Take Yamakita(JAMSTEC)• Today’s Topics• What’s GOOS
• Whats MBON &American Activities• APMBON Member’sActivities

International activities around
AP‐MBONandBiodiversity observations in AO‐marine• Topics in Oceania

Formally launched AP MBON
Structure of organization:

Potential research sites (tentative)

Steering committee:
Chair: Massa Nakaoka (Akkeshi Marine Station Hokkaido University),
Costello, Shirayama, Lim, Prathep, Amri, Muslim

Secretary Office: in JAMSTEC
Secretary General: Takehisa Yamakita
members in GODAC JAMSTEC(http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/e/)

Website under GeoBON…Fundraising, SNS …etc
‐2020 Feb ODA
1yr ODA 5M Yen intl. member incl. developing countries‐2020 May JSPS Kakenhi Kokusai Kyoudou b
20M Yen 3‐6yrs(3.7M/yr) 3 member include Young‐2020 Oct ERDEF MoE / JSPS Kakenhi
3yr 40M

Kiban b 5yr

Australia? and Pacific island?

Global situation

A Global Collaboration:
OBIS + GOOS (IOC) and MBON

e.g.: http://iobis.org/2016/12/15/goosgeobonobis/

GRF‐9Ninth GOOS Regional Alliances
Forum 5 ‐ 7 August 2019, Tokyo,Japan• Key component of GOOS
• expert panels for physics, biogeochemistry, and biology
and ecosystems that synthesize across requirements andprovide guidance on observing system design• the Observations Coordination Group and the GOOS
Regional Alliances that implement observing systems andensure the flow of observations across the global networks
and regional observing structures• GOOS Projects that advance innovation and expand into
new areas for the observing system• Core coordination through the GOOS Steering Committee
and a distributed GOOS Offic.

Strategic objectives• Deepening Engagement and Impact
Deepen engagement and partnership from observations to end users to advancethe use and impact of the observations and demonstrate their benefits• 1. Strengthen partnerships to improve delivery of forecasts, services, and scientificassessments.
• 2. Build advocacy and visibility with stakeholders through communicating with key users andnational funders.
• 3. Regularly evaluate system impact to assess fit for purpose.
• 4. Strengthen knowledge and exchange around• System Integration and Delivery
Deliver an integrated, ‘fit‐for‐purpose’ observing system built on the systems
approach outlined in the Framework for Ocean Observing• 5. Provide authoritative guidance on integrated observing system design, synthesizing acrossevolving requirements and identifying gaps.
• 6. Sustain, strengthen and expand observing system implementation through GOOS andpartner communities, promoting standards and best practice, and developing metrics tomeasure success.
• 7. Ensure GOOS ocean observing data and information are findable, accessible, interoperable,and reusable, with appropriate quality and latency.

• Building for the Future
Building for the future through innovation, capacity development, and evolving
good governance••••

8. Support innovation in observing technologies and networks.
9. Develop capacity to ensure a broader range of beneficial stakeholder participation.
10. Extend systematic observations to the ocean.
11. Champion effective governance for global in situ and satellite observing, together withpartners and stakeholders

www.jcommops.org/reportcard2018

Regional GOOS

Tanhua 2018 Frontier Mar Sci
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335271650

Example from meeting documents
http://iocunesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&t
ask=viewEventDocs&eventID=2422

GRA Background Report

NEAR-GOOS

Masakazu HIGAKI
Chair, NEAR-GOOS
Japan Meteorological Agency

GOOS Regional Forum-9,
5-7 August 2019, Tokyo, Japan

General information• Type: Intergovernmental network• Funding characterization: Project funded• GRA leadership (Chair/coordinator) and contact:• Chair: Masakazu HIGAKI (election: 2018, term: 2 years)•

E‐mail: higaki@met.kishou.go.jp• IOC/WESTPAC Coordinating Committee (CC) for NEAR‐GOOS•

2 members from each country• Secretariat:• Mr Wenxi Zhu, Technical Secretary, IOC/WESTPAC•

E‐mail: w.zhu@unesco.org• Website: http://iocwestpac.org/north‐east‐asian‐regional‐goos/172.html• Membership: 8 organizations in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia• Terms of Reference: http://iocwestpac.org/north‐east‐asian‐regional‐goos/173.html• Meetings: (NEAR‐GOOS CC)• Past 2:• Next:18th Session, 21‐22 Nov. 2017, Fuchou, China
19th Session, 14‐15 Nov. 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
20th Session, Nov. 2019, Busan, Korea

In what areas would the GRA liketo be active?
Value chain element

What resource would be needed?

Observations
implementation

Continuation of pilot projects

Data management

Continuation and enhancement of NEAR‐GOOS
Databases

Forecasting

Release of NEAR‐GOOS Ocean Forecasting Systems(OFS)

Service / informationdeliveryContinuation and enhancement of NEAR‐GOOS
Databases

Capacity development ofmembers

should be considered

Outreach / ocean literacy

should be considered (e.g. through sessions in
WESTPAC Science Symposia)

NEAR‐GOOS Databases
Japan (incl. Regional DB)

China
NRTDB

NDMDB

Rep. of Korea
NRTDB

RDMDB

RRTDB

Russia
NDMDB

NRTDB

NDMDB

Regional and National DBs
Country

Database

Responsibleorganization

Regional RTDBJMA

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/goos/data/database.html

Regional DMDB

JODC

http://near‐goos1.jodc.go.jp

National RTDB

NMEFC

http://neargoos.nmefc.cn:8080/exchange/index.jsp

National DMDBNMDIS

http://near‐goos.nmdis.org.cn

National RTDB

KHOA

http://www.khoa.go.kr/neargoos/

National DMDB

NIFS

http://www.nifs.go.kr/kodc/eng/01_about/
02.jspNational RTDBFERHRI

http://ferhri.org/en/our‐projects/near‐goos.html

National DMDBPOIJapan

China

Korea

URL

Russiahttp://pacificinfo.ru/near‐goos/• Now 8 DBs work well.

1. Developing an MBON Implementation Plan
2. Data Management
3. Developing EBVs

MBON Vision
MBON is a “coalition of the willing” who agree to share knowledge andknow-how to evaluate changes of biodiversity in the ocean, including
data, products, protocols and methods, data systems and software.
The MBON seeks to establish a process for sustained, operational
measurements of biodiversity around the globe. These observations should
be collected in standardized ways, and the information shared, in order tounderstand how biodiversity is changing.
The ultimate objective is to understand how and why life in the ocean ischanging, how local changes relate to changes taking place over larger
regions, and to provide information to help define options forgovernment and intergovernmental policies relevant to the conservationand sustainable use of marine biodiversity.

18KEY OBJECTIVES•

Develop an implementation plan that leads and coordinates institutions,organizations, existing networks, and people so as to build a community ofpractice to promote field, laboratory, statistical and reporting methods for theglobal community.

•Networking with the biodiversity and marine science communities,including within GEO, GEO BON, IOC, IABO, marine station networks, and nationalorganizations;•Develop a common framework for Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs)
within GEO BON and GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs, developed jointlywith the GOOS Bio-Eco panel);•Support work led by UNEP-WCMC on development of marine indicators tosupport SDG 14 and Aichi Targets;•Foster the development of international and thematic MBON, including
development of marineGEO and expansion of USA MBON projects to an allAmericas MBON;•Promote best practice in data management, including development ofstandards that aid interoperability and data integration, and publication of data
through OBIS; including contributing to the GEO BON “BON in a Box”
compendium of methodologies for biodiversity observations;•Support research that supports the development of MBON.

Success data publication

U.S. MBON Contacts
Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. MBON Program Manager
Frank Muller-Karger, U.S. MBON Team Leader
Enrique Montes, MBON Pole to Pole

• The U.S. MBON projects areintegrating independent
historical and current biology
and ecosystem surveys withnew observations, andexpanding application ofremote sensing methods,
novel molecular (eDNA)
technologies, traditional
environmental research tools,and coordinated experiments.

Sponsors
U.S. MBON projects have been funded since 2013 under the National
Oceanographic Partnership Program (FY14 RFP NOAA-NOS-IOOS2014-2003803 and FY19 ONR Announcement # N00014-18-S-B007).
U.S. MBON represents a partnership among NOAA, NASA, BOEM,and ONR, with coordination provided by the U.S. Integrated Ocean
Observing System (U.S. IOOS) Program Office.

MBON Pole to Pole Project
https://marinebon.org/pages/pole_to_pole/• Members specialty (over 38)• Rocky shores• Sandy beaches• Environmental data
• Data science• Uploading to OBIS

Please see the website of MBON
US project• MBON• https://marinebon.org/pages/us_projects/• MBON data portal• https://mbon.ioos.us/• P2P• https://marinebon.org/p2p/index.html• Data and website• https://github.com/marinebon

https://mbon.ioos.us/

http://mbon.
marine.usf.edu/

https://marinebon.org/p2p‐dashboard/Project : Coastal biodiversity assessment

Revive past activities to observe
temporal changes

Use of the informationsuch as-ecosystem services-EBSA-indicator of the threatLocation of the past
study sites

ProposedEBSAusing
existing &literature
extracted
data

Yamakita et al. (2017)
Marine Policy

Over 10 years
since CoML...
-temporal change?
-improve of the technique(such as DNA & Camera)-Pole to Polebiodiversity patternProject : Coastal biodiversity assessment

Facilitate broad scale researches andproduction of infrastructure
Present data...
-Some are still not good enough-Some need temporal data
Ways to improve-image recognition-eDNA-survey using drone-literature… etc

Coral reef habitat data in AP region using ALOS/AVNIR2(National Institute for Environment Studies (NIES) and Asia Air Survey Co.,ltd)• Update the maps ofseagrasses, algae
and coral reefs& build GIS database
More accurate classification of seagrass Yamakita et al. 2019 Bot Mar

Topics in AO: What’s happening in theAustralia monitoring...marine Drone?
• http://marine.acfr.usyd.edu.au/fieldwork/imos‐auv‐facility/• https://www.sims.org.au/page/93/autonomous‐underwater‐vehicle

https://auv.aodn.org.au/auv/

https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/
https://research.science.mq.edu.au/capstan/wp‐content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/NMSP‐2015‐2025‐
report.pdf
https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/marine‐environment/topic/2016/state‐and‐trends‐marine‐
biodiversity‐species‐groups
National Marine Science | Plan Driving
the development of Australia’s blue
economy 2015–2025

Spawning biomass of theeast coast population oforange roughy, 1980–2015