The GEO Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Initiative aims to advance and exploit synergies among the many observational programmes devoted to ocean and coastal waters. The Initiative also seeks to raise awareness of the societal benefits of ocean observations at the public and policy levels. In this regard, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, SDG13, Climate Actions and SDG14, Life below Water, provide the context for the importance of ocean observations and research.

Since 2012, the Oceans and Society working group of the GEOSS-AP Symposium has been working to define, enhance and integrate the inventory of information exchanges of issues related to coastal data in the Asia-Pacific region which spans multiple jurisdictional waters. This working group aims to further evolve the current observation inventory system of in-situ ocean observations to better support the WESTPAC community and to meet the needs of SDGs 13 and 14. Thus, the goal of this session is to continue to discuss, identify and define actions to address gaps of activities in the AP region that will evolve a comprehensive and integrated observation inventory system for the region. Ocean acidification, an issue related to both SDG 13 and 14, will serve as the main topic of discussion for this session.

Co-Chairs:
   Ken Ando (Japan)
   Andy Steven (Australia)
   Somkiat Khokiattiwong (Thailand)

1. Introduction of the past activities and current situation (9:15-9:45)
	9:15-9:35 Overview of GEO Oceans activities: Blue Planet Initiative, AOGEOSS, MBON (Andy Steven) [PDF 3.6MB] 9:35-9:50 Results from the 7th meeting in Tokyo & Aims and goals of this WG (Ken Ando) [PDF 728KB]
2. Expand ocean data inventory system in GEO (10:00-11:50)
	10:00-10:10 Current observation inventory system (Ken Ando) [PDF 1.6MB] 10:10-10:25 SEA-GOOS (Somkiat Khokiattiwong) [PDF 6.4MB] 10:25-10:40 Ocean data management in Malaysia (Aidy Ohamed Shawal Bin M Muslim) [PDF 5.0MB] 10:40-10:55 Ocean data management in Indonesia (Bayu Prayudha) [PDF 3.1MB] 10:55-11:10 Ocean data management in Philippine (Cesar Villanoy) [PDF 3.9MB] 11:10-11:20 Future Cooperation with IOC/WESTPAC (Somkiat Khokiatiwong) [PDF 9.7MB] 11:20-11:50 Discussion: Evolution of the current inventory system
3. SDGs and ocean (13:30-15:30, 16:00-17:00)
	13:30-      Scene setting: Ocean Acidification in relation to SDG 13 and 14 (Andy Steven) [PDF 704KB] 13:30-13:50 The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Newtork aims, coverage, and development (Bronte Tilbrook) [PDF 2.2MB] 13:50-14:10 Sub-arctic observation and measurement of frustule (Katsunori Kimoto) [PDF 8.7MB] 14:10-14:30 Trend of ocean acidification for the past three decades in the western North Pacific subtropical zone in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool (Masao Ishii) [PDF 1.7MB] 14:30-14:50 Ocean acidification modeling in OCMIP (Akio Ishida) [PDF 986KB] 14:50-15:10 SEA-GOOS Ocean Acidification program (Somkiat) [PDF 5.3MB] 15:10-15:30 Why do we need to care for Ocean Acidification in coast water? (Haruko Kurihara) [PDF 2.3MB] 16:00-16:20 Coastal acidification and fishery (Tsuneo Ono) [PDF 1.9MB] 16:40-17:00 Modeling of acidification in marginal seas (Yasumasa Miyazawa) [PDF 1.7MB]
	17:00-17:10 Discussion: - Current status, gaps, Inventory, and future observation of AO in relations with SDGs - Inputs to the statement and BPI.
4. Wrap-up (17:10-17:30)