ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

(An Autonomous Body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India)

FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (IOGOOS-IV)

Zanzibar,Tanzania October 10-12, 2006

INTRODUCTION

The IOGOOS Workshop and 4th Annual Meeting (IOGOOS-IV) was hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the Zanzibar Beach Resort Hotel in Zanzibar during October 10 -12, 2006. IOGOOS IV was organized jointly by the IOGOOS Secretariat, IOC Perth Regional Programme Office and University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Thirty participants from eleven countries and IOC participated in the deliberations of IOGOOS IV.

The IOGOOS Science Workshop had eight invited presentations related to the work of the Indian Ocean Panel (IOP) and the Coastal GOOS.