Ocean Data Management Course: IODE/ODINCARSA Training Program 2005

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Course:Ocean Data Management
Venue: IODE Project Office
Date: 07-19 November 2005
Participants: 10
Level:BASIC
City/Country: Oostende, Belgium
I. Participants requirements
a) University degree in Oceanography or Marine Sciences with considerable experience in computers.
b) High skills on internet and computer basis (evaluation will be performed)
c) Excellent English language skill
d) To work on a National Ocean Data Center, Oceanographic Institution or a Marine institution.
e) Ensure the permanence or availability for further training and participation in regional projects for not less than 3 years after this initial training.(Letter of Institution with this certification required).
f) Commitment of candidate endorsed by a Letter of Institution stating that further training inter session tasks including a national training for internal staff will be performed.
g) Assurance by the sponsoring National Institution that the participant will be empowered to work with full-time access to a modern personal computer and to the Internet, during the course of the planned training & projects.
h) Belong to a Member Country of ODINCARSA (http://www.odincarsa.net/)
i) Experience on any of these activities:
·Processing and analyzing remote sensing data with computer
·Analyzing ocean station and in-situ instrument data with computer
·Taking and analyzing water samples, especially at sea
·Installing, tending and taking data from oceanographic recording instruments
·Analyzing/mapping earth science data with GIS (but not socio-economic data)
·Analyzing other earth science data with computer
j) To review all the background of IODE, ODINCARSA and Ocean Teacher, before make the application. New Ocean Teacher(http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/index.htm)
OceanTeacherCourses
(http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/CoursesHome.htm)
OceanTeacher Data Management Curricula
(http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/OTtraining.htm)
Prospective students must have already completed Individual Preparation Level courses (or equivalent experience) on their own, before they can be considered eligible for Basic Level training.
II. Applications
Application process will be held in three phases:
1) Pre application (just send a digital copy of a) and your CV) and a letter with your interest expression to r.martinez@odincarsa.net . Deadline: July 31st 2005.
2) Pre qualified candidates will be requested to send all the documents necessary to validate the compliance of items a), b),c), d), g) and h), and an Institutional letter as is indicated on f). Deadline: August 15th 2005.
3) Accepted candidates will be officially informed by a letter, before August 25th 2005, and further instructed for the pre course training by internet that they must accomplish.

From: MARINET

I hope this is of your interest. Regards,

Jorge Brenner