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Title: MACOORA The MidAtlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association Our mission: To seek, discover,


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MACOORA The Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean
Observing Regional Association Ocean
Observations for Decision-Makers Saving Lives,
Saving Livelihoods
2009
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MACOORA The Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean
Observing Regional AssociationOur mission To
seek, discover, share and apply new knowledge and
understanding of our coastal ocean
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What are ocean observations?
davidknipfer01
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Putting Ocean Observations in context from the
global observing community to the mid-Atlantic
Coastal Ocean community
MACOORA
IOOS
GEOSS
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Global Earth Observation System of Systems

The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is
a United States federal, regional, and
private-sector partnership working to enhance our
ability to collect, deliver, and use ocean
information.

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The coastal component also includes a network
of 11 non-Federal Regional Associations that
allow these Federal agencies to expand their
measurements to issues and geographic areas of
particular interest to local communities.
Measurements Ocean observations collected From
systems in the water and land-based, airborne or
satellite platforms Data Management and
Communications (DMAC)  integrated data,
compatible with one another and  accessible to
users Modeling and Analysis  Products and
services delivered to users, including research,
outreach, training, and education.
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MACOORA
The Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing
Regional Association is one of eleven regional
associations in the United States under the IOOS
banner.  The association represents a
partnership of marine and estuarine data
providers and users from state and federal
agencies, private industry, non-governmental
institutions and academia.
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MACOORA
MACOORA is a 501C3 not-for profit organization.
MACOORA holds workshops, an annual meeting, has
an electronic newsletter, among other things. We
are a member organization.
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MACOORA
From North Carolina to the Massachusetts and
Rhode Island Bays, MACOORA coordinates and
facilitates ocean observations.
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MACOORA
  • The MACOORA Footprint Encompasses
  • 9 states
  • 66 million people
  • major estuaries
  • the worlds largest Navy base
  • 110 congressional districts
  • Over 23 of the total US waterborne
  • commerce
  • Over 130 billion at the
  • Port of New York/New Jersey alone

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MACOORAs Goal Provide Information to
Decision-Makers and Users To Save lives and
livelihoods
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MARCOOS
  • MARCOOS is the operational arm of MACOORA.
  • MARCOOS deploys and operates the Regional Coastal
    Ocean Observing System, a complex array of
    hardware gliders, radar, buoys, and software
    data, data bases, and models
  • It is a joint effort, comprising 30 Principal
  • Investigators from 20 academic, governmental
  • and private institutions across the region.

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MARCOOS
MARCOOS coordinates an extensive array of
existing observational, data management, and
modeling assets to generate and disseminate
real-time data, nowcasts and forecasts of the
ocean extending from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras.
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MARCOOS
Observations in the MARCOOS Regional Coastal
Ocean Observing System footprint come from 60
federal and regional observing systems.
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MARCOOS
Hardware in action gliders, codar and models
from Rutgers Cool Room
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Applications of data and data analysis used by
decision-makers
  • Improve predictions of climate change and weather
    and their effects MARCOOS links existing
    regional coastal weather networks to evolving
    regional forecasting capabilities. This provides
    an improved ensemble of weather forecasts
  • Reduce public health risks MARCOOS operates the
    existing Mid-Atlantic HF Radar Network and
    leverages Coast Guard drifters. These are linked
    to statistical and dynamical models that provide
    an ensemble of regional nowcasts and forecasts
  • of 2-D surface currents

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Applications of data and data analysis used by
decision-makers
  • Maritime Safety Regional surface current maps
    improve Search And Rescue and hazardous material
    spill response
  • Ecological Decision Support MARCOOS operates
    the
  • existing satellite receivers and leverages the
    Navy
  • investment in a regional glider capability linked
    to the
  • dynamical models in order to provide an ensemble
    of 3-D
  • circulation temperature and salinity nowcasts and
    forecasts.
  • Timing and migration patterns of living marine
    resources are
  • strongly influenced by the structure of water
    properties. Regional hydrography and circulation
    from MARCOOS observations and models facilitate
    analysis of the movement of water masses and
    their associated populations.

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Real Time Data Improve National and Homeland
Security
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Applications of data and data analysis used by
decision-makers
  • Inundation Local inundation models require
    surface and subsurface temperatures to improve
    estimates of upper ocean heat content thickness
    of the wind-driven layer and current/drifter
    data for assimilation.
  • Water Quality Real-time surface circulation
    maps and forecasts help coastal managers
    concerned with water quality better understand
    where the water in their area is coming from and
    where it is going.
  • Offshore Energy Decision-Makers The offshore
    wind resource
  • is defined using a combination of advanced and
    adaptive
  • monitoring and modeling systems that account for
    the dynamic interactions of the coast, sea, and
    atmosphere
  • Navigation Mariners require real-time currents,
    waves,
  • hydrodynamic, and meteorological data

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MARCOOS
  • In summary,
  • The integrated system of observing sensors
    provide data.
  • Use of raw data, data-analysis, and the
    integration of data are incorporated into models
  • Decision-makers use models for prediction and to
    understand the environment
  • Data are also used directly by decision-makers
    and users

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How the Data is used Real Time in Real Life
Primary users of MACOORAs 3-D circulation and
temperature fields are the recreational,
commercial and management fisheries communities.
Benefits are improved management of marine living
resources, and the economic savings of reduced
fuel consumption and search time for fishing
operations.
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To seek, discover, share and apply new
knowledge and understanding of our coastal
ocean Find it on the web
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To seek, discover, share and apply new
knowledge and understanding of our coastal
ocean Find it on the web
Long Island Sound http//www.sunysb.edu/soundscien
ce http//www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/nhports/nhport
s.shtml Delaware http//www.udel.edu/dbos/
http//tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/dbports/dbports.
shtml?portdb Chesapeake Bay www.cbos.org
www.eyesonthebay.net www2.vims.edu/vecos/
www.ccpo.odu.edu www.weatherflow.com
http//nerrs.noaa.gov/ChesapeakeBayMD/welcome.htm
l http//nerrs.noaa.gov/ChesapeakeBayVA/welcome.
html http//www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/in
dex.html http//www.frf.usace.army.mil/
http//tideshttp//tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/port
s/index.shtml?portcsandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports/in
dex.shtml?portcn Massachusetts and Rhode
Island Bays and Shelf http//mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi
-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi http//mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-
in/mvco/mvco.cgi http//tidesandcurrents.noaa.go
v/ports/index.shtml?portnb http//cdmo.baruch.s
c.edu/QueryPages/viewstations.cfm?Site_IDwqb
New York Bight http//hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/
maritimeforecast/info/ http//www.marine.rutgers
.edu/cool/ http//www.marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/cod
ar.html http//cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/QueryPages/vie
wstations.cfm?Site_IDhud http//nerrs.noaa.gov/
JacquesCousteau/welcome.html http//co-ops.nos.n
oaa.gov/ports/index.shtml?portny PORTS
provides accurate real-time oceanographic
information, tailored to the specific needs of
the local community. PORTS  in the
MACOORA/MARCOOS footprint areNarragansett Bay,
New Haven, CT, New York/New Jersey Harbor,
Delaware Bay , Chesapeake Bay and River
Google Earth features (such as panning, zooming,
and fly-throughs) allow the user to view
georeferenced data, such as the NYHOPS
forecasts,interactively in a realistic, virtual
3D world. Further, oceanographic phenomena
(including freshwater events) are easily explored
through 24-hour animations of forecasted fields
such as currents, temperature, and salinity.
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