Draft Report on STC7 Geneva 2223 May

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Draft Report on STC-7Geneva 22/23 May

• Udo Gärtner, co-chair STC

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Task Progress Review

• Following the clustering of tasks, this time
  the focus was on EC, BI and AG tasks (living
  items)
• BI-07-01 reported considerable progress in
  building a global Biodiversity Observing Network
  (GEO-BON), where GEO was instrumental in starting
  the process
• EC-07-01 shows overlapping with BI-07-01
• Transfer of IGOS-P themes will be checked on the
  next meeting
• Special presentations (mainly European
  programmes) covered soil information (E-SOTER),
  deep ocean data (EURO-SITE), monetary /
  cost-benefit of GEO (GEO-BENE)

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New Task Proposals 09/11

• As of May 20 there are 20 proposals to add sub
  items to existing tasks or introduce new tasks
• Due to the late availability of the doc STC
  commented ad hoc on the proposals, where most of
  them could easily be merged with already
  existing tasks or as activity within an umbrella
  task
• Details to be finalised per email within 2 weeks
  together with consolidated STC proposals
• In light of the ExCOM guideline to cut the number
  of tasks, and given the already great number of
  new proposed tasks, STC will screen its 19
  2007-2009 tasks thoroughly and bring down the
  number of tasks.

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General Issues

• Following the report on ExCOM12, STC requests to
  be involved in
• - the development of performance indicators
  for the GEO Sec
• - the further work on data sharing principles
• - and as already planned in the Web Portal
  Process (IOC task force)
• STC will be represented
• IOC tasks force Stuart Marsh, David
  Halpern
• STC Co-Chair U. Gärtner is C4 ex officio member
  of the IOC task force
• Data sharing principles V.van Engelen
• Perf. Indicators tbd

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Future Meetings

• Efforts to increase attendance to STC meetings
  were discussed (STC needs faithful core
  committee members)
• Future meetings will consist of two parts
• Classic Committee task to check progress of tasks
  work and report thereon
• Special theme with presentation and discussion
• Ideas to pool STC and CBC/UIC/ADC meetings and
  hold meetings once a year in developing countries
  will be discussed in C4.
• Next meetings 8/9 Sept Paris (invitation
  COSPAR), 12/13Dec San Francisco (tbd,before AGU),
  spring 09 Japan(tbd), Sept 09 Italy(tbd)