Issues Asia Oceania GEOSS Task 8 Oceans and

Issues Asia- Oceania GEOSS Task 8 Oceans and Islands Andy Steven (Australia)

Significant Environmental Assets and Challenges

Urbanizing Coastal Environments Highly valuable: • Economically • Socially, and Culturally and • Ecologically • Vulnerable built infrastructure • Rapidly changing and often disturbed: • Population growth deteriorating water quality • Changing morphology • Loss of habitat and • Changing biotic composition • Climate variability

Small Island Developing States • Not represented at GEO • Face some of the most proximate and life changing climate challenges • Need to develop sustainable livelihoods Presentation title | Presenter name | Page 4

Sensorisation of the Oceans >500 km altitude <20 km altitude <6000 m altitude <500 m altitude Remote Sensing Earth Observation Satellite Example: Boeing Phoenix 502 High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Example: Boeing Phantom Eye Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Example: Insitu Pacific Scan. Eagle Quadcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Example: Insitu Pacific CT 110 Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) Example: ASV Ltd C Cat Manned Research Vessel • AV Launch/Recovery • AV Communication Hub <100 m depth 10– 3000 m depth 30– 6000 m depth Communication Satellites Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Example: UCSD Stingray Large Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Example: Boeing Echo Ranger Very Large Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Example: Boeing Echo Seeker Shore-Based Communication Infrastructure Anchored Communication & Sensing Buoy Free-Drifting Profiling Floats Example: IMOS ARGO Ocean Glider Example: IMOS Slocum Glider

EO for Oceans, Coasts and Islands Ocean & Coastal Forecasting Environmental Assessment Events & Disasters Wf. O Vision | Andy Steven | Habitat & Bathy Mapping

T 8 Oceans and Islands Goal • To advance and exploit synergies among the many observational programmes devoted to island, coastal and ocean, to improve engagement with a variety of users for enhancing the timeliness, quality and range of services delivered; • to raise awareness of the societal benefits of ocean observations at the public and policy levels • Focus on coastal countries and small island states Tasks • Identify and articulate user needs. • Produce new marine and coastal observation network by supporting and linking partners. • Improve the Coastal Applications of the Data Cube and Modelling the Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry of the ocean environment. • 7 Evaluate the sea level rise risk. Presentation for thetitle developing | Presenter name | states in the western and eastern Pacific.

O&I – Mission and Tasks • To advance and exploit synergies among the many observational programmes devoted to island, coastal and ocean, • to improve engagement with a variety of users for enhancing the timeliness, quality and range of services delivered; • to raise awareness of the societal benefits of ocean and coastal observations & to underpin SDGs • Focus on coastal countries and small island states

Oceans & Islands Tasks 1. Identify and articulate user needs. 2. Enhance marine and coastal observation network by supporting and linking partners. 3. Improve the Coastal Applications of the Data Cube and Modelling the Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry of the ocean environment and for habitat monitoring. 4. Evaluate the sea level rise risk for the small island coastal states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Collaborations and Linkages • • Oceans and Society Blue Planet MBON WESTPAC IOC GOOS-PAC-, SEA- and NEAR-GOOS UNESCAP APEC SPREP • Who Else?