Third SCOR Summit of International Marine Research Projects

Agenda

30 March (Monday)

09:00
Background, Introductions, and Goals – Bjørn Sundby, Wolfgang Fennel, and Ed Urban - Action Items from 2006 Summit

09:30 Project Publication and Visibility - All
11:00 Break

11:30 Interaction with Intergovernmental Organizations

How is your organization working with large-scale ocean research projects?

IOC - Luis Valdes

ICES - Adi Kellermann

PICES - Michael Dagg

How is your project working with intergovernmental organizations and how can/could such interactions benefit your project? - Project representatives

13:00 Lunch
14:00 Education, Outreach, and Capacity-Building

Update on Activities of SCOR Committee on Capacity Building - Venu Ittekkot

SOLAS Summer Schools - Emily Brévière

IMBER Summer School and CLIMECO - Julie Hall

Discussion of Other Project Activities - All

Shared Webcasting Web site - Julie Hall

16:00 Break
16:30 Continued Discussion of Capacity Building
18:00 Adjourn for the Day

18:30 Group Dinner

31 March (Tuesday)

9:00 Discussion of Project Interactions with GOOS, OceanSITES, time-series stations - All
10:00 Census of Marine Life Synthesis, Next Steps, and Potential Role of Research Projects - Patricia Miloslavich
11:00 Break

11:30 Update on Project Data/Metadata Management Activities

Review of Project Data Management Policies and Areas of Potential Cooperation -
Reiner Schlitzer (GEOTRACES), Julie Hall (IMBER), and Edward vanden Berghe (OBIS)

SOLAS Project Integration - Emily Brévière

Progress of Data Publication Activity - Ed Urban and Cisco Werner

Presentation of POGO Research Cruise Database - Ed Urban

Discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Continued Discussion of Project Data Management

16:00 Break

16:30 Project Modeling Activities

GEOTRACES Data-Modeling Synthesis Activity - Reiner Schlitzer

GEOHAB Modeling Activity - Wolfgang Fennel

GLOBEC Modeling Activity - Cisco Werner

Modeling Activities of Other Projects - All

18:00 Adjourn for the Day

19:30 Group Dinner

1 April (Wednesday)
9:00 Use of Conference Manager - Julie Hall
10:00 Principles for Developing New Large-Scale Research Projects
11:00 Break

11:30 COST Actions - SOLAS and GEOTRACES
OceanObs'09 - Julie Hall

Additional Topics Raised by Projects

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Additional Topics Raised by Projects (cont.)

15:00 Summary and Recommendations

To SCOR and other organizations
To projects
To GOOS and other observing networks
To governmental agencies and inter-governmental organizations
To others

16:00 Adjourn Meeting

Questions or Comments?
Please contact SCOR.