{"id":5992,"date":"2014-04-24T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2014\/04\/24\/workshop-on-ocean-industry-data-collection-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2014-04-24T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:41:00","slug":"workshop-on-ocean-industry-data-collection-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/workshop-on-ocean-industry-data-collection-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on ocean industry data collection in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event will take place in Montreal from 27-29 May 2014, and will set the stage for an initial Canadian Atlantic pilot project on ocean observations by industry, in support of Canada\u2019s commitment to trans-Atlantic research under the \u2018Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation\u2019, with potential for future expansion to the Pacific and Arctic Oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will bring together representatives from sectors including fisheries and aquaculture; shipping, oil and gas; marine technology; universities; oceanographic and metrological organisations and existing voluntary ocean observation programs.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop objectives are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Develop a common understanding between and across business and the scientific community on the scope, scale and intent of existing voluntary observation programs, especially those in Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the key barriers to scaling up these programs, e.g. human capacity, resource needs, installation requirements, organisational structures, legal issues, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Develop the structure and process for advancing voluntary observations in Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Develop a strategic plan for the processing and sharing of the data. <\/li>\n<li>Develop the roadmap and work plan for a pilot project in the Canadian Atlantic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People interested in giving a presentation relevant to the workshop objectives and draft program, or those interested in chairing a workshop session are encouraged to contact Paul Holthus at <a href=\"mailto:paul.holthus@oceancouncil.org\" target=\"_blank\">paul.holthus@oceancouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The draft workshop program is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/meopar.ca\/register-now-for-meopar-woc-smart-oceansmart-industry-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\">MEOPAR website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Ocean Council (WOC) and Canada\u2019s Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response (MEOPAR) Network are organising an international workshop to advance ocean industry data collecting and sharing in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}