Senegal River Basin Study

2 October 2002

2002 CODATA Conference

Workshop Organizing Committee

•Abdoulaye Gaye, chair, Senegal National CODATA Committee, co-chair

•William Jobin, Blue Nile Associates, co-chair

•Oumar Talla Diaw, Laboratoire National de Recherches Vétérinaries

•Dialo Diop, Hôpital des Enfants Malades, Albert Royer CHU-FANN, University of Dakar

•William Parton, Colorado State University

•Madiaw Seck, Direction de l’Aménagement du Territoire

•William Sprigg, University of Arizona

•Larry Tieszen, EROS Data Center, U.S. Geological Survey


	Over 35 people participated in the workshop, including researchers and data managers from the US, Senegal, and other African countries who have collected, managed, and used data regarding the Senegal River Basin.

	The workshop provided U.S. federal government and academic data experts and researchers with an inside view of African S&T data programs and an opportunity to initiate collaboration in various related areas. In addition, prior to the workshop there was a one-day site visit to the Diama Dam on the Senegal River, as well as to the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (Senegal River Authority) Regional Documentation Center and the Université Gaston Berger, both in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Many of the research activities related to the Senegal River basin are conducted at the university. In addition, there was a half-day site visit the following day to the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (Ecological Monitoring Center) in Dakar, which develops, archives, and manages most of the country’s ecological and environmental data and information resources.