CEARAC is hosted by the Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Centre (NPEC) in Toyama, Japan. Its main activities are to monitor and assess harmful algal blooms, to develop new monitoring tools using remote sensing and to assess land-based sources of marine litter.

DINRAC is based in the Policy Research Centre for Environment & Economy of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The objectives of DINRAC are to develop a region-wide data and information exchange network, to promote regional cooperation and exchange of information on the marine and coastal environment in the NOWPAP region and eventually to serve as a NOWPAP Clearinghouse.

Established in the Maritime and Ocean Engineering Research Institute within Korea Ocean R&D Institute (MOERI/KORDI) in Daejeon, the Republic of Korea, MERRAC is a joint effort of UNEP and IMO to develop effective regional cooperative measures in response to marine pollution incidents including oil and hazardous and noxious substance (HNS) spills. MERRAC is also working on marine-based sources of marine litter.

P.O. Box 23, Yuseong, Daejeon 305-600 Republic of Korea
Tel : (82) 42-868-7281
Fax: (82) 42-868-7738
http://merrac.nowpap.org

Located at the Pacific Geographical Institute (PGI) of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok, Russian Federation, POMRAC is responsible for cooperative measures related to atmospheric deposition of contaminants and river and direct inputs of contaminants to the marine and coastal environment.  Since 2007, POMRAC started a new project on integrated coastal zone and river basin management and compiled the state of marine environment report for the NOWPAP region.