Last-minute Addition to OI Programme

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."

Eye on Earth is a two-way communication platform on the environment which brings together scientific information with feedback and observations of millions of ordinary people. It is the result of a partnership between Microsoft and the EEA. Over the five years of the planned Microsoft-EEA partnership, Eye on Eareth will gradually grow to include information on many environmental topics and turn into a global observatory for environmental change. It will broaden the thematic spectrum of environmental information by integrating the most prominent environmental challenges of our times.