Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System; Assessing Fisheries Requirements

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The Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing
System a component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean
Observing System and of the Global Ocean
Observing System

• Worth D. Nowlin, Jr.
• GCOOS/Texas AM University
• SEMARNAT
• Mexico City
• June 19, 2008

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Topics for Background

• Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
• U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
• NOAA and the IOOS

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Overview of National Data Buoy Centers
Activities in the Gulf of Mexico Region
NDBC

• Paul F. Moersdorf, Ph.D., Director
• NOAA National Data Buoy Center
• Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Mexico / U.S. Coordination Meeting SEMARNAT 19
June 2008
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Outline

• NDBC Observing Systems
• Data Access NDBCs Web Presence
• Project to Add Ocean Sensors to NDBCs Platforms
  in the Gulf of Mexico
• Overview of Mexico / EPA / NDBC Red Tide Project
• Summary

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GCOOS Pilot Projects
Ann E. Jochens Worth D. Nowlin, Jr. Alfredo E.
Prelat

• Building Toward An Operational Ocean Observing
  System

SEMARNAT Mexico City June 19, 2008
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Recommended Pilot Projects

• Improving forecasts of hurricane severity
• Develop a Pilot GCOOS Operations Center
• Improve forecasts of three-dimensional currents
• Place instrumentation on volunteer observing
  ships
• Assemble and distribute water quality
  measurements for human pathogens
• Produce probability maps of bottom hazards and
  maps of hydrocarbon seeps
• Develop a measurement and products archive
• Produce maps of marine mammals and endangered
  turtles

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Next Steps

• Invitation to Board Meeting, Corpus Christi
  August 19, 2008
• Invitation to Harmful Algal Blooms Workshop
• Dec. 2008-St. Petersburg
• Invitation to Board meeting February 2009
• Worth Nowlin provided USA contacts to Sergio
  Cerdeira Estrada on new algorithms and products
  for chlorophyll expressions
• Signature of Memorandum of Agreement