UKRAINE
UA/NODC/BIO
Ukraine is an active member of the IOC Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Programme (IODE). The Designed National Agency (DNA) of Ukraine (Ukrainian National Oceanographic Data Centre) was established in 1993 on a basis of the Department of Marine Information Systems and Technologies (MIST) at the Marine Hydrophysical Institute) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MHI NASU). In 2006 the MIST was transformed to the Department of Marine Environmental and Information Technologies (MEIT) that continued to carry out the duties of the Ukrainian Designed National Agency / Ukrainian National Oceanographic Data Centre. In 2008 Ukraine decided to shift to the distributed model of the NODC. From now on in Ukraine in addition to the NODC (DNA) based at the MHI Department of Marine Environmental and Information Technologies there is one more NODC (DNA) based at the Laboratory of the Marine Information Systems (LaMIS) of the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas (IBSS NASU). DNA on a basis of the MHI is dealing with the physical, chemical, and satellite data (http://www.ocean.nodc.org.ua/). DNA on a basis of the IBSS is dealing with the marine biological data. Both institutions are members of the Oceanological Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.