The UK GOOS Action Group (
GOOSAG) is operated
under the Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology
(IACMST). The responsibilities of the group lie with coordinating
the UK input to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and
EuroGOOS.
Its main focus is on the physical nature of the marine
environment and indicators (including biological) of short and long
term variations in weather and climate.
GOOSAG represents the Marine Processes and Climate sector
groups, one of the four which feeds into the Marine Monitoring
Coordination Group (MMCG). GOOSAG co-ordinated the overall
production of the sector report on Marine Processes and Climate as
its contribution to the Defra Charting Progress report released in
March 2005.
JNCC represents the conservation sector and provides advice on
biodiversity to this group, as part of a wider environmental
surveillance programme, where information available from
other organisations will be used in order to assess the status
(known as condition) of; and identify trends in; marine features on
protected sites.