Scientific steering committee meeting of CeDAMAR, at Hereklion, Greece, 19-21 October, 2006  

Dr. Nagender Nath from National Institute of Oceanography, India, attended Scientific steering committee meeting of CeDAMAR, a 10-year field project of CoML at Hereklion, Greece as a Member of the scientific steering committee from 19-21 October, 2006

Participants:    
  David Billet Michael Tuerkay
  Angelika Brandt Tina Molodtsova
  Ron Etter Nagender Nath
  Joëlle Galeron Gordon Patterson
  Klaus Hausmann Paraskevi Polymenakou
  Nikolaos Lampadariou Michael Rex
  Marina Malyutina Katerina Sevastou
  Pedro Martinez Craig Smith
  Lénaick Menot Tassos Tselepides

Dr. Nagender Nath gave the demonstration of EIA data base available on NIO web site
During the discussion on time series, it was found that only few deep-sea sites have time series benthic data (collected data at same area several times), such as Porcupine abyssal plain and the Central Indian Basin (NIO/DOD). It was proposed to have a workshop somewhere during next year on the time-series data sets with key participation from NOC and NIO (probably Nath and Ingole) and others from US and Europe.