ANNEXES

Annex I: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Steering Committee:

Michael H. Glantz
Program Director, Environmental and Societal Impacts Groups
National Centre for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, USA

Johannes Bouma
Professor of Soil Inventarisation & Land Evaluation,
Director Research Institute of Production Ecology
University of Wageningen, Dept. of Soil Science and Geology
Wageningen, THE NETHERLANDS

Claudio Caponi
Senior Advisor
Ministero del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables (MARNR)
Caracas, VENEZUELA

Antonio Cendrero
Professor, Head of the Earth Science Division
Universidad de Cantabria, Facultad de Ciencias
Santander, SPAIN

Michael D. Gwynne
Nairobi, KENYA

Anthony Janetos
Team Leader, Land-Cover & Land-Use Program
Science Division - Code YS/NASA Headquarters
Washington DC, USA

Co-sponsors:

Marc Bied-Charreton
Chief, Environmental and Natural Resources Service (SDRN)
FAO
Rome, ITALY

Robert Brinkman
Director, Land and Water Development Division (AGL), FAO
Rome, ITALY

Marion Cheatle
Programme Officer
Division of Environment Information and Assessment
UNEP
Nairobi, KENYA

Leo Breslin
Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary General
WMO
Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Badaoui Rouhban
Senior Programme Specialist
Bureau for Coordination of Environment Programmes
UNESCO
Paris, FRANCE

Bernard Tinker
Representative of ICSU
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM

GTOS Secretariat:

Anne Aubert
Programme Assistant
GTOS Secretariat
Rome, ITALY

Hal Kibby
Senior Scientist
Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Jeff Tschirley
Director a.i., GTOS Secretariat
Rome, ITALY

GCOS and GOOS

Tom Spence
Director, GCOS Joint Planning Office
Geneva, Switzerland

Colin Summerhayes
Director, GOOS Project Office
Paris, France

Annex II: AGENDA

Annex III: OVERALL OUTLINE FOR THE GTOS PLAN

I. Executive Summary

II. Needs and Rationale

III. Vision and Principles

A. Vision Statement

B. Main Principles

1. Governance

2. Value-added

3. Data quality and harmonization

4. Data ownership and distribution

5. Methods evolution

6. Data use

7. Identification of gaps

IV. General Activities and Users

A. Overall Statement

B. Facilitation of National and Regional Programs

C. Collaboration and Support for Research Programs

D. Guidance for Funding

E. Potential Uses of Data

1. Magnitude and impacts of global change

2. Development and validation of models

3. Facilitation of early warning

4. Scientific understanding

5. Effects of toxic exposures

6. Planning for sustainable development

V. Structure

A. Co-Sponsors

1. Role

2. Membership

B. Steering Committee

1. Main Committee

a. Role

b. Membership

2. Network Panel

a. Role

b. Membership

3. Working Groups

a. Role

b. Membership

C. Secretariat

1. Role

2. Organization

VI. GTOS Programme

A. Policy Development (?)

B. Prototype Network

1. Goals

2. Criteria

3. Activities

C. Users Needs Identification

1. International Agencies, Organizations, and Programmes

a. IGBP

b. CGIAR

c. ICSU

d. Environment related international agreements and conventions

e. IPCC

f. State of the World reporting

g. International programs

2. National Governments and Programmes

3. Private Sector Customers

VII. Tasks for the Near Term: Prepatory Phase

A. Strengthening GTOS

1. Define GTOS more clearly (A)

2. Establish GTOS boundaries (A)

3. Develop GTOS plan (A)

4. Obtain Secretariat funding for years 2-4 (A)

5. Develop draft GTOS benefits package for GTOS as a whole (B; by December)

6. Develop draft policies; especially for information and data management, publications policy and programme (perhaps year 2)

B. Starting the Prototype Network (A)

1. Identify Goals of Prototype

a. Create a learning environment

b. Forum for comparison of methods

c. Forum for sharing and exchange of data relevant to the specific interests of GTOS

d. Forum for sharing and exchange of data relevant to the specific interests of the networks themselves

e. Series of reports (number is quite unclear)

2. Identify Network Panel

a. Select several members from Steering Committee

b. Identify candidates from prototypes networks themselves

3. Draft Criteria for Selection

a. Technical competence (need to smooth this out)

b. International interest

c. Active data gathering

d. Focus on one of the 5 key GTOS issues; perhaps initially terrestrial ecosystems, food, freshwater

e. Areal coverage/extent of coverage

f. Coverage of data-poor geographic regions

g. Element of functional complementarity

h. Expectation of continuity

4. Identify Potential Goals of the Prototype Network Case Study

a. What is purpose of network, who asked for it, what does it measure?

b. Analyze selection of methods: why are you doing what you’re doing

c. Analyze the direct use of monitoring data

d. Analyze modeling use of monitoring data

e. Analyze data gaps

f. Analyze approaches to filling data gaps

g. Analyze different approaches to upscaling issues

5. Identify Candidates for Prototype Network

6. Approach and Select Candidates (year 2)

7. Develop case histories (year 2)

C. Establish Working Groups

1. Roles

2. Terms of Reference

3. Goals

D. Initiate User Needs Activity

E. Outreach to GCOS and GOOS

1. Improve working contacts with GCOS and GOOS at Secretariat and substantive levels

2. Preliminary consultations with GOOS and GCOS on joint coastal program

F. Continue participation in joint standing panels

1. DIMP

2. GOSSP

VIII. Tasks for the Near Term: Establishment Phase

A. Strengthening GTOS

1. Implement policies for information and data management

2. Implement publications policy and programme

3. Review TEMS strategy and database

4. Emphasize importance of GTOS products to national policy development and planning and in increasing scientific understanding

5. Develop independent review policy for GTOS

6. Define initial set of variables for non-climate topics

B. Starting the Prototype Network

1. Identify Network Panel

2. Approach and select candidates

3. Develop case histories

4. Develop database centers

C. Continue Working Groups

D. Continue (Finish?) User Needs Activity

1. Workshop

2. Publish report

E. Devise Strategy for Involving Individual Governments

F. Address Upscaling Issue

1. Workshop

2. Network Panel

G. Outreach to GCOS and GOOS

1. Implement first phase of a coastal program

H. Continue participation in joint standing panels

1. JDIMP

2. GOSSP

IX. Tasks for the Third Year

A. Review GTOS

B. Facilitate Data Distribution and Access

C. National Governments

1. First Expert Group meeting for ascertaining role of governments in GTOS

2. First GTOS mission to individual countries

X. GTOS in the 21^st Century

A. God Only Knows

B. It is Revealed to the Steering Committee

Appendices:

History of the GxOS’s

History of the GTOS

Executive Summary of Planning Document