Secondment of An Assistant Secretary to Coastal and Living Resources Oceanography of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commision (IOC)

首席调查员将借调到政府间海洋学委员会秘书处，担任政府间海洋学委员会主管生物资源和沿海海洋学的助理秘书。这项借调为期两年。奥斯本博士将协助国际奥委会在生物和沿海海洋学方面制定更有效的计划，并确保这些重点问题与全球变化研究计划之间的有效互动。具体活动将包括组织科学讲习班会议，以确定关于藻华、生态系统动力学和沿海海洋学的研究活动；协助组织和实施上述政府间海洋学委员会计划；以及在国际科学会议、讲习班和会议上代表政府间海洋学委员会的这些科学计划。

The principal investigator will be seconded to the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) to serve as IOC Assistant Secretary for living resources and coastal oceanography. This secondment will cover a two-year period. Dr. Osborn will assist the IOC to develop more effective programs in biological and coastal oceanography and to assure effective interaction between these focussed problems and global change research programs. Specific activities will include organizing meetings of scientific workshops to define research activities on algal blooms, ecosystem dynamics, and coastal oceanography; assisting in the organization and implementation of the above IOC programs; and representation of these IOC scientific programs in international scientific meetings, workshops, and conferences.