Advisory Panel: North Pacific Data Buoy
  • Acronym: AP-NPDB
  • Parent Committee: POC
  • Term: Oct. 2001 - Oct. 2006
  • Technical Coordinator: Bruce Lohnes
Terms of Reference
  1. Provision of good quality and timely buoy data to users;
  2. Insertion of real-time (or near real-time) buoy data into the Global Telecommunications System (GTS);
  3. Archiving;
  4. Exchange of information on data buoy activities and development and transfer of appropriate technology; and will support the aims and objectives of PICES as expressed through POC in particular with respect to:
    1. Encouraging the exchange of ocean data and information in the N. Pacific;
    2. Encouraging the development of new sensors that increase the utility of ocean data buoys and the exchange of information about those sensors.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

2003, 2002, 2001 (proposal on NPDB-AP)

Data
Members
Estelle Couture
Fisheries & Oceans Canada
Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS)
12W082 - 200 Kent Street
Ottawa, ON
Canada K1A 0E6
Phone: (1-613) 990-0259
Fax: (1-613) 993-4856
E-mail: couture@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Bruce Lohnes
Pacific & Yukon Region, Monitoring Operations Center
Atmospheric Monitoring Division, Environment Canada
140 - 13160 Vanier Place
Richmond, BC
Canada V6V 2J2
Phone: (604) 664-9188
Fax: (604) 713-9541
E-mail: Bruce.Lohnes@ec.gc.ca
Brian O'Donnell
Canada
Ichiro Yasuda
Ocean Research Institute
University of Tokyo
1-15-1 Minamidai
Nakano-ku, Tokyo
Japan 164-8639
Phone: 81-3-5351-6511
Fax: 81-3-5351-6506
E-mail: ichiro@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Jae-Cheol Nam
Meteorological Research Institute, KMA
460-18 Shindaebang-dong
Dongjak-gu, Seoul
Republic of Korea 156-720
Phone: (82-31) 847-2495
Fax: (82-31) 847-2496
E-mail: jcnam@metri.re.kr
Moon-Sik Suk
Dynamical Oceanography
Korean Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI)
1270 Sa-dong
Ansan, Gyonggi
Republic of Korea 425-600
Phone: (82-31) 400-6100
Fax: (82-31) 408-5829
E-mail: mssuk@kordi.re.kr
Victor A. Akulichev
Pacific Oceanological Institute
43 Baltiyskaya Street
Vladivostok
Russia 690041
Phone: (7-4232) 311-400
Fax: (7-4232) 312-573
E-mail: akulich@poi.dvo.ru
Gennady A. Kantakov
Administration Department, Biological Oceanography
Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (SakhNIRO)
196 Komsomolskaya Street
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Russia 693023
Phone: (7-4242) 456-768
Fax: (7-4242) 456-778
E-mail: okhotsk@sakhniro.ru
Yuri N. Volkov
Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI)
24 Fontannaya Street
Vladivostok
Russia 690900
Phone: (7-4232) 226-978
Fax: (7-4232) 227-754
E-mail: hydromet@online.ru
Elizabeth Horton
Naval Oceanographic Office
010 (NAVOCEANO)
Stennis Space Center, MS
U.S.A. 39529
Phone: (1-228) 688-5725
Fax: (1-228) 688-5514
E-mail: elizabeth.horton@navy.mil
Paul F. Moersdorf
(W/OPS5)
National Data Buoy Center
1100 Balch Boulevard
John C. Stennis Space Center, MS
U.S.A. 39529
E-mail: Paul.Moersdorf@noaa.gov