Dr. Savi Narayanan is the Dominian Hydrographer and Director General of the Ocean Sciences-Canadian Hydrographic Service, Department of fisheries and Oceans. Her assossiation with the IOC started more than 15 years ago when she became the Director of Marine Environmental Data Service in Ottawa. Today she is the vice-chairperson of the IOC, chairman of Arctic Ocean science Board, chairperson of the Arctic regional Hydrographic commission, and the past co-president of the WMO-IOC Technical commission for Oceanography and marine meteorology. In Canada she is in charge of management of the global data bases for the Global Temperature Salinity Programme of the IOC, as well as of the drifting buoy programme. More

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