SPC Geoscience Division

Hosted by the Government of Australia

The SOPAC Annual Session is a meeting of the Secretariat Governing Council and has four components:

• A Plenary Session covers the procedural aspects of the meeting and the presentation of reports from member countries, donor Governments and organisations, and the Secretariat. This session is a meeting of the Council at which other delegates are invited as observers, contributing to the discussion of non-technical matters concerning SOPAC such as cooperation and funding.
• A meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to consider the SOPAC Work Program. All TAG members participate as equals during this meeting.
• A meeting of the Science Technology and Resources Network STAR which is an open forum for reporting geoscientific research in the South Pacific and for exchanging information and ideas between scientists from SOPAC Member Countries and the international geoscientific community.
• A Governing Council meeting to discuss the administrative and financial business of SOPAC, which may be both closed and/or open to observers.