EuroSea/OceanPredict Workshop-2, July 2023

• Virtual workshop (MS Teams, registration required)
• 11 July 2023  (all day)
• Open event

The workshop is the follow-on event from last year’s EuroSea/OceanPredict workshop to address the main outcomes and recommendations, by asking experts how much we have progressed since last June.

The last EuroSea/OceanPredict workshop highlighted the wealth of research in ocean observing, ocean modelling and predictions that is currently being done in various countries of the world, including observing system experiments, extreme marine events, coastal modelling and observing system design, as well as interaction with UN Decade programmes. At the end of the workshop a panel discussed topics of specific interest (ocean observations, sustainability, EOVs, ocean prediction and Ocean Best Practice) and put forward a list of recommendations:

• need for better communication and closer collaboration of the observation and prediction communities
• importance to involving intermediate and end-users in questions of ocean observations
• consideration of a fully integrated ocean observing system (including all regions and observation types)
• plan to implement the full ocean information value-chain (from user needs, to observations, data assembly and distribution, ocean prediction and services to user and societal benefits)
• embrace the value of defining and describing all processes involved in operational oceanography through ocean best practice methodology

The plan of creating an ocean information value-chain encompasses all other recommendations from with first workshop and has therefore been identified as the main heading for the next EuroSea/OceanPredict workshop. It will provide an opportunity to learn what value-chain progress has been made so far, to hear about the communities involved in building the value-chain and their specific perspectives, what are the fundamental requirements for setting up the value-chain and how can it be implemented in a global framework. The workshop will not be able to answer all these questions but should give an insight of the current work being done and the issues we are still facing. The workshop outcome should help to harmonize the different efforts currently being carried out that contribute to the value-chain and improve interactions and collaboration of its contributors.

Agenda draft for download  (29 June 2023)

Please note that the workshop timetable (see in agenda draft) is based on Central European Summer Time – CEST.

The workshop will feature invited talks as a fully virtual event.

Participation is open to all, but specifically targeted at the EuroSea and OceanPredict communities.

Registration is now closed.

You will receive a workshop invitation shortly before the event. For now please mark the day in your calendar.

The workshop will be a virtual one-day event, featuring invited speakers and a discussion session to provide insight into EuroSea progress with regard to its contribution to European and global progress in operational oceanography, specifically the ocean information value-chain.

• A 1-day workshop held virtually (probably on Teams)
• 4 sessions (value-chain overview, UN Decade linkages, EuroSea efforts, ocean best practice  and observing & modelling community engagements)
• Invited talks on value-chain progress from contributing groups (highlighting value-chain components)
• Open event (EuroSea and OP, WS-1 attendees, UN Decade programmes & DCC, observing system organisations, and the wider ocean science community)

Invited are all contributors to EuroSea, participants of the first EuroSea/OceanPredict workshop, OceanPredict members and the wider ocean community.

The workshop panel discussion concluded the event. We invited 5 panel members and the discussion chair.

As the workshop, the discussion addressed the ocean information value chain and its various components, looking at its present status, gaps and future development.

The panel members and their expert areas:

The workshop presentations can be viewed by clicking the presentations title. If you like to access the presentation recordings

OceanPredict’s perspective of the ocean information value chain, its links with the operational ocean prediction systems and the option of integration it into a global architecture.

The workshop report can be downloaded from this website.

The workshop ended with a panel discussion focusing on the present value chain status, gaps and issues and future developments. A few aspects are standing out. These included suggestions and recommendations for the:

• Improvement to the ocean observing system by
  • creating a sustained funding mechanism for ocean observations contributing to the sustained ocean observing system by observations of EOVs
  • increasing ecological and biological observations
  • setting up a rolling review of requirements for the improvement of the ocean observing system
• Improvement of operational prediction systems by
  • implementing digital twin set ups
  • defining an operational readiness level
  • setting up observing system experiments and system assessments operationally
• Improvement to ocean product user experience by
  • developing ways to deliver ocean product confidence
  • setting up feedback loops with users to learn of ocean product performance and requirements
• Setting up the ocean information value chain by
  • developing good relationships between value chain components
  • working interdisciplinary and reaching out to social science and economics
  • using the increasing visibility and relevance of the ocean to develop links with industry (e.g tap into private data to make a case for a data marketplace)
• Ocean best practice
  • setting up a Federated Network for the approval, distribution, application and community-based repository of ocean best practice

The workshop attendance was strong reaching almost 90 participants and attracted attendees from 25 countries.