Location: Mestre, Italy
Event Website: http://www.scor-int.org
Start Date: 16/09/2009
End Date: 18/09/2009
The SCOR Panel on New Technologies for Observing Marine Life announces a Workshop on Ocean Biology Observatories. The goal of the workshop is to bring together biologists, the observing community, and the technology community to develop ocean biology observatories that could address the challenges of observing ocean life and its response to global change. The definition of ocean biology observatories will be broad, including a sustained, integrated system comprised of a broad range of platforms that can support existing and emerging technologies for observing marine life and its interaction with the ocean and broader Earth system. The observatory components will include platforms, sensors, instrumentation, data management, visualization, and analysis. Observatories could include fixed-point moorings (cabled or autonomous), animals as oceanographers, measurements from Volunteer Observing Ships, AUVs/ROVs/HOVs, drifters, CPRs, Ocean Tracking Network, satellites, among other platforms