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The CCOP Technical Secretariat, in cooperation with the Government of Vietnam through PETROVIETNAM and the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources of Vietnam, will be organizing the 46th CCOP Annual Session and the 54th CCOP Steering Committee Meeting on 18-23 & 24-25 October 2009 respectively in Vungtau City, Vietnam. Participation to both meetings is by invitation only.

The CCOP Technical Secretariat, in cooperation with the Royal Government of Thailand through the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), will be organizing the 45th CCOP Annual Session and the 52nd CCOP Steering Committee Meeting on 23-28 & 29-30 November 2008 respectively in Sofitel Raja Orchid Hotel, Khon Kaen, Thailand. For more information about the said meetings, you may go to this site: http://www.ccop.or.th/45as

CCOP’s 1:2 million geologic map of East and Southeast Asia is now accessible on the web from the OneGeology Portal – http://portal.onegeology.org/. In addition, five of the CCOP Member Countries’ 1:1 million geologic map can also be accessible from the said portal – Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines and Thailand.

CCOP Geo-Resources E-News second issue released ! As we mentioned in the first issue, the purpose of this E-News is to serve as forum for CCOP Geo-Resources Network to exchange information, ideas and best practices, and to promote geoscience for sustainable development of geo-resources in the CCOP Member Countries. For the future issue, we would like to invite everyone to donate your ideas on how geo-resources sector could contribute to the solutions of the global issues, including climate change, energy security, oil and mineral commodity high prices, etc.

With the generous contribution of the Royal Thai Government through the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), the Technical Secretariat of CCOP will be moving to a new building at the DMR complex.

The first CCOP Geo-Resources E-News (No1, May 2008) now is ready to circulate for your information. This will add one more to the existing channels to disseminate information to CCOP Member and Cooperating Countries, to liaison and coordinate with our sectoral network, to identify and prioritise the geoscience needs and capabilities in the sector for individual Member Countries etc..

The CCOP technical assistance as requested by Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), Thailand for the field survey conducted three years after the December 2004 tsunami in the coastal zone of the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand. The survey was a part of cooperation between Department of Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Thailand and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, initiated after the 2004 tsunami with the technical assistance of Mr. Niran Chaimanee, CCOP Geo-Environment Manager.

The aim of the workshop was to disseminate the results of the Thai-German Cooperation Projects “Environmental Geology for Regional Planning” and “Recommendation for Site investigation of Waste Disposal Sites and Contaminated Sites in Thailand (WADIS)” with respect to the role of geology in the waste site searching process and recommendations for site investigations to a professional audience of the CCOP Member Countries with interest in the field of environmental protection, regional planning and waste treatment.