16th session of Observations Coordination Group (OCG-16)

07 - 10 April 2025,

IFREMER
29280 PLOUZANE
France

Annotated Agenda

1 Opening
2 OCG Update
3 GOOOS & WMO Update
4 Requirements implementation. RRR, Co-Design, GOOS Panels
4.1. WMO Rolling Review of Requirements, Co-Design process - towards an ocean GBON
4.2. BGC & BioEco Panels - update from OCG-16 actions (AniBOS/ surface Carbon) Carbon and Biodiversity Plans and timeline, and relevance for and interaction with OCG Networks
5 Network posters
6 Network issues & risk, emerging networks
6.1. Emerging networks: Brief updates from emerging networks SMARTCables, FVON, SOCONET on progress on network attributes development, issues and next steps, and USV progress on network attributes development and discussion on emerging network status
6.2. All networks: summary of opportunities/issues from all network reports and discuss these and look at in framework for risk assessment
7 OceanOPS
7.1. Brief OceanOPS progress with current Strategic Plan
7.2. SLA Overview: state of play of SLAs, cost/support structure
7.3. Future planning for 2025-2026 activities: functions, developments, and work plan priorities
7.4. Development OceanOPS Strategic Plan (2026 - 2030): outline a process and gather feedback through an interactive session
8 Data strategy and its implementation
8.1. OCG Data Implementation Plan & Data Task Team updates
8.2. IOC Data Architecture concept and initial work
8.3. WMO and WIS 2.0 updates, developments and discussions
9 Workshop - IOCARIBE-GOOS
10 Longer term goals and objectives and expected/tracked Key Results
11 Modelling and services input
12 EOV Views
13 Communication GOOS/OCG
13.1. GOOS Communication
13.2. GOOS Report Card
14 Summarized Actions and Reflections
15 Planning for OCG-17