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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Marine Science Année : 2022

Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System

Jacques Verron
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Pierre Bahurel
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Mathieu Belbéoch
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Michelle Heupel
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Emma Heslop
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Cora Hörstmann
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Johannes Karstensen
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Pierre Yves Le Traon
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Miguel Marques
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Craig Mclean
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Raul Medina
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Theresa Paluszkiewicz
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Ananda Pascual
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Jay Pearlman
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George Petihakis
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Nadia Pinardi
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Sylvie Pouliquen
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Ralph Rayner
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Iian Shepherd
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Janet Sprintall
Toste Tanhua
Jukka Seppälä
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John Siddorn
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Luis Valdés
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Martin Visbeck
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Anya Waite
Francisco Werner
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John Wilkin
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Ben Williams
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Understanding and sustainably managing complex environments such as marine ecosystems benefits from an integrated approach to ensure that information about all relevant components and their interactions at multiple and nested spatiotemporal scales are considered. This information is based on a wide range of ocean observations using different systems and approaches. An integrated approach thus requires effective collaboration between areas of expertise in order to improve coordination at each step of the ocean observing value chain, from the design and deployment of multi-platform observations to their analysis and the delivery of products, sometimes through data assimilation in numerical models. Despite significant advances over the last two decades in more cooperation across the ocean observing activities, this integrated approach has not yet been fully realized. The ocean observing system still suffers from organizational silos due to independent and often disconnected initiatives, the strong and sometimes destructive competition across disciplines and among scientists, and the absence of a well-established overall governance framework. Here, we address the need for enhanced organizational integration among all the actors of ocean observing, focusing on the occidental systems. We advocate for a major evolution in the way we collaborate, calling for transformative scientific, cultural, behavioral, and management changes. This is timely because we now have the scientific and technical capabilities as well as urgent societal and political drivers. The ambition of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) and the various efforts to grow a sustainable ocean economy and effective ocean protection efforts all require a more integrated approach to ocean observing. After analyzing the barriers that currently prevent this full integration within the occidental systems, we suggest nine approaches for breaking down the silos and promoting better coordination and sharing. These recommendations are related to the organizational framework, the ocean science culture, the system of recognition and rewards, the data management system, the ocean governance structure, and the ocean observing drivers and funding. These reflections are intended to provide food for thought for further dialogue between all parties involved and trigger concrete actions to foster a real transformational change in ocean observing.
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Adèle Révelard, Joaquín Tintoré, Jacques Verron, Pierre Bahurel, John Barth, et al.. Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, 8, ⟨10.3389/fmars.2021.737671⟩. ⟨hal-03646705⟩
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