ocean best practices system

Ocean Best Practices

System

Maciej Telszewski & Artur Palacz for the Ocean Best Practices Working GroupMark Bushnell, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Claudia Delgado, Katja Fennel,

Juliet Hermes, Emma Heslop, Johannes Karstensen, Frank Muller-Karger,Arno Lambert, Cristian Muñoz, Francoise Pearlman, Jay Pearlman, Peter Pissierssens, Rachel Przeslawski, Nick Roden, Pauline Simpson

IOCCP & BONUS INTEGRAL

Instrumenting our Ocean for better Observation:

a training course on a suite of biogeochemical

sensors,

10-19 Jun 2019, Kristineberg, Sweden

What is a best practice?

Best Practice Definition:

A community best practice is a methodology that has repeatedly produced superior results relative to other methodologies with the same objective.

To be fully elevated to a best practice, a promising method must be adopted, used, and tested by multiple organizations and/or communities.

(From First OBP Workshop, IOC, Paris, France, Nov 2017)

Best practices are documented methodologies: they can be standard operating procedures (SOPs), manuals, handbooks, guides, cookbooks, published papers, training and educational material.

Types of best practice

Equipment User Manuals

come from developer/manufacturer

Good to assemble and for deployment

Specs often recorded in unrealistic environment

Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

Very comprehensive one parameter, one platform

description

Describe method and not nuances of specific design

Best Practices (guides / manuals, cookbooks, SOP etc)

Practical knowledge plus elements of two above categories

Often developed for specific environment, phenomenon or

platform

(Certified) Reference Materials and Standards

Provide trusted reference for calibration and quality control

Published Papers

Methodology/protocol described in

a published journal/book article

Best Practices Documents (OBPS

Templates available)

Written by practitioner for the

community often used as the basis

for a published peer review article

Training Courses

Face-to face/hands on experience

Why a System for Best Practices?

Best practices bring many benefits:

Quality and consistency of observations

Interoperability of data

Efficiency (don’t re-invent the wheel – cost saving)

Data traceability

Connections between data, models and applications

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BUT:

Not all best practice knowledge is documented

They are scattered and can be hard to find

Not stored in a machine readable format

Can be lost when a project ends

Promising methods may not be shared

Work to create a best practice is often not acknowledged

An Ocean Best Practice

System is Needed

The Ocean Best Practices System

Vision:

To have agreed and broadly adopted methods across ocean research, operations, and applications.

MissionTo provide a trusted system to support the

collaborative development, sharing, and adoption of

best practices across the ocean community.

Participating Organizations and Programs

RepositoryPeer

Review

Journ

UsersTraining

OBO

Technologies

Components of the

Ocean Best

Practices System

1) A trusted repository

2) Advanced Technology:

including text mining,

natural language

processing and semantic

search

3) Sophisticated but user-

friendly web interface

4) Peer-reviewed journal

linked to the repository

5) Training materials

supporting the users and

their experience with the

OBPS

6) A community forum for

users and providers of

best practices

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Primary quality control

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DIC

Total Alkalinity

pH

OXYGEN

NUTRIENTS

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ObservationsProfiling Floats

Moored Fixed-point Observatories

GlidersShip-based Fixed-

point Observatories

Leading Observing Network ☞

The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations

Program (GO-SHIP)

Ship of Opportunity Programme (SOOP)

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Dickson et al.

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e.g. Lorenzoni et al. (2017)

Dickson et al. (2007,

SOP5)

FixO3 handbook

(2016)

e.g. PRO-OCEANUS

user manual



NOAA gasstandards

NOAA gasstandards

NOAA gasstandards

NOAA gasstandards

Calibration /Validation


Dickson et al.

(2007, SOP5)


SOP5)

FixO3 handbook

(2016)




Dickson et al.

(2007, SOP5)


SOP5)

FixO3 handbook

(2016)

e.g. PRO-OCEANUS

user manual


Primary Quality Control

(Near) real-time

FixO3 handbook

(2016)

Delayed-mode


Dickson et al.

(2007, SOP5)


SOP5)

FixO3 handbook

(2016)


Secondary Quality Control

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Bittig & Körtzinger(2015)


Langdon (2010)


Thierry et al.(2016)



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(2016)

FixO3 handbook(2016); IOOS

QUARTOD (2015)

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Sabine et al. (2005), Tanhua

et al. (2010)

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Olsen et al. (2016)

Olsen et al. (2016)

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SUNA v2 user manual; ISUS

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Hydes et al. (2010)


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Hydes et al. (2010)


Hydes et al. (2010)

Hydes et al. (2010)

Johnson et al. (2016)FixO3 handbook

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Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

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IOOS QUARTOD (2015)

FixO3 handbook(2016);

IOOS QUARTOD (2015)

IOOS QUARTOD (2015)

IOOS QUARTOD (2015)

IOOS QUARTOD

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Delayed-mode

Hydes et al. (2010)

Hydes et al. (2010)


Hydes et al. (2010)


Olsen et al. (2016)

Olsen et al. (2016)

Olsen et al. (2016)

Olsen et al. (2016)

Olsen et al.

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Olsen et al. (2016)

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The Repository – hub of the systemhttps://www.oceanbestpractices.org

FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable

Discovery and access to relevant and tested methods

● Global, permanent, open access

repository, hosted by IOC/UNESCO

● All elements of the ocean information

value chain.

● DOIs issued, version control, standard

metadata, active links

● Templates supporting uniform

submission and processing

● Notification services to keep track of

updates

BP Webinar May 8 2018

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The journal linkSearch enhanced by Best Practices/Methodologies

Indexed Using Marine-Related Vocabularies

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The journal link

● There is unlikely to be ONE best practice for a particular procedure ?

● For OBPS - Organizations like GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) and

IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP) are defining a

process that will endorse a range of methodologies acceptable to their expert

panels. For GOOS this will be targeted at best practices supporting Essential

Ocean Variables (EOV)

● This endorsement will be noted in a metadata field and will be a searchable

parameter

We are working towards an Endorsement Process

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The journal link

IODE Ocean Teacher Global Academy

( in collaboration with other training organizations)

Ocean Best Practices Training

● Capacity development and

training in the use and

creation of OBP on

sensors, applications, data

management etc;

● Initially planned as a

series of in-person

courses

● Provided in multiple

languages, using the

OTGA RTC network

● Provision of train-the-

trainer courses

● Training video linked to the

OBPS record

● Long-term goal of creating

a library of virtual OBP

training resources which

would be used in personal

and virtual environment.

● OBPS Repository on a disk

where internet access is

limited.

www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7173

The journal linkJournal Research Topic – Frontiers in Science

● Recognizes best practice creators

● Helps to expand the adoption of best

practices

● Provides a forum for community

discussion

Recent submission on Complementary

EOVs and EBVs gained 2000 views

within a couple weeks

The Best Practices in Ocean Observing Research Topic:

The OBPS supports the entire ocean community in sharing methods and developing best practices.

Building a long term, sustained capability

OBPS provides discovery and access to relevant and tested methods, from observation to application, as well as a foundation for increasing capacity

Advanced Technology providing

Faceted and Natural language search functions

Easily discoverable and

comparable content,

powered by ocean-focused

search and indexing

technology

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The journal linkOcean Best Practices System

REPOSITORY DEMONSTRATION

AND

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

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Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS)

1. Open your browser and enter

https://www.oceanbestpractices.org

2. You do not need to register to SEARCH

and VIEW or DOWNLOAD

best practices

3. You need to register only if you want to

submit a best practice; create an RSS

feed; edit your best practice record etc.

4. To Register, click on SUBMIT A NEW

BEST PRACTICE *** at the top RH

corner of the screen and this will take

you to oceanbestpractices.net and the

registration form (***do not do this now)

5. Copyright restrictions - only full text

openly available documents are included

***

oceanbestpractices.net

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The journal link

● oxygen pCO2 pH bio-optical fluorescence backscatter

● In separate searches combine each of the above with sensors

● Add deployment or quality control or calibration or validation.

Hint: search in ALL FIELDS to retrieve maximum response

enter the AND search terms first then OR terms

Example :

● oxygen

● oxygen AND sensors

● oxygen AND sensors AND deployment

● oxygen AND sensors AND deployment OR quality control

● oxygen AND sensors AND deployment OR quality control OR calibration

● oxygen AND sensors AND deployment OR quality control OR calibration OR validation

Semantic search exercise

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The journal link

1. How many documents authored by Henry Bittig?

2. Has Gregor Rehder authored any documents?

3. Has Argo produced any quality control documents?

4. Are there any relevant documents on SAMI-pH?

5. What is the latest document on underway pCO2 installation?

6. Are there descriptions of all the sensors we used in the course?

7. Any best practices on using nitrate, silicate and phosphate sensors?

Time to Explore

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1. You may have a document (report, journal article, methodology) that you

would like to identify the keywords to describe it – publishers often require

keywords)

2. On the Ocean Best Practices homepage, click OCEANKNOWLEDGE

TAGGER

3. It will take you to a screen and just follow the process! (you will need to have a file

to copy and paste into it)

OceanKnowledge Tagger – try it!

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● We would appreciate any feedback you can give us on your

experience of using the Ocean Best Practices Repository.

● Please copy https://goo.gl/forms/9zwBnC20O1gSCxm22 into your

browser and fill in your comments

● Feel free to pass your feedback via IOCCP as well

● Thanks so much!

Ocean Best Practices Working Group

User Survey

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