Summary of the

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Summary of the
2nd Meeting of University and Research
Institution Leaders Contributing to the Northeast
Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System Graduate
School of Oceanography University of Rhode
Island Narragansett, RI January 16, 2006
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Background

• First meeting of this group was held at the
  University of New Hampshire on October 30-31,
  2006
• Hosted by Berrien Moore, Director of the
  Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and
  Space at UNH, and attended by 12 individuals
  representing 10 organizations.
• There were 3 major outcomes of this meeting

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Outcomes
1. Endorsement of the CORE position on
IOOS. Attendees reviewed a one-page statement
of COREs position on IOOS. That statement
recommends that NOAA commit to a course of action
and in exchange, the universities will agree to
other conditions. NOAA would agree to lead the
coordination of IOOS implementation, establish an
interagency planning group, and the establishment
of IOOS as part of NOAAs budget beginning in
2008 with a target of 138M and ramping up over
the next 5 years. The budget for FY2008 must be
new money in addition to the 2B already being
carried out by Federal agencies. If NOAA commits
to this course of action, the CORE position calls
for the universities to agree to support NOAAs
role, to work with other Federal agencies in
support of IOOS, and to cease earmarking for
regional and local IOOS systems. Individuals
assembled at this meeting supported the CORE
position provided that a significant amount of
the IOOS funds be spent outside NOAA. It was
acknowledged, however, that individuals do not
speak for their universities, and thus we must
consult with the relevant senior university
administrators.
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Outcomes (cont.)
2. Approach to the New England Governors and
Eastern Canadian Premiers. The group agreed to
a course of action for approaching governors as
follows. We will draft a one-page statement in
response to the formation of a Northeast Regional
Oceans Committee (NROC) and the resolution
(Resolution 30-1) of the New England Governors
and Eastern Canadian Premiers at their meeting in
May 2006. The statement will provide a paragraph
of background on the IOOS and regional
associations, a paragraph explaining about this
meeting and the Northeast Regional Association
(NERACOOS) planning effort underway, and asking
for an opportunity to be on the agenda for their
summer meeting in June 2007 at Prince Edward
Island. A cover letter will be drafted to the
governors and premiers and signed by all
attending this meeting. Then we will send email
to the Executive Director of the NROC (office in
Boston) to set up a conference call to brief him
on the letters going to the various governors.
Letters will be sent by the in-state constituents
at this meeting with copies to NROC working group
members. The letters will request the NE
governors to consider at their February meeting
in Washington D.C. putting IOOS and the NERACOOS
on the agenda for their June meeting.
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Outcomes (cont.)
3. Creation of a Vision for IOOS Applications in
Several Cluster Areas GSO offered to host 2nd
meeting in January 2007 the outcome of which will
be a white paper describing the vision
(scenarios) for several IOOS application areas.
The application areas are (1) Living Marine
Resources and the creation of an array of
platforms to provide observations that capture
the multiple scales needed to understand nutrient
and energy delivery to LMR. Brian Rothschild
will take the lead in writing this vision
description. (2) Whales and Vessel Activity.
Larry Madin will take lead in writing a
desription of the observing system needed to
provide shipping and fishing industries with
information on whales. (3) Water quality,
harmful algal blooms, and inundation. These are
3 areas in which the NERACOOS PIs are planning to
create prototype products. The NERACOOS PIs
(Campbell, Pettigrew, Trowbridge, Bogden) will be
responsible for this vision description.
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Inundation, Harmful Algal Blooms, and Water
Quality
IGBP SOLAS DOMAIN
John Trowbridge, Neal Pettigrew, Philip Bogden,
Janet Campbell
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• Approached this topic with following questions
• What are outcomes? (must be user-driven)
• What are functional requirements? (what?)
• What are the technical requirements? (how?)
• What is the implementation plan?

Based on System Engineering Approach (Philip
Bogden)
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Inundation (John Trowbridge)
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Harmful Algal Blooms (Neal Pettigrew)
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Water Quality (Janet Campbell)
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Figure 1. Model grid for the finite volume model
FVCOM in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank
regions. Note the high spatial resolution in the
nearshore zone, the flanks of Georges Bank, and
the shelf break. The spatial resolution in the
nearshore zone is 10-50 m. The finite volume
numerical methodology permits both a large
spatial domain (order 1000 km) and spatial
resolution at the required scale in coastal
regions.
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The Great Bay Estuary of New Hampshire is the
site of a coastal buoy that is telemetering
data every hour to a server at UNH. The buoy was
deployed at 11 a.m. on April 28, 2005.
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The Coastal Buoy has nutrient sensors by
Satlantic and WET Labs, and wireless telemetry to
a ground-based receiving station. For more
information Dr. J. Ru Morrison
Ru.Morrison_at_unh.edu
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Great Bay Coastal Buoy

• Measures a comprehensive suite of environmental
  indicators from nutrients to chlorophyll
• New visualizations to bring historical context to
  real-time Ocean Observing data
• Partnering with interested local organizations
  including Great Bay NERR and NH DES

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IOOS/NERACOOS Marine Mammal Interaction
Monitoring System Michael Moore, Peter Tyack,
Mark Baumgartner, Larry Madin Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
02543 Presented by John Trowbridge (WHOI)
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Proposed additional observing asset The goal of
sampling ocean noise and detecting marine mammals
requires an array of hydrophones distributed
broadly in New England Waters. We envision an
observing system consisting of acoustic
instrumentation that permits automatic detection
and classification of marine mammal
vocalizations, and an ability to relay detection
information to nearby ships and land-based
receivers.
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LIVING MARINE RESOURCES OBSERVING SYSTEM

• GULF OF MAINE INCLUDING GEORGES BANK
• presented by
• Brian Rothschild

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SMAST

• Kevin Stokesbury Graduate Students
• Jennifer Miksis-Olds Peter Ho
• Ernie Bernard Jiaming Zhang
• Chris Jakubiak Ruping Ma
• Sai Sarangapani Zhenhai Wang
• June Jiao
• Tu Truong Undergraduate Intern
• Ben Bagana

Lockheed Martin Sippican
Doug Dapprich Paul Augustine Martin
Lewis Frank Rybak Brian Gallagher John
Spirito
NOAA/CMER
Steven Cadrin
SMAST/Woods Hole/FVCOM Modeling
Changsheng Chen Robert Beardsley
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OBSERVING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• TO MONITOR THE ABUNDANCE AND DYNAMICS OF LIVING
  MARINE RESOURCESADULT AND PLANKTON COMPONENT
• TO FORECAST THE ABUNDANCE OF THE RESOURCES ON
  MULTIPLE TIME AND SPACE SCALES
• TO UNDERSTAND MULTISCALE CHANGES IN PRODUCTIVITY
  AND COUPLE THESE TO LMR

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256 Processors (Intel 3.4 GHz Pentium 4) 256
Gigabytes RAM, Infiniband High Speed Network 7
Terabytes Disk Space
Third generation of GOM FVCOM Horizontal
resolution 10-500 m in the coastal region
Generalized terrain-following coordinates 46
layers 10 uniform layers in the surface and
bottom boundary layers, respectively
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Photo of MANTIS Tower
Diagram of MANTIS installation
Individual MANTIS Control Volume Node
Possible location of MANTIS nodes located in
no-fishing areas on Georges Bank
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PREMISES FOR OBSERVING SYSTEM DESIGN

• OBSERVING SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION IS A
  COMPLEX LONG-TERM UNDERTAKING
• SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
• SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE MODEL-DRIVENWE ARE USING
  FVCOM AS OUR PRIMARY ENGINE
• PROBABLY A TEN-YEAR EFFORT
• IMPORTANT TO BEGIN TO DEVELOP COHERENT PLANS
• NEED TO ADDRESS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
• NEEDS TO BE ADAPTIVE EVENTUALLY

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• Next steps
• Form Science Requirements Team
• Form Products Requirements Team
• Submit letter of intent (due January 31) to NOAA
  in response to
• ANNOUNCEMENT OF FEDERAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
• Federal Agency Name Coastal Services Center,
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  (NOAA), Department of Commerce Funding
  Opportunity
• Title FY 2007 Regional Integrated Ocean
  Observing System
• Request 6M over 2 years to (1) maintain
  existing observing systems, (2) augment system
  and link GoMOOS and Southern New England
  observing system (3) develop simulation
  capability for design of system of systems to
  address multiple scales.

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Questions?
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