• A coalesced coherent national operational oceanography sector providing robust sustained operational oceanography products and services with effective and efficient structuring and integration of national, regional, and local entities and efforts
  • Informed decision-making:
    • Enhancing Blue Economy sectors
    • Sustaining marine ecosystems
    • Enabling coastal resilience
  • Effective operational oceanography communication, with greater utility to the ocean user community, by exploiting social science when developing products and services to optimize the extraction and application of knowledge, thereby enhancing decision-making and societal benefit
  • A foci for non-academic operational careers in routinely implementing and applying oceanographic science, creating and broadening opportunities for enhanced representation in the oceanography work force and ocean-related technical fields
  • New operational oceanography capabilities from infusing core ocean sciences with innovative science approaches (artificial intelligence, Big Data, etc.)

Drivers

  • National need for a clear structure of roles and responsibilities within a national operational oceanography enterprise
  • National need for increased operational oceanography capacity for informed decision-making
  • National need for sustained and robust operational oceanography products and services
  • National need to leverage national, regional, local resources, spanning government, non-government, private, and academic sectors, to enable a coherent operational oceanography enterprise
  • Need for a coherent vision for contributions of the Nation’s operational oceanography enterprise to global collaborations and efforts, such as those enunciated in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development