WG4: Ocean and Society
Session Purpose

Back ground
The GEO Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Initiative aims toadvance and exploit synergies among the many observational
programmes devoted to ocean and coastal waters. The Initiative alsoseeks to raise awareness of the societal benefits of ocean
observations at the public and policy levels. In this regard, the UN
Sustainable Development Goals, SDG13, Climate Actions and SDG14,
Life below Water, provide the context for the importance of ocean
observations and research.

Aims
Since 2012, the Oceans and Society working group of theGEOSS-AP Symposium has been working to define, enhance andintegrate the inventory of information exchanges of issues related tocoastal data in the Asia-Pacific region which spans multiple
jurisdictional waters. This working group aims to further evolve thecurrent observation inventory system of in-situ ocean observations
to better support the WESTPAC community and to meet the needsof SDGs 13 and 14. Thus, the goal of this session is to continue todiscuss, identify and define actions to address gaps of activities in
the AP region that will evolve a comprehensive and integrated
observation inventory system for the region. Ocean acidification, an
issue related to both SDG 13 and 14, will serve as the main topic ofdiscussion for this session.

Ocean Observation is a major part in “Blue Planet
Initiative”
GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System)

Global module of GOOS is implemented by several
components of surface buoy array, Argo floats andhydrographic ship-based observations for climate
monitoring and forecasting, assessment, research,and global operational oceanography as well as Bioand Ecosystem monitoring. Data are collected byeach component, shared and disseminated.

Coastal module of GOOS is implemented bymember states and participating organizations
usually cooperating through GOOS Regional
Alliances for coastal ocean services.

NEAR-GOOS, SEA-GOOS, IO-GOOS, and PI-GOOS
are major regional GOOS in the AP region

But the data collection in the AP region does not well achieved (due to jurisdictionalissue), we have started from development of data inventory (portal) system (we don’tGEOSS-AP Ocean Data Networking System developed since 2014

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/geossap/

One goal of the WG 4
Extension of GEOSS-AP Ocean Data Networking System
Goal: Extension of the current Ocean Data Networking System,
which will ensure national security and help efforts of individual
observation projects for data exchanges through collaborativeworks, to better support the WESTPAC community. In particular,
in this session we seek co-working with Ocean Acidification

Enhance
Exchange ofObservation
Information

Better Coordination
Better Collaboration
Better Researchfor better applications andsocietal benefits
in Asia-Pacific, from and tooutside of Asia-PacificSDG(Sustainable Development Goal)s- Theme of this symposium –“Earth Observations Supporting the Implementation of theSDGs in the Asia Pacific Region”

Sustainable Development Goal 13 & 14
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its
impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas andmarine resources for sustainable development
Ocean Acidification is one of important targets under Goal 14, and isassociated with Goal 13
In particular, focusing on the target 14.3 (Minimize and address theimpacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientificcooperation at all levels)

WG-4 Session-3
This session of OA (session-3)- Talks about GOA-ON, regional observing activities, coastal observing
activities, modeling activities.
The goal of this session is:- to discuss current situations, identify gaps, future direction of OA
observations and data in the AP region, for better understanding andmodellings.
One concrete goal is to find the way how the data inventory system supports
the current Ocean Acidification (OA) research in the linkage to SDG13&14,
which can be an input to the Tokyo Statement and a contribution to Blue
Planet Initiative (BPI) as well as GOA-ON.

Posters- Blue Planet Initiative (Andy)- GOA-ON (Bronte)- Ocean Data Network System (Akazawa)- JAMSTEC Ocean Acidification Observations (Sugie)