California Center for Integrative Coastal Ocean Research: CICORE

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California Center for Integrative Coastal Ocean
ResearchCI-CORE

• Kenneth Coale, P.I.
• Richard Zimmerman, Co-P.I., Program Coordinator
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• California State Universities

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• A consortium of ten California State Universities
  and the Florida Institute for Environmental
  Research

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Some anthropogenic problems associated with
stress to west coast ecosystems

• Contamination - chemicals and pathogens
• Harmful algal blooms - red tides, domoic acid
• Declining fisheries
• Loss of habitat
• Invasive species - bays estuaries
• Coastal erosion

Climate change may increase the severity and
occurrence of these problems
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CI-CORE will exploit expertise within the CSU to
focus on nearshore coastal environments

• Kelp forests and rocky shores
• Large bays and estuaries
• Sandy beaches and shallow subtidal environments
  lt100m
• Coastal lagoons

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Long Term CI-CORE Objectives

• Establish research monitoring infrastructure of
  critical coastal habitats in California for
  integration into global ocean monitoring efforts
• Conduct research on problems affecting the
  economic and environmental well-being of
  California
• Enhance management capability of regulatory
  resource management agencies for sustainable
  coastal use
• Enhance public awareness of the importance of
  coastal management

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CI-CORE Goals Year 1

• Establish key infrastructure for partner
  integration and long-term management of CI-CORE
• Develop an internet-based approach to data
  integration and management
• Develop expertise in two observational platform
  technologies for ultimate distribution throughout
  the CI-CORE study region

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Goal 1 Establish key infrastructure
CI-CORE Advisory Council Dr. Alissa Arp, SFSU,
Director Romberg/Tiburon Center Dr. Nancy Wright,
California Department of Fish and Game Dr. Steve
Gains, UCSB/PISCO project PI Dr. Andrew
DeVolgelaere, Science Coordinator, NOAA/SIMoN Dr.
Gary Griggs, Director UCSCs IMS, CIMT
Program Dr. Mario Tamburi, Chief Scientist NOAA,
ACT Dr. Kenneth Coale, Director MLML Dr. Gerry
Selter, Dean, College of Science, SJSU Dr. Ann
Bucklin, University of New Hampshire Sea Grant
Program
CI-CORE Program Coordinator Dr. Richard
Zimmerman MLML
Partner Institutions/Observatory Contacts
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Goal 2 Data Management Needs and Issues

• Flexibility in terms of data formats file
  structures
• new formats/uses difficult to anticipate
• rigidly defined structures produce high
  maintenance costs
• Quality assurance and control
• a rating system to score each data set?
• Ease of use for posting/updating/linking
• Powerful search and query structure
• Analysis simulation tools

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Goal 2 Develop internet-based data integration

• Work with National Center for Ecological Analysis
  and Synthesis (NCEAS) NSF-funded team developing
  a standards-based open architecture knowledge
  network
• Uses metadata representation to provide
  conceptually sophisticated access to integrated
  data products drawn from distributed, autonomous
  data repositories.
• The knowledge network will include advanced tools
  for exploring complex data sets from which
  multiple formulations of hypotheses can be
  tested.
• Exploit existing collaborations between NCEAS,
  PISCO SBC-LTER by learning from their mistakes
  and gaining from their knowledge
• See knb.ecoinformatics.org and nceas.ucsb.edu

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Goal 2 Develop internet-based data integration

• MLML will maintain CI-CORE webpage and server
  links to autonomous datasets maintained at
  partner institutions
• Imagery data archived at CalPolySLO (mass
  storage)
• Bathymetry data archived at CSUMB (GIS lab)
• Observational time series maintained locally by
  institutional partners
• Similar links to NOAA-COTS partner
  institutions/programs

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Goal 3 Develop and deploy two observational
platform technologies

• High resolution imaging spectroscopy for remote
  sensing of coastal environments
• MLML/SJSU, CalPolySLO, CSUMB
• Coastal monitoring instrument package
• RTCES/SFSU, MLML/SJSU

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Data will include

• Optical and acoustic remote sensing imagery
• Time series observations of biological, chemical
  and physical parameters
• moored instruments
• periodic surveys
• instrument based
• observational
• Legacy data sets extending back as far as 75 years

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Integrated observations
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Example Data SetAirborne Optical Imagery of
Monterey Bay

• R. Zimmerman, MLML/SJSU
• Hyperspectral data cube
• Resolution
• 2 to 10 m spatial
• 5 to 15 nm spectral

Monterey Peninsula 190 ha giant kelp
canopy September 1999
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Example Data SetMultibeam bathymetry of
Monterey Bay

• R. Kvitek, CSUMB
• Shaded relief DEM
• Resolution
• 1 - 3 m horiz,
• 10 - 20 cm vert

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Layered data sets
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Time series observations moored instruments
Optical profiler 18 channels of a and c across
time and depth
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Time series observations ADCP profiles
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Ship-based surveys
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