Coastal Ocean Observation Lab

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International Coalition of Ocean Observing
Laboratories I-COOL John Cullen, Dalhousie U.
Innovating Ocean Science and Technology for a
Healthy Planet Scott Glenn, Oscar Schofield,
Robert Chant, John Wilkin, Josh Kohut, Janice
McDonnell
Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation
Lab Regional Ocean Prediction Education and
Outreach
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab http//marine.rutger
s.edu/cool
Regional Ocean Prediction http//marine.rutgers.e
du/po
Education Outreach http//coolclassroom.org
Coastal Observation and Prediction Sponsors
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THE ARCTIC IS CHANGING!!
2090
Our grand children
Polar Amplification of Global Warming
2005
1979
2060
Our children
2030
Us
1980
2000
YEAR
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Where Will The Melting Water Go? Will Change Our
Ecosystem?

• The Mid-Atlantic Bight is getting
• Fresher Warmer
• Experiences Some of the Largest
• Temperature Differences in the World
• Summer to Winter
• Top to Bottom
• Some of the Most Migratory
• Fish Species have Evolved
• Most Urbanized Coast
• in the U.S.

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A Look Back
If I were to choose a single phrase to
characterize the first century of modern
oceanography, it would be a century of
under-sampling.
Walter Munk, 2000

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A Global View from Space Imagers and Altimeters
Passive Imagers for SST Ocean Color
Active Radars for Altimetry
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A Global Array of 3,000 Argo Profiling Floats
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Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Operations
Center The COOLroom
Mission Planning
Operations Communications Station
Glider Fleet
A Stommel View of the Ocean WWW Interactive
3-D
L-Band X-Band Satellite Systems
CODAR Network
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Tracking an International Constellation of Ocean
Color Satellites
L-Band (installed 1992)
X-Band (installed 2003)
United States
OCM Chlorophyll India
FY1-D ch7ch9 China
China
India
India
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CNN Live The Situation Room June 12, 2006
CBS Philadelphia Evening News All Summer
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CODAR Antennas - High Frequency Radar
for Surface Current Mapping
5 MHz
Receive Antenna
Transmit Antenna
25 MHz and 13 MHz
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CODAR HF Radar Networks
Individual CODARs Measure Surface Current
Component Towards or Away from the Site. Lower
Frequencies have Longer Range But Lower Resolution
A Coordinated Network of CODAR Sites - Provides
an Overlapping Grid - Generate Surface Current
Maps
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Rutgers is NOAA East Coast CODAR Data Hub
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CODAR Surface Current Maps Improve Coast Guard
Search And Rescue
NOAA Coastal Site CODAR Currents SLDMB Drifter
SAROPS Now
SAROPS w/ Surface Currents
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CODAR Surface Current Applications Beach
Closures Nationally Record 25,643 beach
closures or warnings in 2006 due to high
levels of harmful bacteria. Up 28 percent, second
straight record setting year. New Jersey 134
ocean and bay beach closures and advisories in
2006. 70 percent increase from 79 in 2005. 143
in 2007. Only ocean beaches where Ocean County
labor day garbage slick. In New Jersey
Rainfall events are the trigger for beach
closures.
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Water Quality Correlations off the Monmouth
County Coast Summer 2006
Water Tests showed Low Bacteria Concentrations
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Water Quality Correlations off the Monmouth
County Coast Summer 2006
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Water Quality Correlations off the Monmouth
County Coast Summer 2006
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Water Quality Correlations off the Monmouth
County Coast Summer 2006
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Water Quality Correlations off the Monmouth
County Coast Summer 2006
Water Tests showed Very High Bacteria
Concentrations
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Water Quality Correlations off the Monmouth
County Coast Summer 2006
Water Tests showed Low Bacteria Concentrations
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No excuses for beach debris Posted by the Asbury
Park Press on 09/8/07
Garbage gone from beaches questions
linger Posted by the Philadelphia Inquirer on
09/12/07
Labor Day 2007 Beach Closure
Aug 21-22 Over 1 of rainfall through the
region Aug. 24 Floatables reported at Union
Beach, NJ Aug. 27 Potato Sponges reported at
Bradley Beach, NJ Aug 29 Grease Balls reported
at Deal, NJ Sept. 1 Floatable/Medical Waste at
Normandy Beach, NJ
Worst beach pollution since the 1980s
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Slocum Coastal Glider
Glider Specs. Length 1.5 m Hull Diameter 21.3
cm Weight 52 kg
Science Bay Specs. Length 30 cm Diameter 21.3
cm Max. Payload Weight 4 kg
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The Glider Flight
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RIDER IN THE STORM
16-Sep-2004 150053 - 23-Sep-2004 115727
Temperature
Depth-Averaged Currents Surface Currents
bb532
bb(532)/c(532)
Long Duration (30-50 days) enables the Gliders to
Rider Out the Storms that Surface Ships Avoid
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Global Satellite Communications enables a
sustained Global Subsurface Presence
110 Missions around the world As of 1900 PM Jul.
19, 2007 31,168 km flown 246657 casts 1602 days
at sea
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This leads to unique science culture, where
several experiments, training and education
efforts are conducted at the same time.
MORNING ON EAST COAST OF UNITED STATES
Coordinated Swarms of Gliders Sweep Across the
Shelf Slope Front 3-D Evolution of Slope Water
Salinity Intrusions is Captured
Salinity
Temperature
Internal Wave Packets are Identified for Ship
Board Studies
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This leads to unique science culture, where
several experiments, training and education
efforts are conducted at the same time.
MORNING ON WEST COAST UNITED STATES Morning hours
on the west coast of United States - Adaptive
Sampling of the California Coast
Temperature
Backscatter (660 nm)
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RIMPAC June 2006
This leads to unique science culture, where
several experiments, training and education
efforts are conducted at the same time.
MORNING HOURS OF HAWAII TIME ZONE Map the
condition of nearshore waters off the Hawaiian
islands
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This leads to unique science culture, where
several experiments, training and education
efforts are conducted at the same time.
AFTERNOON ON EAST COAST OF UNITED STATES Late
afternoon on the East Coast of United States,
student interns test ocean robot sensors
Summer 2006 Glider Training Projects
Glider Jane OSU/RU Engineer Exchange
Bioprobe Student Team Kristy (URI) Christi
(RU)
Glider Cameras John Roberts
RIOS Students Rosa Leon (PR) John Roberts
(GA) Christi Welter (CO)
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Exploratory Missions Antarctica, 22 January, 2007
400 km
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Applied Missions SHAREM 150 (US South America,
2005)
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Rutgers Observatory Site Visit 6 October 2005

• CNO(N7C) Site Visit to LEO Why were here

LEO
LBSFI
LEO goal is to develop a real-time capability
for rapid environmental assessment and
physical/biological forecasting in coastal
waters.
LBSFI Transforms the warfighters ability to
leverage environmental Battlespace Awareness for
smart asset / sensor placement and operational
effectiveness end-to-end integration of
in-littoral sensors into FORCEnet, including
cohesive, net-centric information flow to
tactical users. 287 M Initiative
2008-2012
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Tropical Storm Ernesto Labor Day Weekend, 2006
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• RU-WRF Forecast of
• Tropical Storm Ernesto
• improved model physics,
• more input data (ocean atmosphere),
• higher resolution model grids

Note WRF forecasts The transition of
Ernesto From tropical to extra-tropical after
landfall!
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Tropical Storm Ernesto September 1, 2006 1900
GMT
WRF Forecast Surface Winds
CODAR Observations Surface Currents
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Tropical Storm Ernesto September 2, 2006 0700
GMT
WRF Forecast Surface Winds
CODAR Observations Surface Currents
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Tropical Storm Ernesto September 2, 2006 1300
GMT
WRF Forecast Surface Winds
CODAR Observations Surface Currents
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Tropical Storm Ernesto September 2, 2006 1300
GMT
WRF Forecast Surface Winds
CODAR Observations Surface Currents
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Tropical Storm Ernesto September 2, 2006 1900
GMT
WRF Forecast Surface Winds
CODAR Observations Surface Currents
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Tropical Storm Ernesto September 3, 2006 0100
GMT
WRF Forecast Surface Winds
CODAR Observations Surface Currents
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Tropical Storm Ernesto Sub-Surface Impacts
Before
June 14, 2006 - Present
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Tropical Storm Ernesto Sub-Surface Impacts
After
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Tropical Storm Ernesto Track Sensitivity
INCREASING RESOLUTION
-INCREASE IN MODEL SKILL IS GREATEST WITH
IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING Ocean-Atmosphere-Land
Interactions!!!!!!!
Operational Model Physics
INCREASING RESOLUTION
Observed Track is Yellow
Bowers et al., In prep.
Research Model Physics
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Tropical Storm Ernesto Feedback to the State
Accumulated Rainfall
Predicted Observed
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A Framework for Research Investments in Ocean
Science for the coming Decade

• Theme 1 Stewardship of Natural and
• Cultural Resources
• Theme 2 Increasing Resilience to Natural
• Hazards
• Theme 3 Enabling Marine Operations
• Theme 4 The Oceans Role in Climate
• Change
• Theme 5 Improving Ecosystem Health
• Theme 6 Enhancing Human Health

• Three Central Elements
• Ocean Observing System
• Forecast Models for Key Ocean and
  Ocean-Influenced Processes
• Scientific Support for Ecosystem Based Management

http//ocean.ceq.gov/about/sup_jsost_prioritiespla
n.html
Deploying an ocean-observation system will
revolutionize the access to and view of the ocean
and increase the pace, efficiency, and scope of
ocean research.
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Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
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Phased Deployment and Operation of the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing
System (MARCOOS)
Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras 1000 km Coastline
30 Co-PIs, 20 Institutions
Investigator Affiliation Investigator Affiliation
A. Allen U.S. Coast Guard L. Atkinson Old Dominion University
A. F. Blumberg Stevens Institute of Technology W. Boicourt University of Maryland
W. Brown University of Massachusetts M. Bruno Stevens Institute of Technology
D. Chapman University of Delaware A. Cope NOAA Mount Holly WFO
A.Gangopadhyay University of Massachusetts T. Herrington Stevens Institute of Technology
D. Holloway OPeNDAP E. Howlett Applied Science Associates
D. King University of Maryland J. Kohut Rutgers University
B. Lipphardt University of Delaware A.MacDonald Monmouth University
J. McDonnell Rutgers University J. Moisan NASA Wallops
J. ODonnell University of Connecticut M. Oliver Rutgers University
O. Schofield Rutgers University H. Seim University of North Carolina
J. Titlow WeatherFlow Inc. D. Ullman University of Rhode Island
J. Wilkin Rutgers University R. Wilson SUNY, Stony Brook
W. Wittman Public Service Electric Gas M. Yarosh CIT
A. Voros NY/NJ COAST S. Glenn Rutgers University
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A New Paradigm A Distributed Cyber-Ocean Network
Enabling Process Science, Discovery and Education
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Sustained Observatory Operations from Multiple
Locations
MBARI
McDonalds
My Living Room Glider Recovery in Hawaii
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Gathering Storm Exciting the next generation

• K-12 education
• Professional development programs (MARE)
• Informal learning centers (LSC)
• Undergraduate education (COS, USNA)
• Graduate education (U. Bergen)

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Long Duration Flights to Inspire Students in
Science Technology
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Opportunities moving forward International
Norway United Kingdom France Spain Portugal Cyprus
Canada Japan China Taiwan Australia
Collaborations bringing ocean observing
technology and application to under-developed
countries
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Opportunities for global leap-frog technology to
be coastal ARGOS
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• Another Look Forward --- For the State of New
  Jersey
• Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of
  Technology and Monmouth University Presidents
  MOU to build New Jersey Integrated Ocean
  Observing System (NJ IOOS).
• Gap filling the Near Shore CODAR network e.g.,
  California.
• Water quality on beaches.
• Rip current forecasting to save lives.
• Build the New Jersey Glider Fleet with NJDEP.
• Dissolved Oxygen Sensors.
• Tracking Plumes and Blooms.
• Sustain the Local New Jersey Network
• Economic Competitiveness
• Education
• Grow the International Network
• Small Business Incubators Edison Fund