Workshop goals: to guide the development of best practices and operating practices, to promote their documentation, and to share them widely using the Ocean Best Practices System.

To attend, Registration is necessary. Please REGISTER for the workshop HERE – NOW CLOSED

Plenaries: 5 October (3 hours) and 19 October (1.5 hours) covering 2 different time zones.  Theme Sessions will meet between Plenaries (06-16 October), at times of their own choosing. 

AGENDA can be viewed HERE

Workshop Timetable Overview:

Theme Sessions may cover any subject relating to ocean best practices and can be one hour or longer, on multiple days between 06-16 October, as planned by the proposed session lead.  

Calendar for Theme Sessions: (sample screen)

 Theme Sessions  (please click on title to see description)

1.  Air-Sea Interaction	11.  Marine Biodiversity
2.  Arctic Best Practices	12.  Marine Life: co-design across the Ocean Decade
3.  Capacity Development	13.  Operational Forecasting
4.  Coastal Observation for Under-Resourced Countries	14. Organisational Co-operation
5.  Data Interoperability	15. Ocean Policy and Best Practices
6.  Decision Trees	16.  QC of Chemical Ocean Profile Data
7.  Deep Sea Observing	17.  Seagrass Monitoring
8. eDNA	18. Time Series Observations and Downstream Data Management
9.  Environmental Plastics – Citizen Science observations	19. Transparency and Traceability in ocean observing
10. Fisheries and Aquaculture

“Cafes” 

Informal gatherings to discuss topics of workshop interest will be scheduled on the TeamUp Calendar (above) and general information on the Cafe rooms will be on QiqoChat

Workshop Support

Tech Support contacts and options are detailed HERE

ALL SESSIONS TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM AND ARE ACCESSED VIA THE “QIQOCHAT” PLATFORM. After you register, you will immediately receive an email from “OCEAN BEST PRACTICES SYSTEM’ with your personal login link for QiqoChat.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED AND CANNOT LOCATE THE EMAIL WITH YOUR LOGIN LINK, CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO QIQOCHAT AND LOG IN AS A “GUEST.”

We look forward to hearing from you.   Please circulate this invitation to colleagues.

Should you have any questions, please e-mail us at info[at]oceanbestpractices.org

The OBPS Workshop VI Code of Conduct

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Images of presenters, workshop group photographs, list of participants names and presentations and a workshop recording will be included in the proceedings and/or made available on the web; by registering for this workshop you grant the OBPS Workshop VI Organizers permission to do this.

Acknowledgements

The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the OceanObs Research Coordination Network (NSF grant 1728913) for providing financial support for Workshop VI, and for organizational support, to IODE, GOOS, IEEE OES, and also projects JERICO and EuroSea. Many volunteers and the community have helped organize the agenda and sessions.