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AA-COASTNET
All Atlantic COASTal observing and technology NETwork
The AA-COASTNET AANChOR Joint Action will establish a network dedicated to Marine Coastal Observation with countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
The Network
Brazil
- SIMCosta: Brazilian Coastal Monitoring System
- PNBoia: The National Buoy Program
- MePro initiative: Best Practices in Ocean Observations
Argentina
- EMAC low-cost buoys and stations monitoring network
South Africa
- SMCRI: Shallow Marine and Coastal Research Infrastructure
- SAIAB: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
West Africa
- PROPAO: Coastal sea Surface temperature network
Cabo Verde
- CVOO: Cabo Verde Ocean Observatory
- OSCM infrastructure: Ocean Science Center of Mindelo
Europe
- JERICO-RI: Joint European Research Infrastructure for Coastal Observations
Advisory entities
- AtlantOS (EU, Trans-Atlantic)
- Alliance for coastal technologies (US)
- Ocean Network Canada (Canada)
- CoastPredict.org
Main Objectives
- Best practises: platform operations and metrology;
- Technology: Needs and Gaps;
- Data: format, banking and data access;
- Country initiatives and needs that could be linked to EOOS Techno Forum, ACT US, UN Ocean Decade Costal predict;
- Transnational Access and Virtual Access;
- Training activities → Metrology, Platform operation, Inter-comparison of existing sensors, Easy access sensors development, etc.;
- Prospective for a long term transatlantic coastal network addressing science topics as for example the land sea continuum.
Tasks
- Task 1: AA-COASTNET workshop
- Task 2: AA-COASTNET Trainings
- Task 3: Website – All Atlantic Coastal Observation
- Task 4: Prospective for a long term transatlantic coastal network
Long term objectives
- promote a better scientific knowledge about the links and exchanges between offshore and inshore/coastal regions;
- to connect, align and maximize the coastal observation efforts already existing in both edges of the tropical and southern Atlantic;
- inducing the use common guidelines that lead to the improvement of the best observation practices;
- keep a close link with open ocean observing networks in the All Atlantic basin;
- promote cooperation and ship-time/equipment sharing, once ships necessarily cross shelf break-shelf-coastal areas;
- to encourage and identify new sources of funds for its maintenance, especially those made available in calls for proposals from international and trans-national funding agencies;
- contributing to the «Predicting Global Coastal Ocean: Toward a More Resilient Society» as proposed for the United Nations Decade;
- to follow the UN Ocean Decade implementation plan and to apply for endorsement by the UN Ocean Decade.