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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HNODC)
HCMR / HNODC
(Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HNODC))
P.O. Box 712
46.7km Athinon-Souniou avenue
190 13 Anavyssos
Greece
Type
Government
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Telephone
+30 22910 76367
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
HCMR
(Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)
http://www.hcmr.gr/en/research-infrastructures/facilities-3/anavyssos/
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Activities
The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research aims to carry out scientific and technological research, and experimental development, dissemination and implementation of produced results, especially in the fields of study and protection of the hydrosphere, its organisms, its interface with the atmosphere, the coast and the sea bottom, the physical, chemical, biological and geological conditions that prevail and regulate the above mentioned systems with:
a) the production of products and supply of services
b) the support of decision-making concerning the general public, the economy and culture
c) their economical exploitation either by the HCMR and/or by its employees or by third parties.
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The HNODC was established in 1986, in the frame of the cooperation of Greece with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). It is a national agency, part of the international network of NODCs, operating within the framework of IOC/IODE.
It participates in different elements of the IODE system, icluding, acquiring, formatting, quality controlling, cataloguing, archiving, disseminating and exchanging of marine data and information. HNODC also operates within the framework of Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), in Anavyssos (Attika) and it is recognized as a national facility for international data and information exchange.
Furthermore it promotes the International Exchange of Data in the frame of its cooperation with the “Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC ) of UNESCO as it is responsible for the coordination of International Data Exchange ( IODE ) in Greece.
Vasilios LYKOUSIS
Research Director
Kalliopi PAGOU
Research Director