Before the Marine Data Literacy (MDL) Project

Dr. Murray Brown, the author, taught IODE courses during courses in Asia, Africa and South America, and at the OceanTeacher Academy (OTA) facility in Ostend, Belgium.  The OTA began at the IODE in 2010, as an extension and re-organization of the previous OceanTeacher Marine Data Management Training Program (2000-2009).  That program followed on the Ocean Data and Information Network for East Africa (1996-1999) And in turn that program followed on the original OceanPC Program (1992-1996) the pioneer to all marine data training in developing countries.  Dr. Brown was an instructor in all those phases.

MDL Today

Based on experiences writing about 20 data "Road Maps" for the OTA in 2009-2010, the author set out to create about 100 exercises in 9 separate categories, plus a host of ancillary materials for educational purposes; you are in the MDL Project right now.  MDL constitutes, generally, a continuum of related steps in the creation of a marine data collection of very wide scope for a selected geographic area.  Ocean station data, use of GIS, and operational data area heavily emphasized.  Additionally, the author has been working with students internationally through his Help Desk and through the Courses and Training offered here.

Citations - A few links to MDL the author is very proud of.  Let me know if you should be listed here

• Davey Jones' Locker - Dawn Wright's great stuff

• Dynadot - My ISP for this website

• Global Drifter Program - Citations for both GDP-related exercises

• GlobWave - Excellent wave products

• Integrated Data Viewer - The MDL workhorse for most things operational

• IOCCG Education Links and Resources - Link to MDL Course 302

• Marine Regions - Amazing collection of map shapes from my friends at the Flanders Marine Data Center

• NANO News - Includes the MDL Chronology updates; Issue No. 7 has an article on MDL

• OceanTeacher Academy Classroom - Many MDL data management exercises used here

• SourceForge - Saga GIS - Tutorials page - Everybody knows my feelings about Saga, so they like me too

• Student's Description - From the NANO News

MDL Photo Album

Besides the OTA on-site courses in Ostend, the editor and docents have taught at these specially sponsored "external" courses.  Click any class name to see a larger image.

• Usage of OceanPC in Oceanographic Data Management

  • 1994, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Marine Data Management

  • 1996, Hydrometeorological Institute, Tirana, Albania

• Second Training Workshop on Operational Data and Information Systems for the Gulf of Thailand

  • 1999, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

• HELCOM/BSRP/ICES Baltic Sea Data Collection: Management, Analysis and Synthesis

  • 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania

• ADRICOSM Data Mapping and Numerical Modeling Training Course

  • 2006, Trieste, Italy

• Centre of Excellence Student Training in Observational Oceanography

  • 2009/10 - Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS)

  • 2010/11 - BIOS

  • 2011/12 - BIOS

  • 2012/13 - BIOS

• Erasmus Mundus MSc in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation

  • 2010 - Ghent University

  • 2011 - Ghent University

  • 2012 - University of Algarve

  • 2012 - Ghent University

  • 2013 - University of Algarve

  • 2013 - Ghent University

  • 2014 - University of Algarve (instructor Lica Krug)

• National Oceanographic Data Center of Mexico

  • 2012 - Tuxpan

• Brazil, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontal do Sul

  • 2013 - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemas Costeiros e Oceanicos: Session A, Session B