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WELCOME TO THE PACIFIC HYDROLOGICAL

CYCLE OBSERVING SYSTEM (HYCOS) WEB PORTAL



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“Improving management and protection of the fresh water resource in Pacific Island Countries, through provision of appropriate water resource monitoring and management system leading to an improved understanding”.

 

Introduction

 

Pacific Hydrological Cycle Observing System (Pacific-HYCOS) is a regional project funded by the European Union (EU) through the European Union - Water Facility for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, (EU-WF ACP). The project is developed under the framework of the World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO) World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS) programme. Other collaborating partners in Pacific HYCOS include United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Fiji Meteorological Service.

Pacific HYCOS is a regional initiative to improve management and protection of Pacific Island Countries' freshwater resources, through the provision of appropriate water resource management systems. The ultimate objective of the WHYCOS programme is to "promote and facilitate the collection, exchange, dissemination and use of water-related information, using modern information technologies".

The Pacific HYCOS project will strengthen human and technical capacity of National Hydrological Services (NHS's) for water resources management to provide high quality, reliable and consistent information for informed decision making on catchment and aquifer management issues in 14 Pacific Island Countries. to develop capacity in the collection, maintenance, analysis and application of water resources data to promote sustainable development and management of freshwater resources. Pacific HYCOS will achieve this through the deployment of appropriate instrumentation, training and capacity building, strengthening of national water resource databases, development of a regional water resource database, and the promotion of sustainable water resource development.


About This Website

 

The Pacific HYCOS website is designed to provide:

 

Map of the Pacific

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To view each country's media gallery either click on the link on the map above or click on the country name listed below.

  1. Cook Islands (CK)
  2. Federated States of Micronesia (FM)
  3. Fiji (FJ)
  4. Kiribati (KI)
  5. Marshall Islands (MH)
  6. Nauru (NR)
  7. Niue (NU)
  8. Palau (PR)
  9. Papua New Guinea (PG)
  10. Samoa (WS)
  11. Solomon Islands (SB)
  12. Tonga (TO)
  13. Tuvalu (TV)
  14. Vanuatu (VU)

 

Recent News, Country Highlights and Activity Updates

The 6th progress Report for European Union was submitted in May 2010. Click here to access all the reports to date

 

New Cable Suspended gauging Video from Palau. Click Here to view video

 

Pacific HYCOS 5th Progress Report to EU is now availabe online. Click Here to access the Report or visit our Project Documents Page

 

Pacific HYCOS Newsletter December 2009 is now available for download from our Newsletters page or click here to download

 

Having trouble with the new ML1 loggers????

Well the HYCOS team have come up with a ONE PAGER GUIDE on how to download data from ML 1 loggers!!! Its a easy to follow guide which can be easily carried around or left at the sites as well. It can be downloaded from the Pacific HYCOS Showcase page or click here for easy download. Comments and feedback welcome!!

 

What's Happening in January to July 2010

 

Country Activity Tentative Dates/Duration
Nauru
 To  provide additional support to monitoring stations April
Samoa training to staff on the new equipments, TIDEDA and flow ratings June
Vanuatu
 To carry out installtion works and increase the in house capacity of the staff to under take monitoring tasks

Febuary

 
Palau
 GEF Steering Committee meeting    
July

 

What About Hydrological Equipment?

 

To find out about the equipment and technical support provided to Pacific HYCOS member countries visit the Pacific HYCOS Showcase link for a description of each equipment and operations and maintenance support.


More Pacific HYCOS Highlights using Digital Video http://blogs.sun.com/portal/resource/video_camera.gif

Click on the Pacific HYCOS Showcase link and watch digital video footage of activities in different countries. Click on the following media link to view one of the videos.

 

 

Pacific HYCOS Team

 

Meet the Pacific HYCOS Team.


 

 

 

Photo: (L-R) Llyod Smith (Project Coordinator), Linda Yuen, Komal Raman and Tukatara Tangi (Project Officers), Edwin Liava'a (GIS Specialist), (front) David Turner (Hydrologist), and Peter Sinclair (Project Advisor)

 

 

Pacific HYCOS Website Contact:

 

Mrs Komal Ram,

Project Officer

Tel: +679 3381377

Fax: +679 3370040

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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 June 2010 21:16 )