CoML beyond 2010: Science CouncilEstablished in Auckland, New Zealand, November 2007In NZ there was consensus: An overarching program should

continue beyond 2010 CoMLResponsible for planning and implementing a follow-up

program to CoML in 2010-2020International composition: SSC, Census projects and NRICs1st formal meeting Valencia Spain November 2008

Following SSC meeting, Marine Biodiversity Conference2nd ad hoc meeting February 2009

Barb Block, Stanford Univ

Antje Boetius, Germany (ChEss CoML)

Lucia Campos, Brazil (Deep Sea & Antarctic CoML) 

Dan Costa, UCSC Chair

Roberto Danovaro, Italy (EuroCoML)

Kats Fujikura, Japan (Japan CoML)

John Gunn, Australia (Technology, TOPP)

Brian MacKenzie, Denmark (HMAP)

Ian Poiner, Australia (CoML)

Mike Sinclair, Canada (CoML, ICES)

Sun Song, China (China CoML)

Patricia Miloslavich, Venezuela (All CoML)

Ed Urban, USA (SCOR)

Enric Sala, USA/Spain (National Geo.)

Shubha Sathyendranath, Canada/India (POGO)

Isabel Sousa-Pinto, Portugal (EuroCoML)

Tonny Wagey, Indonesia (Indonesia CoML & Coral Triangle

Initiative)

Ed Urban, USA (SCOR)

CoML II program:CoML 2000-2010:Focused on the known, unknown and unknowable:

created a baseline of information on what lives in the ocean

CoML 2010-2020:Focus on unknown from perspective of unexplored and

unexplained: provide an integrated view of marine environment, from a single snapshot to a dynamic view of marine biodiversity

Provide a better understanding of how marine biodiversity is maintained and can be protected

CoML II program:1) Build on success of first CoML and apply knowledge

and understanding to resources and management

2) Maintain the CoML structure that was so successful and facilitated interactions and conclusions

3) Continuation and enhancement of the communication networks that have been established for program management and conveying international discoveries

CoML II program cont:4) Communication network also to reach out educational

organizations and governments

5) Importance of focusing on climate change and supplying biological components to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

Main challenges:How to continue the efforts started under the CoML and

to capitalize on what we've learned to move us forward into a second decade of the program

Develop a science plan that is compelling and exciting

Develop a strategy to acquire the necessary funding to maintain the overarching infrastructure (social and administrative networks) required to maintain such an integrated program.

Question 1: Does your Census project have funding beyond 2010?

4 projects without funding beyond 201014 projects science will continue but as a series of loosely affiliated efforts

Question 1: How many projects are planning or attempting to obtain some organizational support beyond 2010?

Question 2:What specific geographic locations & sub-

habitats (e.g., more specific than chemosynthetic ecosystem or near-shore) did you cover in your first Census project?

How might you want to expand this scope

under a second Census?

Question 3: Are there any technologies you are NOT currently using in your Census project that would be useful for future studies?

ROVs and AUVs Functional genomicsIntegrated electronic tagsImaging tools Better infrastructure

Teleconferencing to increase efficiency and reduce carbon footprint.

Question 4: What were the most valuable benefits of participating in the first Census program that should be maintained in a new program after 2010

Fostering new collaborations across international boundaries

Exposure to the diversity of researchAssistance with or creating Education and

Outreach materials

Question 4: What could be done better?Greater emphasis on cross-cutting themesEarlier emphasis on collaboration and coordinationMore effective use of teleconferencing to reduce travel Better language support for non-English speaking

countries especially for press releases, brochures, etc, Improved emphasis on CoML’s power to open doors Reduction in administrative loads such as reports, and

better timetables for reporting More financial support Better explanation of and/or use of NRIC’s with

possibly more responsibilityImproved support for sample collection and storage.

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What do you see as important overarching science issues that can be addressed through a follow-on program to the Census?

What new views of marine biodiversity should be further explored or verified in a follow-on program?

Can the experiences you’ve had in the Census (personally and within your project’s scope) contribute to that?

Question 5:

9 Yes, 5 Maybe, 4 NoAgreed it would facilitate CoML researchers to

maintain contact and/or collaboration. Often get lost in existing meetings (ASLO; Ocean

Sciences etc)An excellent way to continue support for the topic and

to generate and/or continue the media attention on this topic

Yes but make it every other year to avoid meeting overload

Question 6:Sustain the Census network by establishing a new

interdisciplinary professional society focused on marine biodiversity. Would you join such a society?

Duplicative effort, such professional societies already exist

It depended on the cost to join and the benefits gained

Not be enough ‘glue’ to keep the Census going, collaborations require more than an annual meeting

Interest in a journal on the topic, but concern that there are journals that have specific sections related to this topic (e.g. the journal Marine Biodiversity).

Where would the funding come from?Could this be done within an existing society?

Question 6:Would you be interested in joining a new interdisciplinary

professional society focused on marine biodiversity?

Question 7: Comment on the name

Biodiversity in a Changing Ocean: Beyond the Census of Marine Life

Some liked the name, most thought it too long

A good slogan, but not a nameAcronym like CoML needed for better

appeal and marketing‘Beyond’ could convey negative that there

was something wrong with CoML I

Life in a Changing Ocean

Looking forward from the 2010 baseline

Outline Science Plan Mission Statement: The need for the new

program (Why now? Why us?)Science Goals: What are the new

questions to answer and how will we do it?

Organizational Structure: Preliminary thoughts on how to manage the program

Mission Statement: The need for the new program (Why now? Why us?)

What are the major drivers that control /determine:

AbundanceDistributionMovements

What factors drive the connectivity and interactions between marine organisms

Social networking of marine organismsMaking the Ocean transparentCoML 2010 was a snapshot, CoML 2020 will be

a video

Mission Statement: The need for the new program (Why now? Why us?)

Renewed informed discovery and explorationLacked expertiseLacked resourcesLacked technologyNeeded to identify the gapsThe first CoML has generated lots of surprisesWe now need models and predictionsNow poised to make connections to societal issues

Mission Statement: The need for the new program (Why now? Why us?)

What do we need to know to address what is changing ?

What are the responses from a human and marine organism perspective? Connectivity and productivity- chains of change

What are the boundaries and connections of marine organisms and/or habitats?

Science Goals: What are the new questions to answer and how will we do it?

The Census has the technology and expertise to study from microbes, prey & predators

Look for projects that are linked across the CoML

Employ experimental approachSynchronicity

Int’l Quiet Ocean Experiment4 hrs of quiet and observe change in animal behaviorNighttime illumination of ocean and its effect?

Science Goals: What are the new questions to answer and how will we do it?

Does biodiversity follow through the water column?

Or is the water column decoupled?Is the new biogeography of the ocean

correct?Requires modeling and allows predictions and hypothesis testingCan tell us what and where the gaps are

Provides guidance for informed explorationWhat are the boundaries and connections

of marine organisms and/or habitats?

Preliminary thoughts on how to manage the program?Optimistic

Similar level of supportSecretariat-SSCEducation & OutreachSupport for Core efforts of programs

Consider reorganization /consolidation of programs based on realmsDeep sea, Coastal zone, Open-ocean, ice-oceans, Distribution, OBIS, F/HMAP

Preliminary thoughts on how to manage the program.Pessimistic

Find countries or Institutes that would be willing to host:Secretariat

Each core programSupport Int’l office with funds from core programs($5-40K per program or nation)

Secretariat Rotates every 3 yrs like InterRidge ProgramCould PICES/ICES host components of CoML 2020?

Preliminary thoughts on how to manage the programGovernment, Foundations, Oil & Gas Industry

2 day Symposium in London 2010

Kick off CoML 2020 with Open Science Meeting in 2011Followed by a workshop or series of workshops