Live webcast of joint UKOA / GOA-ON session

Wednesday 24 July 2013

Ocean acidification research in a wider context (Chair: Carol Turley)

• From national to international, from science to policy (Phil Williamson, University of East Anglia and UKOA Science Co-ordinator)
• Awareness and action on ocean acidification (Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University, USA)
• Environmental protection in the North Atlantic (Darius Campbell, Executive Secretary, OSPAR Commission)
• Framework for ocean observing and ship-based time series ? aiding the design of a global OA observing network (Maciej Telszewski, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project)
• Update on the OA International Coordination Center (Lina Hansson, Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre, International Atomic Energy Agency, Monaco)
• Promoting technological advances: the X-Prize (Paul Bunje, X PRIZE Foundation, USA)
• Discussion

15.00

Tea/coffee

The development of a global ocean acidification observing network (Chair: Bronte Tilbrook)

• Why we need a global OA network (Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission [IOC] of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO])
• Where we are now: outcomes from Seattle 2012 (Jan Newton, University of Washington, USA)
• An introduction to the global OA observing asset map (Cathy Cosca, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA)
• Discussion: where we want to be

16.20

Break

Global observing of ocean acidification and ecological response (Chair: Arthur Chen)

• Observing OA in regional seas: a modeller’s perspective (Jerry Blackford, Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
• OA processes and impacts in US coastal waters (Richard Feely, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA)
• Observing OA in upwelling regions off South America (Rodrigo Torres, Universidad Austral de Chile & Nelson Lagos, Univ Santo Tomás, Chile)
• Observing OA and its impacts in the Pacific-Arctic (Jeremy Mathis, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA)
• Observing OA and its impacts in the Southern Ocean (Pedro Monteiro, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa)
• Discussion

18.00

Session close