Who we are

The National Oceanographic Data Center in Lagos, Nigeria is poised to collate, archive oceanographic data in Nigeria and facilitate the promotion and exchange of oceanographic data and information within and the entire globaloceanographic community under the auspices of theInternational Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.

NgNODC is part of the network of International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) data centers.  The aim of the Data Center is to collect, collate, archieve and desiminate oceanographic data and information within Nigeria and the global scientific community by providing various types of support to policy makers, resource managers, researchers, educational institutions, NGO's and private companies on matters of oceanographic data and information sources.