At the end of the symposium, a Panel Discussion was held in order to summarize the talks and discussions, and set recommendation items for the workshop (Photo 8). The panel discussion was coordinated by First Admiral Mohd Rasip bin Hassan, and the panelists were Mr. Ben Searle, Dr. Gil S. Jacinto, Assoc. Prof. Hadibah Ismail (Director of Coastal and Offshore Engineering Institute, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia), Prof. Makaoto Terazaki (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Prof. Manuwadi Hungspreugs (Dept. of Marine Science, Chulalongkon University, Thailand), Dr. Yutaka Nagata and Dr. Iouri Oliounine. Dr. Yutaka Nagata contributed to the discussion as one of the physical oceanographers.
The workshop was held on November 3-4, and chaired by Dr. Iouri Oliounine and Mr. Ben Searle (Photo 9). Dr. Henry R Frey (US National Oceanographic Data Center), Mr. Toshio Nagai (JODC: Photo 10) and Dr. Yutaka Nagata (MIRC) presented their talks and leaded the discussion. However, we do not describe the workshop part of the conference, as the official report will be published by IODE/IOC. We demonstrated our quality-control software and distributed our News Letters and documents in front of the meeting room (Photo 11), and exchanged information related data managements with experts from various countries (Photo 12).
The place of the meeting is one of the famous resort hotels Langkawi, and we enjoyed wondeful tropical life, though it rained frequently as it was still in rainy season. We also enjoyed parties held in every evening (Photo 13 and Photo 14). The conference was very successful, and we could improve mutual understanding among experts of oceanographic data managements.
