OPAS member’s meeting – Sep 2025
The OceanPredict Advisory & Sponsors Board or OPAS consist of senior representatives from institutions who have a strong interest in OceanPredict, including but not limited to representatives from national operational centres, large national weather & climate service providers, intergovernmental groups, and observation & space agencies.
The OPAS provides advice to OceanPredict on its strategy, direction and long-term goals and assists in questions of OceanPredict visibility, resources, international collaboration, funding priorities and advocacy for the ocean observing system. It meets a few times a year to discuss progress and plans for OceanPredict, to review its strategic objectives and benefits, to guide quality improvements, to assess programme effectiveness and to ensure the availability of adequate financial resources for the OceanPredict Secretariat and associated costs.
- 23 September 2025
- MS Teams (by invitation only)
- 14:00 UTC (1 hour)
- Introduction (10‘)
- Welcome of new OPAS members (from CNES and ESA)
- Brief introduction
- Brief intro to OPAS role
- OPAS co-chair search
- OceanPredict state of play (35’)
- Strategy: BAMS paper, call for action and 5-year plan – Marie Drevillon and Greg Smith)
- Collaborations and developments:
- Recent meeting with ForeSea – Marie Drevillon and Greg Smith
- Activities with OceanPrediction DCC (survey) – Stephanie Cuven and Kirsten Wilmer-Becker
- TT and WG updates (15’)
- General – Marie Drevillon and Greg Smith
- Events (Kirsten Wilmer-Becker and Stephanie Cuven)
- OPST-12 and AI TT workshop co-organisation (Greg Smith, Kirsten Wilmer-Becker)
- CP/DA-TT workshop – postponed from last year (Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, Greg Smith)
- SynObs Workshop, Aug 2026 – Kirsten Wilmer-Becker
- OP Summer School, INCOIS – Jan/Feb 2027 – Francis Pavanathara and Kirsten Wilmer-Becker
- OceanPredict Programme Office funding status (10’) – Kirsten Wilmer-Becker
- AOB (5’)
| No | First name | Surname | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephanie | Cuven | MOi |
| 2 | Marie | Drevillon | MOi |
| 3 | Yannice | Faugere | CNES |
| 4 | Isabelle | Gaboury | DFO |
| 5 | Pierre-Yves | Le Traon | MOi |
| 6 | Francis | Pavanathara | INCOIS |
| 7 | Marie-Helene | Rio | ESA |
| 8 | Gregory | Smith | ECCC |
| 9 | Kirsten | Wilmer-Becker | Met Office |
The OPAS meeting recording and notes are available from this website, but require a password.