details
- Name
- Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics (Icod)
- Address
- Room 313, Chemistry Building, University of Malta
Tal-Qroqq - Zipcode
- MSD 2080
- City
- Msida
- Country
- Malta
- Phone
- +356-21-240746
- Fax
- +356-21-230551
- anton.micallef@um.edu.mt
organisation profile
The Euro-Mediterranean Centre On Insular Coastal Dynamics (ICoD) forms part of a network of specialised centres pertaining to the Open Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe on Major Natural and Technological Hazards. The Open Partial Agreement (OPA) is so called as it open to states which are not members of the Council of Europe and partial because participation in this agreement may be limited to the specific fields of interest of the state in question. While the majority of the specialised Centres belonging to the OPA are specialised on seismic-related disasters, those based in Malta and Monaco address marine related issues.
ICoD was established within the framework of the Foundation for International Studies, at the University of Malta, in 1988 as the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Marine Contamination Hazards where it initially addressed marine degradation in general. It has subsequently re-oriented its objectives and activities towards a greater focus on the interactive processes, which occur at the coastal zone, and in particular that of insular areas as represented by island systems. Recently, having successfully completed several development projects, the ICoD has considerably increased its scientific and technical capabilities and is able now to run the state- of - the - art numerical models of atmospheric and marine circulation and wind waves.
results in other services
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 703
- Collating centre
- Oceanography Malta Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta (OMRG.UM)
- Latest update
- 22 August 2011 2:02:14 PM