The First Session ODINWESTPAC Advisory Group Meeting was conducted at Tianjin, China, on 27-28 January 2016

Ocean Data and Information Network for the WESTPAC region (ODINWESTPAC) started in 2008. The Advisory Group for the project was established during the Tenth Intergovernmental Session for IOC/WESTPAC held in May 2015 in Thailand. The objective of the Advisory Group is to provide scientific and technical advice on the development, planning and implementation of the project to the Project Coordinator.

The main goals of the meeting were to review the progress of project in the period of 2012-2014 and to discuss the vision for ODINWESTPAC in the next 2 years to better facilitate the project addressing actual scientific needs of the WESPAC region related to marine data and information.

There were 16 participants from Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand and IODE, IOC/WESTPAC organizations.

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