Welcome to the website of the Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA) Pilot Project.

The CMA Pilot Project is a joint initiative of 9 countries in the Caribbean region including Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

The purpose of the CMA is to identify, collect and organize available geo-spatial datasets into an atlas of environmental themes for the Caribbean region as a support service to the sustainable development and integrated management of marine and coastal areas in the region.

The project is currently planned to have a duration of 14 months (October 2007 - December 2008) and is supported by the participating countries, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) through the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) , and the Government of Flanders (Kingdom of Belgium). 

The Caribbean Marine Atlas is an activity developed within the framework of the Ocean Data and Information Network for the Caribbean and South America region (ODINCARSA) . 

Status of the Project 

The MapServer Course for the Caribbean Marine Atlas was held at the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium from June 2nd to 6th 2008.This was the final course for the CMA pilot project phase 2008.

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