Steering Committee 3rd Workshop, Puerto Rico
Telcon
Telecon
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
14:00 - 15:30 UTC
Minutes (Version 0.1 of 2011- 4-20 6:57)
Participants:
Doug Wilson,
NOAA
(Correspondent)
Michael Bruno,
Stevens
(Workshop Series Chair)
Hans-Peter Plag,
NBMG, UNR
(Co-Chair)
Roy A. Watlington,
CaRA/CARICOOS
Jorge Corredor,
UPR
(Member)
Paul DiGiacomo,
NOAA
(Co-Chair)
Agenda:
1
Acceptance of Agenda
2
Status of Action Items
A list of the action items is available as
php
.
3
How to continue regional activities in the Caribbean?
4
Next steps concerning the CZCP
5
Any Other Business
6
Date and Time of next telecon(s)
7
Summary of Action Items
Notes:
1
Acceptance of Agenda
The agenda was accepted as proposed.
2
Status of Action Items
A list of the action items was made available as
php
.
Concerning the Action Items
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-1:
Douglas Cripe
will propose to the GEO Secretariat that UNWTO is asked to submit
prior to GEO-VII a request to become a Particiating Organization of GEO prior to
GEO-VIII.
Responsible:
Douglas Cripe,
Deadline:
2011-04-30,
and
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-2:
Douglas Cripe
will contact the GEO Principals in the Caribbean and discuss with them
ways to initiate an intergovernmental dialog along the lines laid out in the
Workshop recommendation.
Responsible:
Douglas Cripe,
Deadline:
2011-05-31,
it was agreed that
Hans-Peter Plag
would contact
Douglas Cripe
to find out whether these AIs are being followed up.
With respect to
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-3:
Roy A. Watlington
will contact Brad Nugent and discuss how participation of regional tourist organizations
in the development of a dialogue platform can be ensured.
Responsible:
Roy A. Watlington,
Deadline:
2011-04-30,
and
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-8:
Roy A. Watlington
will discuss with Elizabeth Riley how a workshop report can be distributed in CDEMA and its
stakeholders.
Responsible:
Roy A. Watlington,
Deadline:
2011-04-30,
Hans-Peter Plag
will contact
Roy A. Watlington
to discuss how these AIs are followed up.
Hans-Peter Plag
reported that he would send an invitation to contribute to the Workshop report to all participants and thus
follow up
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-6:
Hans-Peter Plag
will invite all participants of the workshop to submit contributions to the workshop
report. He will compile a web-based report for iteration with the participants.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-04-15.
Michael Bruno
reported that in following up
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-7:
Michael Bruno
will investigate which tourism-related journal in Puerto Rico could be used to publish a
workshop report in.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-04-30,
he had been in contact with relevant organizations,
but he had not be able to speak to the right person. He left a message but so far no one had contacted him.
Concerning
Action Item
CZCP-PR-17-9:
Jorge Corredor
will investigate how a workshop report can be published in the IOCARIBBE media.
Responsible:
Jorge Corredor,
Deadline:
2011-04-30,
Jorge Corredor
explained that such a report would be integrated in a web page. He would contact
the organization right after the telecon.
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How to continue regional activities in the Caribbean?
Paul DiGiacomo
suggested that the recommendations could be used to develop a plan of action.
Hans-Peter Plag
commented that at PR-17, a number of action items related to the implementation of the recommendations had been
decided. It was pointed out be several that starting to make available some products would be
attractive to users and could bring in additional people.
Douglas Cripe
suggested that bathymetric data could be a first such product.
Michael Bruno
asked why
bathymetric data should have a priority, and
Douglas Cripe
explained that these
data were important for assessing tsunami risks.
Hans-Peter Plag
added that access to bathymetric data was often restricted
for security reasons, and GEO might be a good forum to address this issue.
Paul DiGiacomo
proposed that the CZCP
should work with NOAA to investigate whether bathymetric data for the Caribbean could be made available.
Michael Bruno
proposed to focus on a pilot project for post-disaster information.
Hans-Peter Plag
mentioned that in the Geohazards
Community of Practice (GHCP), a proposal had been made for a GEO Clearinghouse for major disasters, and the
CZCP could join the discussion of this proposal. He suggested to bring
Elizabeth Riley
into this discourse about a clearinghouse.
Towards the end of the discussion,
Michael Bruno
emphasized the need to start an activity, and
Hans-Peter Plag
reiterated
that a pilot could focus on bathymetry.
Action Item
CZCP-PR-18-1:
Paul DiGiacomo
will investigate who in NOAA is working on bathymetry for the Caribbean and provide the
information to
Hans-Peter Plag
so that he can work with the contact person and develop a pilot project.
Responsible:
Paul DiGiacomo,
Deadline:
2011-04-30.
Action Item
CZCP-PR-18-2:
Hans-Peter Plag
will propose to ST-09-02 to consider bathymetry data sets as candidates for data that should be
registered in the GEOSS Registries.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-04-30.
Michael Bruno
mentioned that a pilot project on bathymetry could be of interest for a student at Stevens.
Douglas Cripe
voiced his opinion that a telecon with all Workshop participants could help to keep the
momentum going.
Paul DiGiacomo
supported this suggestion and hoped that local groups could be engaged in
a regional cooperation, where providers would be able to contribute many different things.
Hans-Peter Plag
proposed to organize this telecon ones a more complete version of the Workshop report
would be available.
Action Item
CZCP-PR-18-3:
Hans-Peter Plag
will organize a telecon for all Workshop participants to discuss the workshop report and to follow
up post-workshop activities.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-05-15.
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Next steps concerning the CZCP
Hans-Peter Plag
asked whether the CZCP should be involved in the developing Ocean Community of Practice (OCOP), and
Paul DiGiacomo
responded that this involvement was necessary. For that, it would be important to better
define who we are and where we want to go. It would also be important not to loose identity.
He commented on the fact that no funds for the CZCP work were available and all was based
on voluntary contribution. In order to change this, it would be necessary to find an activity associated with some
level of funding.
Hans-Peter Plag
suggested that the CZCP Core Group should aim to get a funded project.
Paul DiGiacomo
considered the
coastal information system a candidate for such a project. It would be necessary to develop a
set of indicators around which the system could be built. There was a lot of activities around indicators that
could be utilize.
Hans-Peter Plag
agreed that an information system including information on indicators would be
very important and could be a project that would strengthen the CZCP considerably.
Paul DiGiacomo
suggested the focus initially to be on the Mediterranean, Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S.
Hans-Peter Plag
added that he had initially only the Caribbean in mind - although the infrastructure should be built as a global
system, while more local and regional groups would have to be involved in populating the information system.
Michael Bruno
emphasized the necessity to keep moving, and he considered the information system a good way to go.
Paul DiGiacomo
suggested to get
Jimmy Adegoke
involved for Africa.
Hans-Peter Plag
reiterated that the system could provide a basis
for an assessment of the state of the coastal zone for the next Ministerial Summit.
Paul DiGiacomo
suggested to focus initially on a few indicators in three or four regions.
Hans-Peter Plag
saw value in
getting more information on the web page CZCP web page in general and the regional web pages in
particular. For that
Paul DiGiacomo
proposed to put together a presentation and make it available on the web page.
Hans-Peter Plag
suggested to propose a CZCP-organized session at the 2012 Ocean Sciences meeting in Salt Lake City and
informed that the deadline for session proposals was may 16, 2011.
5
Any Other Business
There was no other business.
6
Date and Time of next telecon(s)
There was agreement to have a broader follow-on telecon once the workshop report had developed further.
7
Summary of Action Items
Action Item
CZCP-PR-18-1:
Paul DiGiacomo
will investigate who in NOAA is working on bathymetry for the Caribbean and provide the
information to
Hans-Peter Plag
so that he can work with the contact person and develop a pilot project.
Responsible:
Paul DiGiacomo,
Deadline:
2011-04-30.
Action Item
CZCP-PR-18-2:
Hans-Peter Plag
will propose to ST-09-02 to consider bathymetry data sets as candidates for data that should be
registered in the GEOSS Registries.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-04-30.
Action Item
CZCP-PR-18-3:
Hans-Peter Plag
will organize a telecon for all Workshop participants to discuss the workshop report and to follow
up post-workshop activities.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
2011-05-15.
Minutes prepared by
Hans-Peter Plag
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