Transcript Vernet_International_Coordination_Collaborations_ICESOCC.pptx

International Collaboration Working Group – September 23, 2014
Rob Dunbar, Maria Vernet, Ken Johnson, Oscar Schofield, Janet Sprintall,
Magdalena Carranza, Greg Mitchell
What’s going on now?
SOCCOM
SOOS
GAW – WMO-coordinated program for atmospheric data standardization and sharing.
GEOTRACES
IODP/Sediment Coring – link to ICESSOC?
Long-term series
JUBANY – Argentina & Germany – Shetland Islands
RATS (Rothera Antarctic Time Series) – British Antarctic Survey
Drake Passage Time Series - NSF
LTER - NSF
AMLR – NOAA
Ross Sea – 20-years of research
International Collaborations
1. KOPRI – Araon will have a Ross Sea focus in the future – linked to
new Ross Sea base. Koreans are building a new Global class vessel.
Amundsen Sea program underway.
2. Developing program with Sweden. Use of the Oden icebreaker.
3. Chile- has offered up ship time support for work in northern Drake
Passage area.
4. France – SOCLIM – climate and biology/biogeochemistry in Indian Ocean
5. South Africa – have new vessel deploying gliders in SO, also maintains
the Good Hope CLIVAR “line”
6. China (PRIC) – experiencing major expansion of Antarctic programs.
New base to be built in the Ross Sea….also building several new
icebreakers. Bo Sun (PRIC 2nd in command) has explicitly asked for
ideas for collaborative science.
7. United Kingdom – increasing research in region of the Falklands
South Georgia and RATS
8. Germany – interested in Weddell Sea, good PO-focused float
program, sea ice and Fe
9. Australia – CLIVAR lines and new biogeochemical collaboration with India
10. Brazil committed to a large SO float program
Action Items
1. Develop Rapid Response evaluation and funding mechanisms for use of ships of opportunity
for achieving project objectives. Note: some of the current expedition-style tourism vessels
are in fact Russian research vessels. Also, could we use national resupply vessels in support
of project objectives?
2. Establish (through SCAR/COMNAP??) centralized information portal on research cruises by
different national entities that includes extra bunk availability and/or explicit invitations for
foreign science involvement
3. Utilize CLIVAR structure/programs/activities
4. Promote the declaration of an international free data sharing zone for Antarctic/Southern
5. Ocean space-based data…e.g. lower existing barriers.
6. Organize international partnerships for glider launch and retrieval (ship to station, station
to station, etc.)
7. Support formation of an international “library” of sensors/technology available for use by
science teams to achieve project objectives – e.g., sensor packs going on marine mammals.
8. Also coordinate volume purchase opportunities for sensors/technology.
9. Promote international standardization of sensors
10. IOOS/GOOS – Can we have an SO modelling test bed?
11. Foreign vessel access for heavy ice breaking?