Fifteenth Session of the GOOS Steering Committee

25 - 27 March 2026,

India



Agenda



1 Opening
1.1 Welcome and Opening Remarks
1.2 Logistic announcements
1.3 Meeting goals and SC-15 Agenda approval
2 GOOS reform - the big picture
3 GOOS reform - mission, scope, accountability mechanism
4 GOOS and its “users”
5 GOOS reform - Structure and governance
5.1 Introduction
5.2 GOOS Regional Alliances role
5.3 Infrastructure Coordination Group
5.4 Final discussion
6 Strengthening collaboration across GOOS and IODE communities
7 Progress on the 2025-2027 workplan
7.1 NFPs
7.2 GRAs
7.3 OCG and OceanOPS
7.4 BioEco plan
7.5 Carbon & GHG plan
7.6 GCOS update including ECVs revision
7.7 Ocean indicators
7.8 ETOOFS next steps
7.9 Ocean Enterprise Initiative
7.10 GOOS Decade Programmes
7.11 TT Projects - GOOS Endorsed Project Proposal
8 Finalising the reform proposal and next steps