Conveners
O5.3 Regional Empowerment: part 1
- Misrak Fisseha (CTBTO Preparatory Commission)
- Nortin Peter-David Titus (Geological Survey of Namibia)
O5.3 Regional Empowerment: part 2
- Misrak Fisseha (CTBTO Preparatory Commission)
- Nortin Peter-David Titus (Geological Survey of Namibia)
The West African region has experienced devastating earthquakes in historical and recent times. The seismic activities with magnitudes ranging from 1.4 to 6.5 have been observed and recorded in the region. This includes the December 22, 1983, Mw=6.3, Guinea earthquake; 275 people were killed, more than 1000 were injured and 18,000 people were rendered homeless. The June 22, 1939 earthquake...
National Data Centres are the national technical organizations competent in advising their governments on the verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Between the mains elements of the NDCs highlight the waveform analyst staff, playing an important role in the CTBT's verification architecture. In this sense, its permanent training is key for the development of...
The aim of this presentation is to share experiences and lessons learned from our first year of operation. From build-up and establishment challenges, data products and reports, detection levels trends and data comparison betweenthe International Data Centre (IDC) and the National Data Centre for testing and capacity building purposes for analysis. Three radionuclide stations from Argentina...
CTBTO has an active program for capacity building, to increase the ability of scientist and operators from signatory countries to process and interpret data. While most of the courses are carried out in Europe, a few regional training courses have proven to be excellent ways to integrate people from countries in that region. Increasing the number of these regional courses but also to having...
Sudan has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 10 June 2004, making Sudan 172nd State Signatory. The establishment of a capacity building system (CBS) in Sudan is helpful in integrating data acquisition, processing and analyzing using the NDC in a box. The different training courses and participation in workshop and conferences play an important role in the...
