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"Digital skin" to cover Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the most monitored reef in the world with the application of a ?digital skin? of sensors that will make possible the finest resolution picture ever of the region?s dynamic systems.The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, announced on May 9, 2008 the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System (GBROOS), a regional ocean observation network covering the eastern Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef and incorporating the world?s first large scale reef-based Internet Protocol (IP) network.
In this project, AIMS is harnessing its leading capabilities in data management, as well as its extensive national and international collaborations, to move Australian reef science to a new level. GBROOS is a multidisciplinary infrastructure project costing about $16 million.

Source: www.aims.gov.au

Posted by Philippine Merchant Marine Academy jen parinas at 9:01 PM

GOOS at next IOC Executive Council

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

The 41st Session of the IOC Executive Council will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 24 June - 1 July 2008.

François Gérard, I-GOOS Chair, will introduce the agenda item on GOOS for discussion on 26 June. Other issues to be discussed: GEOSS, UNFCC, IPY/IWPE, WCRP.

The Session will deliberate on ongoing plans to develop a new equation of state for seawater. In September 2008 the SCOR/IAPSO scientific working group 127 on Thermodynamics and Equation of State of Seawater will complete its work and a peer-reviewed update to the thermodynamic potential of standard seawater will be available to the oceanographic community for the first time since the currently used UNESCO standard (Fofonoff and Millard, UNESCO 1983. Algorithms for computation of fundamental properties of seawater) was put in place. The 2009 IOC Assembly provides an opportunity to renew IOC?s role as an international standard setting body for oceanography and for its 137 member states to formally resolve to adopt the new standard.

More information on IOC EC webpage.

OceanObs'09 Symposium

Monday, 14 April 2008

Ocean information for society: sustaining the benefits, realizing the potential.

Confirmed date and venue: 21-25 September 2009, Venice, Italy.

Meeting goals: document the importance and benefits of the existing ocean observing system; demonstrate its scientific, societal and economic impacts; revisit the current status, and update plans for the physical and carbon ocean observing systems; advance capabilities for marine biogeochemistry and ecosystems. More.

GRA 4th Forum, Nov 25-27

Thursday, 29 May 2008

The Fourth GOOS Regional Alliance Forum will be held 25, 26, 27 Nov. 2008 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The GRA Fora bring together representatives of all the GRAs to plan the next biennum activities of the Coastal Component of GOOS. The Forum fosters cooperation of the programs of the GRAs, builds GOOS and enhances regional activities.

For more information go to the GOOS Web page for the GRA-IV ->

EuroGOOS 2008 Coastal to Global Operational Oceanography: Achievements and Challenges

Thursday, 17 April 2008

The 5th EuroGOOS Conference is being held at Sandy Park, Exeter, UK, from 20-22 May 2008.

The conference is opening with an address from Dame Barbara Young and includes sessions on:
* Observations: in situ and space-based;
* Global and regional services;
* Coastal and EEZ services;
* Modelling: nowcast, forecast and reanalysis;
* Information systems and data management.

About 250 marine scientists are expected to attend.
For more details and information on registration, please visit http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/conference/eurogoos/ or http://www.eurogoos.org/

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