Second SCOR Summit of International Marine Research Projects

 

Agenda

7 December (Thursday)
9:30-12:30 - CLIVAR-hosted planning meeting for conference on "Climate driving of ecosystem changes - making the connections". - Royal Society, Conference Room

Download meeting background document here.

Project Summit - Conference Room, Mary Sumner House, Mother's Union, 24 Tufton Street, London
14:00

Background, Introductions, and Goals – Peter Burkill/Bjørn Sundby and Ed Urban - Action Items from 2004 Summit

 

14:30 Update on Project Data/Metadata Management Activities
16:00 Break
16:30 Continued Discussion of Data Issues
  • Project Interactions with World Data Centers, Data Dictionaries, Metadata Standards -
    Robert Gelfeld (WDC on Oceanography, Silver Spring) and Hannes Grobe/Michael Diepenbroek (World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences)

WDC on Oceanography, Silver Spring Powerpoint

World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences Powerpoints I (doi:10.1594/pangaea.351396) and II

  • Getting species-related project data into OBIS and using data from OBIS - Mark Costello

OBIS PowerPoint

18:00 Adjourn for the Day
19:30 Reception at Royal Society

8 December (Friday) - Royal Society, Kohn Centre

9:00 Continued Discussion of Data Management
  • Status of Research Cruise Meta-database - Ed Urban
  • Data Visualization - Murray Brown

Data Visualization PowerPoint

  • CoML Data Visualization Workshop Plans - Pat Halpin

CoML Data Visualization Powerpoint

  • General Discussion

10:30 Break
11:00 Updates on Opportunities for GOOS-Project Interactions

  • Open Ocean and Climate Aspects of GOOS - Ed Harrison

OOPC PowerPoint

  • Coastal and Regional Aspects of GOOS - Tom Malone

Coastal GOOS PowerPoint

13:00 Lunch
14:30

Time-series stations

  • OceanSITES update - Uwe Send - 30 minutes

OceanSITES PowerPoint

  • Project Needs - All

16:00 Break
16:30 Southern Ocean Research and Observations
  • Project plans for IPY - All

SASSI PowerPoint

SCAR PowerPoint

  • Mechanisms for continued interactions: SCAR/SCOR Group of Experts on Oceanography - Colin Summerhayes - 20 minutes
  • Multi-beam bathymetric data
18:00 Adjourn for the Day

9 December (Saturday) - Strand Academy, Strand Hotel, 372 Strand, London

 
9:00 Education and Capacity Building
  • SCOR's activities - Ed Urban - 20 minutes

SCOR Capacity-Building PowerPoint

ICSU Capacity Building Report

  • Project Activities and Ideas - All

10:30 Break
11:30 Satellite Availability and Needs - All
12:15 Project Web sites - Ed Urban

SCOR Web Site Review PowerPoint

13:00 Lunch
14:30 Marine Habitat Classifications - Mark Costello

PowerPoint 1

PowerPoint 2

15:00

Additional Topics Raised by Projects

  • Carbon Offsets for Travel to Meetings

16:00 Break
16:30 Conclusions and Recommendations

  • To SCOR and other organizations
  • To projects
  • To GOOS and other observing networks
  • To governmental agencies and inter-governmental organizations
  • To others?
18:00 Adjourn Meeting

Questions or Comments?
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