International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean

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ad-hoc Working Group Meeting during the GEBCO-Meeting in Durham, USA, May 2002
first Meeting of the interim Editorial Board during the IBCAO-Meeting in Hawaii, USA, November 2002
presentation of a preliminary IBCSO proposal to the IOC-CGOM during GEBCO Centenary Conference in Monaco, April 2003

adoption as an IBC Mapping Project by the XXXVII IOC Executive Council (Resolution EC-XXXVII.5) in Paris, France, June 2004.
IBCSO Kick-Off Meeting during the XXVIII SCAR Conference in Bremen, Germany, July 2004
liaison with IHO Hydrographic Committee on Antarctica, 4. HCA in Kythnos, Greece, September 2004
collaboration with GEBCO since the GEBCO Meeting in Aguascalientes, Mexico, July 2005

continued data search and data acquisition at AWI Bremerhaven, Germany
setup of the revised IBCSO mailing and discussion list hosted by the NGDC, February 2007
implementation of GIS architecture and data storage strategies at AWI Bremerhaven, Germany
implementation of the Expert Group infrastructure consisting of (i) Editorial Board, (ii) Advisory Board, and (iii) IBCSO Board

implementation of the Expert Group infrastructure, nomination process for the IBCSO Board (representatives from all SCAR member countries)
ongoing data search and data acquisition at AWI Bremerhaven, Germany

Oral presentation by Ott and Schenke entitled 'Polar Ocean Mapping: Significance of Bathymetry for Observing Systems' at the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, St Petersburg, Russia, July 2008
GeoReach - Newsletter from the SCAR Geosciences Standing Scientific Group , May 2008
Hydro International Feature Article entitled 'Southern Ocean Bathymetry' , November 2007
GeoReach - Newsletter from the SCAR Geosciences Standing Scientific Group , October 2007
Oral presentation by Ott and Schenke entitled 'GIS based Data Compilation of the new IBCSO' at the 10th ISAES, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, August 2007
IBCSO news item in EOS, Transactions AGU, vol. 88, no. 31, p. 311, July 2007
Extended Abstract of a poster presentation by Macnab et al., International Symposium Asian Collaboration in IPY 2007-2008, Tokyo, Japan, 1 March 2007. Open the Abstract