Transcript Creating a national plan for regional IOOS 090109

Creating a national plan
for the regional contribution
to National ICOOS
Purpose of “Regional Contribution
to National ICOOS”
• Articulate the value that regions bring to the
nation
• Describe more specifically what $$ will buy
• Audience: Hill, OMB, administration, etc
• Provides a method for: discussions with
federal agencies about roles and
responsibilities for meeting user needs; a
more rigorous requirements document
Proposed product: 10-12 page
document
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Introduction – purpose/need: regional IOOS (1 pg)
Value of regional approach (1 pg)
Proposed build out for regional obs & models (1 pg)
Climate change (1 pg)
Ecosystem health (1 pg)
Marine operations (1 pg)
Coastal hazards (1 pg)
Cross-cutting: data integration, E&O, MSP (1 pg)
Timeline
• Organize writing teams/groups
9/1/09
• Agree on plan components, issues to be resolved,
graphics needed
9/10/09
• Circulate 1st drafts of plan components region-wide
for comments
10/15/09
• Writing team holds retreat to complete first full draft
10/23/09
• 1st draft circulates region-wide for comments
10/23-30/09
• 2nd draft circulates region-wide for comments
11/16-20/09
• Document finalized, print-ready
12/1/09
Writing Team and Working Groups
• Core writing team: Josie Quintrell, Molly
McCammn, Harvey Seim, Christine Manninen,
Ann Jochens
Introduction
• Purpose & need
• Articulate regional value –
• Relationship to regional governors alliances,
national & regional climate initiatives, Ocean
Action Plan, Joint Ocean Commission
Initiatives, Marine Spatial Planning
• Relation to NOAA mission goals; other agency
missions
• Short summary of entire document
Value of regional approach
• Connection to regional stakeholders/users
• Observations to fill in the holes between national, singlemission platforms
• Federal missions implemented at regional level
• Platforms for multi-use
• Data for model validation and assimilation
• Data systems that provide easy access and at regional scale
• Integrated regional database for data
• Leveraging capability
• Local knowledge and R&D
• Neutral forum for coastal ocean information
Coastal Climate Change Observing System
• Regional scale (resolution) and easy access to:
– Upwelling Index – data
– SST anomalies – data
– T/S etc, tide gauge, meteorology – time-series, trends and
extremes, means & anomalies
– Info of regional significance, e.g., ice area, timing, etc
• Long time-series at regional scale:
– Historical records – data access, ocean climatology,
temperature maps, events, salinity, sea/lake ice, surface
currents
– Sustained ocean transects (gliders) – data, plots,
stratification, difference analysis
– Ocean acidification – historical and RT
– Sea level & lake levels – status and trends
– Inundation and waves – status and trends, vulnerabilities
– Wind and storms – status and events
– Carbon cycle – status and trends
• Measurements required for regional climate indices and
model validation and assimilation
– e.g., temp/salinity
Ecosystem health
including fisheries & water quality
• Forecasts, analyses and/or product integration to support
warnings or economic & resource management decisions for
events of social and ecosystem significance
– e.g., HABs, hypoxia, pathogens, shellfish health, fish vitality, human
health
• Access to platforms to deploy technologies to measure
variables of ecosystem health
– e.g., ocean acidification, oil, contaminants
• Maps and information to feed marine spatial planning and
MPAs, resource sustainability, ecosystem based management,
Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs)
– e.g. species, habitat, transport
• Sustained observations and analyses from which to evaluate
climate impact on ecosystem health
• Provide physical ocean conditions for fisheries management
Marine Operations
• Marine transportation tools
- Integrated tool for ships transiting waters
- Integrated tools for ships leaving & returning to ports, coasts, nearshore
conditions
- Information to NWS forecast offices
• Search and rescue
- SAROPS – USCG
- Local search & rescue
• Spills
- Spill trajectories
- NOAA HAZMAT GNOME model
• Offshore energy
- siting & monitoring of long-term effects
- use of facilities as platforms
Coastal hazards
• Inundation
• Shoreline change
• Extreme events
Cross-cutting
• Data mgmt
• Education & outreach
• MSP
Proposed build-out
• Table of build-out a la global program
• Map of assets (red & green) showing
leveraging
Global Ocean Observing System for
Climate: Designed for & reporting to UNFCCC
Other steps/issues
• Review products according to themes: post on
AOOS website; weekly show & tells – decide
which ones to highlight/focus on – what is
unique regional capacity?
• Ensure federal agency review/participation
• How can we effectively incorporate
cost/benefits info to the extent we have it?
• What performance metrics can be used?
• How do we address leveraging issue – is buildout only for IOOS funds?