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© IHO
PROFILE
SUPPORTED PROGRAMMES
Founded in 1921, the International Hydrographic CIESM has been able to gather significant
Organisation (IHO) endeavours to improve experience over its one-hundred-year
knowledge about the physical characteristics of the history, implementing reliable marine
world’s seas. It coordinates the activities of the national research initiatives in the long-term.
hydrographic services of its 94 member states in order The research programmes which will
to streamline data and mapping, thus supporting benefit from collaboration with the IHO
navigation security and marine protection. include the Hydrochanges programme
The IHO also helps to create regional hydrographic
commissions, like the Mediterranean and Black Seas (since 2002) which tracks the alarming
Hydrographic Commission (MBSHC). acceleration (much higher than the
global ocean average) of temperatures of
Founded in 1919, the Mediterranean Science deep waters in the Mediterranean; and
Commission (CIESM) promotes and encourages the JellyWatch programme (since 2008)
research in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea thanks which collects data on a weekly basis on
to a network of several thousand marine researchers the distribution of large jellyfish blooms
who use the latest scientific tools to better understand, along the coasts of the Mediterranean.
monitor and protect the region’s marine ecosystems.
