The GOOS Coastal Panel 2nd session

 

INTERGOVERNMENTAL
OCEANOGRAPHIC
COMMISSION
(of UNESCO)		 WORLD
METEOROLOGICAL
ORGANIZATION		 UNITED NATIONS
ENVIRONMENT
PROGRAMME		 INTERNATIONAL
COUNCIL OF
SCIENTIFIC UNIONS

 

Second Session of the GOOS Coastal Panel
(Curitiba, Brazil, 29 October - 1 November 1998)

SUMMARY REPORT

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. OPENING
2. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
3. OVERVIEWS AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
3.1 UPDATE ON COASTAL GOOS (C-GOOS) ACTIVITIES
3.1.1 Publicizing C-GOOS (Malone)
3.1.2 GOOS Steering Committee (GSC) (Summerhayes)
3.1.3 Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM) (Summerhayes and Awosika)
3.2 INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION (Summerhayes)
3.3 GOOS-AFRICA (Awosika)
3.4 GLOBAL INVENTORY OF COASTAL DATA AND PROGRAMMES (Summerhayes)
3.5 IOC DESIGN FOR COASTAL MONITORING SYSTEM (Summerhayes)
3.6 GOOS SERVICES MODULE (Guddal)
3.7 DEVELOPING FUNCTIONAL LINKAGES AMONG SCIENTISTS AND USER GROUPS (Ehler)
4. REGIONAL ISSUES (Marone)
5. RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES
5.1 OTHER GLOBAL OBSERVING PROGRAMMES (Malone and Summerhayes)
5.1.1 Ocean Observing Panel for Climate (OOPC)
5.1.2 Health of the Ocean (HOTO) Panel (Knap)
5.1.3 Living Marine Resources (LMR) Panel
5.1.4 Joint Data and Information Management Panel (J-DIMP)
5.2 REGIONAL GOOS AND RELATED PROGRAMMES
5.2.1 Regional Seas Programme of UNEP (Summerhayes, Kasten)
5.2.2 MedGOOS and PacificGOOS
5.2.3 NEAR-GOOS (Wang Hong)
5.2.4 EuroGOOS (Summerhayes)
5.3 CORAL REEF PROGRAMMES (Ogden)
5.4 LAND-OCEAN INTERACTIONS IN THE COASTAL ZONE PROGRAMME (Pacyna)
5.5 GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY OF HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS (GEOHAB)
5.5.1 The Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Programme of the IOC (Zingone)
5.5.2 GEOHAB (Zingone and Malone)
5.6 CAPACITY BUILDING IN C-GOOS (Marone)
6. IMPLEMENTING THE GOOS END-TO-END APPROACH
6.1 THE C-GOOS DESIGN PROCESS (Thompson)
6.2 COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF MEASUREMENTS (Hall)
6.3 INTEGRATING REMOTE AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS (Kiefer)
7. ELEMENTS
7.1 A GLOBAL COASTAL NETWORK (Thompson)
7.2 POTENTIAL PILOT PROJECTS
7.2.1 Eastern South Pacific (Ulloa)
7.2.2 Remote Sensing: Algorithm Development For Coastal Waters (Sinjae Yoo)
7.2.3 Harmful Algal Blooms (Zingone)
7.2.4 Natural Disasters (Walker)
7.2.5 Networking Metadata (Walker)
7.2.6 HOTO Projects (Knapp)
7.2.7 Adriatic Sea (Malone)
7.2.7.1 Introduction
7.2.7.2 Goals
7.2.7.3 Background
7.2.7.4 Pilot Project Design
7.2.7.5 Relationship to other programmes
7.2.8 CARICOMP (Ogden)
7.2.9 Seagrass Network (SEAGNET) (Koch)
7.2.10 Southwest Atlantic Pilot Project (Marone)
7.2.11 Radar Ocean Sensing (Guddal)
7.2.12 Vietnam Coastal Disaster Warning System (Guddal)
8. INTERSESSION ACTION PLAN II: DEVELOPMENT OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
8.1 FORMATS FOR THE PREPARATION OF PROJECT PROPOSALS
8.2 GOALS AND BENEFITS OF C-GOOS
8.3 DESIGN CRITERIA FOR INTEGRATED, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY OBSERVING SYSTEM
8.3.1 The Global Network
8.3.2 Pilot Projects
8.3.3 Effecting Critical Linkages Among User Groups
8.3.4 Effecting Critical Linkages with Related Programmes
8.4 COASTAL TYPOLOGY: FUNCTIONAL GROUPS OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS
8.5 CORE MEASUREMENTS AND R & D NEEDS
8.6 CAPACITY BUILDING
9. OTHER BUSINESS
9.1 C-GOOS VICE-CHAIR
9.2 ACTION ITEMS FOR THE GPO
9.3 ADDITIONAL ACTION ITEMS FOR THE PANEL
9.4 ADDITIONAL PILOT PROJECTS
10. DATES AND VENUES OF FUTURE MEETING
10.1 C-GOOS-III
10.2 C-GOOS-IV

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ANNEXES

I. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
II. AGENDA
III. LIST OF DOCUMENTS
IV. REPORT ON C-GOOS STAKEHOLDER'S WORKSHOP (OCTOBER 29, 1998)
V. PROPOSAL FOR A GLOBAL COASTAL MONITORING SYSTEM
VI. DEVELOPING FUNCTIONAL LINKAGES AMONG SCIENTISTS AND USERS
VII. REPORT ON THE WORKSHOP ON MUTUAL STRENGTHENING OF CAPABILITIES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGIONAL NETWORK ON NATURAL HAZARDS WARNING SYSTEM FOR SOUTH AMERICA (OCTOBER 26-28TH)
VIII. COASTAL GOOS IN CONTEXT
IX. SUMMARY OF HOTO STRATEGIC PLAN
X. COMPONENTS AND STATUS OF UNEP'S REGIONAL SEAS PROGRAMME
XI. WORKING DOCUMENT ON POSSIBLE COOPERATION BETWEEN C-GOOS AND LOICZ
XII. PRINCIPLES OF GOOS CAPACITY BUILDING
XIII. LIST OF ACRONYMS

 

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