Transcript Center for Integrated Marine Technologies

Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT)
Integrating Advanced Technologies to Understand California’s Upwelling Ecosystems
1Rondi
9Scott
2Ken
1Institute
of Marine Science, University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, CA
2Department of Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, CA
3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz, CA
4Department of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, CA
5Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA
6Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA
7National Marine Sanctuary Monterey Bay, Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network
(SIMoN), Monterey, CA
8Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA
9Southwest Fisheries Science Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Fisheries, Moss Landing, CA
10Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
10Yi
Robison,
Benson,
Bruland,
Chao, 5Francisco Chavez, 3Dan Costa, 3Don Croll,
7Andrew DeVogleare, 2Chris Edwards, 1Gary Griggs,
8Jim Harvey, 2Raphe Kudela, 7Steve Lonhart, 3Baldo
Marinovic, 2Margaret McManus, 6Jeff Paduan, 6Leslie
Rosenfeld, 2Mary Silver, 4John Vesecky
Zooplankton backscatter with CIMT ship
survey track lines by Suzana Djurcilov
Introduction:
The Center for Integrated Marine Technologies' (CIMT) was
organized to understand the relationship between the physical
dynamics and productivity, from wind to whales, of California's
coastal ocean.
Mission:
CIMT’s mission is to create a coastal ocean observing and
forecasting system that provides a scientific basis for the
management and conservation of the Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary, and serves as a model for all of California's
coastal marine resources.
Activities:
CIMT Web Site used for
Outreach http://cimt.ucsc.edu
Deployment of CIMT-MBARI M0
Mooring
Remote Sensing with satellites
Geographic Scope:
CIMT is composed of eight groups:
The CIMT efforts are
focused on the Monterey
Bay region of the
Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary – from
Pt. Año Nuevo to the
North to Pt. Lobos to the
South out to 122°05’ west
longitude. As resources
become available, the
spatial extent of the
project can expand.
•Ship Survey
•Database
•Apex Predator Tagging &
Bioacoustics
•Mooring
HF Radar systems collect
current information
•HF Radar
•Remote Sensing
Monitoring Program
Create an interdisciplinary team to identify the needs and technological
solutions
to understanding Monterey Bay's upwelling ecosystem
Develop New Technologies
Develop new sensors to fill important gaps in understanding the coupling
between
physical and biological processes in the coastal upwelling ecosystem
Integration of Data
Integrate data across platforms (mooring, ship-based, satellite) and across
temporal
and spatial scales
Data Dissemination
Develop a coordinated software system for the acquisition, organization,
visualization,
Elephant
seal dive profile with temperature by Suzana
archiving and access of physical, biological, and chemical coastal marine data
Djurcilov
sets
Outreach
Develop strong linkages between the CIMT researchers and product end-users
•Modeling and Forecasting
•Outreach
Low Frequency pop-up used in
bioacoustics and a tagged sea
lion
Integration of existing and new technologies:
Approach:
•Use the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary as a regional model
•Review current coastal upwelling
monitoring programs
The CIMT is simultaneously collecting data via moorings,
shipboard surveys, apex predator tagging and tracking, and
satellite, aircraft, and land-based remote sensing.
•Determine data gaps
•Develop new instrumentation to fill gaps
Data integration provides
new insights to the
complex interactions among climatic
events, riverine input of iron, and wind-driven coastal
upwelling of nutrients to phytoplankton production,
the distribution and abundance of animals from zooplankton
to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles.
This approach provides the ability to develop predictive models
of how marine resources respond to variability in coastal
dynamics.
M0 MBARI-CIMT with Sea Lions by Kim Fullton-Bennett
2004
Whale Dive
Record
Ship surveys aboard the R/V
john Martin collect a variety of
information including
observations of marine
mammals and phytoplankton
abundance
Live Access Server used to
download CIMT shipboard data
Current modeling
Acknowledgements:
Funding for CIMT provided by NOAA’s Coastal Observation and Technology Program award # NA16OC2936.
Special thanks to Geno Olmi, Becky Smyth, Jerome King, Kelly Newton, Nancy Gong, Mike Weise, Kip Laws,
Brian Fulfrost, Atma Roberts, Geoff Smith, Bettina Sohst, Carol Keiper, Sophie Webb, Walter Heady, Lee
Bradford, Kurt Brown, Peter Miller, Susan Coale, Robin Weber, Meredith Armstrong, Brian McLaughlin,
Itcheung Chung, Duncan Fry, Asila Ghoul, Moria Decima, Judy Van Leuven
•Archive and integrate new and old data
sets across networks and programs
•Develop user-friendly data access and
visualization interfaces
•Determine the process underlying coastal
dynamics
•Develop predictive models
Krill
Bottom
Blue whale equipped with a
dive recorder as part of the
Center for Integrated
Marine Technologies
program (Upper image).
Dive profile of tagged
whale (yellow line) in
relation to krill swarms
(red) near the Monterey
Bay Submarine Canyon
(green line) (Lower image).