Members

The National Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC) of the Netherlands is joined by the following institutes:

	Rijkswaterstaat Waterdienst
	Rijkswaterstaat Data-ICT-Dienst
	TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands
	Deltares
	IMARES
	NIOZ - Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek
	Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologisch Onderzoek-Centrum voor Estuariene en Mariene Ecologie (NIOO-CEME)
	Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine (Hyd)

These institutes have signed the updated  NODC Cooperation Agreement, dated 9th April 2009, that determines the objectives, activities, organisation and funding of the NODC.

MARIS is advisor to the NODC

The overall objectives of the NODC are:

• to arrange that high quality oceanographic and marine data are made available to a large community of users in an effective way;
• to lower the barriers for exchange of oceanographic data between the NODC partners