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Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems

The Tenth International Training Course on Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems, sponsored by UNU-INWEH-UNESCO, will be held at the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Annamalai University, India from October 1-15, 2010. More…

FARO Project

A new CSA-funded programme, FARO (Fisheries Applications in Remotely sensed Ocean colour), was launched in Spring 2010. To go to the FARO website, click here…

SAFARI International Symposium, Feb. 2010

Links to proceedings and MarineBizTV video clips from the SAFARI International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Fisheries (February 15-17, 2010, Kochi, India) can be found here…

IOCCG Monograph

IOCCG Report 8, entitled "Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture", has been published and is now available for distribution. A digital copy can be found here…

Science Articles

A series of Spring 2009 articles in Science takes a look at shrimp populations, algal blooms and climate change. More…

Sponsors

The principal sponsor of SAFARI, effective Nov. 2007, is the Canadian Space Agency, through its international program EOPI (Earth Observation Partnerships International). It is a new initiative conceived under GEO as an aid to fulfillment of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems), specifically its Fisheries and Aquaculture Task AG-06-02. Other sponsors include the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group, the Group on Earth Observations and the Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans (Canada).

The Canadian Space Agency


Canadian Department of Fisheries & Oceans


The International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group


The Group on Earth Observations