Workshop in Ukraine to Discuss Arabian Sea
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Joel Goldman and Hugh
Livingston) will co-host a workshop in Sevastopol, Ukraine, together
with the Marine Hydrophysical Institute and the Institute of Biology of
the Southern Seas, September 20-24, 1993. The purposes of the workshop
are, first, to disseminate data and literature from previous research
activities of Former Soviet Union (FSU) oceanographers in the Arabian
Sea and Indian Ocean to U.S. scientists, and, second, to provide the
opportunity for U.S. scientists to describe to FSU colleagues the
current U.S. and other international interests in the forthcoming
Arabian Sea initiatives of JGOFS, ONR, and GLOBEC. These interactions
will greatly aid planning efforts underway in the U.S. for research in
the Arabian Sea in 1995 and 1996.
The workshop will afford the opportunity for FSU scientists to establish
scientific contacts with their U.S. counterparts, and to form
connections which will hopefully lead to scientific cooperation both in
the Arabian Sea and in other ocean regions of mutual interest. The
workshop is being funded jointly by NSF, ONR and NOAA as part of the
JGOFS, ONR/Arabian Sea, and U.S. GLOBEC programs. Those attending from
the U.S. GLOBEC program include Drs. Sharon Smith, Charles Miller, David
Stein and Bill Peterson, representing zooplankton and myctophid fish
interests. For details on the results of the workshop and information
on future research opportunities, contact Bill Peterson at the
U.S.GLOBEC Interagency Program Coordination Office at (301) 713-2367,
Omnet: W.PETERSON.
