Global Ocean Observing Systems Action Group (GOOSAG)

The UK GOOS Action Group (GOOSAG)  is operated under the Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology (IACMST). The responsibilities of the group lie with coordinating the UK input to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and EuroGOOS.

 

Its main focus is on the physical nature of the marine environment and indicators (including biological) of short and long term variations in weather and climate.

 

GOOSAG represents the Marine Processes and Climate sector groups, one of the four which feeds into the Marine Monitoring Coordination Group (MMCG). GOOSAG co-ordinated the overall production of the sector report on Marine Processes and Climate as its contribution to the Defra Charting Progress report released in March 2005.

 

JNCC represents the conservation sector and provides advice on biodiversity to this group, as part of a wider environmental surveillance programme, where information  available from other organisations will be used in order to assess the status (known as condition) of; and identify trends in; marine features on protected sites.