NANOOS Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems

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NANOOSNorthwest Association of Networked Ocean
Observing Systems

• 2009 Regional Coordination Workshop
• Seattle, WA
• August 25, 2009

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Part 1 Enhancing NANOOS Enhancing the
Pacific Northwest RCOOS of NANOOS David Martin
Jan NewtonProject DurationRA 1 year,
currently in month 2 RCOOS 3 years currently
in year 2

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Project Schedule and Milestones RCOOS
Observations
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of work
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Project Schedule and Milestones RCOOS Modeling
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of work
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Project Schedule and Milestones RCOOS DMAC
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of work
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Project Schedule and Milestones RCOOS Education
and Outreach
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of work
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Project Status Report

• Significant Accomplishments
• Developed an advanced DMAC system for NANOOS that
  ingests data from variety of sources and in a
  variety of formats/types and makes it accessible
• Launched new NANOOS web that is a framework to
  integrate multi-institutional content into a
  seamless presentation, including capabilities for
  data search, data delivery, product display, and
  useful links
• Produced products of regional significance with
  use and demand across our priority areas
  (Ecosystem Impacts, Fisheries, Maritime
  Operations, Coastal Hazards)
• Fostered strong outreach ties to wide spectrum of
  ocean observing user groups including fishing
  industry, state and local natural resource
  managers, tribes, first responders, recreational
  boaters, scientific researchers, citizen
  scientists, and education community
• Developed lesson plans for use in classrooms and
  tutorial products on web and on display in
  aquaria/marine science centers
• Maintained our core observations in the face of
  significant federal funding reductions

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Keys to Success

• Excellent communication within NANOOS
• Three committees (DMAC, User Products, Ed Out)
  that work independently and collectively to
  implement goals/vision for development.
• Tri-committee meetings educate each other and
  identify needs and integrate efforts
• Weekly DMAC calls monthly to bi-monthly calls
  for other committees, semi-annual 3-com
• Some committee members who sit on two or more
  committees, provide overlap
• Clear and widely held vision for NANOOS RCOOS
  development
• Active involvement of GC much pro bono
  involvement
• Win-win partnerships developed (e.g.)
• NANOOS partnered with NERRS to serve data from
  State (WDOE), University (UW), Federal
  (NOAA-NERRS) sources designed for shellfish
  growers by joint NERRS-NANOOS outreach efforts
  web page designed by a small private company
  (Mindfly Inc.)
• NANOOS partnered with sensor industry (WETLabs)
  and marine science center (Hatfield) to fund
  development of outreach tool that highlights
  archived and RT data from the local estuary that
  is displayed to the public at the marine science
  center this link between observing data and an
  educational display will be adapted and exported
  throughout region

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Potential Challenges

• Describe potential and/or real challenges (e.g.,
  institutional barriers, technical barriers,
  scientific barriers, personal, etc)
• Going from a semi-operational system to a fully
  operational (24-7) system that has staff that can
  respond, back-up hardware, UPS systems
• Funding sustained observing system, that is fully
  regional, and includes replacement funds
• e.g., extend HF to WA
• Resolving challenges
• How might these challenges be resolved? (Besides
  additional financial
• resources) For example, are there actions that
  NOAA or
• other federal agencies could take to assist?
• No, it really is a funding issue. Getting other
  agencies to add to pot is critical.

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Current Status Products
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• Maritime Operations, will highlight the
  applications, data, products useful to maritime
  activities including
• Forecasts
• Wave
• Tide
• Currents
• Weather
• Observations
• Wace, wind, currents
• Ecosystem Impacts, will have pages on important
  regional ecosystem issues, which will link to
  relevant data, products, applications
• Hypoxia develop a hypoxia page, similar to
  ocean acidification
• OrCOOS Hypoxia info
• HCDOP
• HABs develop a HABs page similar to OA
• Sound Toxins
• ECOHAB, MOCHA etc
• Marine Biotoxin Bulletin
• Ocean Acidification
• Water Quality
• NERRS shellfish growers

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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide plots of near real-time surface
  temperature and currents off OR coast that is
  relevant and optimized for tuna fishing fleet.
  These are now known locally as the Tuna plots.

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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide plots of near real-time surface
  temperature and currents off OR coast that is
  relevant and optimized for tuna fishing fleet.
  These are now known locally as the Tuna plots.
• Provide a Google-based interactive map
  interface that allows public and managers to
  access tsunami evacuation routes for the Oregon
  coast. Next steps include working with Washington
  emergency officials to integrate evacuation maps
  developed for the Washington Coast

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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide plots of near real-time surface
  temperature and currents off OR coast that is
  relevant and optimized for tuna fishing fleet.
  These are now known locally as the Tuna plots.
• Provide a Google-based interactive map
  interface that allows public and managers to
  access tsunami evacuation routes for the Oregon
  coast. Next steps include working with Washington
  emergency officials to integrate evacuation maps
  developed for the Washington Coast
• Provide an Ocean Acidification theme page on
  NANOOS web that has near real-time OA status data
  and informational material on OA, what is known,
  what is being done, and educational videos from
  lead scientists on OA

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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide plots of near real-time surface
  temperature and currents off OR coast that is
  relevant and optimized for tuna fishing fleet.
  These are now known locally as the Tuna plots.
• Provide a Google-based interactive map
  interface that allows public and managers to
  access tsunami evacuation routes for the Oregon
  coast. Next steps include working with Washington
  emergency officials to integrate evacuation maps
  developed for the Washington Coast
• Provide an Ocean Acidification theme page on
  NANOOS web that has near real-time OA status data
  and informational material on OA, what is known,
  what is being done, and educational videos from
  lead scientists on OA
• Provide notification to the shellfish industry on
  near real-time water quality conditions so that
  they may strategize their growing activities
  (e.g., harvest, seeding, etc)

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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide plots of near real-time surface
  temperature and currents off OR coast that is
  relevant and optimized for tuna fishing fleet.
  These are now known locally as the Tuna plots.
• Provide a Google-based interactive map
  interface that allows public and managers to
  access tsunami evacuation routes for the Oregon
  coast. Next steps include working with Washington
  emergency officials to integrate evacuation maps
  developed for the Washington Coast
• Provide an Ocean Acidification theme page on
  NANOOS web that has near real-time OA status data
  and informational material on OA, what is known,
  what is being done, and educational videos from
  lead scientists on OA
• Provide notification to the shellfish industry on
  near real-time water quality conditions so that
  they may strategize their growing activities
  (e.g., harvest, seeding, etc)
• Provide one-stop-shopping to mariners and
  others on tide, currents, and weather conditions

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Current Status Product Examples

• Provide plots of near real-time surface
  temperature and currents off OR coast that is
  relevant and optimized for tuna fishing fleet.
  These are now known locally as the Tuna plots.
• Provide a Google-based interactive map
  interface that allows public and managers to
  access tsunami evacuation routes for the Oregon
  coast. Next steps include working with Washington
  emergency officials to integrate evacuation maps
  developed for the Washington Coast
• Provide an Ocean Acidification theme page on
  NANOOS web that has near real-time OA status data
  and informational material on OA, what is known,
  what is being done, and educational videos from
  lead scientists on OA
• Provide notification to the shellfish industry on
  near real-time water quality conditions so that
  they may strategize their growing activities
  (e.g., harvest, seeding, etc)
• Provide one-stop-shopping to mariners and
  others on tide, currents, and weather conditions
• Provide web-based searchable product filter that
  allows selection of product desired

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Current Status Observations
Indicate the of observations in each
category. Color code X if funded exclusively
by NOAA IOOS funds X if combination of NOAA
IOOS funds and other X is non-NOAA IOOS funds
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Current Status Modeling and DMAC subsystems
Region-wide entire RA
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Map 1a Existing Observing Assets
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Map 1a Existing Observing Assets
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Map 1a Existing Observing Assets
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• Part 2 Looking Forward
• Future Plans
• Assuming 5 million of funding per year, please
  indicate what your future plans are for your RA.
  The 5 million should cover activities currently
  funded by the RA Planning Grants and the RCOOS.

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Future Plans Major Products
NVS WEB MAP TOOL TO INTEGRATE ACCESS TO
OBSERVING DATA MORE SATELITE PRODUCTS MORE THEME
PAGES EXPAND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE (e.g., to WA) and
VARIABLES AVAILABLE MODEL VERIFICATION
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Existing Observing Assets
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Future Plans

• Expansion of HF radar stations to the
  Washington coast
• Ocean circulation modeling expansion to
  Washington coast
• Models and observation data for assisting with
  SAR
• ReaL-time observations of conditions at the
  mouths of major estuaries (i.e. maritime safety)
  e.g. X-band radar, SWAN wave modeling etc
• Bathymetry data collection
• Models of coastal inundation and erosion due to
  climate change effects (i.e. changes in sea
  level, trends of increasing and/or more extreme
  wave heights, effects of ENSO). Would require
  modeling with SWAN and other models for
  forecasting beach erosion potential and
  inundation. Continue to provide time series
  information on coastal change (shore-based and
  bathymetry) patterns along the OR/WA coasts
• ARGUS camera time-series for monitoring
  shoreline change in areas where erosion is severe
  (e.g. Rockaway beach)
• Help to synthesize fishery data for PNW coast.
  Develop models of regional fishery patterns (e.g.
  hot/cold cycles in SST affecting Salmon fisheries
  of the PNW coast

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Future Plans Observations
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Future Plan Modeling and DMAC
Region-wide means entire RA
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Funding Scenario
Briefly describe the major CUTS to the subsystem
under the reduced funding scenarios