2358 for language versions of the agenda.
CL-2358 Twenty-first session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXI), Liege, Belgium, 23–26 March 2011 (23/09/2010)
CL-2357 Invitation to and preparations for the 7th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-VII), Paris, France, 23–25 November 2010 (02/09/2010)
Registration by by 31 October 2010. All annexes in...
CL-2356 Recruitment of Project Officer, Oman National Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (NMHEWS) (10/08/2010)
Applications must be received no later than 31st August...
CL-2355 Follow-up to the implementation of IOC Resolution EC-XLI-4 (10/08/2010)
Notes from India and Tunisia. See also related CL...
CL-2354 Contributing activities to the commemorative Year of the IOC 50th Anniversary (21/07/2010)
CL-2353 Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on IOC’s Regional Activities (19/07/2010)
Deadline: to nominate experts by 30 July 2010
CL-2352 ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME – HAWAII (ITP-HAWAII), Hawaii, United States, 30 August – 10 September 2010 (30/06/2010)
Deadline: 7 July 2010. Selectees will be notified...
CL-2351 Submission of tsunami forecast points for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS) (02/07/2010)
Deadline by 30 September 2010.
CL-2350 Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS): call for nomination of experts (26/05/2010)
CL-2349 Consultations for UNESCO on the Preparation of the Draft Programme and Budget for 2011–2012 (Draft 36 C/5) (09/05/2010)
CL-2348 Democratic Republic of the Congo: New Member State of the IOC (29/04/2010)
CL-2347 Follow-up to the implementation of IOC Resolution EC-XLI-4 (20/04/2010)
CL-2346 Grenada: New Member State of the IOC (22/04/2010)
Bilingual English/French
CL-2345 Follow-up of the IOCEA-VI request related to IOCEA Project Office (20/04/2010)
Send offer by 31 May 2010.
CL-2343 Meeting of Regional IOC Subsidiary Bodies and Decentralized Offices 7 June 2009 (14:30 – 17:30), Room VII, UNESCO HQ, Paris (06/04/2010)
Revised version: Chairpersons of IOC Regional Subsidiary...
CL-2342 Third Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG), 5-6 May 2010, Lisbon, Portugal (02/04/2010)
Register by 5 April 2010
CL-2341 Community Model Interface for Tsunami (ComMIT) Training Workshop 3-7 May 2010 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA (02/04/2010)
Registration by 8 April 2010
CL-2340 Seek IOC Member States’ views on whether any additional work is necessary to follow up ‘Marine Scientific research: A guide for the implementation of relevant provisions of UNCLOS’ (06/04/2010)
Member States to send contribution by 30 April 2010
CL-2339 Follow-up of the Resolution XXV-11 on “Enhancing IOC Capacity-development” (20/04/2010)
CL-2338 Guidelines for the preparation and consideration of Draft Resolutions by IOC Governing Bodies (02/04/2010)
Member States to send inputs before 14 May 2010.
CL-2337 27th February 2010 Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Event: Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (02/04/2010)
ICG/PTWS Tsunami focal points and national contacts...
CL-2336 Nomination and/or updating of information on IODE national coordinators for marine information management (and oceanographic data management) (07/04/2010)
CL-2335 Invitation to the Seventh Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-VII), Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 14- 16 April 2010 (02/04/2010)
CL-2334 Follow-up of the IOC-XXV decisions related to IOCWIO (20/02/2010)
Revised version (15 April 2010) Invitation to host...
CL-2333 Establishment of a multisource trust fund for the support of the ocean biogeographic information system (OBIS) (20/02/2010)
CL-2332 Invitation to the Forty-third Session of the IOC Executive Council (02/03/2010)
CL-2331 Official inauguration of the 50th Anniversary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO — Launch of the official website (19/02/2010)
CL-2330 Intersessional Financial Advisory Group (05/02/2010)
To nominate country representatives to the Intersessional...
CL-2329 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands: Ensuring Survival, Preserving Life, and Improving Governance 3–7 May 2010, UNESCO, Paris (27/01/2010)
Revised version
CL-2328 GOOS National Focal Points Contact List (Revised) (25/01/2010)
Answers expected by 1st March 2010.
CL-2327 12th January 2010 Haiti Earthquake and Tsunami Event: Post-Event Assessment of the Performance of the Caribbean Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Early Warning System (02/04/2010)
CL-2326 Retirement of the Executive Secretary of IOC - New Executive Secretary and Assistant Director General of the IOC, Dr Wendy Watson-Wright (02/04/2010)
CL-2325 Update on ICG/CARIBE EWS activities and advanced notice for ICG CARIBE EWS-V, 10-12 March 2010, Managua, Nicaragua (02/04/2010)
CL-2324 Seismic Network Operators Short Course and WG1 meeting 1-5 February 2010 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA (02/04/2010)
CL-2323 Invitation to the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-V), Managua, Nicaragua, 15-17 March 2010 (12/02/2010)
Revised version. Registration before 17 February; Submission...
CL-2322 Sixth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Eastern Atlantic (IOCEA), Accra, Ghana, 28-30 March 2010 (27/11/2009)
Revised version. NEW DATES. Invitation to partner organizations.
CL-2321 Sixth Session of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Eastern Atlantic (IOCEA), Accra, Ghana, 28-30 March 2010 (27/11/2009)
Revised version. NEW DATES. Revised Agenda in preparation
CL-2320 Eighth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-VIII), Bali, Indonesia, 10-13 May 2010 (18/11/2009)
CL-2319 Joint UNESCO-IOC-GOOS-AFRICA-IHP/UNEP/AARSE/GEO Pan-African Workshop: "Decision-making support for coastal zone management, water resources and climate change in Africa", 15-17 February 2010, Palais des Congrès, Cotonou, Benin (08/01/2010)
Organized jointly with the International Hydrological...
CL-2318 Implementation of the project: “Integrated Data and Information Management of Oceans and Coastal Zones in Africa – ODINAFRICA-IV (19/11/2009)
CL-2317 Nomination of Members of the Inter-ICG Task Teams on Sea Level, Disaster Management and Preparedness, and Tsunami Watch Operations (15/12/2009)
Deadline: 30 November 2009
CL-2316 Questionnaire No. 3 on the Practice of Member States in the Application of Parts XIII and XIV of UNCLOS (18/11/2009)
Follow-up of IOC Assembly Resolution XXIII-8. Actions...
CL-2315 Scientific Summary for Policy-makers of the State of Knowledge on Ocean Fertilization (21/05/2010)
Due to delay in the dissemination of CL 2315 the deadline...
CL-2314 Cancelled (30/06/2010)
CL-2313 Implementation of IOC resolution EC-XLI.4 (22/07/2009)
Turkey requests notification under Argo Programme
CL-2312 Invitation to and preparations for the 6th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-IV), Istanbul, Turkey, 11-13 November 2008 (15/12/2009)
CL-2310 ITIC Training Programme – Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII) Hawaii, United States, 24 August – 9 September 2009 (08/07/2009)
CL-2309 Consultation process for the designation of applicants in the context of the appointment of the Executive Secretary of the IOC of UNESCO: updated list of applicants (17/06/2009)
Please request attachments to the CL at the IOC Front...
CL-2308 Ministerial Round Table on Oceans, 12 and 13 October 2009, (10/07/2009)
10 July 2009
CL-2307 Implementation of IOC Resolution EC-XLI.4 (15/06/2009)
Peru requests notification under Argo programme
CL-2306 Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS): call for nomination of experts (08/06/2009)
CL-2305 First IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on the Establishment of National IODE Ocean Data Portal Nodes, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 31 August – 4 September 2009 (10/07/2009)
3 June 2009
CL-2304 Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) (29/05/2009)
CL-2303
Pending
 Cancelled
CL-2302 Nomination of Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) and Tsunami National Contacts (TNC) (08/07/2009)
CL-2301 Pre-release of the Assessment of Assessments report (11/05/2009)
CL-2300 8th June: World Oceans Day activities (11/05/2009)
CL-2299 Provisional Agenda and Timetable for the Twenty-fifth Session of the IOC Assembly, 16–25 June 2009, and Forty-second Session of the IOC Executive Council, 15 June 2009, UNESCO HQ, Paris (18/03/2009)
http://www.ioc-unesco.org/IOC-XXV
CL-2298 Change of Host Country and Venue: Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-VI) (13/03/2009)
Hyderabad, India, 7-9 April 2009. Register no later...
CL-2297 IOC 50th Anniversary, voluntary extra budgetary contributions (16/03/2009)
CL-2296 Consultation process for the designation of applicants in the context of the appointment of the Executive Secretary of the IOC of UNESCO (16/03/2009)
Request information and files directly to the ADG/IOC...
CL-2295 Invitation to the Global Meeting of the Intergovernmental Coordination Groups for Tsunami Warning Systems (GLOBAL TWS) UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 24 – 27 March 2009 (16/03/2009)
CL-2294 IOC 50th Anniversary logo (11/02/2009)
CL-2293 Invitation to Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-VI), Bangkok, Thailand, 7- 9 April 2009 (13/03/2009)
See CL-2298 for change of host country and place.
CL-2292 Invitation to the Twenty-fifth Session of the IOC Assembly, 16–26 June 2009, and Forty-second Session of the IOC Executive Council, 15 June 2009, UNESCO HQ, Paris (09/02/2009)
Please return the pre-registration forms to the Secretariat...
CL-2291 Invitation to the Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-IV), Fort de France, Martinique, France, NEW DATES: 2 – 4 June 2009 (09/04/2009)
NEW DATES: 2 – 4 June 2009
CL-2290 World Ocean Conference (WOC2009), 11–15 May 2009, Manado, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia (15/01/2009)
Commitment from the world community to work together...
CL-2289
Pending
 ESA contribution
CL-2288 Ninth Session of the IOC Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (IOC/ABE-LOS IX), Paris, France, 30 March–3 April 2009 (19/01/2009)
Pre-registration by 15 March 2009.
CL-2287 Assessment of Assessments -- Sollicitation of comments from Member States (05/12/2008)
Deadline: 31 January 2009. www.unga-regular-process.org
CL-2286 Coordinator of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of IOC (11/02/2009)
CL-2285 In-kind contributions to the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the IOC (11/02/2009)
CL-2284 Ninth Session of the IOC-WMO-UNEP Intergovernmental Committee for the Global Ocean Observing System (I-GOOS-IX), 10–12 June 2009, Paris, France (09/01/2009)
To submit the name(s) of Representatives by 1 March...
CL-2283 Ninth Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-IX), UNESCO, Paris, 22–24 April 2009 (20/11/2008)
Deadline: 1 March 2009. Attachments in PDF version...
CL-2282 Invitation to the Twenty-third Session of the ICG/PTWS XXIII, 16-18 February 2009, Apia, Samoa (29/01/2009)
CL-2281 Twentieth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XX), Tianjin, China, 4–8 May 2009 (03/11/2008)
Invitation to partner organizations.
CL-2280 Twentieth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XX), Tianjin, China, 4–8 May 2009 (03/11/2008)
Invitation to IOC Member States, IODE Coordinators,...
CL-2279 IOC role in relation to submissions of the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles according to Article 76 of UNCLOS (31/12/2008)
Follow-up to IOC CL-2270
CL-2278 Review of the World Climate Change Research Programme (WCRP) (10/10/2008)
Deadline: 14 November 2008. The draft Report of the...
CL-2277 Nomination of members of the JCOMM/IODE expert team on data management practices (ETDMP) (08/10/2008)
Deadline: 3 November 2008. The Word version of the...
CL-2276 Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS): call for nomination of experts (29/09/2008)
New Deadline: 19 December 2008. To establish five new...
CL-2275 Invitation to the 5th Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS-V), Athens, Greece, 3 – 5 November 2008 (15/10/2008)
Deadline: 15 October 2008
CL-2274 Head of the IOC Ocean Sciences Section (01/10/2008)
Director-General of UNESCO has appointed Dr Luis Valdés...
CL-2273 IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) Steering Committee (elected officers and chairs of working groups), Guayaquil, Ecuador, 8-10 October 2008 (10/10/2008)
Invitation to the meeting at INOCAR.
CL-2272 PTWS Pacific-wide Tsunami Exercise “Pacific Wave 08” (26/09/2008)
Announces a second Pacific wide tsunami exercise to...
CL-2271 Implementation of IOC Resolution EC-XLI.4 (Guidelines for the Implementation of Resolution XX-6 of the IOC Assembly Regarding the Deployment of Profiling Floats in the High Seas within the Framework of the Argo Programme) (13/01/2009)
Argentina requests notofication under the Argo Programme
CL-2270 Decision regarding the workload of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and the ability of States, particularly developing States, to fulfil the requirements of article 4 of Annex II to the Convention, as well as the decision contained in SPLOS/72, paragraph (a) (25/07/2008)
CL-2270 rev
CL-2268 RANET Alert Watcher (RAW) abbreviated messages via SMS to mobile phones, relaying Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) bulletins (09/06/2008)
CL-2267 Services provided by the JCOMM in-situ Observing Platform Support Centre (27/05/2008)
CL-2266 Meeting of Officers of IOC Primary Subsidiary Bodies, Monday 23 June 2008, 14.30–17.30 hours, Room VI, 119 avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris (20/05/2008)
CL-2265 Tenth Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, SC-IOCARIBE-X, (Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, 22–25 October 2008) and Regional Symposium on Tsunamis (20–21 October 2008) (13/05/2008)
CL-2264 Seventh Session of the IOC’s Regional Committee for the Western Indian Ocean (IOCWIO), Mombasa, Kenya, 18–22 July 2008 (22/05/2008)
Invitation to UN Organizations, Regional agencies and...
CL-2263 Seventh Session of the IOC’s Regional Committee for the Western Indian Ocean (IOCWIO), Mombasa, Kenya, 18–22 July 2008 (22/05/2008)
Invitation to IOC Member States
CL-2262 Caribbean Training Course for Operators of Sea Level Stations, June 23 - 27 2008, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA (05/05/2008)
CL-2261 Regional Consultations with National Commissions for UNESCO on the Preparation of the Draft Programme and Budget for 2010–2011 (Draft 35 C/5) (28/04/2008)
CL-2260 Summary Report—First Meeting of "Working Group on the Future of IOC", UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 19–20 February 2008 (23/04/2008)
CL-2259 Invitation to the Forty-first Session of the IOC Executive Council (01/04/2008)
The session will open on Tuesday 24 June at 9.30 in...
CL-2258 Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-V), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8-10 April 2008 (01/04/2008)
CL-2256 Future of IOC of UNESCO (25/02/2008)
CL-2255 First Meeting of the 'Working Group on the Future of IOC': Final Results of the Questionnaire (08/02/2008)
CL-2254 First Meeting of 'Working Group on the Future of IOC': Basic Documentation (25/01/2008)
CL-2253 Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS-V), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8 - 10 April 2008 (21/01/2008)
CL-2252 Invitation to attend the First Meeting of the 'Working Group on the Future of the IOC', UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 19–20 February 2008 (08/01/2008)
CL-2251 Seventh Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-VII), Sabah, Malaysia, 26-29 May 2008 (22/12/2007)
CL-2250 Invitation to ICG CARIBE EWS-III in Panama (13/12/2007)
CL-2249 Results of Election of members to the 'Working Group on the Future of IOC' (03/12/2007)
CL-2248 Seek GSSC New Chair (23/11/2007)
CL-2247 Questionnaire and 1st meeting of the 'Working Group on the Future of IOC' (21/11/2007)
CL-2246 CARIBE Focal Point nominations (08/11/2007)
CL-2245 Invitation to the Eighth Session of the IOC Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (IOC/ABE-LOS VIII (04/10/2007)
CL-2244 Election of members to the 'Working Group on the Future of IOC' (04/10/2007)
CL-2243 Requirement of Experts on Marine Scientific Research for use in special Arbitration (19/09/2007)
CL-2242 ITSU Training Programme, Hawai'i, 5-16 November 2007 (13/09/2007)
CL-2241 Invitiation to NEAMTWS-IV (31/07/2007)
CL-2240 Response to Oman re: invitation to come for TWS project (27/07/2007)
CL-2239 Follow-up to the 24th IOC Assembly (25/07/2007)
CL-2238 Designation of Representatives to 'Working Group on the Future of IOC' (25/07/2007)
CL-2237 Invitation to participate in the implementation of the Assessment of Assessment within the United Nations General Assembly Framework (UNGA Resolution A/60/30) (20/07/2007)
CL-2236 Nomination of Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) and Tsunami National Contacts (TNC) (18/07/2007)
CL-2235 First NEAR-GOOS-NOWPAP Joint Training Course on Remote Sensing Data (18/07/2007)
CL-2234 Working Groups of the ICG/CARIBE EWS: call for nomination of experts (05/07/2007)
CL-2233 Invitation to the Twenty-Second Session of the Intergovernmental Co-ordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (22/06/2007)
CL-2232 2nd despatch of documents for IOC-XXIV Assembly (07/06/2007)
CL-2231 Invitation to meeting of Regional Subsidiary Bodies prior to the XXIV Assembly (31/05/2007)
CL-2230 Invitation to GOHWMS meeting during assembly (20/05/2007)
CL-2229 Eleventh Session of the Joint IOC-WMO-CPPS Working Group on the Investigations of “El Niño” (IMARPE, Lima, Peru, 5 – 6 June, 2007); Meeting of the GOOS Regional Alliance for the Southeast Pacific (GRASP) (IMARPE, Lima, Peru, 7 – 8 June, 2007) (16/05/2007)
CL-2228 Caribbean Training Course in Seismology and Tsunami Warnings, June 25 - 30 2007, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago (27/04/2007)
CL-2227 Sea GOOS WESTPAC CL (13/03/2008)
CL-2226 Joint ITLOS-IOC Workshop (13/02/2007)
CL-2225 Invitation to 24th IOC Assembly (Orgs and Observers) (19/01/2007)
CL-2224 Invitation to 24th IOC Assembly (MS) (19/01/2007)
CL-2223 CD Advanced Leadership Development Workshop for Directors, Libreville, Gabon (15/01/2007)
CL-2222 Eight Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms, UNESCO, 17-20 April 2007 (12/01/2007)
CL-2221 Invitation to attend ICG/CARIBE EWS-II (12/01/2007)
CL-2220 Invitation to attend IOC-WMO-UNEP/I-GOOS-VIII (11/01/2007)
CL-2062 Nomination of the official national coordinating body for liaison with the IOC in States members of the IOC (10/12/2010)
Details procedure to establish formal relationship...
Pending
 Fifteenth Meeting of the Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG-XV), 24–25 February 2022