Meeting of the SAON Executive Committee (EC) | |
When | 21st September 2015, 17:00-18:00 CET |
Venue | Teleconference |
Participants |
Eva Kruemmel (EK, ICC), Larry Hinzman (LH, IASC, vice-Chair), Lars-Otto Reiersen (LOR, AMAP), Lisa Loseto* (LL, CON), Jan René Larsen (JRL, AMAP), Peter Pulsifer (PP, ADC), Volker Rachold* (VR, IASC) *=part time |
Apologies | Christine Daae Olseng |
Meeting notes | JRL |
Agenda:
Agenda:
- Action items from 2SEP2015: http://www.arcticobserving.org/8-site-content/137-2015-04-09
- PDF/ADC meeting in Waterloo: https://rd-alliance.org/second-polar-data-forum-pdf-ii-27-29-october-2015-waterloo-ontario-canada.html
- Board and CON meetings at ASSW/AOS: https://assw2016.org
- Fixing the dates
- Agenda, including review of SAON
- GEO/GEOSS
- AOB
Actions:
LL: Contact Mike Kuperberg, USGCRP and discuss potential SAON/CON contributions to the indicators’ initiative.
CDO, LL, JRL: Meet and discuss how CON can contribute to EU PolarNet.
CDO, JRL, VC: Develop a proposal for establishing a SAON outreach group, also involving the Board. In general, there is little information coming from SAON. When there is a product, this should be announced.
EK, PP: Consider with Noor Johnson to provide a paper on the CBM Atlas for the PDF.
JRL: Register the dates for the Board meeting (16. and 17. March).
CDO, LH, JRL: Fix the dates CON and make a registration for the Arctic Observing Summit
JRL: Write the first draft for document for AOS on SAON.
CDO, JRL: Put together the first bullets for a SAON Board agenda.
JRL: Write a SAON one-pager on SAON and give it to PP, who will arrange that it is brought to the GEO Ministerial Summit 13 November 2015
JRL: Contact Tom Armstrong, Mikko Strahlendorf and the GEO Secretariat in order to discuss next steps in the development of the SAON/GEO relationship, especially the concept ‘SAON – The Arctic Wing of GEO’.
For the Board meeting agenda:
- Ask GEO to make a focucussed presentation on the SAON/GEO relationship
- Add ASDI
JRL: Provide GEO document to LH.
PP: Circulate contribution to POLARIS and consider making it a SAON contribution.