1. Bob Keeley Marine Environmental Data Service Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Ottawa, Canada Jun, 2006 SeaDataNet Meeting

2. MEDS (Marine Environmental Data Service) MEDS is Canada’s national oceanographic data centre Oceanographic data in Canada are collected by federally funded research facilities and monitoring networks, other national agencies. Our archives also contain data from international partners and through international programmes.

3. Responsibilities MEDS leads a national committee (newly formed) to coordinate ocean data management within our Department of Fisheries and Oceans. MEDS is directly responsible for the assembly, processing, archiving and dissemination of: ocean profiles (physical, chemical, biological) and associated data surface drifters surface wave and associated wind data water levels and tide gauges contaminants data and information More recently we have started work in managing data and information on: plankton data aquatic animal health invasive species acoustic tagging of fish

4. Experience MEDS has contributed to a number of projects. Within these, we have contributed in the developments of: standard procedures for quality assessment of profile data standard quality flags duplicate analysis procedures using unique tags for data controlled vocabularies for variable names data system monitoring tools

5. BATHY (mostly XBTs) TESAC (mostly Argo floats) TRACKOB (surface underway data) BUOY (moored and drifting) Observing System Status: 2006, Q1 Temperature Profiles Goal: 100% Global Coverage Requirement: All boxes blue Sampling requirements: 1 profile Every 10 days In every 3 x 3 º Quarterly Reporting

6. DMAC I am a member of the US DMAC Steering Team and chair the International Caucus DMAC = Data Management And Communications subsystem == SeaDataNet is a US focused program is to be the link between data collectors and clients is still in initial stages of funding - requested budget not yet approved The role of the International Caucus is to: provide DMAC with connections to activities outside of the US to encourage working links to outside activities Some of your SeaDataNet colleagues are members of the IC Jun, 2006

7. DMAC Composed of Expert Teams for metadata - linking to the Marine Metadata Initiative of MBARI archives transport and access system engineering + some consideration of orphans (IT security, browse, QC) + representatives of various federal organizations + caucuses (private industry, modeling, international, regional associations) First results (May, 2006): netCDF with CF conventions standards adoption process building link to QARTOD work on data quality assessment working on controlled vocabularies as well 2 independent conceptual designs completed by Sep, 2006

8. JCOMM JCOMM is a global organization with:  Approximately 250 experts in marine meteorology and oceanography  A global network to provide maritime services including the provision of weather and sea bulletins.  6500 volunteer merchant vessels observing meteorology and surface oceanography.  120 volunteer vessels observing subsurface temperature and salinity.  1250 drifters observing meteorology and surface oceanography.  100’s of moored ocean buoys for meteorology and ocean parameters.  Partnership with global programs such as Argo, TAO  400 tidal stations for sea level, some reporting in real time.  Arctic and Antarctic ice monitoring.  Collaborations with the satellite community  The capacity to provide end-to-end data management support  A number of nations carrying out numerical modelling and data assimilation.  A major focus on capacity building and implementation assistance for services. Jun, 2006 http://www.jcommops.org/ http://www.wmo.ch/web/aom/marprog/marprog.html http://ioc.unesco.org/goos/jcomm.htm

9. Organization Jun, 2006 Rapporteurs on CB

10. DMPA Developments Jun, 2006 Draft data management strategy to be circulated mid year 2006 Meeting of DMPA + reps from OPA, SPA in October to seek commonalities and review strategy Prominent components will be adoption of standards data discovery needs strong links to other programs