Next Tuesday (9 March) Professor Jacqueline McGlade, the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), will be speaking on the work that the EEA has been doing with Microsoft on the development of ‘Eye on Earth’, in a last-minute and highly topical addition to the Oceanology International 2010 conference programme at the world’s major gathering of the marine science and ocean technology community (ExCeL London, 9-11 March).

Professor Ralph Rayner who is chairing the Ocean Observation and Forecasting conference stream explains: “In her talk ‘Delivering ocean information at a global, regional and local scale’, scheduled to take place at 15.00hrs on the opening day of Oceanology International, Professor McGlade will be describing the work that the EEA have done with Microsoft in the development of an interactive web based system for delivering marine information at a range of scales and for encouraging wide spread user interaction via the web and mobile phones.”

Tags: Oceanology International