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Data Management

Technical support involves diverse and integrated services across the work programme to ensure that essential data management systems are operational, and that the necessary support is available to underpin the delivery of the technical work programmes. The demand for data management technical services is continually increasing with the need for increasingly large databases to monitor and respond to natural resource use challenges. Demand for data management services also responds to the need to ensure effective information and knowledge transfer across the region. Accordingly, data management work includes development of systems and software to underpin information sharing and links across Pacific Island Countries and Territories and other key stakeholders, as well as technical advice to programmes, such as on the procurement of data management equipment.

Last Updated on Thursday, 27 January 2011 08:41  


Newsflash

As environmental concerns heat up amid growing interest in minerals exploration and mining of the Pacific ocean’s seabed, one scientist is advocating the search for more inactive hydrothermal vents as a way of safely mining the sea.

Dr Sven Peterson, a minerologist at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Germany, said inactive vents were less likely to host marine life, so mining them would pose lesser danger to the ocean’s ecosystems.

“At water depths of 500 to 5000 metres which the mining industry will be interested in, there is no light but we still see oases of life there. This, of course, is of concern among biologists who do not want mining to happen at these oases in the deep.