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SIBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy Plan and who provide broad geographical representation and gender-balance. The SSC will change periodically over the life span of SIBER following protocols established by IOP. The SSC will meet annually back-to-back with the IOP. A sub-set of the SSC will form an Executive Committee (EC). Flexible and interactive working groups (WG) will focus on and lead the research for each of the six SIBER science themes. A synthesis and integration WG will also be formed to promote the exchange of information amongst the six SIBER WGs and other programs. The SSC, EC and WGs, lead by the SSC Chair, will organize the SIBER work program to maximize efforts in securing the necessary financial resources, international expertise and time to achieve the program objectives. Terms of reference for the SSC, EC and WGs will be drafted. It is envisaged that SIBER will develop funding bids as the program develops, particularly through coordinated efforts with both national and international programs. G L O B A L O C E A N O B S E R V I N G S Y S T E M F O R I N D I A N O C E A N IMBER IOGOOS CLIVAR’s IOP SIBER SIBER Regional GOOSES NEAR-GOOS WAGOOS SEAGOOS INAGOOS IO-CoML Other relevant programs and associations, e.g. GEOTRACES SOLAS CLIOTOP ESSAS WIOMSA ICED BASIN IMOS SANCOR ASCLME BOBLME Fi g u r e 25 Collaboration with other relevant programs is vital to the success of SIBER. Directed jointly by IMBER and IOGOOS, SIBER will generate multidisciplinary links between biologists, oceanographers, biogeochemists, climatologists and fisheries scientists from the international community. 72
SIBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy Co m m u n i c a t i o n Given the international nature of SIBER, communication is fundamental to its success. In order to facilitate communication a SIBER website has been established through IMBER (see http://www.imber.info/SIBER.html). The development of a more comprehensive website is under development through IOGOOS. These sites will be used to coordinate and publicize the activities of SIBER and associated programs, provide the latest news and information on projects and progress, and provide a forum for communicating SIBER science to the widest possible audience. SIBER will contribute articles to international newsletters, such as those of IOGOOS and IMBER. SIBER has already developed the format for a newsletter that will, in due course, be distributed electronically on a semi-annual basis. A series of workshops focusing on SIBER’s six science themes is planned and these will be important for the development, implementation and integration of the program. Reports from the workshops will be published. To develop and maintain communication with the wider IO research community, SIBER science meetings and sessions will be organized. These may be linked to, for example, IOGOOS, IMBER, AGU and EGU conferences and meetings, as well as separate SIBER meetings when the program becomes more established. The first SIBER Open Science Conference was held in Goa, India in October 2006. The second will be held in 2015 at NIO in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE), which is especially noteworthy as the need for a regional facility to support IIOE activities was the motivation for establishing NIO in Goa (Fig. 26). SIBER science results will be published in scientific journals and reports. However, SIBER will endeavor to ensure that the main results will also be accessible to a wider audience, including policy makers, managers and the public. Input will therefore be required to produce summary fact sheets or brochures. Tr a i n i n g a n d e d u c a t i o n SIBER will help to stimulate research capacity in the international community and especially among developing IO rim nations by promoting training courses to develop multidisciplinary science skills, workshops, summer schools and a program of personnel exchange. SIBER will promote public outreach and provide the opportunity to experience IO science through school activities, the internet, special events and exhibitions. The biogeochemical and ecological dynamics of the IO are unique and highly variable due to the influence of the monsoon winds. This variability impacts some of the most populous regions in the world. SIBER will provide a platform from which to address issues such as climate change: not only how it will impact the monsoon winds, coral reefs, the IO coastal zone and human populations, but also wider impacts on a global scale. SIBER will ensure that its activities reach as wide an audience as possible and have the greatest possible impact. SIBER p r o g r a m o u t p u t s a n d l e g a c y As this document has outlined, the IO is changing rapidly as a result of anthropogenicallydriven effects. These changes could have profound consequences for populations, species, biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. They affect biogeochemical cycles and influence the development of management strategies for fisheries. These anthropogenicallydriven changes are already impacting human populations in the coastal zones of the IO and 73
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