12th Session of GOOS Scientific Steering Committee Meeting

25 - 27 February 2009,

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Agenda



1 Opening and Welcome
1.1 Local host UNESCO IOC Perth Office, Dr Nick D’Adamo
1.2 GSSC Chair, Dr Ralph Rayner
1.3 Adoption of Agenda, Working Arrangements,
1.4 Review of the Previous Sessions
2 REVIEW OF PROGRESS AGAINST IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
2.1 Review status of Open Ocean Module against Implementation Plan
2.2 Review status of GOOS Pilot Programmes
3 COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES
3.1 SCOR Session
3.1.1 Equation of State of Seawater, Working Group 127 Report: Trevor McDougall
3.1.2 OceanScope Working Group: Missy Feeley
3.1.3 Report of Workshop on Ocean Biology Observatories from the SCOR Panel on New Technologies for Observing Marine Life – John Gunn
3.1.4 Discussion of GSSC – SCOR recommendations for development of GOOS
3.2 UNEP Regional Seas Programme
3.3 SCAR Update on IPY and Polar Observing Systems
3.4 Ocean Observatories Initiative
3.5 JCOMM Operational Ocean Forecast Systems
3.6 POGO
3.7 DISCUSSION SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INTERACTION WITH PROGRAMMES Dr Ralph Rayner, GSSC Chair
4 EMERGING ISSUES
4.1 Deep Ocean Monitoring
4.2 1.Wave measurement Evaluation and Test from moored buoys, DBCP-ETWS PP-WET
4.3 International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project
4.4 Ocean Acidification
4.5 GOOS as the Ocean Component of GCOS, John Zillman
4.6 GOOS and GEO GEOSS Engagement, Francois Gerard
4.7 GODAE OceanView - Andreas Schiller
4.8 Large Marine Ecosystems
4.9 Other Programmes
5 JOINT SESSION WITH PICO
5.1 Report from PICO
5.2 Report of the Workshop
6 Working Groups (Provisional Topics)
6.1 Response to GEO 2009-2011 Work Plan Task List
6.2 Report on planning and implementation for GOOS
6.3 Interaction of GOOS, GSSC, I-GOOS with the GEO/GEOSS
6.4 GODAE OceanView with the GOOS structure. Discussion of proposal and ToRs
6.5 Develop theme of the Workshop into a GSSC and/or PICO perspective. Outline and assign the writing assignments for the Workshop report, paying attention to needs of GSSC and PICO.
7 COORDINATION OF DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES
7.1 GODAE Data Architecture, Jon Blower
7.2 GEO-GEOSS Data Architecture
7.3 WIGOS JCOMM Pilot Project
7.4 IOOS DMAC, DIF
7.5 Discussion:
8 OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY
8.1 Report from Outreach Working Group
8.2 Outreach Discussions
9 FORMAL ISSUES
9.1 Review and Acceptance of GSSC-XII Actions and Recommendations
9.2 Membership Review
9.3 Date and Place of Next GSSC and PICO Sessions
9.4 Closure of the Session