2022 Report of the Technical Committee on Monitoring

MONITOR – 2022 2022 Report of the Technical Committee on Monitoring Day 1 The Technical Committee MONITOR held two in-person (with three members participating virtually) business meetings on September 25 and 28, 2022, in Busan, Korea and virtual. [...] Sixteen session and 11 workshop proposals were submitted and reviewed by MONITOR members based on the following criteria: (1) Relevance to PICES-2023 Scope, (2) Quality of proposal, and (3) Does your Committee Sponsors this proposal? Scope: PICES-2023 occurs just a few years into the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and is a chance to assess PICES progress to date. [...] Four sessions were recommended out of 16 topic session proposals and 4 workshops were recommended out of 11 session proposals, including comments on merging of similar and related sessions and on ocean observations/monitoring related topics. [...] 5 MONITOR – 2022 AGENDA ITEM 9 Other business The Chair recapped the Day 1 discussions on POMA and Summer School for the Indigenous Community; Committee members agreed to note the status of Chinese delegates’ attendance in other committees as our Chinese MONITOR committee members have been absent for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022); the Chair has reported the given situation to. [...] The Chair recapped the Day 1 discussions on POMA and Summer School for the Indigenous Community; Committee members agreed to note the status of Chinese delegates’ attendance in other committees as our Chinese MONITOR committee members have been absent for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022); the Chair has reported the given situation...