The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Implementation Meeting

 

A single day meeting to discuss SOOS Implementation will be held at CNR-ISMAR in Venice on September 26th, directly after OceanObs09. This meeting follows on from that in St Petersburg. The meeting is by invitation only, but if you would like to attend please contact Mike Sparrow

 

Agenda

SOOS planning documents

Additional background Documents

Logistics

SOOS Home

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Agenda:

Chairs: Rintoul and Meredith

Rapporteurs: Sparrow and Urban

9.00-9.30 Aims of the meeting (Rintoul/Meredith)

- Topics to be covered, aims of the meeting

9.30-10.00 SOOS Planning Document: Status (Sparrow)

- Where we are now and the remaining gaps

- How do we fill them and who will do so?

10.00-10.30 Discussion

10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.00-12.10 Lessons Learnt from the Arctic (Schlosser)

- Focus on how Arctic observing system was actually implemented.

- Discussion with regards to relevance to SOOS.

12.10-12.30 Enhanced meteorological observations (Cronin)

12.30-1.30 Lunch (at venue - provided)

1.30-3.30 Main Discussion:

How will SOOS be structured? Secretariat? Changes in membership to reflect implementation stage (e.g. less scientists and more people directly involved in funding (e.g. NSF, EU, Australia, Japan etc.). Those members that remain will be assigned specific roles and responsibilities.

1. - For each observation we have said is important, we need to identify who will try to fill the gap. If we can't identify an individual or team who is passionate about this gap, it is unlikely to be filled. (e.g. we have advocated for ferry boxes on supply and tourist ships who thinks this is important enough to put some hard work in (identify the right ships, develop sampling protocols, get others on board)?

2. We need to set targets to know if we have succeeded (as done for GOOS). What are they? How will we keep track of progress (both in implementing observations and science success stories)?

3. What programs would we take as successful models we can learn from?

4. How will we sell SOOS? Who will give talks where, when, to whom? We need to get the big players on side (EU, NSF, international programs, national funding bodies, philanthropies): what's the best strategy?

5. What can we set in place to make the sampling design more rigorous (e.g. observing system experiments)?

3.30-4.00 Coffee

4.00-5.00 Summary, timeline and assignment of roles. Where now from here?

Attendees:

Physics:

Steve Rintoul

Mike Meredith

Mike Sparrow

Eberhard Fahrbach

Andrea Bergamasco

Peter Schlosser

Meghan Cronin

Sabrina Speich

Steve Piotrowicz

Bio/Carbon:

Richard Bellerby

Lucia Campos

Dan Costa

Julie Hall

Ed Urban

Mike Fedak

John Gunn

(Carbon Rep)

Data etc.:

Taco de Bruin

(JCOMM rep)