8. INTERSESSION ACTION PLAN II: DEVELOPMENT OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
8.1 FORMATS FOR THE PREPARATION OF PROJECT PROPOSALS
Full proposals are to be prepared during the intersession between C-GOOS II and C-GOOS III. The proposals will be reviewed by the Panel at C-GOOS III and priority pilot projects to be included in the Strategic Design Plan will be selected. As agreed to by the Panel, all proposals will follow the following format:
  1. Issues Addressed and Their Significance
  2. Users and Products of the Observing System
  3. Relationship to the C-GOOS Global Network (to be completed at C-GOOS III; Pilot Projects only)
  4. Project Design (Procedures given in section 6)
    1. Issues to be Addressed (see Table I)
    2. Final Prediction and Lead Time
    3. Models to be Used, Model Variables and Outputs
    4. Feasibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis
  5. R & D needs (given the issue to be addressed, what must be done to make the observing system fully operational)
    1. Measurements
    2. Models
    3. Products
  6. Data and Information Management
    1. Elements
    2. Data Sharing Policy
  7. Capacity Building
    1. Needs and Priorities
    2. Plans
Action 1: Tom Malone and Colin Summerhayes to develop criteria for being accepted as a C-GOOS project and for ranking pilot projects in terms of significance and chance of success.
8.2 GOALS AND BENEFITS OF C-GOOS
Action 2: Tom Malone and Colin Summerhayes to define the goals and benefits of C-GOOS
Action 3: Johannes Guddal to aid C-GOOS Panel in identifying services and products needed by the user community and explore the need for and impact of a GOOS Services and Products Bulletin (3.6).
8.3 DESIGN CRITERIA FOR INTEGRATED, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OBSERVING SYSTEM
8.3.1 The Global Network
Action 4: Keith Thompson (chair), Julie Hall, Dale Kiefer, Eduardo Marone, John Ogden, Jozef Pacyna, Osvaldo Ulloa, Steven Walker, Wang Hong, Adriana Zingone will draft the design plan for the Global C-GOOS Network.
8.3.2 Pilot Projects
Action 5: Oswaldo Ulloa, Sinjae Yoo and Janet Campbell, Adriana Zingone and Ed Gomez, Tony Knap, Tom Malone, John Ogden, Evamaria Koch and Carlos Duarte, Eduardo Marone, Johannes Guddal, and Larry Awosika will prepare full proposals using the format given in section 8.1 for review at C-GOOS-III.
8.3.3 Effecting Critical Linkages Among User Groups
Action 6: Julie Hall (chair), Bud Ehler, Ed Gomez, Johannes Guddal, and Steve Walker will review the Ehler report "Recommendations for Activities the Will Promote Functional Linkages among Scientific and User Groups" and tune it to the needs of C-GOOS for the purposes of formulating design and implementation plans and identifying R&D needs for the full scale implementation of C-GOOS (section 3.7)
8.3.4 Effecting Critical Linkages with Related Programmes
The design of C-GOOS will include plans for the development of critical linkages with related programmes and activities and the rationale and goals of such linkages. This will include, as appropriate, partnerships with HOTO, LMR, OOPC, the national and regional GOOS programmes, GCOS, GTOS, and the UNEP Regional Seas programme. LOICZ and GEOHAB provide much of the scientific underpinning of C-GOOS and the working relationship between C-GOOS and these research progammes will be defined.
Action 7: Tom Malone (chair)(U.S. GOOS, GEOHAB, LMR), Larry Awosika (GOOS-Africa), Tony Knap (HOTO), Eduardo Marone (GOOS-Brazil and regional programmes in S. America), George Needler (OOPC), Jozef Pacyna (LOICZ and EuroGOOS), B.R.Subramanian (GOOS activities in India and the region), and Wang Hong (NEARGOOS), to identify critical linkages.
Specific issues that came up during C-GOOS II and should be addressed include the following:
  1. Jozef Pacyna will continue to work with Chris Crossland to establish areas where joint projects should be initiated and formal linkages between C-GOOS and LOICZ are required and to recommend mechanisms by which these will be accomplished. This will be an important item on the agenda for C-GOOS III and the GSO will invite Chris Crossland to participate in C-GOOS III (5.4)
  2. The problem of carbon storage in coastal ecosystems should be addressed as part of the planned working relationship between C-GOOS and LOICZ (3.5).
  3. Keith Thompson, Stephen Walker and Julie Hall will review the report, The Science Base for EuroGOOS, and summarize those aspects that are relevant to C-GOOS, especially for the purposes of formulating design and implementation plans and identifying R&D needs for the full scale implementation of C-GOOS (5.2.4)
8.4 COASTAL TYPOLOGY: FUNCTIONAL GROUPS OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS
Action 8: Jozef Pacyna (chair), Carlos Duarte and Larry Awosika will develop a coastal typology for C-GOOS. This will include an analysis of the coastal typology formulated by LOICZ.
8.5 CORE MEASUREMENTS AND R & D NEEDS
Panel members agreed that an inter-sessional working group should develop a paper for C-GOOS- III on emerging technologies. The group should evaluate among other things the EuroGOOS Technology Plan and journals like EEZ Technology.
Action 9: Colin Summerhayes (chair), Johannes Guddal, Janet Campbell, Dale Kiefer, Tony Knap, and Sinjae Yoo will prepare a report that assesses emerging technologies in terms of their importance to the design and implementation of C-GOOS.
8.6 CAPACITY BUILDING
Action 10: Ed Gomez (chair), Larry Awosika, Eduardo Marone, B.R.Subramanian, and Colin Summerhayes will prepare a report that integrates the "Principles of GOOS Capacity Building" with the specific requirements of C-GOOS as spelled out in section 5.6. This may include plans for organizing C-GOOS training modules such as those developed by GLOSS (5.6).

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9. OTHER BUSINESS
9.1 C-GOOS VICE-CHAIR
Recognizing that it would be useful for C-GOOS to have an appropriate stand-in for the chairman on those occasions when he is unable to represent C-GOOS, Tom Malone recommended that Eduardo Marone serve as Vice Chair. The Panel endorsed this proposal and Eduardo agreed to take on this responsibility.
9.2 ACTION ITEMS FOR THE GPO
  • Represent C-GOOS interests in the IOC-IGU programme and keep C-GOOS informed of IOC-IGU developments (3.1.3).
  • Colin Summerhayes will try to attend the December (1998) London meeting (3.2).
  • Finalise arrangements to compile the inventory (3.4).
  • Invite Phil Woodworth to attend C-GOOS-III (3.5).
  • Provide panel members with copies of GOOS overheads (3.7).
  • Ask GSC Chair to publish GSC Capacity Building Strategy whole (3.7).
  • Work with Eduardo Marone to develop effective linkages with the IOC-EU oceanographic and IOC- HAB networks for South America (FANSA) (section 4 and 7.2.10).
  • Work with the GSC and I-GOOS to encourage member nations (through the IOC Assembly and other bodies) to release environmental data in a timely fashion (section 4).
  • Invite a representative from GTOS to participate in C-GOOS meetings. (5.1).
  • Invite a representative of the OOPC, e.g., George Needler, to C-GOOS III to update the Panel on activities of the OOPC (and CLIVAR) and to discuss opportunities for joint projects (5.1.1).
  • Invite the chairman of HOTO, Tony Knap, to participate in C-GOOS III to discuss coordination and collaboration with C-GOOS on issues ranging from sampling and measurement programmes to data management (5.1.2).
  • Invite a representative from the LMR panel should be invited to C-GOOS III (5.1.3).
  • Provide copies of the draft J-DIMP to the C-GOOS Panel prior to GOOS III (5.1.4).
  • Keep all UNEP Regional Seas Offices informed of C-GOOS activities and will invite representatives to C-GOOS panel meeting as appropriate (5.2.1).
  • Request that the chairs of MedGOOS and PacGOOS invite the chair of C-GOOS or his representative to attend these workshops for the purpose of determining how best to collaborate to achieve common goals (5.2.2).
  • Invite the NEAR-GOOS Chair and a NOWPAP representative to attend C-GOOS-III to consider development of joint projects in N.E.Asia (5.2.3).
  • Alert the IOC Assembly, through the GSC and I-GOOS-IV, to the need for National GOOS Coordinating Committees in the region (5.2.3).
  • Invite the Director of EuroGOOS to C-GOOS-III or IV (5.2.4).
  • Inform the Chair of the GSC's Capacity Building Panel that Eduardo Marone agreed to be the representative of C-GOOS (5.6).
  • Create a list of coastal capacity building programmes that includes a brief description of their goals and target audience (5.6).
  • Advise the chair of GOSSP of the need for ocean colour and other properties from geostationary satellites (7.1).
  • Draft appropriate documentation for the GSC, I-GOOS-IV and the IOC Assembly to encourage the regional Member States to establish the project; encourage UNEP to promote the concept through its Regional Seas programme; and work with WMO (e.g., Fernando Guzman and Peter Dexter) to press for commitment from Member States to a regional project (7.2.1).
  • Communicate to the IOC-Executive Council in November 1998 the Panel's concerns about the storm surge proposal (7.2.4).
  • Acquire a copy of the TAO Implementation Panel leaflet for fishermen for circulation to C-GOOS (7.2.11).
  • Consider inviting Vietnamese scientists to a future C-GOOS meeting (J. Guddal, 7.2.12).

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9.3 ADDITIONAL ACTION ITEMS FOR THE PANEL (additional to those in section 8)
  • Participants were asked to advise the GPO of the names of people who should be sent copies of GOOS 1998.
  • Tom Malone (CENR) and John Ogden (coral reefs) will report on progress in the identification and use of indicators at GOOS III where the identification and use of indicators will be on the agenda (section 3.2).
  • Members to advise the GPO about the monitoring programmes they know about, flagging whether they are research or operational in nature (3.4).
  • John Ogden and Tony Knap will advise the GPO which foundations to approach for funding and on the preparation of proposal for assistance (3.4).
  • Tom Malone will identify a C-GOOS representative to attend GLOSS-VI (3.5).
  • The issue of mangrove habitat loss will be addressed at C-GOOS III. Tom Malone will identify an expert to be invited by the GPO (3.5).
  • Consider inviting selected stakeholder groups to C-GOOS meetings, and involving them in development of C-GOOS design (3.7).
  • Promote C-GOOS at coastal management conferences, through newsletters etc. (3.7).
  • Wang Hong will convey the C-GOOS recommendations above (i-iv) to the NEAR-GOOS Coordinating Committee and will work with Sinjae Yoo to improve access to and awareness fo the NEAR-GOOS data base and to explore the possibility of the joint remote sensing project for the NEAR-GOOS region (5.2.3).
  • Tom Malone will arrange for a C-GOOS paper to be given at EuroGOOS Conference in March, 1999 (5.2.4).
  • C-GOOS will encourage the development of GEOHAB, and the integration of GEOHAB requirements and results into the C-GOOS design. Adriana Zingone will be the liaison for this important purpose (5.5).
  • Adriana Zingone will explore the PHYTONET concept with EuroGOOS and other relevant programmes in Europe. The panel encourages the preparation of a full proposal for discussion at C-GOOS III (7.2.3).
  • Eduardo Marone to try to involve meteorological offices and navies in the network (7.2.10).
  • Johannes Guddal, in consultation with Tom Malone, will explore the possibility of inviting Vietnam project representatives to attend a forthcoming C-GOOS meeting (7.2.11).
9.4 ADDITIONAL PILOT PROJECTS
Larry Awosika had to leave the meeting before he could present the proposed pilot project on "Assessing Trends in Coastal Hazards and Associated Meteorological Oceanographic Processes in the IOCEA Region." IOCEA is the IOC regional body for the eastern Atlantic, and includes west Africa. The Panel asked for it to be submitted as a full proposal as described above.
Other possible projects that should perhaps be considered at C-GOOS-III include:
  • The Western Pacific Biodiversity pilot project proposal that was to have been prepared by Yoshi Shirayama, but which had to be shelved when his laboratory was demolished by a typhoon earlier this year;
  • Mangroves; and
  • The Gulf of Thailand project, an ongoing activity with a lot of C-GOOS characteristics, that could eventually be a core project for SEA-GOOS (South east Asia GOOS).

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10. DATES AND VENUES OF FUTURE MEETING
10.1 C-GOOS-III
C-GOOS-III will take place 12-16 April. This meeting will focus on the C-GOOS strategic design plan (section 8 above). This meeting would launch the strategic plan, which should be ready in first draft by summer 1999 in time for review at C-GOOS-IV. C-GOOS-IV would then launch development of the implementation plan. As in Curitiba, it was proposed that C-GOOS-III should be preceded by a one day workshop with users.
At C-GOOS-I, the Panel had agreed that it wished to meet in different regions to promote interactions with the user groups other than scientists. Larry Awosika had offered to set up a meeting early 1999 in Lagos, Nigeria. At C-GOOS-II, the Panel considered this offer in more detail. Some concern was raised about Lagos as a destination, since U.S. travel advisories recommend against Lagos as a destination. Accepting that some ground work had already been done towards having a meeting in Lagos, Colin Summerhayes was asked to provide a list of alternative African options, with their advantages and disadvantages, for comparison with Lagos, and to use it to poll Panel members for their preferences. Options suggested included: Abidjan, Mombasa, Dakar and Cape Town.
Action 11: Colin Summerhayes to (i) produce list of African options for C-GOOS-III; (ii) poll panel members for preferences; and (iii) check the UNESCO for travel advice. Tom Malone to discuss with Larry Awosika the possible difficulties of holding a meeting in Lagos
Action 12: Larry Awosika will work with Colin Summerhayes and Tom Malone to organize a regional user's workshop to be held as a precursor to C-GOOS III in Africa (section 3.3).
10.2 C-GOOS-IV
It was still intended to hold C-GOOS-IV in Turkey, in association with EMECS-99 (2-6 November, 1999).
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