First Meeting of the Global Ocean Observing System Steering Committee (GOOS-SC-1), Paris, France, 20-22 june 2011
(2012). First Meeting of the Global Ocean Observing System Steering Committee (GOOS-SC-1), Paris, France, 20-22 june 2011. GOOS Report(IOC/GOOS-SC-1/3s). UNESCO: Paris. 7 pp. Part of: GOOS Report. UNESCO, more |
| Abstract | IOC Resolution XXVI-8 Strengthening and Streamlining GOOS decided to recommit the IOC to a Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) that is a holistic system of global, regional and coastal observations and products, aligned with a Framework for Ocean Observing oriented to an Essential Ocean Variable approach, promoting GOOS's role in informing key societal issues as expressed in UN conventions, and reinforcing global participation through capacity development. It reformed the governance structure of GOOS by confirming that the IOC governing bodies are directly responsible for the governance of GOOS. It dissolved the Intergovernmental Committee for GOOS (I-GOOS), the GOOS Scientific Steering Committee (GSSC), and its subsidiary panels. In addition, the Assembly in its report "asserted the importance of GOOS as a priority for the IOC; noted that geographically-balanced representation on the GSC should be assured; and emphasized the desirability of representation in the GSC of other IOC programmes as well as of, inter alia, POGO, SCOR, GEOSS, JCOMM and IODE". |
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