TCODE Meeting Agenda

Friday, October 7, 2005, 8:30-17:30

1. Welcome and introduction of members
2. Adoption of agenda (opportunity to add agenda items under "New business")
3. Review progress on items in the 2004/2005 Workplan
   • Arrange session on "Data Management and Data Delivery Systems to support Ecosystem Monitoring" - S. Allen Macklin & Bernard A. Megrey
     • Presentations (pdf files)
     • Summary
   • Carry out "federated searching" test program - Hee-Dong Jeong, Hae-Seok Kang, S. Allen Macklin, Bernard A. Megrey
   • Develop TCODE Action Plan to complement the PICES Strategic Plan and Capacity Building Plan - Igor Shevchenko & Robin Brown
     • TCODE Action Plan (Draft)
     • Template for a PICES Committee Strategic Plan
     • The PICES Strategic Plan
     • The PICES Capacity Building Strategy
   • Update TCODE Web pages, including information on annual national reports, metadata languages, etc. - Igor Shevchenko
   • Assist HAB team with database activities and publicize HAB database activity - Robin Brown
   • Coordinate TCODE activities with new MONITOR Technical Committee - Igor Shevchenko
   • Develop improved understanding of the Ocean Biological Information Systems and other related projects - All
4. Annual reports - TCODE members
5. Updates on data management activities in PICES member countries and international organizations - TCODE members
   • 2nd International Workshop for GODAR-WESTPAC
   • 'Third International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences'
6. Discussion of the TCODE activities in relation to the PICES Strategic Plan and development of TCODE action plan
7. PICES Future Integrative Scientific Programs
   • Study Group on Future Integrative Scientific Program
   • Process of identifying the major program
   • A Somewhat New CCCC Program
   • A FISP Proposal
   • Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Programe
8. Topic session proposals for PICES XV
9. PICES XVI theme
   • Theme for PICES XIV
   • Theme for PICES XV
10. Relations with other international programs/organizations
11. Chairmanship of TCODE (election of Chairman & Vice-Chairman)
12. Summary of items with financial implications:
    • Proposed inter-sessional meetings for 2006 and beyond
      • PICES-ESSAS Workshop Comparing Sub-Arctic Seas to be held in 2006
    • Proposed publications for 2006 and beyond
    • Travel support requests
    • Other items
13. New business (additional items added at the meeting)
14. Discussion and adoption of the TCODE Workplan for 2006

• Welcome party
• In work time
• Dolphinarium
• Sea walk
• Leaving Vladivostok