IMOS

Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System

Presentation to the TERN Symposium29th March, 2011

Presentation Outline

1. Status of current investments

2. Research infrastructure available

3. Uptake and use of the data streams (infrastructure)

4. Potential for collaboration with TERN

– N.B. IMOS perspective

Status of current investments

• IMOS established 2007

• Ramp-up phase 2007-9

• NCRIS investment peaked in 2009-10

• 2009 EIF investment, to enhance and extend– stable at ~$45M pa

• >50% co-investment– Institutional partners

– Other partners • mainly Aust. Government

– State Governments 2006

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$52M

We are here

$50M

Research infrastructure available

• National-scale, in-situ, ocean observing system

• Integrated (IMOS)– open-ocean to coastal

– physics, chemistry and biology

• Data-centric – all data discoverable, accessible and used by the science community – and others

Research infrastructure available - 10 platform-based national Facilities

• Argo Floats

• Ships of Opportunity

• Deepwater Moorings

• Ocean Gliders

• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

• National Mooring Network

• Ocean Radar

• Animal Tagging and Monitoring

• Wireless Sensor Networks

• Satellite Remote Sensing

Research infrastructure available

• Led by UTAS on behalf of the marine and climate science community– National Office and eMII

• Major institutions around the nation own and operate components of the system– institutional strengths/expertise,

available to all the community

• All make the data available to the whole community– condition of contract

UNSWU Sydney

MacquarieUTS

http://www.sims.org.au/

http://www.jcu.edu.au/

http://www.uwa.edu.au/

http://www.ga.gov.au/

Research infrastructure available“...the recognition of data and information as infrastructure, is central for some capabilities” – NCRIS Evaluation Report

Through the Ocean Portal, eMII provides ...

• information about deployments• ISO-standard metadata

• access to the actual data• plots, visualisations etc• interoperability













Research infrastructure available - IMOS benefiting from and contributing to national e-Research infrastructure

ANDS

TERNAUSCOPE

ALA

Uptake and use of the data streams

• Marine and climate science

• Bluewater and coastal science

• Physics, chemistry and biology (ecosystem)

• In-situ observing and vessel-based observing and remote sensing

• Observations and modelling– Validation and model development

– Data assimilation

– Observing system design

• And very significant international collaboration

• It’s a broad church...


• Decisions about what to observe, and where, are driven by Science Plans addressing five major research themes

– Multi-decadal Ocean Change

– Climate Variability and Weather Extremes

– Major Boundary Currents and Inter-basin Flows

– Continental Shelf Processes

– Ecosystem Responses

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UTAS/TAFICSIROAADACE CRC(IMAS)

UNSWU SydneyMacquarieUTS(SIMS)DECCWNSW I&IDSTO

CSIROUQGriffithQ DERMQ DEEDI(Ecosciences Precinct)

AIMSJCU(TMN)(AIMS@JCU)

AIMSCDUANUNT Govt(ATRF)

UWAAIMSCSIROCurtinMurdochEdith CowanWA DECWA FisheriesWA DoT(WAMSI)(IOMRC)

SARDIFlindersU AdelaideSA ENRPIRSA(MISA)

CSIROGAANUABARES

BOMCSIRO(CAWCR)U MelbourneDeakinMAFRIVic EPA

Major centres of marine and climate science capability in Australia KEY

• Institutions involved in leading IMOS shown in bold

• Cross-institutional initiatives shown in (brackets)


• IMOS investments are guided by community-driven science and implementation plans (Node plans)

• They have all been internationally peer-reviewed

• And have evolved into an IMOS national science plan, with regional Node ‘chapters’

Potential for collaboration with TERN- National, Regional, Functional

• National– Coastal Zone, a ‘shared space’

• Marine, Terrestrial, Freshwater, Geophysical, Atmospheric

– Environmental information• National leadership in changing the culture

• Regional– Making integration real

• Focus of IMOS, Focus of TERN, integrated modelling...

• Functional– Satellite Remote Sensing

– Information Management

Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania

Private Bag 110 Hobart Tasmania 7001

http://www.imos.org.au

Thank you, and thanks to...

• Facility/Sub-Facility Leaders and Staff

• Node Leadership teams and Node members

• Operator Institutions

• Advisory Board

• Partners – co-investors, users

• others in the Australian marine

and climate science community

IMOS

Education

IMOS