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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
14:00Background, Introductions, and Goals – Peter Burkill/Bjørn Sundby and Ed Urban - Action Items from 2004 Summit
14:30Update on Project Data/Metadata Management Activities


16:00Break
16:30Continued 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 and II

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

OBIS PowerPoint

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

8 December (Friday) - Royal Society, Kohn Centre

9:00Continued 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

10:30Break
11:00Updates 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

13:00Lunch
14:30Time-series stations
  • OceanSITES update - Uwe Send - 30 minutes

OceanSITES PowerPoint

  • Project Needs - All
16:00Break
16:30Southern 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

18:00Adjourn for the Day

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


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

SCOR Capacity-Building PowerPoint

  • Project Activities and Ideas - All

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

SCOR Web Site Review PowerPoint

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

PowerPoint 1

PowerPoint 2

15:00

Additional Topics Raised by Projects

  • Carbon Offsets for Travel to Meetings

16:00Break
16:30Conclusions and Recommendations

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

Questions or Comments?
Please contact SCOR.