OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTION responsibilities

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OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTIONresponsibil
ities

• I-GOOS and the I-GOOS Board
• GSC (OOPC, COOP, GOOS CB Panel)
• Regional GOOS Bodies
• National GOOS links
• Pilot Projects (GODAE, Argo, PIRATA)
• JCOMM (SOOP, DBCP, TIP, GLOSS)
• IOC/WMO/CPPS El Nino WG
• Space (IGOS-P, CEOS, CGMS)
• GCOS, GTOS
• UNEP Regional Seas links
• Costs/Benefits
• Outreach (Newsletter, Website, Bulletin,
  Brochure)
• Co-ord with Ocean Sciences and Ocean Services

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OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTIONstaffing
(9.7 professional man years in 2001)

• T.Aarup (COOP, GLOSS, Black Sea)
• J.Ahanhanzo (GOOS-AFRICA)
• A.Alexiou (OOPC, GODAE, Argo, El Nino)
• M.Belbeoch (Toulouse) (Argo)
• E.Charpentier (Toulouse) (JCOMMOPS)
• W.Erb (Perth) (Indian/Pacific Oceans)
• M.Hood (Carbon, Products Bulletin)
• M.Kuijper (Bangkok) (NEAR-GOOS, SEA-GOOS,
• T.Shiota (NEAR-GOOS, GOOS general)
• C.Summerhayes (I-GOOS, GSC, JCOMM, Space, ICES,
  CPR)
• B.Thompson (Delaware) (National Commitments)
• C.Toro (Cartagena) (IOCARIBE-GOOS, El Nino)
• Y.Treglos (JCOMM, SOOP, DBCP, TIP)
• J.Trotte (Rio) (PIRATA, S.Atlantic)
• U.Unluata (MedGOOS)
• Secretaries H.Lam, C.Whelan, I Gazagne,
  Y.Bouquet

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OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTIONhighlights 1

• Positive review for Perth Office
• Creation of Rio Office
• Positive review and refunding of GOSIC
• Endorsement of IOCARIBE-GOOS by IOCARIBE-VII
• Black Sea GOOS ARENA proposal favoured by EC
• MedGOOS MAMA proposal funds arrived from EC
• GOOS-AFRICA proposal developed
• Indian Ocean GOOS formed
• SEA-GOOS community moving forward
• PacificGOOS remote sensing workshop
• NEAR-GOOS data and info training course
• Capacity Building Panel to meet (June)
• 1st Regional GOOS Forum planned (Athens
  December)
• Ocean Information Technology Project developing
• New GSC members (Sinclair, Yap, Muelbert, Baker
  (chair))

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OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTIONhighlights 2

• GODAE making progress (Conference Biarritz, June
  2002 strategic and implementation plans SST
  workshop)
• Argo making progress 2500 floats planned (close
  to 3000 target)
• Argo Information Centre working well
• Ocean Obs Book published
• New OOPC Chair (Ed Harrison, PMEL)
• COOP Plans almost finalised
• JCOMM 1st Management Committee Feb 2002 (report
  from Savi)
• POGO Fellowship programme funded
• Oceans 2020 book hopefully ready for WSSD

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OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTIONbudget

• Total programme budget plan 790,000 (bulk for
  Design, JCOMM, and regional GOOS capacity
  building)
• 56 is extra-budgetary
• Total salaries 1,100,000
• 24 is extra-budgetary
• Grand total 1,890,000
• 37 is extra-budgetary
• Main donors UNESCO, WMO, UNEP, FAO, ICSU,
  Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Holland, UK,
  Japan, UK, USA, EUMETSAT.

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OPERATIONAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS SECTIONINFORMATION
SESSION PROGRAMME

• Friday June 7
• GLOSS Thorkild Aarup
• GOOS-AFRICA Justin Ahanhanzo (or CS)
• Saturday June 8
• JCOMM Savi Narayanan
• Monday June 10
• GOOS Colin Summerhayes
• GCOS Paul Mason
• Perth Office Bill Erb
• A new direction for cost-benefit analyses for
  GOOS Mary Altalo (SAIC)
• Recent developments in cost-benefit analysis
  Rodney Weiher (NOAA)