IOOS Contributes to Setting the Course for UK Operational Oceanography
Dave Mills, Cefas, UK, Ru Morrison, NERACOOS Executive Director, and Zdenka Willis, Director, US IOOS Program Office, stand with the figure head of the HMS Challenger at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
On behalf of the United Kingdom’s Marine Science Coordination Committee (MSCC), the National Oceanographic Center, Southampton hosted the conference "Setting the Course for UK Operational Oceanography". Over 100 people representing the government, academia and industry came to together to discuss how to move UK to operational oceanography.
Zdenka Willis, US IOOS Program Office Director joined two important folks as key note speakers: Ian Boyd, the Chief Scientific Adviser to Defra (UK Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs) and Wendy Watson Wright, the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
Overview of IOOS Presentation (pptx) / Zdenka Willis, Director, US IOOS Program Office
Recommendations from the meeting will go to MSCC and the conference will help to form the basis of the UK's input to a survey on operational oceanography about to be conducted by IOC.
Zdenka was joined by Ru Morrison, the Executive Director for US IOOS NERACOOS, to forge a partnership with UK-Integrated Marine Observation Network – UK IMON. Dave Mills, Cefas (UK Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science) is leading this effort and is using US IOOS as his template in setting up UK-IMON. Ru and Zdenka were honored to be a part of this conference to help UK set up their sustained ocean observing system and comment on their Operational Oceanography Framework document.
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