SOOS Workshop - Welcome

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SOOS Workshop - Welcome
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SOOS Workshop ObjectivesWelcome

• Start a conversation about the feasibility of
  establishing a Southern Ocean Observation System
  (SOOS)
• This is an opportunistic meeting around SCAR so
  not everyone is here
• In my mind the main question is what has to be
  different for Southern?
• investigate the possibility of incorporating data
  collected by marine mammals and seabirds.
• Briefly review existing technology, and assess
  suitability and shortcomings
• Review existing oceanographic data sets collected
  by seals and seabirds, and the important
  biological questions
• Consider what species would be suitable for
  on-going studies
• Assess data-handling and compatibility issues,
  consider protocols for integrating data sets
• Consider existing ocean data-sets that would
  benefit from such data
• Establish a framework for on-going (post IPY)
  data collection
• Address outreach facilities to share the vision
  beyond the technical community

THANKS TO Vicki Wadley, Craig Macaulay, Mark
Hindell, Steve Rintoul, Jesse Ausubel
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Time Speaker TOPIC
900 Tony Haymet Welcome from CSIRO and POGO, housekeeping, safety briefing
905 Haymet Michael Stoddart Welcome from CoML and CAML
910 Colin Summerhayes Brief Intro What is GOOS?
915   Questions and Discussion
925 Eberhard Fahrbach Status and plans for a Southern Ocean observing system for climate
940   Questions and Discussion
950 Stoddart Martin Biuw Coastal and Continental margin processes
1005   Questions and Discussion
1015 Mitsuo Fukuchi Phytoplankton
1030   Questions and Discussion
1040 Graham Hosie Zooplankton, including krill and CPR
1055   Questions and Discussion
1105 Morning Tea
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Session 2
1125 Hindell Phillipe Koubbi Coupled biological and physical mesoscale processes in modelling fish habitat
1150 Colin Southwell Trends in seals and seabirds
  Questions and Discussion
1215 Dan Costa Mike Fedak Animal borne ocean sensors an example (TOPP) and prospects for the SO
  Questions and Discussion
1240 Steve Ackley Towards a sea ice observing system
  Questions and Discussion
1305 Bill Kirkwood How can we observe what is happening under the sea ice?
  Questions and Discussion
1330   Lunch and Discussions
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Session 3
1415 Rintoul Peter Dexter Brief Intro What is JCOMM?
Taco de Bruin SO integrated data base
  Questions and Discussion
1440 Discussion Leader Steve Rintoul Where to from here? Part 1
1525   Quick Tea and Coffee and back to work
1540 DiscussionLeader Mark Hindell Where to from here? Part 2 Communicating our thoughts
1630 Tony Haymet Wrap up and thank you