Program - The 10th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium

Working Group 4

Agenda of the GEOSS-AP ocean session jointly by the two ocean related tasks (Task 4 and 8) of AO-GEOSS

The GEO Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Initiative aims to advance and exploit synergies among the many observational programmes devoted to ocean and coastal waters. The Initiative also seeks to raise awareness of the societal benefits of ocean observations at the public and policy levels. In this regard, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, SDG13, Climate Actions and SDG14, Life below Water, provide the context for the importance of ocean observations and research.

Since 2012, the Oceans and Society Task (Task 4) has been working to define, enhance and integrate the inventory of information exchanges of issues related to coastal data in the Asia-Pacific region, which spans multiple jurisdictional waters. This task aims to further evolve the current observation inventory system of in-situ ocean observations to better support the WESTPAC community and to meet the needs of SDGs 13 and 14 at our best capacity. One of the goals of this session is to continue to discuss, identify and define actions to address gaps of activities in the AP region that will evolve a comprehensive and integrated observation inventory system for the region.

Under the recently established regional GEO initiative Asia-Oceania GEOSS (AOGEOSS), Task 8 Coasts and Islands, aims to provide an important regional mechanism to advance and exploit synergies among the many observational programmes devoted to islands, coasts and oceans to improve engagement with a variety of users for enhancing the timeliness, quality and range of services delivered; and to raise awareness of the societal benefits of ocean observations at the public and policy levels.

Date: September 19, 2017
Time: 9:30-17:30 (Viet Nam Standard Time)
Venue: VAST in Hanoi, Viet Nam
Conveners: Ken Ando (JAMSTEC), Andy Steven (CSIRO), and Vo Si Tuan (VIO)

9:30-10:00	Session-1: Introductions Reports on BP Initiative of GEO (Andy Steven) Introduce the relation with the main theme of this symposium (Ken Ando)

10:00-12:00	Session-2. Updating the ocean data network system in the WESTPAC region (Chair by Assoc. Prof. Tuan) 2-1. Update of the Ocean data networking system since Jan 2017 (Akazawa) 2-2. Ocean data management update in Viet Nam (Nguyen Huu Huan, Institute of Oceanography, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam) 2-3. Ocean data management update in Thai (Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong, Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Thailand) 2-4. Ocean data management update in Malaysia (Aidy Mohamed Bin M Muslim, Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Malaysia) 2-5. Ocean data management update in Australia (Jonathan Hodge, CSIRO) 2-6. JAMSTEC ocean data system (Remote, Hanafusa, JAMSTEC) 2-7. Introduction of IODE/ODIS initiative (TBD) 2-8. Discussion on the further development of data network system including possible updates of new parameters (pH and total alkalinity, short session)

12:00-13:30	Lunch (VAST's cafereria, 3rd floor, A21 Building)

13:30-15:30	Session-3 Ocean and Island session 3-1. Outline of Coasts and Islands task in AOGEOSS- Andy Steven (CSIRO) 3-2. Review of Coastal issues and priorities 3-3. Review of Coastal and Island state issues and priorities Speaker 1 – PNG Speaker 2 – small oceania state (tbc) Speaker 3 – CROP Agency Representative Speaker 4 –Sri Lanka (TBC) 3-4. Application of EO and Datacube infrastructure for Coastal and Island applications Speaker 1- DanLing Tang (CAS, SCSIO) Speaker 2 - Alex Held (CSIRO) 3-5. Discussion of possible Case studies for Island Studies

15:30-16:00	Coffee break

16:00-17:00	Session-4 Wrap-up (moderated by Ken Ando) - Discuss on our inputs to the Viet Nam Statement 2017 This session is hosted by VAST, sponsored by GEO, MEXT and CSIRO, and also is collaborated with IOC/WESTPAC.