1. EMODnet Chemistry 2 2 nd Steering Committee CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, Roma (Italy), Aula Golgi (2nd floor), 20-21 January 2014

2. Project Management (WP0) and administrative issues: The Service Contract (signed 16/8/2013), the CA (IFREMER, IMR, ULg, IOF missing) and the Subcontracts (11 sent, 3 to be finalised) Mailing lists (emodnet2-all@googlegroups.com, emodnet2- sc@googlegroups.com) and extranet (ICES to P01 mapping), web portal New institutes connected to the SDN network (ISPRA, SYKE, UkrSCES, SOI, Istanbul University, UHI-MB, YugNIRO). Need training? SDN technical contents in the Emodnet extranet (DM) EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

3. Project Management (WP0) and administrative issues: Next plenary meeting Split: downtown or 4**** hotel on the coast (5 km) first day - start in the afternoon - Steering Committee (10-15 people) second day - full day - Expert group (25 people) third day - full day - Annual Meeting (80 people) fourth day - half day, till midday - Annual Meeting (80 people) EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

4. EMODnet Secretariat: Jan-Bart Calewaert, Liesbeth Renders ( Seascape Consultants, UK ) Commissioned (MARE/2012/15) to coordinate and support (i) the monitoring of EMODnet projects, (ii) the dissemination of their results, (iii) the analysis of user feedback and statistics. To organise EMODnet Steering Committee (secretariat, 7 lots, 2 checkpoints, DG MARE). 1 st meeting: JPI Oceans,16-17/12/2013 Output: development of Entry Portal, 3 SC meeting per year EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

5. EMODnet Secretariat: Next dates 19-20/2/2014 21 st Meeting of the MODEG, Oostende May 2014 2 nd EMODnet Steering Committee Meeting New scheduling for bi-monthly reporting Indicators proposed for the reporting (Dick Schaap) 3 use cases for the Central Portal (interaction among portals): Uc1: combined output from different data products Uc2: Benthic Index Calculation (BEQI) Uc3: coastal data EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

6. EMODnet Secretariat: 3 rd Progress Report with statistics on number of CDI per Discovery Parameter – 1) volume of data number of CDI per Partner – 2) organization supplying data To compute it easily from the CDI User Interface, we need improvements of the C19 vocabulary coverage and descriptions: addition of Macaronesia and Iberian coast (shape files needed) harmonization of the existing terms with MSFD regional seas (Baltic sea and Celtic sea) EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

7. C19 (SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer) Sub-regional seas of Europe, as specified in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD DIKE 5/12/08)

8. EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

9. Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1): ● Overview of the data collection from the regional leaders (10 min. each), ● Proposal for a data central buffer (Dick Schaap), ● Parameters (P01 and P02) for extended Chemistry 2 scope (Dick Schaap), ● Sea regions definition (Neil Holdsworth), EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

10. Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1): ● Overview of the data collection from the regional leaders (10 min. each), ● Proposal for a data central buffer (Dick Schaap), ● Parameters (P01 and P02) for extended Chemistry 2 scope (Dick Schaap), ● Sea regions definition (Neil Holdsworth), EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

11. Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1) - workflow Role of the Regional Leaders: ● To collect bi-monthly updates of available data Role of the all Partners: ● To gather all identified datasets ● To convert all gathered data on ODV format and release a copy to the relevant regional leader ● To compile metadata in CDI format and send all CDI entries to Maris (to populate the CDI data Discovery and Access Service, linked to a local copy of ODV data Role of the Coordinator: ask bi-monthly (?) progress in data gathering to all partners EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014 CDI Service Partners

12. Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1): ● Data policy issues highlighted by Julie Gatti, who made data request via SDN CDI Service and was asked to sign an agreement (MERMAN Public Data Supply Agreement) - data must be made available for products - ● River inflow data were asked in the call, what shall we do? - investigate existing database at national level - EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

13. Data Products generation in sea regions (WP2): ● Deadlines as indicated in the kick-off meeting: M6: start with products generation as DIVA maps and TS plots M9: start with regional products validation with local experts M12: first Expert workshop M9: Use of CHASE assessment tool in the North Sea (Martin M. Larsen), to be presented to the Expert workshop ● Implication of data central buffer for product generation and new coastal visualization tools as discussed at the TWG (Dick Schaap) EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

14. QA/QC - Validation - MSFD interaction (WP3): ● Validation process with local experts - ask to all partners to identify at least 1 local expert (from M6) ● Expert workshop for data-products validation - 1 full day before the Annual Meeting - M9: circulate draft agenda and invite the Experts ● Identification of the Experts from Regional Conventions, WG DIKE, EEA, DG MARE (?) – collect proposals – ● Report from WG-DIKE and MODEG meetings (Giordano Giorgi) EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

15. Portal development and operation (WP4): Report from the TWG on new developments for the next years (Dick Schaap) M9: new functionality in the CDI User Interface for searching based on the distance along the coastline M9: new visualization along (or near) the coastline of a Chemistry data product in OceanBrowser M9: direct link between SEXTANT and Ocean Browser Planning for the next TWG (open issues?) Link between EMODnet Chemistry portal and the central portal EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

16. Analyses and Recommendations (WP5): ● Analysis of feedback from users and stakeholders (Neil Holdsworth) ● Possible collaborations with SDN User Panel (joint survey !?) EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

17. Action List: EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2 nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014