Ocean & Islands Programme May 2007

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1 1 st RIF level trilateral May 2007 PIROP Pacific Island Regional Ocean Policy & Strategic Action Plan 5 Guiding Principles of PIROP 1. Improving our understanding of the ocean. 2. Sustainably developing & monitoring the use of ocean resources. 3. Maintaining the health of the ocean. 4. Promoting the peaceful use of the ocean. 5. Creating partnerships & promoting co-operation. OIP Overarching Goal - Improve technical knowledge of ocean & island ecosystems for the sustainable management of natural resources. Component 1 Resource Use Solutions Component 2 Monitoring Physical & Chemical Change Component 3 Natural Resource Governance Deep sea resources Remote monitoring & mapping systems. at a glance guided by & supports, natural resource governance policy and tools; i.e. ESM, resource economics, catchment management approaches, etc. Oceanography Ground water salinity Sea level measurement Habitat Mapping Water Quality (ecological maintenance) Maritime Boundaries Coastal vulnerability; planning, erosion, aggregates, inundation, etc Hydrodynamic Modelling; wave, current, inundation Bathymetry Principle Component 1 Resource Use Solutions Ocean & coastal spatial surveys & modeling to support resource & ecosystem management & sustainable development. Minerals and aggregate assessment. Coastal engineering & impact assessment advise. Habitat characterisation. Geodetic mapping and surveys. Minerals and Aggregate Assessments and Resource Solutions Establish sustainable alternative aggregate supplies (Funafuti, Tuvalu). Develop understanding of the impacts of beach mining; characterise alternative resource and develop capacity to extract and utilise this resource. OIP + CLP (GIS & remote sensing) + CRP (vulnerability & risk reduction) + Resource Economics 1

2 Physical oceanographic data to provide solutions for Bathymetric mapping (Yasawa waters, Fiji). Supports a range of data needs from navigation & tourism through to fisheries resource, ecological and environmental management, habitat characterisation and data baselines for hydrodynamic modelling. OIP + CLP (GIS & remote sensing) + CRP (bathymetry also underpins hazard mapping & risk assessment, e.g. storm, tsunami) Coastal processes assessment, modelling and advice Monitoring of the placement and physical impacts of outfalls and other coastal infrastructure (Laucala Bay, Fiji). Survey pipeline path to determine best positioning and survey work after establishment to truth and pipe position and performance. OIP + CLP (GIS, supports sanitation objectives) Minerals and aggregate assessments and resource solutions Seabed resources; advise, coordinate research & maintain database. Evaluation of remaining phosphate reserves on Banaba Is., Kiribati & assessment of potential as an HQ aggregate source Banaba/Nauru. Work guided by related benefit / costs analysis of Nauru and / or Banaba as a source of high quality aggregate to urban atolls. OIP + CLP (GIS support) + Resource Economics 5cm PI Petroleum data base; data security, storage, retrieval and maintenance. Physical oceanographic data to provide solutions for Bathymetric survey of selected locations to improve knowledge and develop mapping baselines. Completion and delivery of highly accurate seafloor maps in key locations supports, environmental and fisheries mgt., navigation, hazard modelling e.g. tsunami. Niutao, Tuvalu OIP + CLP (GIS, RS support) + CRP (hazard & risk baseline data) Coastal engineering, environmental assessments. 2

3 Coastal processes assessment, modelling and advice OIP + CLP (GIS, RS support) + CRP (vulnerability assessment & risk reduction) Case Study: Integrated approach to coastal vulnerability issue. Community Risks Ocean & islands Received initial request for coastal Geomorphologic study of shoreline Resource vulnerability assessment in Sth processes supports the need for Tarawa, Kiribati. governance/economics improved resource mgt. beach Initial assessment suggested Used to assess related socioeconomic questions and guide mining and inappropriate engineering vulnerability related to socioeconomic/development of stress an appropriate solution. identified delivery as a major contributing factors. rather than environmental. Two-way guidance process Technical between characterisation of a sustainable alternative developed. Improved resource mgt. RG&E is key. and technical programmes. Facilitates appropriate integration Appropriate of design of an alternative solution into existing planning aggregates & company is key. institutional strategies. Mapping products, historical images, satellite imagery & GIS used exclusively during assessment, resource characterisation and planning - excellent in-country delivery tool. Community Lifelines Case Study: Integrated approach to coastal vulnerability issue. Approved EU funded project ( 2.2M) to establish an alternative aggregates company where due consideration to; Principle Component 2 Monitoring Physical & Chemical Change Ocean and coastal observation / monitoring systems. Coastal process assessment and modeling. - technical feasibility - environmental sustainability - social-economic viability = Integrated resource use solution Oceanographic physical & chemical process characterisation supporting ecosystem management & change detection. Ocean observing systems support and products. Long-term monitoring systems for physio-chemical parameters of ocean & islands ecosystems in selected sites SPSLCMP (South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project) Calibration and maintenance of SL & CGPS terminals in FJ, VU, Palau TV, CK, TO, NU, WS, KI, MH, FM, PG; SPSLCMP Communications Strategy Development and delivery; Partnership with IPCC to communicate findings of IPCC 4th Assessment Report. Provides technical baselines which underpin marine survey. Niue Maritime Boundaries Project surveyor 50% SPSLCMP / 50% MBP. OIP + CLP (CGPS stations support excellent x,y,z surveying accuracy GPS. GIS) + CRP (vulnerability assessment & risk reduction, sea level change, tsunami, storm surge, etc.) Physical oceanographic data to provide solutions for Develop numerical models and modelling capacity. Modelling can be used for an almost limitless variety of environmental applications to inform and support decision making & resource mgt.; pollution, wave, inundation, currents, navigation, erosion, ecological & fisheries management (ESM), etc. etc. OIP modelling capacity is being enhanced to provide sound baselines to support multiple applications across all Prog. OIP + CLP (Remote sensing, GIS) + CRP (vulnerability hazard mapping, inundation, tsunami, storm surge, etc.) 3

4 Coastal processes assessment, modelling and advice Monitor coastal change, vulnerability assessment. Joint work between OIP and CLP has allowed the development of extremely accurate coastal monitoring systems which allow a continued monitoring over time for entire islands. This work (supported by PI GOOS and SPSLCMP) not only has direct vulnerability & CC applications but supports vital planning hazard reduction efforts. OIP + CLP (GIS, RS support) + CRP (vulnerability assessment & risk reduction) 1943 Regional integrated ocean observing system alliance Regional Co-ordination of Pacific Islands Global Ocean Observing System (PIGOOS) in the SOPAC Region. PI_GOOS Coordinator sits within OIP and works across all Prog. and Regional agencies. Cooperative approaches with SOPAC Oceanographic information system and coastal monitoring efforts underway. Develop awareness & capacity building with remote sensing products. SOPAC + all regional environmental and resource mgt. interests. Coastal processes assessment, modelling and advice Physical oceanographic data to provide solutions for Development of empirical monitoring systems and approaches of coastal and groundwater salinity. Provide sound information to inform and guide communities, Govt. and the international community. Conductivity S / cm 4252 ± µs cm ± µs cm ± µs 4000 cm ± ± ± 421 µs cm -1 µs cm -1 µs cm ± 205 µs 161 ± 90 cm µs cm -1 0Nanumea Nanumanga Niutao Nui Vaitupu Nukufetau Funafuti Nukulaelae Bathymetric mapping of fore reef slope, harbour and other selected sites to support the development of wave impact modelling products and navigation. Marine and coastal processes survey of Aitutaki Lagoon; water level, quality, exchange times, habitat mapping, sediment movement development of hydrodynamic model. OIP + CLP (Integrated approach to coastal/groundwater salinity; GIS, RS support) OIP + CLP (GIS, RS support, derive bathymetry from satellite imagery) + University of Qld. (joint development of shallow water habitat mapping techniques) Case Study: Bathymetry is the essential baseline for all forms of hydrodynamic, wave & inundation modelling. Case Study: Bathymetry is the essential baseline for all forms of hydrodynamic, wave & inundation modelling. Regional seismographic services fault Remotely sensed low resolution regional bathymetry seafloor >2500m SOPAC OIP high resolution multi beam bathymetry SOPAC OIP + SPSLCMP high resolution sea level monitoring real time. SOPAC OIP + CLP high resolution satellite derived bathymetry reef flat < 10m slope m SOPAC OIP + CLP high resolution topography topography Ocean & islands Community Lifelines PI GOOS facilitates access to regional Resource remotely sensed products governance/economics such as regional Administer acquisition of satellite bathymetry. imagery. Two-way guidance process between OIP undertake ship mounted RG&E and high technical programmes, Work with to OIP to extract shallow water resolution multibeam bathymetric ensure the Community mapping. most efficient and bathymetry Risks appropriate from satellite images. Physical oceanographers delivery combine of services. data Work with OIP to collect high resolution sets, work with CLP to extract Used bathymetry topography data RTK GPS survey. from satellite images. Once to bathymetric assess related and socio-economic topographic questions baselines such are as developed C&B analysis CRP works of Work with CRP on application developing with OIP to on a hazards warning the development systems and of hazard and modelling products. hazard modelling mitigation applications. strategies. Facilitates All steps appropriate of these activities integration are reliant of solution on accurate into existing sea level planning data via & SPSLCMP. institutional strategies. SPSLCMP recent upgrade to real time allows tsunami monitoring and supports warning system development. 4

5 Principle Component 3 Natural Resource Governance Support regional and national ocean policy development & sound stewardship of ocean and island resources. Support relevant UNCLOS provisions; Maritime Boundaries; EEZ, Art 76 (ecs), marine scientific research, mineral prospecting, etc. Natural Resource Economics. Frameworks and best practice guidelines for marine and coastal resource use activities. Data management, storage, security, retrieval and coordination. Support relevant provisions under UNCLOS, for delineation of maritime boundaries and the protection of the marine environment through the provision of technical and policy coordination and advice (Parts II, IV, V, VI& XII) Regional Maritime Boundaries - Coordination of member nations to develop EEZ and ecs (Art 76) boundaries. - Coordinate regional and international partners (Geoscience Australia, UNEP GRID, JHA, etc) to assist SOPAC member PIC s on all technical aspects maritime boundary development. - Potential ecs desktop reviews completed for KI, PL, FSM, SI, VU, TV, Tokelau & CK. - Continuing high resolution survey of island and coastal baseline to facilitate the accurate delimitation of 200nm EEZ boundaries. - Intensify level of activity, support and capacity building to PL, FSM, PNG, SI, KI, FJ, TO & CK to develop their respective Art 76 / ecs boundary delineation (submission deadline May 2009). - Continue to updated regional EEZ Boundary Delimitation layer and make available to stakeholders. - Continue to produce, collect and verify technical accuracy of data and upload to PIRMBIS (Pacific Islands Regional Maritime Boundaries Information System) Support relevant provisions under UNCLOS, for delineation of maritime boundaries and the protection of the marine environment through the provision of technical and policy coordination and advice (Parts II, IV, V, VI& XII) EEZ ecs Hydrocarbon and mineral potential promoted SOPAC Petroleum Data Bank; FJ, PNG, SI, VU and TO. Cooperative effort with Geoscience Australia to complete the reformatting and digitisation of petroleum related data. Coordinate specialist, long term storage of hard copy samples and other materials - Australia. Replacement value AUD$50 Mill. SOPAC acts as custodian and primary point for data access for the international community Information management and products Pacific Geonetwork A new OIP data base portal established with PI-GOOS support and populated with a range of OIP and SOPAC data sets and products. Oceanographic and other technical data sets require specialist administration to secure, store and facilitate access. Will eventually link / incorporate; deep-sea minerals, petroleum and other data bases. OIP + CLP + CRP (joint development of specialist data base) Niue Support SOPAC Island members in meeting their obligations for the effective management of non-living resources, as articulated in relevant international and regional agreements. Natural Resources Governance / Policy advice, cost-benefit analyses, EIA review, etc. Economic, feasibility / analysis of; commercial lagoon aggregate extraction in Tarawa, Kiribati. commercial lagoon aggregate extraction in Tuvalu (underway). extending continental shelf boundaries in the Pacific (planned). Technical review of EIA documents, e.g. aquaculture RMI, outfall placement, Savusavu, Fiji. Rapid response in cooperation with CRP disaster assessment support. Supports all s 5

6 Technical workshop facility & equipment support Technical Services Support Thanks from the OIP team, Marine Survey & Oceanography Modelling Coastal Processes & Aggregates Purchase, maintenance, calibration & repair of technical equipment. Robert Smith Jens Kruger Ashishika Sharma Salesh Kumar Herve Damlamian Akuila Tawake Naomi Biribo Amrit Raj Logistical arrangements and technical / field support during field surveys. Technical Workshop Maritime Boundaries & SPSLCMP PI-GOOS Sample processing, analysis and storage. Capacity building marine scientific instrumentation use and maintenance. Peni Musunamasi Maleli Turagabeci Sekove Motuiwaca Donato Roqica Resource Economics Emily Artack Database Development Andrick Lal Tagaloa Cooper Paul Eastwood Prog. Management Vital support function to 3 technical s Paula Holland Allison Woodruff Angela Ambroz Brian Bishop Arthur Webb Virginia Rokoua 6