Agenda - 22nd Meeting of the Marine Observation and Data Expert Group (MODEG)

Location: Belgian Federal Science Policy (Belspo) – Louizalaan / Avenue Louise 231, B-1050 Brussels – information on how to get there: http://www.belspo.be/belspo/organisation/contact_en.stm

Meeting Chair: Prof. Franciscus Colijn

Day 1 - Start at 14:00 on Wednesday 1 October 2014

• Welcome and adoption of the Agenda – Chair and DG MARE

• Welcome by the hosting institute and local EMODnet partner - Belspo and EuroGOOS Secretariat

• Perspectives on European marine data management from UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme – Ward Appeltans (IOC Project Office for IODE, Belgium)

• The distribution of marine OpenData via distributed data networks and Web APIs. The example of ERDDAP, the message broker and data mediator from NOAA. - Conor Delaney (Maritime Unit, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, JRC)

• Perspectives from the Dutch Dredging industry – Mark van Koningsveld (Van Oord, The Netherlands)

• Data needs for Quaternary/Prehistoric continental shelf underwater archaeology: setting objectives for the next steps - Nic Fleming (National Oceanography Centre, UK)

• EMODnet Progress update phase II – EMODnet Secretariat

Day 2 - Start at 9:00 on Thursday 2 October 2014

• Marine Indicators and the CPR Survey - Nick Owens (Director of the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science - SAHFOS)

• Data needs to support Maritime Spatial Planning at sea-basin scale – Jens Perus, SeaGIS project leader, Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in southern Ostrobothnia, Finland

• Overview of central EMODnet portal development and difficulties of retrieving data from thematic portals – Francisco Souza Dias (VLIZ)

• Feedback on EMODnet portals from user-survey – EMODnet Secretariat

• Updates from the EMODnet-MSFD interactions – DG MARE and EMODnet Secretariat

• Updates from the EMODnet sea-basin checkpoints, including outputs from oil spills forecast services - Nadia Pinardi (INGV, Italy)

• Updates from DG MARE

  • new Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

  • new EC marine data advisory group;

  • 2014 calls for tenders – coastal mapping and new sea-basin checkpoints

  • Marine Knowledge 2020 - Roadmap

• Date and venue of final MODEG Meeting (early 2015)

Meeting ends at 13:00