*OPENING & KEYNOTE*
*Moderator introduction*
▪ 0:00:00 – Kristin Recke, Journalist, Ocean ambassador
*Welcome*
▪ 0:01:34 – Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary, IOC/UNESCO
*Opening*
▪ 0:13:30 – Toste Tanhua, EuroSea project coordinator & GOOS co-chair, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
*Keynote*
▪ 0:26:31 – Zoi Konstantinou on behalf of Magdalena-Andreea Strachinescu Olteanu, Head of Unit Maritime innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maritime Policy and Blue Economy, European Commission
*PERSPECTIVES ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL OCEAN OBSERVING AND FORECASTING FOR SUSTAINABLE USE OF THE OCEAN IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD*
▪ 0:39:57 – Francois Houllier, President & CEO, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER).
▪ 0:49:10 – Javier Tomás Ruíz Segura, Director, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC).
▪ 0:55:56 – Ed Hill, Director, National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
▪ 1:03:32 – Katja Matthes, Director, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (video st.).
▪ 1:08:24 – Francisco Arias, Director, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (INVEMAR)
▪ 1:18:05 – Rosalia Santoleri, Director, Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR) Venice & President, Italian Oceanographic Commission (COI) (video st.).
▪ 1:21:37 – Glenn Nolan, Section Manager, Oceanographic and Climate Services, Marine Institute.
▪ 1:29:22 – Anya Waite, Associate Vice-President Research (Ocean) of Dalhousie University and Scientific Director and CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute.
▪ 1:34:10 – Emma Heslop, Programme Specialist, Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
▪ 1:41:55 – Maurice Heral, Department Officer, French National Research Agency, representative of the EU Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP).
▪ 1:48:33 – Fiona-Elaine Straßer, Early Career Ocean Professional, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
▪ 1:56:25 – Claire Jolly, Head STI Ocean Economy Group, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
▪ 2:02:55 – Craig James Donlon, Head of the Earth Surfaces & Interior Section in the Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency (ESA).
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16 Nations 53 partners and more than aund of people involved four years of concentrated work and collaboration is coming to well not an end but to a final step we’d like to share results today so welcome to the USC high level Symposium on Ocean observing and forecasting here
In Paris and of course on the screens following the live stream all over the globe good morning I might quickly introduce myself my name is Christine Rea I’m from Germany I live in the North and uh I’m a TV reporter so my playground is the Baltic Sea I’m
Doing a TV production for 10 years now traveling all over the Baltic Sea area and I also do host events of about climate about weather about oceans water sports so I’d love to be addressed as an ocean ambass bassador and this is why I love to be here I’m not a scientist my
Kind of ocean observation is going for a swim every day all year round so I hope to learn from you today because the more I learn the more I see every day I go in the water and uh today I only had a cold
Shower so I learn a lot I think and I’m really hope I can lead you through the day in a good way please don’t blame me if I get some shortens or some name wrong it’s really hard to follow all the institutes but it’s an honor to be here
Today thank you very much and now I’d like to address the first Speaker On Stage who is a long-term supporter of ocean observation and he knows this building quite well I guess please welcome the executive secretary of ioc and assistant director general of UNESCO Vladimir rabinin thank you very much Christine uh
You know according to your uh explanation I think my talk should be organized in such a way that you would understand everything in it so uh and I will really try to do no no no kind of long sentences uh so let me just start that presentation somehow that is also I’m
Technically challenged I used to be a mathematician but now I a bureaucrat so it’s quite difficult so you know this is your slide this is not me but I just added one word here the word is inspiration on top of aspirations and that is very important for us I think
And what I see in this room I have a lot of friends here there is ispir inspiration I I feel it so now um let me because I welcome to unesa I welcome you to I and uh on this slide you will see how I is evolving it was founded in 1960
By 40 member states now we have 15 member states I know that this number will grow uh but also there is an evolution previous L it was the platform for basically talking between uh oceanographers from different political systems now you know this slide this anthropos scene there is exponential
Growth of so many uh parameters that uh basically determine the future of our uh civilization and then I also has to evolve now we are turning into governmental platform in the United Nations system for addressing the ocean Dimension ocean science dimension of those issues it’s a very important thing
You know and this requires a lot of work actually um uh very very heavy slide I didn’t promise I promise no no words uh well these are all acronyms which I hate but at the same time each acronym stands for something really really big tost is
Looking at me and this is goose just one acronym four letters there but this is huge work and then I can repeat how we can work we have to do ocean observations we have to do ocean research we have to exchange data generate realtime Services we have to generate data information for
Assessments this information goes into managing the ocean and the center of this is capacity development leaving no one behind so this is how our you operates through through different different elements of it work but you know the dream that I haven’t yet fully implemented being executive secretary
For 8 years is that the whole thing works as a value chain still we need to do more in that particular area now uh UNESCO is a part of United Nations system uh you all know that in 2015 United General Assembly adopted the agenda of sustainable development with
Sustainable development goal 14 on the ocean during that not everyone knows but during that assembly already the first draft of the world ocean assessment was presented a thousand page document then it was published in 2016 um and you know if you try to formulate actually there is no phrase
Like this it’s not a quote but if you wish to formulate uh uh summarize the whole document it’s just one phrase the phrase would be humankind is running out of time to start managing the ocean sustainably so that of course is a very catchy phrase but you need we all need
To understand what does it mean to uh what what it means to to manage the ocean so in that sense um this is just my view of of of the ocean management it may be not complete it may be uh missing some some parts but you know we have to
Do coastal zone management more and more we we move offshore through Maritime special planning and at the beginning of this Century we had May three to five countries that knew what it was now we have more than 100 countries that uh have MSP in one way or another we have
To protect the ocean through Marine protected areas managing large marine ecosystems still we have big uh legal advances in that area but practically it’s not yet a done deal so then we have realtime Services we have definitely uh adaptation mitigation of climate change development of policies so many things
Including uh Warning Systems capacity development so that is the these are the components but for me the most important thing in that sense we have to move to sustainable ocean planning and management that is based on science that is climate smart biodiversity oriented is contributing to Ocean economy so now
Let me very briefly present to you three assessments that we did in 2017 2020 2022 so uh they are complimentary to many important assessments that are happening here uh I would like to just uh present to you the most important for me uh conclusions from from those assessments 2017 that is the assessment
Of the global oceans uh called Global ocean science report so it’s not scientific report this report about the state of ocean science so you you you see this ugly map of the world and the the it was constructed by uh increasing or decreasing the areas of countries according to the number of Publications
In English and you will see that there are three centers of power in the world this is Europe This is North America and this is uh Eastern Asia plus uh Australia but you know definitely Africa is not on the map so that is I think the most important and striking feature how
Uneven is the capacity in ocean science then in 2020 we published the second edition of of the same report there are many conclusions that it’s quite useful report this report is used uh by United Nations to see how we support ocean science how it is developing so basically um ocean science and and
Dispersion is quite great there but ocean science is only funded at 1.7% globally of the global expenditures on research and development you know if we generate uh in the ocean trillions if we spend on Ocean observations billions then um I have to say also in the coordination of of those things we spend
Millions every time is kind of three orders of magnitude less so then the the report which is called this is pilot report um uh state of the ocean this already about the state of the ocean and I hope very much that the next editions of this report will be speaking not
About the what is happening in the ocean but also how we manage the ocean so in that sense uh um I was working with with the team and our common conclusion on the exe in the executive summary is that Society more or less understands we more or less understand what are the issues
In the ocean but we don’t have reliable benchmarks and our knowledge is mostly qualitative than quantitative not allowing efficient action so that’s the the message for everyone we have really increase the investment in ocean science and focus it so we can start manage the ocean on the basis of quantitive information
So and this uh takes us to the idea of ocean decade you know uh the environment the ocean I my my family is a bit medical so I have a medical view on this so uh you know ocean is sick and ocean is sick with many diseases and the ocean
Is treated by good doctors each doctor is treating one or two diseases and the Do Not doctors do not speak to each other we need to cure the patient rather treat the disease so in that sense we need consolidation of ocean science and that is one of the things that the
Decade is going to achieve for us uh moving forward I thec work the global ocean observing work work in many regions of the world so we need to achieve certain qualities of the ocean I specifically highlighted here in color um that we need to be inspired and
Engaged this is what what moves us forward we need to work in several areas observations climate change ocean economy are those challenges in which we have to to focus our work so that was the plan that was coined in 2020 presented to United Nations and they
Were happy with the plan so now the decade has turned into largest undertaking in Ocean Sciences ever 48 programs 60 countries participating in the decade and in 2016 only a few people dreamed about the decade now we have more than 3,000 organizations and 30,000 people working for the individuals
Working for the decade more than 50% of them are women so that’s that is I think a new inspiring uh public movement in ocean science and this is the ecosystem of activities there the EOS system is uh made uh according to this challenges 10 challenges you will see that ocean
Observations very close to you is basically the leader in terms of number of different activities focus on climate is very very strong um but there are some U uh parts that are lagging a little bit behind so that is what we’re trying to um kind of Level A little bit
Through different calls for action on 31st of August the fifth call for actions ended we have some ideas uh some proposals and that call was focusing on marine pollution and ecosystem Health basically trying to move up those graphs so then speaking about other ecosystem this is the ecosystem of participants
Not only scientists not only governments but a lot of people NGS philanthropists um entrepreneurs early career ocean professionals and each of them uh have to work together we developed guidelines uh best practices in in many ways focusing also on codesign so the Cod design and public movement towards the science we need for
The ocean we want is the main idea of the decade it’s moving forward because you know we don’t have a convention like wo We have basically Goodwill that unites all of us because of that we need the a public movement that takes us forward so what is going to happen in
The future so dedicate has to converge to the qualities of the ocean and there is a process that is already in place there will be leading uh thinkers in the world that will be summarizing where we are in the Decay challenges what is the missing elements what have we we we
Achieved how this all will come together I invite you to uh the milestones in in this process one of these Milestones is the decade conf in Barcelona uh 10th to 12th of April that will be basically massive stock taking of where we are in this 48 programs more than 200 projects
Then we will try to translate it to the work of United Nations through through the Preparatory conference for United Nations ocean conference in N 2025 that is going to place in Costa Rica and then one ocean science conference and fra is the one of the leaders of that
Conference that is going to precede immediately the United Nations inter governmental conference so this is also in cons system of activities a cons system of people uh but uh I would like to thank you what you for what you do we all like family you know I have three
Months before my retirement and uh you know I I have to say that happy happy time uh I I like I like uh the team and you know it’s really a team not just collection of individuals thank you so much thank you very much Vladimir Rabin thank you
As I mentioned I’m a journalist so I’m interested in science Communications and this is actually how I got to know the next speaker we’re going to have here on stage because I wanted to know more about the possibility of Citizen science and how Sailors are connecting data
Which started years ago and now well we could announce that there are more programs going up where citizens can really be involved so actually when I’m on stage with him we usually have good news to mention so we see what he has for us today you know him as the project
Coordinator of eurc and Goose co-chair please welcome from Dima helmot Center for ocean research and ke tosa [Applause] tanu thank you Christine good morning colleagues friends ladies and gentlemen it’s my pleasure to be here in front of you today and and convey a little bit of the results from the fouryear project
URC we’re all here today because in some way or another we all affected to or engage in Ocean observing and forecasting either as observers making observations making for cost or we are beneficiaries of ocean observations as a matter of fact almost everybody on this planet is the beneficiary of ocean observations
Although most people don’t even know that they are so I’m going to try to condense um and give you a little bit of flavor of what eurc has done over the last four years obviously it would be foolish to even try to condense the results of four years of work into the
10minute presentation but I give you a little bit of overview of the main areas that been working on and during the conference today we’re going to hear a little bit more of details on that particular in the afternoon during the the U breakout sessions or Round Table discussions the round table discussion
This afternoon is going to be framed by somebody from eurus giving a 10-minute presentation and followed by a panel discussion by invited guests from along the value chain on that particular topic we’re going to talk about but first of that in the morning we have many invited guests and dignitaries from Europe
Representing Nations big research Labs large programs in the Young Generation talking about different aspects of ocean observing and forecasting so it’s my pleasure now to start to you to talk to you about Euros the project talking about ocean observing and forecasting of course we have a vision
We formulated that Vision when we wrote a proposal and in a matter of fact I talked about four years but in reality it’s more like five or six years because it took a year or two to actually formulate the whole project and write the proposal and so on and we still have
A few months to go and you can read the vision here I would say that we obviously we didn’t reach that vision and nobody expected us to do that but we took some important steps towards that and we build a strong Community uh we have buil trust uh we
Know how to do this and we hope that we can find ways to continue the work towards that vision and that is one of the purpose of meeting here today to look back what we have achieved but also look forward what are the opportunities and possibilities to move
Forward so this is you see in a few numbers uh key numbers some numbers have changed slightly over the projects but basically we have a relatively large number of Partners uh we have a reasonable budget and we have delivered many deliverables um so to make the project
Broken down in kind of manageable chunks we of course divided that in work packages or task teams that work on different aspects of the ocean observing and forecasting value chain and I’m going to just give you a little bit of flavor what these teams has achieved you
During the four years the first team is about gation and governance and and one of these things that the team has supported is the development and Improvement and and strengthening of a concept the Europe European ocean observing system EOS now it’s presented a second version of the strategy implementation plan we still
Need really forces or resources to implement that but we have made a rough scale sketch on how that could look like and we urge the the the members of of this community to to move forward on on EOS we think that’s an important part of the European system we have established imos
Integrated Marine de of serving system through hard work talking to many many partners around the world and now we have established that system or at least a group that formulate the strategy and so on so I think that is on really good track we have also looked at how the
International law of the sea n Clause how that affect the ocean observing system and the truth of the matter is that Unos was written at that time when rine scientific research was almost exclusively conducted from research vessels and with the increased requirements and the new technology that
Is that is a system that we need to find a practical solution and and US Pro you know have Pro proposed a couple of solutions within the context of framework of un Clause how we can make this easier in in Europe we also worked on best practices and supported the best ocean best
Practices system this is a very important part of making measurements operations observing observations comparable and standardized and use the collective knowledge of the community to to implement these best practices any good observing system or forecasting system needs a good design and this team looked at the design of that and one of
The things that they did here they developed IND uh indicators for the ocean observing system very useful they also looked at design of of AO floats together with um the moing arrays they all looked at the ocean observing system simulation experiment ois how to optimize the the
Where you deploy your systems or Gadgets in the water to get the most information possible out on essential ocean variables of course when you have an observing system you need to do make the observations you need to have things in the water and this is what this team
Looked at integration and Improvement of observing networks and one of the things that this this team very large work package looked at was to how to improve the efficiency of eight different observing networks each of them having different Readiness level I would say and different requirements to
Improve but all of these eight networks was improved during the project we also looked at how can these networks efficiently deliver the data and metadata to the European ocean integrators but we also looked at the integration of the different networks we should not look at networks as insulated
Silos they all work there to to deliver information on essential ocean variables we we have been trying and we have started to integrate these networks but we also looked at the integration on the ocean observing system across the whole value chain in a kind of bigger
Picture and you can here and his team published a paper on that which I think was very interesting and for pro provocative how we need to change the attitudes of ocean observing to make that being more of something that we can work on together without the science budget of that and
And the the the way that we actually finance and and motivate the people in the system so that’s very important work of course once you have done the observations you need to deliver the data and the data has to go into to ass simulation system to models to provide
Information this is this team looked at and they did of course many many things and one of the things was to they assimilated data from traditional moing arrays in the tropics with gliders into models to create ass simulation and forecasting Services they also looked at uh a model Ensemble system in the
Mediteran so the first time ever we have an ensemble model system for ocean forecasting in the mediterran but we also looked at data delivery and one of the things that they team did that they have produced a new data product from Ocean B GE chemistry collected from ship
Based time series uh spots it’s called then we have three demonstrators project that integrates all activities from all these four first war packages across the value chain to tangible products and services along fre so societal benefit areas and in this particular one here look at Coastal resilience and
Operational services and one of the thing that they did here that they developed and installed lowcost efficient TI gauges um so we will hear about that later today and this T gauges was then Incorporated to existing models that were downscale and integrated with other observations to create a Services called
Ospac that we also will hear more about later today and another team looked at a prototype sea level planning tool looking at different scenario climate scenarios for the next 100 years incorporating extreme events for Coastal planners and this particular plan was done for the city of H in the
UK another team looked at Ocean Health um and if you notice these three so tily benefit areas is the ones also that the global ocean observing system has has uh defined so that team looked at developing a service for forecasting and and recording of marine extreme events not just surface temperature but
Interior temperature deoxygenation low oxygen low PH events it looked at the tailored products for aquacultures and one of the pictures here shows a moing with instrumentation in front of an aquaculture operation that team also looked at the uh how to integrate oceanographic data with Fisheries data for beneficiaries of of fishery
Management but also for for actually the industry the fishes so this is a very broad quick overview of what we’re going to hear about today and what we have done through the four years of Eur well actually I forgot about the climate of course sorry about that so
Climate is super important ocean is one of the key drivers of climate and this team looked at econom omic benefit of carbon uptake I used to say this a trillion dollar question 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide 100 EUR per ton so that’s a trillion per year but this team
Actually looked in much more detail about the benefits of that carbon uptake they have developed indicators for climate they have they looked at different platforms for observing surface ocean carbon dioxide in the Tropic Atlantic to better quantify the outgasing or uptake in the trop atantic and some really nice results on
That and by that I would like to say that during these days we’re going to hear more about that we’re going to Galvanize the community and look forward and I also would like to point out to our website the USC website you can see the address here we have there
Posted almost 100 impact areas from us outputs from that and one more thing is that we sent out an email to all of you about the US declaration it’s a short two-page document that we can take home from this conference and put in in in front of our funders governments you know whatever
And uh they I got some comments and we made a new version of that that you in the afternoon should be able to download also from the website on the news section and and in the end of the conference we can then all agreed to this declaration so uh thank you and
Enjoy the symposium thank you TOA on next keynote will be held by a woman who connects science and politics she helps to make sure that qualified data will be provided to create a digital twin of our oceans why because it has an impact on political decisions as a policy officer of European
Commission DG Mara she works in coordinating issues of marine knowledge mainly the management of the European Marine observation and Data Network the development of the ocean observation initiative and the European digital twin of the ocean please welcome Zoe Constantino thank you um when digim Mario was invited to give the keynote to
The UDC Symposium uh sorry yes thank you um I was a little bit uncomfortable with the term keynote to give a keynote to a symposium of expert s requires to be an expert as well and I am not and nobody in digim Mar is we can give though the
Perspective of policy uh on Ocean observation and Marine knowledge and this is what I will aim to do today with you by for the beginning I will start to preach a little bit to the convened H the European Union has a number of policies uh and strategies and
Currently the most important of it is the green deal H where the objectives of the green deal are very much connected to Ocean observation the idea behind the green deal is to transform the way we live in Europe uh to transition in a more sustainable way of living that will
Require a lot of change in how we do business and how we live and this is very much connected in the with the aspect of the ocean uh we need a lot from the ocean in order to succeed in the green deal we need more food sustainably produced food we need more
Energy we need to take advantage of the space and the resources in a manner that will be meaningful and that is not going to be harmful anymore this is already uh a very ambitious goal difficult to achieve and at the same time it cannot be achieved without knowledge uh it cannot be achieved
Without deep and multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary Marine knowledge and the base of the Marine knowledge is is ocean observation and this is where I start preaching to the convened we need this Marine knowledge we need this observation to manage better our systems to develop more sustainable policies to
Convince policy makers to invol to to uh invest in more Sustainable Solutions to improve forecasting to build better aquaculture Farms to build better Fisheries policies to build better tourism and energy policies we needed to go out of the box that we’re currently operating towards a more sustainable uh
Way of living H at the same time we collect a lot of observation in Europe and we do this to support a number of policies that have been created uh from uh from the members of the European Union and in the slide you can see some
Of them uh that are requiring a lot of observing capacity from the member states at the Marine strategy framework directly the water framework directive the marine Special planning directive and the European commission supports the uh development of ocean observation actions uh towards uh the um the collection of data for to support
These policies but at the same time sorry uh it supports a number of actions that are complementary to what the member states do torts this work and this complementary work has to do with our key networks and our key initiatives and services that are collector and distribute data like cernus marine and
Uh emotet they have to do with the the multiple Marine research infrastructures and not only Marine research infrastructures that are providing observation and data towards this direction and the projects like URC that produce this excellent kind excellent kind of science that can uh take us forward nevertheless there are still a
Lot of problems the landscape is still very fragmented I don’t have the hang of it sorry dig Mar realized at some point that there are multiple coordination uh problems in Ocean observation around Europe This coordination problems are coming in the level of governments and and in the member states and and they
Include multiple aspects there isn’t uh the planning is not uh uh transparent enough uh uh there isn’t enough planning in advance for ocean observation uh there isn’t enough sharing of infrastructure there isn’t enough sharing of resources we don’t know where uh the observations end up uh we know that the funding is precarious
And not stable we know that uh there is effort that could be shared that currently is not shared we also understand what are the reasons behind this it’s quite difficult in the everyday life of administration to put down time in order to do this coordination if you’re not made to a
It’s difficult because it requires resources that sometimes they are not available but it’s also difficult because it sometimes require knowledge that is not available in what your neighbors are planning and what your colleagues are planning uh so there are multiple challenges there that we need to overcome
Somehow this this is why some years ago digimar decided to announce the ocean observation initiative that you have heard many times about and the idea behind the ocean observation initiative is to put a frame of collaboration for ocean observation around Europe the idea is to increase transparency by allowing
The uh the people that observe that are coming from different areas uh of expertise and uh uh profession to to know in a more transparent and coherent uh manner what is happening around Europe regarding ocean observation not only regarding physical and biog geochemical oceanography but around everything we want to know who is
Observing why are they observing where they are observing how for what reasons and we we want that this information is is shared in a manner that will not always require exchange of data but it will allow for synergies it will allow for collaborations H it will allow uh for a
Better transparency of what is invested in European ocean observation and how this is uh being taken advantage of now the difficult part of this talk is me explaining the state of plate the of play of this initiative which I have been asked multiple times for uh so the the current discussions are
Ongoing and this is what I’m here to say and I’m here also to say that digimar and the European commission have a very steady commitment towards the sustainability of oan observation in Europe and towards the better organization uh of ocean observation in Europe This is obvious for what we do in
The legislative and in funding domain and I understand that it’s not enough and I understand that it moves slowly but nevertheless it move moves forward and we hope that this is enough to keep the discussion going and to create the institutional capacity that is necessary H uh to support the
Coordination of ocean observation in Europe we are not starting from from from zero and we know this already there is already a there are already multiple networks of collaboration and you’re part to most of them uh in the international and the European level uh and you have identified the same
Problems that we have identified in the European commission but the question here is how do we go forward to achieve this better coordination um my reply to this is that be besides the institutional capacities that we need to provide to the European ocean observation system we also need to work
Together H I had uh the time and the opportunity to go through some of the URC project wonderful deliverables and I have identified some areas that I think that are very important in this collaboration one of them that I think that is key is quantifying the value of
Ocean observation for society in a manner that is meaning ful for policy makers in the European level and in the member state level and this will require a lot of coordinated works not only from the sence it’s a transdisciplinary work that doesn’t go only from the side of
Science but also from the side of policy in order to see what information is going to be convincing enough another part that we should work on is a a multi-stakeholder collaboration and and this link between science and policy interface that will make the importance of ocean observation more um clear to multiple
Level of uh policy makers again both in the European and in the National level and in the National level in a very transdisciplinary manner between different Ministries that sometimes we don’t include in the discussions I want to close this short introduction ction uh with a number of
Open questions on how we coordinate the existing coordinations first of all for me it is uh clear that the volunteering the voluntary efforts that we do until now in the European and in the global level H are very important and very crucial but if they haven’t reached their
Potential they’re going to reach it at some point so institutional capacity of the European ocean observing system it’s quite important for for this to go forward H we do understand that we need to find a common way to report on Ocean observation around Europe to start with
And hoping that this is going to be a best practice that we can export at some point in order to create this kind of observation reporting we need to include to the discussion the people that we haven’t included until until now and that are coming as observers from public
Administration funders or managers of observation that are not the researchers that we usually speak with that are not the physical and biochemical sonographers that go beyond that between us we exchange quite a lot and quite quite productively but we need to go forward and engage the other people and
Create reporting templates that will are are going to be also uh uh good for them able that they that they’re going to be able to use them and that they’re going to be able to provide us with information that is extremely necessary the other part is that we need to continue working into
The coordination of our research infrastructures and our knowledge creators and we need to create umbrella organization an umbrella organization some umbrella organizations we will see I would say one that is going to be responsible for this institutional coordination of ocean observation around Europe nevertheless in the creation of this we should take
Advantage of what we already have we have multiple structures this is a fascinating and very crowded landscape we have to clear our roles in this landscape and make sure that we move forward in a collaborative manner taking advantage of what has been already done thank you forward is the key word thank you
Zoe Constantino thank you very much I might have mentioned earlier um that I’m honored to be here today and when I prepared uh the speaker introductions I realized that we do have the leaders of the biggest and most important Marine institutes gathered here today and that feels kind of Mo uh motivational
Actually to see that we are going to share your knowledge here today but also good with Zoe just mentioned that we need to spread the world also out of this room but this is also why we’re streaming live I hope a lot of people are watching this so let’s head into the
Next one and a half hours to hear your success stories possible and necessary steps forward there’s the word again so let’s say host country first we will start with a French speaker today coming from the biggest Marine Research Institute in France please welcome the president and CEO of ifir Fran
O good morning thank you for the introduction um didn’t prepare any slide because I think I have to to be short uh first thing I wanted to say that at we are proud of being part of this euroc project uh we contributed not only to data integration and reinforcing the the
Network but also uh using um and focusing on the use of Argo to improve our understanding of the carbon cycle so I uh I really appreciate that what we did and the opportunity to do work in this Euros project um first thing I wanted to say was brilliantly presented
By Vladimir I will not insist on the on on how our future depends on the ocean it was clearly stated what is maybe new in this 2023 year is that probably we collectively better understand that the changes that occur are accelerating we had these eat waves this summer in the
Mediteran in in the North Atlantic um and I I think there is a a strong understanding or strong understanding of the of the urgency should have been there before but well uh uh better acknowledgement of what happens uh in this context and I think it was also clearly demonstrated by Vladimir uh
There is a need to better understand and understand for protecting the ocean and and this need is better recognized at highest political levels uh you mentioned Vladimir a lot of fora events that happened um last year in France there was this one ocean Summit that took place in breast um there is
This European mission on restoring our ocean and Waters uh there’s this un un decade of ocean sence for sustainable development and in this context Vladimir said it we have been tasked and when I say we it’s not only epir it’s we in that case it’s Cs and E we have been
Tasked to organize this one ocean science conference uh just before Uno 3 in June 2025 and I think this is a a clear sign from the political leaders that they they want to have science and knowledge somehow closely associated to their decisions and and this is the message
They want us to to to to convey and this is what we have to build um I cannot give you more information at this stage about this one ocean science conference uh sen and have been working with the um with the intergovernmental commission for the ocean uh and with UNESCO we are working
Also with a lot of other organizations we will issue a call for communications at the beginning of 2024 this is our Target and we will expect contributions and Communications from those who have been participating to EUR I think observation will be a part but only a part of course of this
One ocean science conference that will take place in this in June um in the context uh that has been presented by other speakers uh it’s clear that uh systematic and long-term ocean observations are more than ever required to understand predict adapt to climate change uh and for sustainable
Management of of the ocean of its resources um maybe one point I would like to insist on is that um I think it was stated by zoi um our political leaders when I have the opportunity to meet them the policy makers but also the policy implementers but also the NGS and the private
Companies are calling for more ocean data they are also calling for more open and shared data and information and they are calling for more operational information that they can use um we are good in science uh I include myself in that in producing data uh we are probably not always that good in
Producing data that is that can be um that is palatable for for those who are the users I think this is something that was in the goals of UR but I think this is something that is still important um and well uh I wanted to insist on that
Point um one other message I wanted to uh before coming to the small French perspective that I wanted to insist on is that um uh the development and the maintenance of a fit for purpose ocean observing system is highly challenging as I think it was said by Zoe and I’m
Very sure that Ed would also say the same thing um it’s challenging in two directions on the side it needs International collaboration but it needs also strong National collaboration because this is where the observation take place and I we come back to that just after and it also requires
Sustained funding and sustain funding for different things for the research there is some uh for the the development of new techniques new algorithms new methods new sensors but also for ensuring their operationality of observation not only for developing new things for for our science which is dear
To my heart but also for for making it this operational and I feel that there is still there are still some gaps when I look at the French situation not speaking of a broader situation regarding the the French perspective um observation is ocean observation is very important for the
The French research organizations not only for E it’s true for for Senor it’s true for M France for other National research organizations it’s also true for the French universities who are very often part of of projects uh so this is something important so we play I feel
Quite an important role in this domain we are contributing to Goose we are contributing to EU and to the European Mar Marine research infrastructures which are very important important um when I look to the French ocean observation research infrastructures that we do have um When I Look to Argo
When I Look to MSO regard for deep sea observation and water column When I Look to what we call Eno for Coastal observation which is part of Jericho at the European level uh I feel that we are covering a wide spectrum of of of types of observation from physics to biology
From Open Sea to coastal zone from the surface to the uh deep ocean um I would also like to remind you that all these observation also highly depend on on the fleet uh that we do have the research Fleet and also they do very much depend
On the link we have with the uh satellite observation uh in France with with KES and they also if we look at the value chain from data to information and services they do depend on the links that we have been able to establish with Merc o International so we have quite a
A large number of organizations um and just to give you an idea about the funding uh or the costs onethird of our budget at if onethird is dedicated to the fleet which is open to the whole French scientific community and to the observation research infrastructures oneir dedicated to infrastructures into
Observation that’s an idea of of the cost and importance of that um but to further develop the coordination at National level we have decided in France that these different research infrastructures would be somehow better coordinated uh and we have we are in the process along with CIS and the other
Organizations including the universities we are in the process of establishing what we call the fru the French observation ocean observ observing system um the nice thing about FR is that when you translate it into French well there is joke there but I will tell you later so we are very much uh in
Favor of of um developing that that coordination system so that all these observation systems are integrated and articulated with each other so with that I wanted to just well congratulate those who have organized this meeting and also who have lead LED this project and and and convey again the importance that we
Are uh we attached to to this observation and to the value chain that is attached to from the observation to the services that can be delivered at the end thank you thank you fr the next speaker was one of the first Spanish scientists involved in euroc
Today he works as the Director of the Spanish Institute of oceanography IO which operates an ambitious observational program of the Marine ecosystem in Spanish Waters to provide scientific reference for decisions on the marine ecosystems by the central government please welcome kavi Rus thank you for the introduction thank
You to the organizers and the consortion thank you to the audience for giving me the opportunity to share and I was asked to share this what what is the role how can observations in science to uh provide services for the making of decision at the Spanish state and it’s I
Must say in this regard that in my Institute which is more than one century years old we started the observations more than one century uh 100 years old and I think this is shed by all institution as soon as as the living resources by the society was
Started to understand that uh they need you need to manage in a rational way first observations it started with the uh fishing resources and it’s something that we also feel when uh we interact with other countries that want to somehow exchange with us the KN how that
We have in our observations the first thing they want to do is to implement a systematic high quality observation of the future resources this is a kind of first wave in the system of observation the second wave we established in The Institute was in in the ’90s more than
30 years ago and it was implemented when all the issues related to climate change the society started to understand that this will be a problem for the society and then we establish a system for doing these observations along the Spanish uh Waters still alive and we hope to keep
It in the in the future and then the third wave that we are involved now has been triggered by some of the elements the member of the commission presented in a former talk is the new policy that also come from the perception of the society that new elements have to be
Taken into account when making decisions and I’m talking of good environmental statute biodiversity ecosystem preservations and how they they transform into policies like uh the Marine strategic framework uh policy or the Marine spatial planning policy they become policies that Force the states and us as part of the European Union to
Establish observation system and this third wave is that we are implementing in this year um is more connected to elements of the ecosystem which are not so easy to establish systematic observation I’m talking for instance of biodiversity in deep waters on venic ecosystem venic FAA from Rocky sth
Bottom from the line Shore to deep Waters we are involved now in a very ambitious program to make systematic observations of this elements of the ecosystem and they are being used already for the making of decisions at the Spanish state and we also hope that this will
Become uh data for the future generation of scientist to understand better better how the ecosystem is functioning and as I said before these observations are already the backbone for the making of decision by the Spanish state and The Institute has this legal mandate to provide the scientific uh knowledge Whenever there
Is an action on the Marine territory there has to be a scientific assessment a scientific uh study of what will be the consequences of this action and these systems of observation is the backbone for making this scientific assessment and provided this assessment to the state and as you know the sea
Territory now and has always been a territory of conflicting interest it has always and the history of humankind has always been an area of strong disputes and it’s the the same case now and in this sense the observation the quality and resolution of the observation are critical for when you
Provide this statement the science really become an objective frame that can be helpful to the resolution of these disputes and this is where where theoretical Concepts like nuid frequency carrying capacity resolution they do not more become theoretical concept they become the basis where companies can
Grow or decline jobs can grow or can be lost on the basis of the uh scientific advice that is provided and this makes critical that uh the picture that we as scientists provide for this assessment is of high quality high resolution and as neat as possible
Because we offer a picture that is not neat enough in an arena of conflict each of the stakeholders will make an interpretation of the pictures that is according to their own interest so obervation and critical to provide this very neat picture so you delete the less feasible space to the interpretation by
The stakeholders and that is why this concept the quality of the picture the image that we provide for the assessment is so important and this is why it’s so important when these big policies become in decisions exact detail decisions to have a very high resolution high quality relevant it was mentioned before
Relevant it’s not always the scientific curiosity is what is necessary to to to to deal with the problem with is necessary and when this uh clear picture is provided the decision makers they have to follow the scientific advice it’s better for them to follow the scientific advice and it’s very very
Rare and this is my experience this very rare unless andless every day they do not follow the scientific assessment if you provide a a high quality relevant rigorous independent scientific pictures and this is what I wanted to share the experience I wanted to share with you and thank you again for for providing
This me this opportunity thanks thank you very much kavier our next speaker comes with good news firsthand because the UK is not part of the U anymore but still the country stays an Associated country in projects like Euros since decades he pushes the global development of ocean observations
Weather and climate predictions and he says we now need to combine the Technologies with political action and also find new ways of sustainable financing please welcome the director of the national oceanography Center in Southampton Ed Hill thank you very much for that introduction and thank you to the
Organizers for inviting me uh to participate uh today it’s a pleasure to be here and I’m pleased that the uh National oceanography Center in the UK was uh able to be a partner in eures where we specialize particularly uh in the issue of sea level observations ocean uh observations are
Are the foundation of a value chain of data and information which serves multiple users for making decisions but also for advancing scientific knowledge and understanding of the ocean technological innovation has been making rapid uh process progress in making possible uh the global and Regional infrastructures that enable continuous uh sustained ocean observations to
Possible technological development is no longer the critical limiting factor in the rate of progress which now is moving more into questions around political will uh clear governance prioritization and finding sustainable business models to finance uh ocean observations as large Global and Regional infrastructures the role of science has
Got multiple uh uh um uh contributions across this endeavor from informing the design of observations uh and well constructed advice and and evidence but science itself is also a key user of ocean observations for the purpose and motivation of advancing knowledge and understanding of our rapidly changing
Ocean indeed in the areas of the ocean Beyond national jurisdiction scientific funding agencies together with national met services are the primary in fact really the only funders of sustained ocean observations and this funding is primarily delivered at National level and so I wanted to say a few words about
What has been happening in the United Kingdom uh by the UK’s main science funding agency UK research and Innovation particularly around environmental science funding which covers uh that in relation to the ocean firstly ukri has been investing uh very significantly in capital and developing the Technologies uh particularly for
Autonomous sensing of continuous uh ocean and environmental observations secondly it is has began a major program called future Marine research infrastructures looking at the question in the decade 2030 through 2040 about what future infrastructure will look like uh to support Marine research what will be the mix of ships
And autonomous uh vehicles and other sensing platforms that will make ocean observations possible and how will the way in which they interact change what implications does it have has for the design of future ships but also what implications has it got for the design of observing uh systems and what are the
Big science questions that they need to address thirdly uh I’ve talked about how we need to treat observations as an infrastructure and indeed ukri has uh a line of funding which it has been continuing to develop and indeed grow uh which support support research infrastructures including things like
Ships and aircraft but also the data management systems and crucially some of the sustained ocean observations themselves indeed it’s a line of funding which uh is well over 150 million EUR per year at the moment just of the operating costs not including Capital but the organization within ukri
That supports has decided that that cannot grow indefinitely and has capped it at no more than 40% of the total science spend for environmental sciences and that has led to a question which is how that investment should be prioritized for future growth in that funding line for contraction should that
Be necessary but also how to take new observations that have been developed under Project funding to make them sustainable and to bring them into the funding of long-term infrastructure and how to better connect uh the ongoing operational costs with the capital investment such that it’s joined up and so uh the national
Oceanography center LED a project for UK research and Innovation called UK sustained ocean observation prioritization in which we consulted with our science Community engaged an International Panel of experts and reviewed the international scene around developing some of the methodology and process to prioritize ocean observations that need to be
Sustained we developed criteria around the need for ocean observations what was driving it the effectiveness of those observations in meeting the articulated needs and also developing an understanding of the relative costs such that a matrix could be developed to prioritize uh observations so that project has been completed and is now playing through
Into the funding uh situation for observations and the results of that program are now in the public domain I cited here as an example of an issue that I think we all will need to go through both at National but also at International level to understand as we
Develop and grow our ability to do ocean observations how do we really prioritize what is most important from the point of view of Science of users and how do we make uh the difficult and informed choices of the shape of the exciting new ocean observation infrastructures available for the future thank you for
Your attention thank you very much etel now I’d like to introduce someone I also know quite well because we meet on stages and panels at home once in a while she unfortunately can’t be here today but she sent us a s she sent us a video message from G helmot Center for
Ocean research in K the director Kya Mattis ladies and gentlemen dear colleagues warmest greetings from Keel in the very north of Germany I thank you very much for the opportunity to address you at the Euros Symposium on Ocean observing and forecasting I would have been very interested to join and interact with you
In person but other commitments made it impossible for me to travel to Paris ocean observation is a key element and the basis of our work at geomar hamal Center for ocean research k to better understand the ocean and the climate system and to safeguard the ocean and its vitally important
Functions for future Generations we need to constantly feel the pulse of the ocean we also need to monitor changes in response to our human impact on the ocean to Foster collaborations between research policy and economy and to jointly address pressing challenges geomar established a knowledge and Technology transfer unit our mission
Also motivated us to coordinate the Euros project and I’m hugely grateful for tosa tena’s commitment and enthusiasm as the project coordinator supported by Nico kustner and many others and of course the efforts of all of you for the ocean research community and especially when it comes to Ocean observation two long-standing
Initiatives stand out for gomar firstly the cap verie ocean Observatory of about 100 kilm Northeast of Cape verie established in 2006 Cape verie is a leading small island development State and hosts an outpost of geomar in the tropical Atlantic and second our infrastructure in the North Atlantic the laborador sea since
1997 this part of the Atlantic is the L of the ocean where oxygen from the atmosphere enters the deepest layers of the ocean these two gomar Investments provide Society with crucial data to understand how human induced climate change and global warming alter the ocean and its functions and to estimate
What effects this has on our lives and livelihoods the very positive development of these infrastructures shows what ensures a success of sustainable ocean observation collaboration and National on National and international level sharing data according to the fair principle and following joint standard operating procedures to make this information
Usable for everyone both within and outside the scientific Community another Focus area of Dumar is on collaborations with the industry I give you some examples we’re leading and supporting the development of measuring devices and help to make them ready for commercial use we are coordinating an innovation
Platform called soup shaping an ocean of opportunity for industry science collaboration to support the development of easy to use inexpensive and fit forp purpose instruments that can be used by a variety of actors on Merchant ships sailing yards and other non-scientific Platforms in an effort to boost our ocean observing
Capability you all know very well that reaching a truly integrated and sustainable European and global ocean observing and forecasting National and international initiatives require long-term coordination and Leadership projects like atlantos and its follow-up project Euros that brought you together today show how important a coordinated approach is to improve and
Better integrate ocean observing and forecasting in Europe and worldwide on the long term ladies and gentlemen it is time to make the next step it is time to make the move from short-term funding to long-term funding and provide coordinative structures like the European ocean observing system EOS with
A financial support to keep up with a fast pace of developments in our world in this sense I wish you a very successful meeting and thank you for your attention Kya mates well the she mentioned the European importance but we also want to go a little overse
And with the next speaker he has actually the advantage to share two coastlines of two different oceans and maybe that’s why his scientific concern goes into the direction of water level measurements please welcome the director of The Institute inves marinas EAS inar from colia Francisco Aras welcome thank you very much and thanks
For the invitation I’m very proud to be here and Outsider I come from uh uh South America Colombia and um how has been our participation in OS that’s uh something that it’s very interesting because um our Institute and I will talk a little bit about inbar it’s um the Colombian marine coastal Research
Institute we are part of the ministry of environment and our purpose in life is to provide knowledge to make good decisions about the oceans we’re not a longterm institution not like Spanish 100 years old and some others around here uh actually we are only uh about 25
Years old since we are part of the ministry we used to be before a small research station for marine biology located in Santa Marta in the Caribbean Sea but today with responsibilities both in the Caribbean and the Pacific coast of Colombia so the main purpose of our activity is to provide knowledge to
Decision makers and when we talk about decision makers we talk about the government Private Industry General Society so uh it’s a huge huge Challenge and we are just starting to uh know a little bit around what we have in our oceans from that sense uh our participation with ly as an observer has
Been very fruitful we’ve learned from the activities that EUR oan has been developing we’ve learned of the challenges the issues that we have to deal with coordination and this has uh helped us in to refine uh first a national system for observation of the ocean uh which is
Uh what I’m talk going to talk about the success story which is called uh red Cam in Spanish for Red theia ambiental Marina it’s a national network for the observation of the Marine quality in our coasts mainly in our Coast we are not uh uh still ocean bound as we hoped that
It’s be uh in in in the development but we have reached some major steps uh first of all was to understand the diversity of our ocean system we have the Caribbean we have the Pacific in just general terms we have a just to tell you a little bit on caribbian Ocean
We have a 30 cm mean Tide while in the Pacific it’s 5 m we have a uh precipitation of around 800 mm a year in the Caribbean so most of the coast is dry and the Pacific it’s 8,000 mm of precipitation over year so we have a
Huge diversity in terms of ecosystems in terms of uh what we have in our coast and of course resources and most important the uh great cultural and ethnical values that we have along the coast so we started to find out what was the way of going from this site where we
Are located in Santa Marta to cover the 1300 um linear Kil in the Pacific and 1600 linear kilom in the Caribbean the islands in the middle of the Caribbean Ocean uh West Caribbean Ocean and so we developed a Cooperative system with the local environmental authorities uh most of them didn’t have
The capacity the trained people the equipment to make their observations so we started a program in establishing very basic observation systems beginning with oxygen pH salinity the very very basic uh observations that was 22 years ago and we start to scale and uh from what we learn from our cooperation activities
Into different um let’s say fields of observation along the coast after 22 years we have today 350 stations that are being observed depending on the uh parameters uh every week every month every six months we are covering almost 30 parameters in waters sediments and biota uh focusing on those that present
Major risk in our coasts uh like heavy metals hydrocarbons pesticides uh so 30 of them and um we have a joined today around or gathered to around of 1 million observations that are and and this is important part of it these observations are publicly offered to anybody who wants to take uh this
Information for their purposes our main user of course is environmental system of Colombia we provide them with the information to make decisions if there’s a risk for instance in the pollution in beaches so we immediately raise our flags and tell the municipalities and envir and environmental agencies to
Close the beach or take the actions and uh other purposes that we have served which has been very interesting is to provide the support to the Judiciary System when we have uh some human provoking disasters in the past we couldn’t tell what was the state of the uh environment so people doing
Bad things would go away with their bad uh doings now we have the information so we can actually help the judges to make decisions and to fine and sometimes even to take people into jail so this is a general perspective of what we have in terms of what we have developed um
Through here through this we have um U Been part of a number of inter ational activities especially those related with ioc We Are The Institute that provides the ocean teacher Academy for hispan americ and within that we focused in the uh capacitive development in the region
For ocean observing uh being part of uh Goose uh obies OTG the oan um training capacities that we have we have shared that with our neighbors and IOD so we are not only uh developing our capacities but also providing our experience and our knowledge to our neighbor countries and that’s been very
Important and just to finish I will be U telling you about a recent development that we have for the region with the support of the international Atomic agency we started to build upon what we learned from uh um the national network with red Cam something that is called
Remar it’s a network of observations that it’s uh improving using nuclear science um which has been uh very interesting in in terms of capacity development in terms of the possibilities of these nuclear techniques to observe the the problems on the ocean and um that will be um
Coordinated by The Institute for for the region so uh we learned from OC SE a number of things uh the same challenges that you have uh faced we are facing that also in our region um and I wanted to show a map on the uh amount of observations that we
Have in the North and the of observations that we have in the South and I believe that’s one of the challenges that we um tried from our perspective to put into the decade loan science and the need of cooperation uh from north to south to fill the gaps in observations which is
Absolutely necessary to understand and to develop the strategies for the ocean we want uh and the future of of all us mankind so thank you very much and um honor to be here thank franisco Aras thank you very much we’re coming back to Europe going a bit
South on the map of the participants of the eurc project and when I Googled her I found her as part of the reuter’s hot list of the world’s top clim climate scientist sounds cool right unfortunately she can’t be here today because she’s sick but she SS a video to
Us please welcome the video actually of the director of isar and president of COI Rosalia sanoi good morning I am very sorry not to be with you in person today but I would like to contribute the conference so I decide to record this message sound knowledge and understanding of the ocean is essential
To mitigate the human impact on the global environment and to to promote the oan sustainable use and blue economy this is a priority for Italy F ocean management depends on Marine observation generated by existing National Regional ocean observing systems and networks in the last two decades significant investment in Ocean observing
Infrastructure has been made by Europe and Italy actively contribute to this effort recently Italy decide to reinforce the national ocean observing system and to invest 50 million of Euros in three years to implement the Italian integrated ocean observing system the aim is to guarantee access to Italian
Facility Marin data and service and to ensure long-term monitoring of the ocean essential variable and the climate essential variable the Italian integrate ocean observing system will be Build It Up by integrating the Italian nde of the European research infrastructure the large National research infrastructure that are not part of the European
Research infrastructure with also included building a national integrated ocean observing system research infrastructure data and service will be harmonized and integrated data gaps in biological system observation will be filled key sites will be upgraded to improve acquisition biological observation at the ecosystem level by exploring both automated and new
Technologies a national Marine data center will be implemented to provide open and share access to the information and data collected by all Italian institutions the Marin data center has been decided by the Italian oceanographic Commission as a Federate system with the S single entry point that will give access to the
Data collected by Italy this will reinforce the Italian contribution to European International effort on Ocean observation in particular EOS and Goose respond to the major challenge of the ocean decade and contribute to the Mediterranean Ocean observing system this will also allow to reinforce our carabid in Ocean forecasting thank you for the
Attention maybe she’s watching live so get well soon and maybe see you at the next Symposium with Euros he worked on Ocean observation for years to strongly develop the measurement systems in Europe but also strengthen the links to the European commission as well as to the users in the different countries
Involved he was a key partner of Eur during the early days in his role as director of Euro Goose now he’s back in his Beloved Country Ireland but he’s here today the section manager oceanographic and Climate Services Marine Institute of Ireland please welcome Glenn Nolan thank you very much Kirsten and
Thank you for the invitation I brought the Irish weather at least so brought brought you a gift a gift from Ireland so I’m here today to represent uh Mick guli who’s the chief executive officer of the Marine Institute who couldn’t make it to the uh session today and he
Sends his apologies uh we’ve been building a capacity in Ocean observing in Ireland for about 25 years and I’m proud to say that I was part of that for a good chunk of those uh 25 years and we found that goose and the framework for ocean observing in particular was
Incredibly helpful as we tried to think about how we would structure uh an observing program in Ireland in particular the partitioning between realtime services ocean Health measurements and climate measurements that really helped us to think about uh how how we would approach the topic of
Going from no system at all in 1999 to a fairly well-developed system at this stage so we started with real-time measurements uh because that was where the the emphasis was Maritime safety and those kinds of applications we built a a weather Boy network which was a weather
By network but we managed to sneak some oceanographic capacity onto that Network and and buil from there so uh by measuring waves and temperature and salinity and so on uh we also then built a tide gauge Network don’t worry I’m not going to give you 25 years a history of
The Irish observing system it’s it be much more succinct than than that U ocean Health then came through the system over time uh it it helps tremendously to have things like Zoe and others presented in terms of the European directives they give a real
Boost a real shot in the arm to any uh observing program because you have this mandated need to make the measurements and through the commission and through ices and through ospar the Oslo Paris convention the directives like the Marine strategy framework directive the Marine spatial planning directive uh we
Were able to build our ocean Health observing system if you like the biological components of the observing system and the nice thing about that is that it’s a highly sustainable program so any programs around Fisheries pollution chemistry and so on they tend to be very well sustained they’re very
They’re taken very seriously uh at level and as a consequence the resources flow into those areas so that’s fantastic they also report on a cyclical nature so you can’t just let all the people go after 6 years because the reporting cycle starts again so your observing system I don’t need to tell
All of you that has to be there all the time to underpin this reporting in terms of climate the third pillar of of the goose system the unfc the framework convention it helps us a little bit uh they come in every few years and tell us
Whether we’re doing a good or a bad job in in climate observations and that helps especially if they tell us we’re doing a bad job because then we can make a case for more resources to to fund the climate observations uh so that that has but the
Main thing that has really improved our capacity to make climate observations is very strong National legislation in the climate area we have climate action plans now where we have to cut our greenhouse gas emissions we have to measure essential ocean variables and so on and most of the resourcing discussion
That we have around climate observations is framed around the essential ocean variables so thank you Goose for the eovs that really helps things that it doesn’t stop there we have to build understanding and evidence on the back of those essential ocean variables so that adaptation can take place in
Different sectors of the economy so that’s really the hook is that you’re doing this so the sectors can adapt to climate change uh Fran iier mentions the research infrastructures and others mentioned them as well M so Euro Argo Euro fleets really really important in terms of getting our house in order so
To speak you know to really think about standards think about collaboration think about sharing transnational access and so on with other countries so the research infrastructures have really helped us in that respect now tosa would would be very crossed at me if we didn’t say something about urac and how fantastic the project
Uh has been so it’s been a key program for Ireland and I just like to uh uh compliment my my colleague Caroline kusac who led all of our participation in the in the EUR project she did a fantastic job on uh hats off to Caroline
For all all the work that she did um so two very nice things about urac is that it helped us develop the European ocean observing system so it provided the again the shot in the arm to really deliver some of the elements of the European ocean observing system euse the
Other thing that allow it allowed us to do was develop applications in in particular areas and I thought this was a a little bit strange when Caroline came to me and said Ireland’s part in this major project is going to be around Marine heat waves or at least one of our
Parts was going to be around Marine heat waves and I said Marine heat waves they’ll never catch on this is Ireland we would never have to think about these things until we had a marine Heat Wave this year that was 4.4 de above the long-term mean and there was a media
Circus around this for about 2 months and thankfully because Carolina colleagues and many others in OS had done the ground workor we were prepared for this we were prepared to doal with the media to try to explain the difference between weather and climate short-term events and long-term events
Having this capacity really helped us do that and urac really got us to the point where where we could do that and it had an interesting flip side when we showed this to our fishery scientist the Heatwave product that was developed they said actually we’re really interested in
The blue Peaks at the bottom of the Heatwave curve that show when are key periods for fisheries and recruitment into Fisheries so so it had a double a double benefit if you like so the future just to say something briefly about the future the national focal points of
Goose are fantastic I mean they are amazing and I met vanat van catson earlier at the coffee break and he told me that the national focal points in Goose had gone from 33 back in about 2015 or 2014 to 76 now and I would say a
Lot of that that means 76 countries have a focal point in Ocean observation represented in the ioc system and I think a lot of that is down to good work of people like venat the goose region alliances Vladimir tasta many other people so I think that if you’re looking
For a metric of success in the project that is a fantastic metric in in my mind so I just conclude by saying that member State buying into e is very very important um so please European member states continue to support the eu’s initiative the digital twin is going to
Be very important as well because it helps us Implement across the entire value chain for ocean observation so both the European and the ocean decade elements of the digital twin are really important and the key thing in my mind at least for this is to entrain users
Into into that digital twin it can’t just be an IT project with models and observations and fair principles it has to entrain users in the digital twin and Ireland stands ready to play its part in what’s coming down down the tracks and I congratulate tosta and colleagues on a
Fantastic project and wish you much success as we work together in the coming years thank you thank you very much Clen to get another overseas view on how they are going to deal with ocean observation in the future she brings good good news at least for her project but also she
Can speak in the strength anded role as an associate and partner of euroc she is with toster co-chair of Euro goose and CEO of ocean Frontier Institute from Halifax Canada please welcome Dr Ana White good morning everyone thank you for inviting me to speak today and what
A pleasure it’s been to hear over the last couple of days the amazing outputs from uracy um and as we are just launching one of Canada’s biggest ever ocean observation and research programs in the North Atlantic there’s many lessons we have to learn from urac and
I’m excited to be here to learn some of those lessons up front we’re right in the early stages of lifting a big program and to see a completed program with such um wonderful outputs is is very very inspiring so Canada remains a strong observing Nation we have experti in oce
Research across the country as many of you know and we have a strong National program in observation including for example biogeochemical Argo which has recently received a boost of funding for about 40 new floats in the Atlantic the North Atlantic Canada also supports goose and the global ocean observing
System through my role as co-chair um and also through our national observing Network and I’m very very proud that this year the Canadian integrated ocean observing system recently joined with goose as a Goose Regional Alliance and was very happy to see that and most recently became uh Canada’s
Representative to the wo G greenhouse gas study group where there’s a lot of discussion about the future of the global observing system not just in the ocean but also um in the atmosphere and on land and in how to bring those together in a rational and functional
Way so that the important role of the ocean is brought into play ultimately it’s en enormously important I think that we engage here and also with the global Greenhouse watch as it develops and that’s something that we’re watching and contributing to going forward so the largest single investment um in research
Recently by Canada has been $154 Million worth of support of the transforming climate action research program in the North Atlantic and this is a major research initiative across four Canadian universities with strong ocean research offerings that’s delaz university university laal Unity Kei and Memorial University of New Finland what’s great
About this though is that National and international Partners have pledged support of another 250 million and many of you are in the room and I thank you for your pledges to date um Noah gomar AI um many others we’ve also had great recent discussions with ukri with infr
And we’re having the first major International Workshop to bring in further Partnerships for example with France on October 26 and that’s been instigated by the French government as part of the joint Science and Technology committee commitment uh that was signed recently between Canada and France there’s also a recent uh joint agreement
Between Canada and Germany which was signed recently in Ottawa and I’m very happy to say that the transforming climate action program was on the slides from the German side as um uh reach out to bring further collaboration together so we’ve begun to discuss with our International Partners this really
Remarkable opportunity to work together in the North Atlantic and linked to this Canadian funds will now support the carbon Exemplar of the goose ocean observation codesign program I think you’ll hear more about that from Emma in a minute which SS seeks to bring stakeholders and supporters much closer to the ocean observation
Enterprise as know at delaz University engagement with Europe is historically very strong Angela Merkel visited to visit us to open the very building where I uh live and and work in I shouldn’t say live that says something about our work culture doesn’t it um in 2013 and this November the German research vessel
The Marion will visit Halifax once more and they had a recent visit to St John’s in New Finland let me just close by saying this I have been enormously impressed with what URC has accomplished we all benefit globally from the research and observation strengths that it has built and I’m hoping that with
Our new Canadian initiatives in Ocean observation and strong European collaboration we can learn from and build on that Legacy thank you thank you Anna four years ago Paris was host of a former EU project mentioned already today atlantos which ended successfully in 2019 and she thought well never change in team so
She’s one of the reasons why we are here today she is an important partner of Eur and work package leader program Specialist of goose and Inter at intergovernmental oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Emma hlop welcome so thank you very much for inviting me to speak and uh so inspiring
Also to hear from so many strong National systems because this really is the backbone of Goo of the global o observing system Goose would be nothing without the uh the input and the expertise and the commitment of all the various National Institutes and all the investment there
So what I wanted to to speak about was really um the the the URC project has been a fantastic collaboration between goo and and Europe it’s really helped lift goose and I think it’s helped um helped kind of concretize some some collective ambition and I want to like look at a a
Couple of areas there um but first of all to really say something that we all fundamentally recognize and Vladimir mentioned really at the very beginning is that uh in order to to have sustainable use of the ocean we will need the science and the data that will
Underpin this and we need to make sure that we actually get to the right the right data to to those that really need it and to feel confident about that right to have confidence that we have that ability and I want to pick out a couple of things from within the OS
Project which are very much in line with uh with goo and uh the the uh the ambition and the aspirations and the the projects at the goo level that really show how that’s working kind of in action and so the first area is really to talk about strengthening the system
And Eur really done some key work in in strengthening the ocean observing system um and I point to uh elements both in in the coordination but also down into the networks down into working on best practices on data flow on some of the technical underpinnings that uh perhaps
You don’t see but we need uh Collective ambition there to ensure that that data flows in the right way to the end users and is interoperable so one of the successes and I think uh Glenn alluded to it was was setting up within the European ocean observing system euus the
Um the panel uh the operations committee that is made up of the goose National focal points as well as the um the sustained European research infrastructures and this really is a first right it’s the first place that the goose National focal points regionally have been able to convene and
Discuss um and collect ambition and share stories about setting up national committees and and how you know share stories about the um the uh the issues at a national level and this I believe is very very important uh and I think it echoes also what uh what Zoe said this
First created a kind of a collective ambition to think about a European um ocean Ops and Reporting capabilities and things and this has partly flowed into uh a new project called amirit the another area I want to talk about as an example is the best practices and the work on changing
Culture and setting up best practices within euroc this was kind of ubiquitous but it’s also important to make sure our data are interoperable to make sure we have standards in in how we collect this it’s a it’s a global but it’s also you know it comes from uh National operators
Committing that their people will help us create these best practices and they will get recognized as as goo best practices this is you know these these helpers create the digital ecosystems of the future the other area is the lift over bioeco monitoring and this really you know uh the communities were brought
Together around seagrass around Macon algae around Z Plankton they really helped set kind of collective International ambition over what we need to achieve with these networks what we need to observe to ensure biodiversity and a and a healthy ocean and these also led to the the first bio Eco portal
Where the metadata is congregated where you can see for the first time uh the the the set of ocean observations that are available globally but also within Europe so strengthening the current system in these various areas this is it’s not one thing it’s a collective ambition to fill the gaps to ease the
Data flow to make sure that the system functions as a system and coordination is vital to that so we need to look at strengthening our system and absolutely strengthening our coordination at a Global at a regional level and at a national level so all of those levels
Are important so secondly I want to talk about really connecting to the users and again I referenced Glenn had begun and talked about that and the the Marine heat waves but I want to say that uh at a at a higher level uh we really need to
Set some uh priorities about uh our ambition for for lifting the observing system so we need to strengthen it but we also need to lift it at the same time to meet urgent societal needs and this came up in the euroc sustainability Workshop set clear priorities for
Societal benefit and this uh is is a is a clear ambition also within the goo co-design program that is selected several areas of uh clear scientific and uh societal need around Marine heat waves around ocean carbon mentioned by Anna tropical Cyclones uh storm surge other areas and this is an example of
How we could collectively work together and what I saw within Euros with these individual projects is scientists working with stakeholders and really adding value to those stakeholders really providing that value and I think if we can set some higher level Ambitions that Europe regionally could collectively adopt or adjust for those
Needs that can be adjusted at a national level we would have the ability of we would have additional the applications scientists creating these down at the local level and really implementing that but I think we have to set this ambition at a higher level this is not to say we
Will uh reduce the um observations in other areas these are already used and flowing into weather systems and into uh the the the systems uh for assessment and and various other areas uh to feed policy to feed climate decisions we need both we need to both strengthen this our
Current system and also lift this system in key societal priority areas and I think that eurc has really helped us understand how to to better achieve both of these kind of uh objectives and um yeah so I will finish there that’s what I would say thank you very much
Thank you very much Emma if it comes to the importance of ocean information for blue economy he’s the one to talk to please welcome the vice chair of the EU sustainable blue economy partnership SB Maurice eral thank you de dear colleagues I will be quite brief because we are a new baby
In a complex and complicated land Escape because the sustainable blue economy partnership has been creating one year ago what we are we are uh associations of member countries with the commission and we will work during the next seven 78 years with a budget roughly around 450 million
EUR and we are mainly uh we have a we can in our terms we have a vision the vision is about sustainable blue economy partnership towards climate neutral sustainable productive and competitive blue economy and we are working mainly on the regional SE bines and uh our main work is to publish
Call to prepare call because we replace the previous EU instruments which were the iret and um we did the first call and we are preparing the second one the call are mainly uh working at the regional SE bines and about digital twin of the oceans and including uh data
Acquisitions including new way of uh methodology and technology and uh participating also to the adito uh um model with models and editor database the second uh approach about its intervention areas it’s about um blue generations of offshore structures it’s including all the problems of the wind farms how you
Can inter integrate wind farm with hogen Productions with uh Fisheries with aquaculture and all the other uh uses it means that uh an important contribution is also about planning and managing cus and um going a bit farther to the National MSP project to a trans bordering one and how we can uh for
Examples have cerence team for marine protected areas in relation with connectivity and uh adverse uh events and uh the last domain it’s about green transition of blue food Productions it’s including Greening of the Fisheries it’s including also impact of fishies on Marine protected areas and and and also
Aquaculture and trying to push toward carbon neutrality these two sectors and um we are now expanding with some for example Brazil is joining the club and Tunisia and balcan countries are under discussions and how we can contribute and to Ocean observations and monitoring and we have a it’s just a pre
Preliminary thinking because we have two workshops next week one with the commission Services um Monday and the second one um uh I think it will be Wednesday and you will be there uh to have strong cor connection between a Ros and z and we can contribute first of
Course by with the research project the research project which are dealing by with digital twin or Marine Special planning they will contribute to the editor or or whatever uh but to uh product datas and um and um Innovative models uh in in that domain and um
We saw quite well that landscape is very fragmented and we are trying to see if there are some gaps that the member states want to uh fill and uh what are the activities that we can grant and we can deal mainly about um integrated the data including socioeconomical datas and and
Um I think that one of the of the other speaker it’s about oecd but it’s true that when you are working about scenario management of ecosystems through digital twin or through whatever the instruments could be ecosystem management you need to see the impact for example about sea level rice about tourism about Coastal
Uh cities about and the arus and all the and all these things are not well connected in terms of database the data are existing you have a data collection regulations it’s about Fisheries but Fisheries are not connected with the environment oecd about socio econom social many economic datas but with the
World Bank also and um different um met data biodiversity in the partnership biodivers place were are working on case studies to develop uh marine mamals or invasive spacious monitoring how we can put all these things together you see it’s um one of the challenge and of
Course we will have in the research and Innovations course about emerging technology um with International deployment connection with the industry and how we can uh have some um automatic systems for examples automatic sensors uh to be promoted thank you thank you very much Maurice if we
Talk about the future we about goals and uh Solutions we should not forget about the next Generations the young scientists of today have to deal with the problems of Tomorrow of course and um she’s trying to grow a strong link between generations of researchers please welcome from gomah Mod Center of Ocean
Research in K Fiona stasa hello everyone um I would like to try something new and I hope you would all participate with me and so may I ask you all to stand up for 5 seconds yes and for the ones watching online um just bear with me for one
Second um so I want to try something a little bit new and make this a bit more interactive and I would like to um give you two statements and if you agree to this statement you can remain standing but if you disagree you can sit down
Okay here goes the first statement as we all know our ocean faces unprecedented challenges through so many ways and in this critical time would you agree that now more than ever International inter interdisciplinary collaboration is needed to safeguard our future on this blue planet yes I can see we all agree there
So that’s already good um now let’s move to the second statement um so in this world that is rapidly changing do you think that the collaboration between a generation with Decades of experience and the Young Generation with New Perspectives and approaches is the way forward in tackling the various
Challenges of our ocean that is facing happening today do you agree great it’s amazing to see this unity in perspective so thank you very much and you may sit down [Applause] again um first of all I want to say it’s a really great honor to have the chance
To speak to you today uh back to back with so many inspiring personalities and role models and I stand before you not just as an individual but as a voice echoing the aspirations and concerns and hopes of early career ocean professionals and the Next Generation as a child I often dreamt of
Flying not in the sky but beneath the waves simply floating weightless without gravity I hoped that if I would just spend enough time underwat eventually I could grow some gills and then discover the planet without the Restriction of holding my breath what I got instead was a lot of
Ear infections from spending so much time underwater um but swimming has never just been a sport or a hobby for me it was a voyage I was able to completely immerse myself in this mysterious alien world and to this day I keep returning underwater continuing on my journey
Trying trying to make sense of this magical place every single one in this room knows the essence of Youth of standing at the cusp of your future with dreams and aspirations and hope yet as a marine a young marine biologist growing up with conversations around climate change over
Fishing so on um and how the ocean will change over the next decades I have to admit I can’t help but worry historically it’s been the Explorers the Pioneers the adventurers who have paved the way mapping the unknown uncovering the secrets underwater today the responsibility of continuing the
Discovery and stewardship of the ocean is slowly but surely passing to new set of hands to a generation that sees the world through a different lens but what sets us apart from other Generations well we are the generation of digital natives Tech is part of our
DNA we don’t just use technology we live it think about it a childhood where one can virtually swim with dolphins simulate ocean currents or predict Marine events that’s our playground and it’s changing the Paradigm of ocean studies this Tech driven upbringing has not just made made us learn how to use
New tools but it has also reshaped how we approach problems and seek Solutions and this technological Edge however is coupled with a pressing weight on our shoulders our ocean is in flux coral reefs are bleaching sea levels are rising and Marine habitats are shifting this is the backdrop against
Which we’re building our careers our concerns are aren’t just academic they’re deeply personal we worry about the ocean what it would look like in the next decades and if our children will experience the same Marine world as we do today but it’s not all Bleak there is a
Sense of emergency yes and urgency but also immense opportunity one of the greatest strengths the Young Generation of our young generation is our interconnectedness where the most globally gen connected generation in history and this has fostered Spirit of collaboration our Dream to pull our resources knowledge and Technology to address the challenges had
On in one area that holds untapped potential is engaging more young people in the dialogue our generation is ready to contribute and take initiatives like USC have planted the seed I have the chance to stand here in front of you today and speak to you so this is already a great great
Achievement and within your SE over the past one and a half years I had the chances and the task to involve the Next Generation so that’s a big seed that was planted there and more can be done while I might not have the depth of expertise
Some in this room have about the future and sustainability of ocean forecasting and observing system systems I absolutely believe in the importance of engaging every stakeholder in the process especially the young so that we can work together on the science we need for the ocean we want and we must invest in stronger
Collaboration across Generations ensuring that the fresh idea of the young are fused with the wisdom of the experienced we all have embarked on our Journeys driven by a love for our ocean and a deep curiosity to understand its steps and while we have challenges the potential the potential for positive change is
Enormous I feel hopeful and optimistic for our Ocean Future because I believe in the passion and commitment of my and your generation we are ready to act innovate and protect with your support the future is bright thank you thank you very much Fiona we would probably say is the younger generation
Word so the research happening today the ocean observations are important for all aspects of life but different Target groups one of it is the economy which has to rely on scientists to make sustainable decisions our next speaker has followed the project closely she is member of the international Advisory
Board of eurc and oecd space Forum in the oecd’s directorate for science technology and industries and There She is welcome CLA jolly good morning everybody it’s it’s just so lovely to see many good friends uh colleagues in the room uh very warm thanks to the organizers for inviting me
I’m going to take the next four minutes to Bro another angle uh as our uh as my introducer here mentioned I’m going to talk to you about the economics um so obviously euroc has done incredible achievements I’m not going to go over these achievements you will hear more
About them also this afternoon and a few speakers actually mentioned them um but I have two updates really on this economic approach for ocean observations uh as many of you know the oecd has an international economic organization is working closely with ioc goose many observing communities in different countries
To improve knowledge on the value of the benefits generated from sustained publicly funded ocean observations and that includes the crucial data repositories that we often forget um free case studies based on user surveys in the UK um Portugal Belgium blenders um based on user surveys are have been
Produced are right now in production they do contribute to identify for the first time in a different way different value chains from data collection all the way to uses they aim also to highlight some new trends this is something that we have found out while doing these studies with
Some of the stakeholders particularly you know the use of API uh machine to machine many many uh actors are not downloading data anymore um they’re using beautiful artificial intelligence tools things are changing rapidly this is something that we are also seeing in some of the work that we are doing and
That helps stakeholders build uh build up some of their strategies now DOD is very open to cooperation with quite a number of countries in terms of actually building up this catalog of studies uh there are a number of countries that are lining up to work with us on this but in parallel
We are also working on more technical economic valuation to actually put together some further Evidence the objective is not to bring out some big numbers saying well ocean observations is actually bringing this much money to your economy but at the end of the day we want to have some credible estimates
That help relase some of the policy makers and this work on the economics of ocean observations is actually getting resonance in many different policy circles this is really my second Point here the way we do science is changing uh demands are growing for faster more cost effective Innovations to deal with
Major challenges in April 2024 around two weeks after the UN decade um conference that will take place in Barcelona the oecd will host at ministerial level the meeting of the committee for scientific and technological policy here in Paris under French presidency ministers from oecd countries and partner economies more than 40
Ministers funders of many of the research infrastructures that we are talking about today will meet and will be discussing a proposed transformative research and Innovation policy agenda to address better the acceleration of climate change this is one of the big topic here biodiversity loss sustainability of your of our economies in
General the social economic benefits of sustained ocean observations for our societies beyond their obvious crucial role in weather climate science maritime operations well should be addressed during the discussions this is the first for the oecd this is the first for the option observing community so the ocean and the need for sustained ocean
Observations will get more visibility at high level so to look ahead a bit the euroc project as demonstrated very well the need to coordinate better to avoid duplication at European level in Ocean observation and that’s an important message so we cannot afford policy makers cannot afford to know what’s happening in the
Ocean from local to Global conditions this is something that we’re getting I think the message is is coming through however another message that’s often forgotten is that um they need to support programs research infrastruct infrastructure in a cost efficient matter Manner and I think the recent UK exercise in Prior in providing
Priorities I would say for some of the future ocean observing uh infrastructure is a good example of requests from governments that means that we need collectively internationally to really build up this economic evidence to make sustain coste effective ocean observations of many essential ocean variables a reality worldwide this element should not be
Forgotten so the oecd is here looks forward to work with again many ocean observing communities I know the oceanographic Community is very well represented here in this room but we know there are other communities that are actually building up um and we are really looking forward to continue
Working with you because we obviously need more data but we need to make the case very often so I’ll stop here and I thank again our Euros colleagues uh I think you’re Paving the way for some very nice uh initiatives coming along so thanks again sounds good thank you very much
CLA Jolly calibration and validation of satellite data compared with measured data of ocean observation that’s his job he’s head of the earth surfaces and interior section at European Space Agency Isa please welcome Craig James dunan good morning everybody and uh thank you for the opportunity to speak
To today I’m speaking on behalf of my director simeta Kelly who can’t be with us today but I want to start with some discussion about ocean observations Benjamin Franklin you probably all know is a Postmaster General in the 1700s making diligent measurements of the ocean as observed by Sailors that
Came over from Europe and he mapped all these in some beautiful maps that you can see in the smithonian museum and they declared said that there is a river in the ocean and of course people understood that who were Sailors but this was a great Revelation and that kind of curiosity
That diligent data management back then is still relevant today we need both because if we want to have the ocean that we need a sustainable ocean we need that integrated view that’s the evidence base from which we can make robust decisions which directly impact the ocean sustainability and to do it it
Requires a diversity of measurements including quasy synoptic views from space complemented by the fiducial reference measurements the well- calibrated standards based measurement across the full depth of the ocean at the appropriate time in space scales that’s our job if we want the ocean to be sustainable we need to understand it
So imagine what Franklin would say today when he sees from space in one day the same currents mapped repeatedly regularly the data for um used to force ocean circulation models given us predictions that can be used those predictions include everything we have the Institute and the space component now the oceans are globally
Connected and space gives you that unique vantage point and at the European Space Agency together with the European commission and others around the world we have developed a series of missions of unprecedented caliber over the last few years in particular the last decade to the European Union’s cernic system
European Space Agency is the implementer of that together with our sister organization umat that’s an unprecedented set of observations it’s really been quite an amazing decade to think that we have an operational system that is actually providing us with that regular repeat View view without that we can’t address the
Green deal we can’t really look at the blue economy we can’t think about Marine protected areas illegal Fisheries biodiversity the impacts on tourism harmful algal blooms Marine planning and much much more we need the integrated view if we think about sea level 1 cm rise of sea level affects 3 million
People around the world that’s enormous but space together with the observance system that we have in the ocean is giving us a capability to look at mitigation how do we actually address sea level rise for the communities that are at the front line now we’ve seen enormous developments in the technologies that
Are placed into our ocean particularly in terms of autonomous systems through Argo through the gliders that we have today amongst all the other sensors that are given as measurements that we could only dream of 20 30 years ago the spcial resolution that we have on a daily basis
From space is Unthinkable 20 years ago we can see the ocean every day in all its true beauty and its majesty and we’re working towards making sure we have a standards-based approach so that the insitu observations and the satellite data are both providing the same standard when we talk temperature
In Kelvin from space we’re talking the same Kelvin in the ocean and from space 800 km in orbit we can measure the ocean temperature to better than 0.1 Kelvin that’s quite something it’s a powerful way of viewing our ocean it’s a powerful set of observations that the European space
Agency provides for you together with uh the European Union through cernus but beyond that we provide research missions that are exploring new ways of making measurements and together with our member states we’re looking at a way forward to bring you the next generation of measurements of salinity together with temperature together with ocean
Surface currents together with winds together with the ocean color measurements that give us a rich view of the biodiversity in our oceans it’s not really enough we have one ocean and we have one ocean family the science and the system that we’re talking about today we need to
Design for the the ocean that we want tomorrow and people really matter in that design we need to invest in the future of our people so that we can have those people work with the ocean observations that we’re talking about today and I think investing in the
Future of our people is important and Fiona gave a really amazing and moving call to bring the family of oceanographers together the grandparents must be talking to the children if we’re to look after our ocean so I’ll finish by just saying again again an integrated view of the
Ocean space and in water to full depth constitutes the evidence-based for a robust decisions we want our decision makers to be strong in their decisions to be clear in their decisions and to be confident in their decisions that’s what we need for a sustainable ocean the European Space Agency is at your it’s
Your space agency and it’s working to support a sustainable ocean and we remain committed to a long term dialogue and support to ensure an effective Global ocean observing system design thank you thank you very much that was actually the last speaker of the morning