The Ocean Data Connector Series with Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
CIOOS partnered with Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) to offer a Discussion Series to explore how data sharing drives coastal and marine collaboration and innovation.
The OSC is creating opportunities to grow the ocean economy in new and innovative ways. Collaborations across organizations, sectors and regions create synergies that are essential to addressing ocean challenges, fostering long-term growth, and supporting economic recovery. A key factor to enable collaboration is the exchange of information. The Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System (CIOOS) is a national collaboration to share high-quality data and information, in both English and French, on the state of our coasts and oceans. The ability to discover and access high-quality spatial data underpins sustainable development and an improved understanding of our coasts and oceans that can drive economic innovation. Before organizations can begin making better operational decisions, realizing strong commercial outcomes and building capacity across sectors, they must have the ability to share, manage, access, and visualize data.
Session 1. Exploring Data Exchange with Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and the Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System
This session was held on November 30th, 2020 from 1:30 to 3:30pm AST. The session provided insights from both organizations on approaches to open data and data exchange and how they contribute to coastal and marine collaboration and innovation. Breakout sessions following the presentations focused on exploring barriers and challenges to exchanging sensitive or restricted data that provided insights from a variety of sectors for consideration and discussion.
Watch the Interactive Data Spectrum exercise at the link below, where audience members weighed in on the factors that determine their organization’s or company’s approach to data exchange.
Session 2. Innovative Approaches to Data Tools and Applications Using Data Exchange
This session was held on December 7th, 2020 from 1:30 to 3:30pm AST. This session explored ways organizations can discover, access, share, manage and visualize data from multiple sources to support informed operational decision making in marine environments. An interactive panel discussion and follow-on breakouts offered perspectives from a variety of sectors and gave members the opportunity to collectively discuss approaches to key industry challenges that coastal and ocean data exchange can support.
Watch this session’s panel discussion at the link below. The panel discussion was moderated by Susan Hunt, Chief Technology Officer with Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, this cross-sectoral panel focused on transforming data into information by exploring approaches for using data applications, tools and visualizations to support operational decisions.
Panel Members:
- Dr. James Munroe, Associate Professor, Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Dr. Joel Culina, Oceanographer, Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE)
- Julie Angus, CEO, Open Ocean Robotics
- Laura Dwyer, R&D Manager, Grieg NL
- Terry Bullock, Principal Meteorologist, Wood
Session 3. Solutions and Strategies for Data Exchange
This session was held on December 14th, 2020 from 1:30 to 3:30pm AST. The session featured national and international guest speakers who shared their experiences and success stories using data exchange as a powerful tool for driving collaboration and innovation across sectors. Follow-on breakouts continued to build on these talks to explore solutions and strategies for collaboratively continuing this work going forward.
This session included three presentations, watch them at the link below.
- The Nunavut Fishery – The Requirement for Data Collection and Sharing with Brian Burke, Executive Director, Nunavut Fisheries Association
- Schrödinger’s Data: Why your data is worthless and priceless at the same time with Dr. Mike Smit, Project Lead, CIOOS Atlantic; Associate Professor, Dalhousie School of Information Management
- A Digital Ocean Transformation with Steven Adler, CEO, Ocean Data Alliance
