NOAA OCM/NERRS-IOOS Partnership Meeting Phase I Workshop

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1 NOAA OCM/NERRS-IOOS Partnership Meeting Phase I Workshop Day 1 Agenda: 9:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda Review (Everyone) 9:30 Background on and Purpose of a NERRS-IOOS Network (Dwayne) 10:00 Top-Down View: Programmatic overviews of IOOS and NERRS (Jen and Marie) 10:30 Break 10:45 Examples of IOOS and NERRS Partnerships (Dwayne and Paul) 11:15 Breakout Session 1: Regional Meet and Greet What are the issues being addressed? Who are the users of our current monitoring information? What are the monitoring systems being used & their status? What other monitoring and research are we doing that are relevant? 12:45 Working lunch 1:30 Breakout Session Reports 2:30 Group Discussion/Brainstorming 3:30 Break 3:45 Group Discussion Continues 5:30 Adjourn to Happy Hour and hors d oeuvres 6:30 Site closes, we must be gone: Carpool back to hotel NOAA OCM/NERRS IOOS Workshop 21 January 2016

2 NOAA OCM/NERRS-IOOS Partnership Meeting Phase I Workshop Day 2 Agenda: 8:45 Arrival and Coffee 9:00 Review of Day 1 and Next Steps Towards Implementation. (Dave) 9:30 Identify potential partnerships with other parts of NOAA and other agencies/academics with a focus on building collaborations. (Heather and Dwayne) 10:30 Break 10:45 Develop a draft agenda for Phase II Workshop, including partners to invite and desired outcomes (Dave) 12:30 Adjourn NOAA OCM/NERRS IOOS Workshop 21 January 2016

3 NOAA OCM/NERRS-IOOS Partnership Meeting Phase I Workshop Objectives: Facilitate collaboration and communication between IOOS and NERRS researchers to create a seamless coastal observing network that functions at the landscape level, spans offshore to inshore regions. Develop a strategy for engaging coastal managers and researchers who use information and data from both IOOS and NERRS (i.e., common stakeholders). Outcomes: Build a communication network and data sharing framework to link blue water, nearshore, estuarine and inshore waters. This network will: Provide better access to coastal intelligence information, Create opportunities for collaboration, Increase capacity in existing observing networks to understand episodic events (e.g., coastal storms) and their impacts on coastal ecosystems, including humans, and Demonstrate to NOAA how critical both the OCM/NERRS and IOOS programs are to NOAA s mission. NOAA OCM/NERRS IOOS Workshop 21 January 2016

4 NOAA OCM/NERRS-IOOS Partnership Meeting Phase I Workshop Why should we do this: INTEGRATED COASTAL AND OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEM ACT OF 2009 To establish a national integrated System of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing systems, comprised of Federal and non-federal components to: (A) support national defense, marine commerce, navigation safety, weather, climate, and marine forecasting, energy siting and production, economic development, ecosystem-based marine, coastal, and Great Lakes resource management, public safety, and public outreach training and education; (B) promote greater public awareness and stewardship of the Nation's ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and the general public welfare; and (C) enable advances in scientific understanding to support the sustainable use, conservation, management, and understanding of healthy ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources. Improve the Nation's capability to measure, track, explain, and predict events related directly and indirectly to weather and climate change, natural climate variability, and interactions between the oceanic and atmospheric environments, including the Great Lakes. NOAA OCM/NERRS IOOS Workshop 21 January 2016

5 The Benefits of Integrated Environmental Monitoring / Observing in Supporting Science to Inform Decision Making: Brief Case Studies Presented by: Dwayne E. Porter Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and the NOAA NERRS Centralized Data Management Office NOAA OCM/NERRS IOOS Workshop 21 January 2016

6 Observations? Data? The Real Value is in Integrating Observing Systems!

7 Examples of Integrating Monitoring / Observing Programs and Sound Science to Inform Decision Making

8 Beach Water Quality Assessment and Modeling Activities Issue: Exposure to beach swimming waters with elevated bacterial levels is a public health concern and one of economic vitality. Goal: Develop and implement scientifically-justified, decision-support tools for accurate and defensible preemptive advisory issuance decisions. Process: 1.) Data integration and fusion 3.) Model validation 2.) Ensemble model development Percent Misclassification 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% NMB2 NMB3 MB1 MB2 MB3 MB4 SS GC 4.) Operational decision-support tool Who is doing it: A partnership among beach managers, tourism interests, public health officials and the general public including

9 Monitoring Water Conditions in Shellfish Harvesting Waters Issue: Commercial shellfish growers in the Pacific Northwest depend on good water quality data in order to make informed decisions that have economic implications. Goal: Process: To provide critical information about water temperature, chlorophyll levels, salinity, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen so that better decisions can be made about managing mariculture operations. 1.) Data collection 2.) Data integration and fusion 3.) Decision support Who is doing it: A partnership between NANOOS, the KAT, PAD and SOS NERRS, Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association, Pacific Shellfish Institute, University of Washington and the CDMO (support from CSC and NERRA)

10 Supporting Safe Marine Activities Issue: Mariners need dependable access to current and forecasted information on winds, waves and weather. Goal: To provide 24/7 access to critical marine information for the commercial and recreational marine communities within the SECOORA region. Process: 1.) Determine user needs 2.) Data integration and fusion 3.) Decision support Who is doing it: A partnership between SECOORA, UNC-W, USC, USF and the NWS Office of the CIO, NWS Eastern and Southern Region Headquarters and WFOs, NERRS and Second Creek Consulting

11 Supporting Marine Spatial Planning Issue: Local to regional resource managers and planners needs access to spatially and temporally relevant data and to planning tools in support of healthy ecosystems, clean coastal and ocean waters, disaster planning and recovery, and working waterfronts. Goal: To provide access to regional coastal and ocean data and planning tools in support of the Governors South Atlantic Alliance (GSAA). Process: 1.) Determine user needs 3.) Decision support 2.) Data development and fusion Who is doing it: A partnership involving NC, SC, GA, FL agencies and academic institutions, SECOORA, TNC, EcoTrust and NOAA.

12 Supporting Improved Decision Making Globally Issue: In support of addressing global issues such as ocean acidification, there is a need for a public information network for creating and sharing environmentally relevant data and information online. Goal: To improve the global environment by sharing information and knowledge. Process: 1.) Data assimilation 2.) Decision support Who is doing it: IOOS Program Office, NERRS, NANOOS, SECOORA, European Environment Agency and ESRI.

13 Wrap up (Criteria to consider) Do our respective OCM/NERRS and IOOS RAs have: - relevance to regional information needs? - Yes! - a well designed and adhered to data management program? - Yes. - demonstrated use in management decisions? -Examples provided, and user base is growing. - existing funding for data collection? - Yes but never enough. - the ability for additional leveraging to assist with scale-up? - Absolutely! - the backing of an operational (24/7) backbone? - Oh cr...!