International ocean science and industry partnership platform for ocean observations

The World Ocean Council is developing a global portal for coordinating scientific community collaboration with ocean industries in collecting oceanic and atmospheric information. The International Ocean Science and Industry Partnership Platform is being developed as a major new initiative and opportunity for “ocean positive” industry leadership in contributing to the long term understanding, health and management of the ocean. This will provide the structure and process for facilitating scientific community collaboration with industry in collecting data that: a) contributes to describing the status, trends and variability of ocean and atmosphere conditions and b) improves the understanding, modeling and forecasting of ocean ecosystems, resources, weather, climate variability and climate change. The portal will ensure that scientific community interaction with shipping and other ocean industries is coordinated, efficient, cost effective and is integrated into national and international science programs.