SETTING SCIENCE AGENDAS FOR EUROPE 1st MARINE BOARD FORUM Marine Data Challenges: from Observation to Information 15 May 2008, Ostend, Belgium PROCEEDINGS Hypotheses come and go but data remain Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize 1906 www.esf.org/marineboard MARINE DATA CHALLENGES Marine Board profile The increasing interdependence of marine • Develops foresight initiatives to secure future research policies and programmes at national and research capability and to support informed at European levels, as well as the rapidly changing policy making; environment of European marine sciences, call for • Places marine research within the European a new approach to the development of European socio-political and economic issues that research strategies. To this end, the Marine Board, profoundly affect Europe. established in 1995 by its Member Organisations, facilitates enhanced collaboration between the The Marine Board operates via four principal directors of European marine science organisations approaches: (research institutes, funding agencies and research councils) and the development of strategies for Forum: bringing together 30 marine research marine science in Europe. organisations from 20 European countries to share information, to identify common issues and As an independent non-governmental advisory body, approaches, to develop common positions and the Marine Board is motivated by, and dedicated to perspectives, and to cooperate; the opportunity of building cooperation in marine Synergy: fostering European added value to research. The Marine Board develops insight, component national programmes, facilitating recognising opportunities and trends, presenting access and shared use of national marine research compelling and persuasive arguments that shape facilities, and promoting synergy with international the future of marine research in Europe. programmes and organisations. The Marine Board provides the essential Strategy: identifying and prioritising emergent components for transferring knowledge for disciplinary and interdisciplinary marine scientific leadership in marine research in Europe. Adopting issues of strategic European importance, initiating a strategic role, the Marine Board serves its analysis and studies (where relevant, in close Member Organisations by providing a forum within association with the European Commission) in which policy advice to national agencies and to order to contribute to a European strategy for the European Commission is developed, with marine research. the objective of providing comparable research Voice: expressing a collective vision of the strategies at the European level. As a major science future for European marine science in relation to policy think-tank, the Marine Board: developments in Europe and world-wide. • Unites the outputs of advanced marine research; • Provides insights necessary to transfer research to knowledge for leadership and decision making; 1ST MARINE BOARD FORUM 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS 03 MARINE BOARD FORUM .............................................................................................. 4 Principle �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 Objectives ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 1ST MARINE BOARD FORUM ........................................................................................ 5 Programme ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������5 Introduction ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 Overview of presentations and key messages �����������������������������������������������������8 Opening �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 Setting the scene �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 Observation and Data Providers �������������������������������������������������������������9 Data and Information for Policymakers �������������������������������������������������19 Discussions and Recommendations ����������������������������������������������������������������28 Annexes ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������30 Annex I - 1st Marine Board Forum Organisation �������������������������������������30 Annex II - List of acronyms �������������������������������������������������������������������31 Annex III - List of participants ��������������������������������������������������������������33 Mr. Lars Horn, Marine Board Chair opening the 1st Marine Board Forum (15 May 2008, Ostend) MARINE DATA CHALLENGES MARINE BOARD FORUM Principle and Objectives Principle Objectives The Marine Board provides a platform for the In line with its Principle, the Marine Board Forum European marine science community. A large supports the Marine Board’s philosophy to: number of European marine science-related • Reduce duplication of initiatives; bodies express interest in establishing information • Limit fragmentation within the European marine exchange, or receiving endorsement for their science landscape; activities or positions from the Marine Board. • Facilitate information exchange; Furthermore, there is a growing need to link with • Enhance synergy among actors; European universities and industry stakeholders. • Provide a focal point for institutions and individual In this regard, the Marine Board developed an scientists to meet; instrument, the Marine Board Forum, which allows • Gather and synthesise information to optimise interactions and involvement between the Marine the delivery of the voice of the European marine Board and other pan-European organisations, science community. networks and individual scientists. 1ST MARINE BOARD FORUM 2008 1 ST MARINE BOARD FORUM Programme (15 May 2008, Ostend) 05 Opening: General discussion Lars Horn (Marine Board Chair) Afternoon session: Data and Information Setting the Scene: for Policymakers Kostas Nittis (MedGOOS) Moderator: Geoffrey O’Sullivan (Marine Institute - Ireland) Morning Session: Observation and Data Providers 8. Transforming marine science into ecosystem Moderator: advice for policy makers Kostas Nittis (MedGOOS) Gerd Hubold (ICES) 9. WISE initiative - European Commission 1. Marine data and observation management: Violeta Vinceviciene (DG Environment) European Commission Perspectives Alan Edwards on behalf of Manuela Soares 10. GEO and GEOSS (Director, Directorate I - DG Research) Alan Edwards (DG Research) 2. From observation to data to information for 11. Data needs for shipbuilding industry scientists and policymakers... and industry Willem Laros (Waterborne TP) Jean-François Minster (Total S.A.) General discussion 3. Operational oceanography, including GMES marine core services 12. Presentations from the floor Hans Dahlin (EuroGOOS) Marine Information Management: Identification and Analysis of the Marine FP6 Projects General discussion Laurent d’Ozouville (EurOcean) 4. UNESCO/IOC’s project office for International 13. Data needs for offshore industry Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Chris Shaw (OGP and Shell International) (IODE) Peter Pissierssens (Head of the UNESCO/ 14. EU Maritime Policy and marine data, European IOC Project office for IODE) Commission Iain Shepherd (DG MARE) 5. Ecosystem aspects and how scientist networks handle data General discussion Carlo Heip (MarBEF and NIOZ/NIOO) Concluding remarks 6. SeaDataNet: pan-European infrastructure Geoffrey O’Sullivan (Marine Institute - Ireland) for ocean and marine data management - Perspectives towards EMODNET Dick M.A. Schaap (MARIS, SeaDataNet - FP6 I3) 7. Presentations from the floor • Marine Board rationale for the Marine Board – EuroGOOS Panel on EMODNET Antoine Dosdat (Ifremer, Marine Board vice-Chair) • Perspectives from ESONET, EMSO, EUR-OCEANS Michael Diepenbroek (MARUM, Bremen) MARINE DATA CHALLENGES 1 ST MARINE BOARD FORUM Introduction The 1st Marine Board Forum, Marine Data Starting from the fundamental premise that Challenges: from Observation to Information, observational data should be readily available to held on 15 May 2008, Ostend, brought together those who need it, key recommendations from the representatives of some of the key European 1st Marine Board Forum include: marine observation and data centres, researchers, • A call to develop a strategy that enables proper national and European policymakers and data planning of marine observations; end-users from the maritime and offshore • A drive to address the technological challenges, industries. Forty nine individual organisations took ensuring appropriate quality assurance at all part, themselves representatives of the wider levels; marine and maritime communities. These included UNESCO/IOC project office for International Ocean • A need to address the requirement for long-term Data Exchange (IODE), International Council sustainable funding for observation and data for Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European management, necessary to provide a reliable infrastructure projects such as SeaDataNet, basis for end-users to invest in transforming European FP6 Networks of Excellence MarBEF, observations into useful operational products. ESONET, EMSO and EUR-OCEANS, Waterborne Technology Platform, EuroGOOS, EurOcean To effectively achieve the above, the interfaces Internet Portal, International Association of Oil between observers,
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