VU NI WASAWASA God of the Ocean

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VU NI WASAWASA(God of the Ocean)
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Second Session of the Regional GOOS Forum

• WAGOOS Regional Activities for Year 2003
• R K Steedman
• February 2004

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Content

• Organisation
• Coordination
• Contribution to GOOS Implementation
• Capacity Building
• Impediments to Progress
• Lessons Learned
• Success Story
• Financial

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Organisation

• Western Australian Global Ocean Observing System
  Incorporated - limited liability
• 40 individuals
• 26 organisations
• Commonwealth Gov CSIRO, BOM, AIMS, NAVY, DSTO
• State Government CALM, DEP, Fisheries,
  Transport, Commerce
• Universities Curtin, UWA, Murdoch
• Oil and Gas Woodside Energy, APEA
• Offshore Contractors WNI, Fastwave Iridium,
  Sverdrup Tech
• Legal Freehills (Perth)

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Mechanism for Coordination

• 4 meetings of members per year
• agreed strategy and annual plan
• specialist working groups
• support national and state research
• support applied oceanography for industry and
  government

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Coordination with other GOOS Bodies

• IOC Perth Regional Office
• Indian Ocean GOOS

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Contribution to Observing System

• Members contribute to
• ship borne observations
• Argo floats
• tide gauges
• moored current meters and APC arrays
• moored meteorological buoys
• wind wave measurement
• oil gas platform meteorological and wave
  observations
• satellite remote sensing
• other

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Contribution to GOOS Implementation

• Members contribute to
• International
• GODAE
• Argo
• INSTANT
• National
• BlueLink ocean forecast
• SRFME
• Timor Sea Project (PIT)
• Prawns project coastal IOGOOS
• other

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Capacity Building

• Members contribute to
• AMSA Conference, Perth (February 2003)
• Industry Priority for Oceanographic Research
  (August 2004)
• Tropical Futures Forum, Darwin (April 2004)
• Coastal IOGOOS - biodiversity mapping (in
  progress)
• Coastal IOGOOS - prawn fisheries management (in
  progress)
• Indian Ocean strategy (in progress)

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Impediments to Progress

• Problems encountered are
• maintaining an effective organization
• understanding needs of stakeholders and public
• promote GOOS at state and federal levels
• maintaining interest of individuals
• securing long term funding for WAGOOS
• effectively coordinate regional GOOS activities

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Success Story Timor Sea Focus Area
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Success Story

• Timor Sea demonstration project shall contribute
  to understanding of
• ocean processes
• large regular and irregular internal waves
• annual and inter-annual temperature and salinity
  variations
• operational ocean modeling

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Success Story

• Timor Sea demonstration project shall contribute
  to management of
• sustainable development
• offshore engineering reliability and safety
• sustainable fisheries management
• environmental assessment and compliance

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WAGOOS Financial Position

• Estimate financial projections to year end 30
  June 2004
• revenue A50,000 pa
• costs fixed A35,000 pa
• costs variable A15,000 pa

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OUTLOOK

• Timor Sea Project operations and data
• Near real time modelling of Timor Sea
• Tropical Australia futures
• Implementation of Prawn projects
• Improved coordination with SEAGOOS