ࡱ> GIF#` bjbj\.\. ;6>D>D  8< <<"^^^9S _ hq! X99XX ^^X| ^ ^X ^0 ^Xd403",d3"3" g1t5#gggXgggXXXX d   INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (of UNESCO)WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONUNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMMEINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCEEleventh Session of the Global Ocean Observing System Scientific Steering Committee (GSSC-XI) 8-10 April 2008 Room XIV UNESCO BONVIN Paris, France GEO Coastal Zone Community of Practice (CZCP) Brief Description: Global, regional and local trends in natural processes and human demands on coastal ecosystems jeopardize the ability of these ecosystems to support commerce, living resources, recreation and habitation. In this context, improved, integrated and sustained coastal observing capabilities are required to better support user information needs. GEOSS provides a valuable framework and mechanism to help implement these capabilities, and under the auspices of GEO, a Coastal Zone Community of Practice (CZCP) was initiated in 2006. The initiative for a CZCP emerged from the activities of the Coastal Theme of the Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership (IGOS-P). The Coastal Theme goal is to develop and implement a strategy for integrated observations across the land-sea interface that will provide data and information needed to make informed decisions on issues related to the propagation of change and variability as required for use, study, or management of coastal ecosystems or components thereof. The Coastal Theme builds on and integrates the extensive activities of the coastal components of GOOS and GTOS (see the Coastal Theme Report (2006) for further details). Per collaborative, consensus decisions made during and after the IGOS-P-14 Meeting (May 2007, Paris), the IGOS Coastal Theme will now transition and undertake its user-driven coastal activities through the rapidly developing CZCP, in coordination with the Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations (PICO), a technical sub-panel of the GOOS Scientific Steering Committee (GSSC). To further facilitate coordination, a representative of PICO has recently been appointed to the GEO Science and Technology Committee. The CZCP leverages and extends all of these complementary activities under the GEO/GEOSS framework, enabling broader participation, improved linkage to users, coordinated implementation, and enhanced societal benefits. Added Value: GEO provides a forum for the development of a comprehensive CZCP bringing together relevant user groups and providers of Earth observation data, thus enabling the CZCP to support crucial coastal user needs, in particular through the transition from data to products to information to knowledge. The broad basis of providers represented by the GEO Participating Organizations will help the CZCP to facilitate the necessary integration of satellite with in situ data, aquatic with terrestrial data, environmental with socio-economic data, all coupled within a modelling and data assimilation framework to support improved coastal management and decision-making. The GEO Plenary and Committees are a platform from which the CZCP's common voice can be made heard in support of global implementation of priority coastal observing capabilities. Relevance to GEO: The CZCP is one of several Communities of Practice (CP) within the framework of the User Interface Committee (UIC) Task US-06-02 (GEO Work Plan 2007-2009). Like the other Communities of Practice, the CZCP is intended as an user-driven community of stakeholders, with broad representation of providers and users of coastal zone data, products and information, all sharing a common interest in realizing the societal benefits to be gained by GEOSS implementation. The CZCP cross-cuts *all* of the GEO societal benefits areas, underscoring the importance of coastal regions globally, regionally and locally further manifested by the presence and prominence of coastal issues and topics in a significant number of GEO Work Plan tasks. Participants: Representatives from numerous GEO member nations and participating organizations participate in the CZCP. Specifically, it serves as a mechanism to coordinate, advise and integrate coastal activities of IGOS-P, GOOS, GTOS, IGBP LOICZ, and CEOS member agencies amongst other international partners. Current Status and next Steps: The CZCP is actively working to significantly expand its user base, building upon considerable interest in GEO Member Countries and Participating Organizations (CZCP was identified as a GEO Early Achievement) and it looks forward to working with all interested users and partners. In this context it supported the GEO Inland and Nearshore Coastal Water Quality Remote Sensing Workshop held March 2007 in Geneva. The CZCP also led three sessions at the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting (Orlando, Florida, USA), addressing 1) coastal inundation, 2) coastal and inland water quality assessments via remote sensing, and, 3) coastal phytoplankton time-series and dynamics; all three sessions were well-attended and successful and helped identify and address coastal user information needs in support of improved understanding, management and decision-making. Finally, a primary focal point for 2008 is the organization and occurrence of a CZCP-sponsored workshop entitled Observing System Requirements for Managing and Mitigating the Impacts of Human Activities and Coastal Inundation in the Mediterranean Region, to be held 9-13 June 2008 in Athens, Greece, hosted in conjunction with the Greek GEO Office. This workshop is part of a broader series of regional workshops being developed by the CZCP; the title of this series is GEOSS Support for Decision-Making in the Coastal Zone: Managing and Mitigating the Impacts of Human Activities and Natural Hazards in the Coastal Zone. Subsequent workshops in this series will take place in the 2009-2010 timeframe in support of coastal users in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.     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