GOOS Regional Forum VII

22 - 24 September 2015,

Heraklion, Crete
Greece

Annotated Agenda

1 Opening
2 Review Goals of Forum
3 Welcome Keynotes
3.1 Dr. Vasilis Lykousis, Director of the Institute of Oceanography and Vice President of Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)
3.2 EuroGOOS and MonGOOS Presentations – Erik Buch and Enrique Fanjul
3.3 Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary IOC and Assistant Director General of UNESCO
4 Setting the Scene - GOOS Steering Committee, JCOMM and GOOS Project Office Updates
5 Preliminary Results from Review of GRA Survey
6 How can the GOOS GRAs coordinate with GOOS Panels – working session
7 GOOS GRA success stories
8 Day 1 Wrap Up
9 Special Topic Presentation: Global HF Radar
10 Progress since last GRA Forum – Modeling Inventory
11 Afternoon field trip
12 Introduction to GOOS project/partnering/pairing of GRAs
13 Presentation on IIOE-2
14 Continued Discussion of Partnering and Project Opportunities
15 Expanding GOOS/GRA Partnerships with JCOMM
16 GRC Leadership Transition and Meeting Wrap Up