Ocean Observing Systems

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Ocean Observing Systems

• Rondi Robison
• Marine Research Outreach Coordinator
• Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT)
• Outreach Specialist Central and Northern
  California
• Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS)

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Overview

• Ocean observing
• Nationally Ocean.US
• Regionally PaCOOS
• Regional Associations CeNCOOS
• Mission/Objectives/Initial Partners
• Organizational Structure
• oceanObs
• Important Points
• Resources

Marine Advanced Technology and Education Program
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U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

• Two components
• global/basin scale (feeds the Global OOS)
• coastal
• Coastal component includes
• National Backbone satellites, reference and
  sentinel stations on core variables (many are
  physical), long-range HF radar (proposed),
  standards for data management and communications
• Regional Associations focused on land-based
  inputs, state and regional priorities, greater
  spatial and temporal resolution, more variables
  (especially more focus on biological and
  chemical)

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U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

• NORLC-commissioned reports in 1998 1999
  recommended establishment of a national
  capability for integrated and sustained ocean
  observations prediction user driven
• In May 2000
• (1) The NORLC directed the establishment of
  Ocean.US under National Oceanic Partnership
  Program (NOPP 1997)
• (2) Formation of Ocean.US announced to Congress.
• Coordinated by Ocean.US (www.ocean.us)

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U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

• 7 Goals
• Detecting and forecasting oceanic components of
  climate variability
• Facilitating safe and efficient marine
  operations
• Ensuring national security
• Managing resources for sustainable use
• Preserving and restoring healthy marine
  ecosystems
• Mitigating natural hazards
• Ensuring public health

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IOOS Core Variables

• Oceanographic
• Salinity
• Temperature
• Bathymetry
• Sea level
• Surface waves
• Surface currents
• Ice distribution
• Contaminants
• Dissolved nutrients
• Fish species abundance
• Zooplankton sp abundance
• Optical properties
• Heat flux
• Ocean color
• Bottom character
• Pathogens
• Dissolved oxygen
• Phytoplankton species

• Forcing
• Wind vectors
• Air temperature
• Atmospheric pressure
• Precipitation
• Humidity
• Aerosol concentrations
• Ambient noise
• Atmospheric visibility
• Cloud coverAdditional regionally-important
  variables subsurface currents, birds, marine
  mammals, kelp, seagrass

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IOOS provides an end-to-end system

• 3 Subsystems
• Observational
• Data Management and Communications
• Analysis, Modeling and Applications

MBARI MUSE 2000
DMAC plan
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Regional Associations in the IOOS
Northwest Association of Networked Ocean
Observing Systems (NANOOS)
Central and Northern California Ocean Observing
System (CeNCOOS)
Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing
System (SCCOOS)
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Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System PaCOOS

• Focus California Current LME
• OOS backbone off West Coast
• 3 Regional Associations
• SCCOOS
• CeNCOOS
• NANOOS

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Central and Northern California Ocean Observing
System (CeNCOOS)

• One of the 11 developing RAs
• California-Oregon border to Point Conception
• Coast to the outer limits of the EEZ

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CeNCOOS Mission Statement

• to coordinate and support the development and
  implementation of a regional ocean observing
  system, as part of the U.S. Integrated Ocean
  Observing System, which provides data and data
  products to a diversity of end users on spatial
  and temporal scales appropriate for their needs.

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CeNCOOS Objectives

• Provide leadership
• Identify engage a broad base of stakeholders
  (data users providers)
• Identify and meet stakeholder needs
• Coordinate ocean observing activities
• Identify and make recommendations federal
• Inform entities (state federal) on the need for
  funds
• Coordinate and develop priorities
• Seek resources for priorities
• Receive and distribute CeNCOOS related funds
• Provide access to data

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Initial CeNCOOS Partners

• Humboldt State University
• Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC Davis
• Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
• Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
• San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research
  Reserve
• San Francisco State University
• University of California Berkeley
• San Francisco Estuary Project
• California Coastal Conservancy
• Ocean Conservancy
• Institute of Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
• NMFS, Santa Cruz Laboratories
• USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program
• Alliance for Coastal Technologies
• Earth System Science and Policy Institute, CSUMB
• Sea Grant, UC Davis
• Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research
  Reserve
• Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography
  Center (Navy)

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Initial CeNCOOS Partners

• Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
• Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE)
  Center, MPC
• Marine Protected Areas Center Science Institute,
  NOAA
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
• Monterey Bay Foundation
• Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• National Weather Service
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Naval Research Laboratory
• Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, NMFS
• West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research
  Center, NOAA
• University of California Monterey Bay Education,
  Science, and Technology Center (MBEST)
• California Department of Fish and Game
• California Polytechnic State University

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Initial CeNCOOS Partners

• California Coastkeeper Alliance
• AMTEC

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CeNCOOS Objectives

• Provide leadership
• Identify engage a broad base of stakeholders
  (data users providers)
• Identify and meet stakeholder needs
• Coordinate ocean observing activities
• Identify and make recommendations federal
• Inform entities (state federal) on the need for
  funds
• Coordinate and develop priorities
• Seek resources for priorities
• Receive and distribute CeNCOOS related funds
• Provide access to data

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Current Organizational Committees

• Interim-Executive
• Purpose Overseeing coordination Provided
  overall guidance
• Progress Coordinator
• End User
• Purpose to identify and engage a diversity of
  stakeholders in CeNCOOS
• Progress plan development identifying
  prioritizing end user needs Identifying
  potential pilot projects
• Data Management and Communications
• Purpose to design and implement the regional
  component
• Progress hosted a workshop developing plan
  with End User Committee
• Science
• Purpose to design and oversee the implementation
  of a science plan
• Progress working toward observing system
  implementation plan
• Governance and business plan development
• Purpose to identify and implement an
  organizational structure business plan
• Progress Coordination with SCCOOS Evaluating
  options for governance and business plan

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Organizational Structure

• Memorandum of Agreement
• 501c (3) Nonprofit corporation
• Board of Directors (representing all
  stakeholders)
• Executive Committee (subset of Board)
• Staff
• Several Committees of the Board
• Nominating Committee
• End User Committee
• Observations Committee
• Data Management and Communications Committee
• Modeling and Analysis Committee
• Research Committee
• Memorandum of Understanding

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Proposed Organizational Structure for CeNCOOS
Governing Council Overall guidance major
decisions Executive Committee as subset (P,VP,
T,S) Basic decisions Each comm. below includes at
least 1 Council member (as chair)
Advis.Counc.
Staff
Nominating Comm. Oversees and manages elections
End User Committee Identifies and engages end
users Helps inform product development May have
subgroups focused on 7 IOOS goals and education
Observations Comm. Designs implements regional
component observational subsystem
Modeling Analysis Comm. Designs implements
regional component data and analysis
subsystem Incl.product development
Research Comm. Coordinates research efforts
DMAC Comm. Designs implements regional
component DMAC subsystem
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CeNCOOS Objectives

• Provide leadership
• Identify engage a broad base of stakeholders
  (data users providers)
• Identify and meet stakeholder needs
• Coordinate ocean observing activities
• Identify and make recommendations federal
• Inform entities (state federal) on the need for
  funds
• Coordinate and develop priorities
• Seek resources for priorities
• Receive and distribute CeNCOOS related funds
• Provide access to data

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oceanObs www.oceanobs.org

• What An information management and data
  discovery tool for the Integrated Ocean Observing
  System
• Created by Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring
  Network of the National Marine Sanctuary Program

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oceanObs

• Who uses it
• Regional coordinators
• Program managers
• Data seekers

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Some observing activities CeNCOOS Region

• CICORE (hyperspectral imagery, multibeam
  bathymetry, shore-based stations)
• CIMT (HF radar, ship-based measurements, mooring,
  marine mammal tracking, satellite imagery)
• PISCO (diver surveysmoorings nearshore
  biological/physical measurements)
• CalCOFI/PaCOOS (ship-based biological/physical
  measurements and many other platforms)
• MBARI (moorings, AUVs, ROVs,gliders, satellite
  imagery)
• SFPORTS (shore-based stations - variety of
  parameters)
• COCMP-NC (HF radar, models, use of CDIP and
  satellite imagery)
• Bodega Coastal Ocean Observatory (HF radar,
  moorings, in situ data variety of parameters)

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NMFS/HSU PaCOOS Collaboration

• NMFS Scientist stationed at HSU
• Goal to implement OOS between Crescent City
  Cape Mendocino
• sentinel species
• ichthyoplankton
• Ancillary research training programs

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From Wind to Whales
Trophic links in the California coastal
upwelling region
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Center for Integrated Marine Technologies
Measurements

• Ship-based
• Mooring-based
• Satellite
• Shore-based

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Harmful Algae (Cochlodinium catenatum) Bloom in
Monterey Bay

• CIMT
• CICORE
• MBARI
• MLML
• CDHS
• CeNCOOS

Zooplankton backscatter from CIMT cruise tracks
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Use buoy and HF radar swell and wave measurements
to estimate the surf zone circulation Monterey
Bay Ocean Beach (after Year 1) Humboldt Bay
Harbor entrance
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Bodega Coastal Observing System data product
example ArcIMS application for salmon restoration
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CeNCOOS Short- and Long-Term Plans

• - Continue working on organizational structure
• Work on the business plan
• Include capabilities based on the summary of
  observing activities
• Identify regionally-significant variables
• Identify priority stakeholders
• Engage stakeholders
• Hold focused end-user meetings
• Demonstrate data integration (pilot project
  products)
• - Have an operational regional OOS that meets
  stakeholders needs

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Important Points

• An OOS has three subsystems operational, data
  management, and analysis/assimilation
• CeNCOOS is a developing regional OOS, in the IOOS
• Summary of ocean observing activities in the
  CeNCOOS region has begun to identify some of our
  data gaps and areas of potential overlap
• Relative strength and weakness on different IOOS
  variables
• Spatially, need to identify and/or develop
  additional observing efforts beyond Monterey Bay
• Temporal analysis to be determined

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Important Points CeNCOOS

• Umbrella organization
• Organizing the dispersed work
• Identifying what is available needed
• Political entity
• Capacity to find resources
• With CeNCOOS in place we can work the activities
  (CI-CORE) to meet end user needs

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Resources

• IOOS Ocean.Us www.ocean.us.gov
• PaCOOS www.pacoos.org
• Eric Bjorkstedt Eric.Bjorkstedt_at_noaa.gov
• CeNCOOS www.cencoos.org
• Heather Kerkering heather_at_mbari.org

• oceanObs www.oceanobs.org
• Josh Pederson Josh.Pederson_at_noaa.gov
• CIMT www.cimt.ucsc.edu
• Rondi Robison rrobison_at_ucsc.edu
• CICORE
• Toby Garfield garfield_at_sfsu.com

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CeNCOOS Contact Info

• Heather Kerkering Rondi Robison
• heather_at_mbari.org rrobison_at_ucsc.edu
• Tel. [phone]
• www.cencoos.org