Steering Group

About the Steering Group

The EOOS Steering Group was established in early 2016 to guide the development of EOOS.

The Steering Group (SG) is the top-level governance structure tasked to approve all decisions concerning EOOS strategy and implementation.
The EOOS SG meets on average twice a year, and it is advised by the other EOOS committees. The EOOS Steering Group’s key responsibilities are to:

Guide EOOS governance
Drive the EOOS implementation and track its performance
Engage with key stakeholders to maintain support for EOOS
Communicate EOOS to the wider community
Approve EOOS pilot projects
Ensure links between EOOS and relevant international initiatives (e.g. GOOS).

The mandate for Steering Group membership is four years, with members of the next SG selected by the existing SG. Members of the SG are also observers in all other EOOS committees.

Resources

EOOS concept note on Benefits of Ocean Observation PDF (195.50 KB)

EOOS concept note on integration needs in biological observations PDF (103.71 KB)

EOOS concept note on mapping infrastructures and capabilities PDF (89.24 KB)

EOOS concept note on MSFD monitoring optimization PDF (104.62 KB)

Implementation Plan 2018-2022 PDF (154.57 KB)

Strategy 2018-2022 PDF (588.26 KB)

Consultation 2018 PDF (484.20 KB)

People

Inga Lips
Chair, Secretary General - EuroGOOS
Sheila Heyman
Vice-Chair, Executive Director -European Marine Board
George Petihakis
Research Director - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Isabel Sousa Pinto
Head - Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research
Pierre-Yves Le Traon
Scientific Director - Mercator Ocean International
Thorsten Kiefer
Chair of EOOS Resource Forum, Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans
Laurent Delauney
Chair of EOOS Operations Committee, Ifremer
Kate Larkin
Deputy Head of Secretariat, EMODnet