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2013 CIMRS Executive Board Meeting
OSU President’s Conference Room, 6th floor Kerr, Corvallis
10am - 12 pm Thursday June 20th
Proposed Agenda:
I Chair Welcome (Rick Spinrad, VP for research, OSU)
II Update on current CIMRS and CI Directors collective
activities (Michael Banks)
III Success highlight – review of CIMRS post docs/junior faculty
performance (Banks)
IV NOAA mission challenges for which HMSC/OSU has relevant
expertise?
NWFSC (Mark Strom for John Stein)
PMEL (Chris Sabine)
AFSC (John Bengtson/Pat Livingston)
V Strategies for FY14 survival (sequester) and for the five-year
CIMRS review (Oct. 2014)
(Strom/Sabine/Bengtson/Livingston/Spinrad/Banks)
VI An idea for Education & Outreach development: UNR/NSF
STEM program (Banks)
VII Vents/Marine Bioacoustics leadership changes given pending
retirements (Chris Sabine)
VIII Authorship affiliation for partnership manuscript: NOAA
credit assignment (Chris Sabine)
VIII Other Items and Needs of the Board (Rick Spinrad)
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Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS)
Principal Investigator: Michael A. Banks, Director CIMRS,
Hatfield Marine Science Center Oregon State University (OSU)
Award period October 1st 2011 – September 30th 2016
Federal Funds requested $33,760,688
Now in its twenty-eight year, the OSU/NOAA Cooperative Institute
for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) develops and offers
opportunities for joint research and outreach to a growing
community of University and NOAA scientists dedicated to marine
science, graduate education, and learning partnerships with
regional industries and communities that are dependent on marine
resources. The Institute’s main mission is to bring together
research partners from Oregon State University’s full variety of
colleges and departments to assist their NOAA colleagues address
complex multidisciplinary issues relating to sustainable use and
management of the marine environment. We thrive because of
sustained vision and commitment of leaders from within the
laboratories of our NOAA associates and the OSU Research Office.
Increasing synergies realized over the past few years include a
marked expansion in the distribution of research findings
nationally and globally, tripling of external research grant
funding, diversification of post doctoral and graduate student
opportunities, and pooling of minds and resources from a broad
range of disciplines to address marine-related research problems of
climate, environmental, economic and social importance. We present
here a range of 34 research projects coordinated as sub-themes
within four primary themes: Marine Ecosystems and Habitat,
Protection and Restoration of Marine Resources, Seafloor Processes
and Marine Bioacoustics. Diverse activities range from studies in
physical oceanography, ecosystem, fisheries stock and habitat
assessment, longer term prediction of physical and biological
inter-relationships and climate, modeling, economics, spatial
planning, genomics, ecology through to geology, marine chemistry,
and sound. The eclectic collaborative structure of CIMRS strives to
facilitate new and nimble ways to apply hard science, basic
research in a quest to understand factors and fluxes impacting
marine resources and better their management. Within this proposal
are numerous examples of research, education and outreach
excellence. These results arise from investment of our leaders in
unique resources poised in the Pacific Northwest where three states
host sincere hard work and tremendous good will.
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FY 2013 Executive Board
Rick Spinrad (Chair)
Vice-President for Research,
Oregon State University
Janet Webster
Director,
Hatfield Marine Science Center, OSU
Mark Abbott
Dean, College of Earth, Ocean, &
Atmospheric Sciences, OSU
Stella Coakley/ Larry Curtis
Associate Dean,
College of Agricultural Sciences, OSU
John Bengtson
Director, National Marine Mammal
Laboratory, AFSC, NOAA
Patricia Livingston
Director, REFM,
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Rich Holdren
Acting Director,
Oregon Sea Grant, OSU
Chris Sabine
Director, Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory, NOAA
Vincent Remcho
Interim-Dean,
College of Sciences, OSU
John Stein
Science Director,
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Michael Banks (Ex Officio)
Director, CIMRS, OSU
CIMRS is administered jointly through the OSU Research Office
with oversight from an Executive Board made up of members from
participating organizations under the terms of a Memorandum of
Understanding between OSU and NOAA/NMFS. The Executive Board will
provide “One-NOAA” oversight and direction to CIMRS, and
communicate NOAA policies, priorities, coordination opportunities
and performance matters. They will review and comment of the CIMRS
annual report and approve appointments of the Science Advisory
Council (SAC). In exercising its review and evaluation capacities
the Executive board shall include the CIMRS Director in its
deliberations and may invite representatives from the SAC or any
other relevant participants. The Executive Board will be chaired by
the Vice President for Research at OSU and shall be made up of
representatives from NOAA line offices and programs that have
research interests in the Northeast Pacific and leadership from
relevant colleges at OSU. The NOAA Office of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research (OAR) Cooperative Institute Program Director
will be a special advisor to the Board in a non-voting ex-officio
status. The Director of CIMRS or his designee shall also serve as a
non-voting member of the Executive Board.
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FY 2012 Science Advisory Council
David Noakes (Chair) Professor, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife,
OSU
William Pearcy Professor Emeritus, College of Earth, Ocean,
&
Atmospheric Sciences, OSU
Jerri Bartholomew Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology,
OSU
Clare Reimers Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, &
Atmospheric
Sciences, OSU
Michael Blouin (retired) Professor, Dept. of Zoology, OSU
Suggestion: George Waldbusser (CEOAS)
http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/waldbusser/
Clifford Ryer Fisheries Biologist, FBE, RACE Division, AFSC,
NOAA
William Chadwick Professor, CIMRS, OSU
Paul Wade Research Biologist, National Marine Mammal
Laboratory,
AFSC, NOAA
Kurt Fresh Estuarine and Ocean Ecology Program Manager, FE
Division, NWFSC, NOAA
Laurie Weitkamp Research Fisheries Biologist, Con Bio Division,
NWFSC,
NOAA
Michelle McClure Director, FRAM Division, NWFSC, NOAA
Dawn Wright (retired) suggestion: Professor, Dept. of
Geosciences, OSU
Suggestion: Rob Suryan (FW/HMSC)
http://fw.oregonstate.edu/About%20Us/personnel/faculty/suryan.htm
Michael Banks (Ex Officio) Director, CIMRS, OSU
The Science Advisory Council (SAC) provides input on research
directions, progress, and policy to the Director. Proposal review
is a critical function of the SAC. This council, comprising members
of collaborating academic departments and NOAA line offices, meets
on an ad hoc basis to review scientific proposals directed to the
Institute, at the call of the Chairperson. Appointment to the
council shall be recommended by the Director of CIMRS and approved
by the Executive Board. The Director also serves Ex Officio on the
CIMRS Science Advisory Board. Current members of the Council
represent the academic units of Zoology, Fisheries and Wildlife,
College of Earth, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences,
Microbiology, and Geosciences, as well as three major divisions of
NWFSC.
http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/waldbusser/http://fw.oregonstate.edu/About%20Us/personnel/faculty/suryan.htm
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FY 2013 CIMRS Publications (total n = 31)
THEME: MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND HABITAT
Bi, H, W.T. Peterson, J.O. Peterson, and J.L. Fisher (2012) A
comparative analysis of coastal and shelf-slope copepod communities
in the northern California Current system: Synchronized response to
large scale forcing? Limnol. Oceanogr., 57(5): 1467-1478.
doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.5.1467
Burke, B.J., Peterson, W.T., Beckman, B.R., Morgan, C., Daly,
E.A., Litz, M. (2013) Multivariate models of adult Pacific salmon
returns. PLoS ONE, 8(1): e54134
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054134
Daly, E.A., Auth, T.D., Brodeur, R.D., and Peterson, W.T. 2013.
Winter ichthyoplankton biomass as a predictor of early summer prey
fields and survival of juvenile salmon in the northern California
Current. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 484: 203-217. doi:
10.3354/meps10320
Francis, T.B., M.D. Scheuerell, R.D. Brodeur, P.S. Levin, J.J.
Ruzicka, N. Tolimieri and W.T. Peterson. 2012. Climate shifts the
interaction web of a marine plankton community. Global Change
Biology, 18(8): 2498-2508.doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02702.x.
Roegner, G.C., E.A. Daly, and R.D. Brodeur. 2013. Surface
distribution of brachyuran megalopae and ichthyoplankton in the
Columbia River plume during transition from downwelling to
upwelling conditions. Continental Shelf Research 60:70-86.
Ruzicka, J.J., Brodeur, R. D., Emmett, R. L., J.H. Steele, J.E.
Zamon, C.A. Morgan, A.C. Thomas, and T.C. Wainwright. 2012.
Interannual variability in the Northern California Current food web
structure: changes in energy flow pathways and the role of forage
fish, euphausiids, and jellyfish. Progress in Oceanography, 102:
19-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2012.02.002
Stoner, A., L.A. Copeman, M.L. Ottmar. 2013. Molting, growth,
and energetics of newly-settled blue king crab: Effects of
temperature and comparisons with red king crab. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 442: 10-21.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2013.02.002.
Suchman C.L., R.D. Brodeur, E.A. Daly and R.L. Emmett. (2012)
Distribution and abundance of large medusae in surface waters off
the coasts of Washington and Oregon, USA: seasonal and interannual
variability in relation to environmental conditions. Hydrobiologia,
690:113-125. DOI 10.1007/s10750-012-1055-7
Takahashi, M. D.M. Checkley Jr., M.N.C. Litz, R.D. Brodeur, and
W.T. Peterson. (2012) Responses in growth rate of larval northern
anchovy to anomalous upwelling in the northern California Current.
Fish. Oceanogr., 21(6): 393-404. DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2419.2012.00633.x NOV 2012
Weitkamp, L.A., Bentley, P., and Litz, M.N.C. In press. Seasonal
and interannual variation in juvenile salmon and associated fish
assemblage in open waters of the lower Columbia River estuary.
Fishery Bulletin. 110(4): 426-450. Fall 2012
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Yu, H., Bi, H., Burke, B., Lamb, J., Peterson, W. (2012) Spatial
variations in the distribution of yearling spring Chinook salmon
off Washington and Oregon using COZIGAM analysis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser
465: 253-265. doi: 10.3354/meps09909 SEPT 2012
THEME: PROTECTION & RESTORATION OF MARINE RESOURCES
Johansson, M.L., A.L. Sremba, L.R.Feinberg, M.A. Banks and W. T.
Peterson. 2012. The mitochondrial genomes of Euphausia pacifica and
Thysanoessa raschi sequenced using 454 next-generation sequencing
with a phylogenetic analysis of their position in the Malacostracan
family tree. Molecular Biology Reports, 39(9): 9009-9021. DOI
10.1007/s11033-012-1772-z
Laurel, B.J., L.A. Copeman, and C.C. Parrish. 2012. Role of
temperature on lipid/fatty acid composition in Pacific cod (Gadus
macrocephalus) eggs and unfed larvae. Marine Biology, 159(9):
2025-2034. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-1989-3
Miller J.A., D.J. Teel, A. Baptista, C.A. Morgan. 2013.
Disentangling bottom-up and top-down effects on survival during
early ocean residence in a population of Chinook salmon
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Can J Fish Aquat Sci 70(4):617-629
THEME: SEAFLOOR PROCESSES
Bohnenstiehl, D. R., R. P. Dziak, H. Matsumoto, T-K Lau. 2013.
Underwater acoustic records from the March 2009 eruption of Hunga
Ha’apai – Hunga Tonga volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga,” J. Vol
& Geoth. Res. 249(1): 12-24.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.08.014 JAN 2013
Bohnenstiehl, D.R., R.P. Dziak, H Matsumoto, J. Condor. 2013.
Acoustic response of submarine volcanoes in the Tofua Arc and
northern Lau Basin to two great earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., in
review
Caress, D.W., D.A. Clague, J.B. Paduan, J.F. Martin, B.M.
Dreyer, W.W. Chadwick Jr, A. Denny, and D.S. Kelley. 2012. Repeat
bathymetric surveys at 1-metre resolution of lava flows erupted at
Axial Seamount in April 2011. Nature Geoscience 5:483-488. DOI:
10.1038/NGEO1496
Chadwick, W.W., Jr., S.L. Nooner, D.A. Butterfield, and M.D.
Lilley. 2012. Seafloor deformation and forecasts of the April 2011
eruption at Axial Seamount. Nature Geoscience 5:474-477.DOI:
10.1038/NGEO1464
Dziak, R.P., E.T. Baker, A.M. Shaw, W.W. Chadwick Jr., J.H.
Haxel, H. Matsumoto, and S.L. Walker. 2012. Flux measurements of
explosive degassing using a yearlong hydroacoustic record at an
erupting submarine volcano. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
13, Q0AF07, doi:10.1029/2012GC004211.
Dziak, R.P., J.H. Haxel, D.R. Bohnenstiehl, W.W. Chadwick Jr,
S.L. Nooner, M.J.Fowler, H. Matsumoto and D.A. Butterfield. 2012.
Seismic precursors and magma ascent before the April 2011 eruption
at Axial Seamount. Nature Geoscience, 5:478-483. DOI:
10.1038/NGEO1490
Dziak, R.P., M. Fowler, H. Matsumoto, D.R. Bohnenstiehl, M.
Park. K. Warren, W-S Lee. 2013. Life and death sounds of iceberg
A53a, Oceanography, in press.
Dziak, R.P., H. Matsumoto, M. Park , D. R. Bohnenstiehl, M.
Fowler,T-K Lau, K. M. Stafford. 2103. Contribution to the ambient
ocean sound field from breakup of sea-ice, icebergs
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.08.014%20JAN%202013
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and cetacean vocalizations near the Antarctic Peninsula,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, submitted.
Embley, R.W., C.E.J. deRonde, S.G. Merle, B. Davy, and F.
Caratori Tontini (2012): Detailed morphology and structure of an
active submarine arc caldera: Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc. Econ.
Geol., 107, doi: 10.2113/econgeo.107.8.1557, 1557–1570.
Haxel, J.H., R.P. Dziak, T.K. Lau, W.W. Chadwick, S.L. Nooner,
Seismic cycles, seafloor deformation and volcanic eruptions at
Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. 2013. Geology, submitted.
Haxel, J.H., R.P. Dziak, and Haru Matsumoto. 2013. Observations
of shallow water marine ambient sound: The low frequency underwater
soundscape of the central Oregon Coast. J. Acoust.Soc.Amer. 133(5):
2586-2596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4796132
Leybourne, M. I., U. Schwartz-Schampera, C. E. J. De Ronde, E.
T. Baker, K. Faure, S. L. Walker, D. A. Butterfield, J. A. Resing,
J. E. Lupton, M. D. Hannington, H. L. Gibson, G. J. Massoth, R. W.
Embley, W. W. Chadwick, Jr., M. R. Clark, C. Timm, I. J. Graham,
and I. C. Wright. 2012.. Submarine magmatic-hydrothermal systems at
the Monowai Volcanic Center, Kermadec Arc. Economic Geology,
107(8): 1669–1694. doi:10.2113/econgeo.107.8.1669.
Ver Eecke, H.C., D.A. Butterfield, J.A. Huber, M.D. Lilley, E.J.
Olson, K.K. Roe, L.J. Evans, A.Y. Merkel, H.V. Cantin, and J.F.
Holden. 2012. Hydrogen-limited growth of hyperthermophilic
methanogens at deep-sea hydrothermal vents!. PNAS,
109(34):13674-13679. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1206632109
THEME: MARINE BIOACOUTICS
Klinck, H., S. Nieukirk, D. K. Mellinger, K. Klinck, H.
Matsumoto, and R.P. Dziak. 2012. Seasonal presence of cetaceans and
ambient noise levels in polar waters of the North Atlantic. J. of
Acoust. Soc. Am., EL181, 132(3).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4740226
Klinck, H., M. Horning, M., D.K. Mellinger, D.P Costa, S.
Fregosi, D.A. Mann, K. Sexton, and L. Huckstadt. 2012. Animal-borne
active acoustic tags: A new paradigm to conduct minimally invasive
behavioral response studies? J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 132(3):
2009-.
Matsumoto, H., C. Jones, H. Klinck, D. K. Mellinger, R. P.
Dziak, and C. Meinig, 2012. “Tracking beaked whales with a passive
acoustic profiler float,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Accepted on July 30,
2012. In press.
Samaran, F., K.M. Stafford, T.A. Branch, J. Gedamke, J-Y Royer,
R.P. Dziak and C. Guinet. 2013. Seasonal and geographic variation
of southern blue whale subspecies in the Indian Ocean. Plos One, in
review.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4796132http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4740226
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CIMRS Success: Seeding Post docs into Academia & at NOAA
A Guide to Online Research Tony Schreiner (USA) - Bioinformatics
Program at Boston College
Post-Doc with Chris Fox (1992-95)
Dawn Wright (USA) Professor in Geosci at OSU and NOAA SAB member
Post-Doc with Chris Fox (1995)
2007 US Professor of the Year! (Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching)
Hongsheg Bi (China) Assist. Professor in Environ. Sci., Univ. of
Maryland
Post-Doc with Bill Peterson (2005-09)
Ocean-climate variability and ecosystem response; Zooplankton
community and population dynamics; Application of satellite
techniques in marine fisheries.
Linda O’Higgins (Ireland) Researcher, BioMara (Scottish Marine
Institute)
Post-Doc with Bill Peterson (2006-09)
Making fuel from marine algae in Scotland
Hui Liu (China) Assist. Professor in Zooplankton Processes,
Texas A&M Univ.
Post-Doc with Bill Peterson (2008-2011) Zooplankton processes in
the ocean, population dynamics and interactions of marine fishes,
quantitative fisheries research, statistical and numerical
ecosystem modeling.
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Vladlena Gertseva (Russia) – Research Fishery Biologist, FRAM
NOAA NWFSC
Post-Doc with Tom Wainwright & Liz Clark (2003-5) Key member
of FRAM's stock assessment team
Ron Suryan (USA) – Associate Professor OSU FW&HMSC Post-Doc
with George Boehlert and Daniel Roby (2004-06)
Interviewed for HMSC Director in 2012
Mattias Johansson (USA) – Post-Doc Univ. of WI – Milwaukee
Post-Doc with Bill Peterson and Michael Banks (2010-2011)
Pioneer research in krill genomics
Holger Klink (Germany) – Assistant Professor OSU FW&HMSC
Post-Doc with David Mellinger (2008-12)
Initiated class offering in Animal Bioacoustics at OSU
Louise Copeman (Canada) – Assistant Professor OSU FW &
HMSC
Post Doc with Cliff Ryer (2011-13)
Founded a lipid lab at HMSC for indicator research on the
physiological effects of climate change
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Five-year Budget Overview
Totals OSU $ 1,197,474
NOAA $14,559,240 EXTERNAL $10,617,807 GRAND $26,374,521
140 publications (≈30 per year): CIMRS co-authorship: 251 NOAA
& other co-authorships: 758 1009
$0
$1,000,000
$2,000,000
$3,000,000
$4,000,000
$5,000,000
$6,000,000
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
OSU
External(NSF/BPA/ONR/others)
NOAA
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CIMRS RESEARCH STAFF
POSITION TERMINATED
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Geology and Geophysics Andra Bobbitt – Sr. Research Assistant
Bill Chadwick - Professor, Sr. Research Susan Merle – Sr. Research
Assistant
Acoustic Monitoring/Seismology/Whale Acoustics
Bob Dziak –Professor, Sr. Research Matt Fowler – Faculty
Research Assistant Joe Haxel – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Andy
(Tai-Kwan) Lau - Faculty, Unranked
Haru Matsumoto – Assist. Prof, Sr. Research
Hydrothermal Emissions Leigh Evans – Faculty Research Assistant
Ron Greene – Faculty Research Assistant
Marine Mammal Acoustics
Sara Heimlich – Faculty Research Assistant Holger Klinck – Asst.
Prof., Sr. Research Yang Lu – Research Associate, Post-Doc
Dave Mellinger - Associate Professor, Sr. Research Sharon
Nieukirk – Sr. Research Assistant
National Marine Fisheries Service
NW Fisheries Science Center Fish Ecology Division
Ocean Ecology Toby Auth – Faculty Research Assistant
Tristan Britt – Faculty Research Assistant Climate Change and
Ocean Productivity
Leah Feinberg – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Jennifer Fisher –
Faculty Research Assistant
Jennifer Menkel – Faculty Research Assistant Jay Peterson –
Research Associate Jim Ruzicka – Research Associate
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Tracy Shaw – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Columbia River Plume
Project
Andrew Claxton – Faculty Research Assistant Elizabeth Daly –
Faculty Research Assistant
Jesse Lamb – Faculty Research Assistant Marisa Litz – Grad.
Research Assistant
Cheryl Morgan – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Mary Beth Rew –
Fac. Research Assistant
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Fish Behavioral Ecology Program Louise Copeman – Res. Associate.
Post-Doc
Eric Hanneman – Biol. Sci. Tech.
CIMRS ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Michael Banks – Director (.4 FTE) Jessica Waddell –
Administrator (1.0 FTE)
Debi Furay – Purchasing (.5 FTE) Melody Pfister – Travel
Coordinator (.25 FTE)(was .5FTE)
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January 25th, 2013 Mr. Jeffrey Zients Acting Director, Office of
Management and Budget Eisenhower Executive Office Building 1650
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20503 Dear Mr. Zients: We
write to you as Directors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s (NOAA) Cooperative Institutes (CIs) to ask for
your support for NOAA-university collaborative research in the FY
2014 budget. NOAA CIs are critical components of the Agency’s
research portfolio. All competitively awarded programs, CIs are
essential for NOAA to execute its core mission and allow the Agency
direct access to the nation’s most nimble and cost-effective
intellectual resources. These 18 CIs are strategically comprised of
48 leading research universities located in 21 states and Puerto
Rico. Established through an open solicitation, competitive CI
partnerships provide NOAA with efficient access to key innovations
at the nation’s primary houses of science, social-learning, and
research development. The first CI was created in 1967 – predating
formalization of NOAA, securely rooting significant and critical
aspects of NOAA’s long-term record of research in marine
ecosystems, atmospheric science, climate, and weather through
research conducted at universities. Based on recent year budgets,
28% of the total NOAA research budget is invested though CIs, and
those funds constitute almost half of the research expenditures of
NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Without the
cooperative/collaborative research conducted at CIs, NOAA would be
unable to fulfill its core mission: to understand and predict
changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts; to share that
knowledge and information with others; and to conserve and manage
coastal and marine ecosystems and resources. CIs provide excellent
value for the American taxpayer by leveraging the strengths of
universities through a broad array of expert scientists whose
ability to amplify a variety of external funding maximizes
high-quality research in support of NOAA’s mission. Key examples of
recent research innovation provided through this NOAA-CI
collaboration include: (1) assessment of a variety of impacts
associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including the
human health hazard of air quality and evaluation of the effects of
oil and dispersant on commercially important ecosystems in the Gulf
of Mexico; (2) assessment of the role of black carbon in the
current and future global climate; (3) advancement in accuracy of
warning capability for tornadoes, hurricanes and other severe
weather; (4) improved models of tsunami propagation and warning;
climate prediction and decision support within the US and
internationally; (5) improvement of satellite products for
optimized use in NOAA weather and climate prediction operations;
(6) drought monitoring and prediction and forecast centers to avoid
risks posed by
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flood events; (7) global ocean observing systems; (8) annual
economic assessments for fishing, hydropower and other marine
related industries. University experts across the nation remain
motivated to enable NOAA to achieve its evolving mission goals
through providing access to their best in research, education and
social sciences. We are sensitive to the fiscal challenges that the
nation is facing, however. Considering that CIs provide
cost-effective access to the nation’s leading research expertise,
we ask that you prioritize NOAA CIs in the FY 2014 budget as an
economical and effective mechanism to leverage federal investment.
Thank you for considering this request. A delegation of CI
directors will be in Washington DC in late February and will
follow-up directly with your staff. Sincerely, NOAA CI
Directors:
Thomas Ackerman Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere
and Ocean University of Washington Steve Ackerman Cooperative
Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies University of
Wisconsin-Madison Don Anderson Cooperative Institute for the North
Atlantic Region Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Phillip Arkin
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (MA) University of
Maryland, College Park Daniel Baden Cooperative Institute for Ocean
Expl. Res. and Technology University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Michael Banks Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies
Oregon State University Hugo Berbery Cooperative Institute for
Climate and Satellites (MD) University of Maryland, College Park
Otis Brown Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (NC)
North Carolina State University Allen Burton Cooperative Institute
for Limnology and Ecosystems Research University of Michigan David
Checkley Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate
University of California, San Diego Christian Kummerow Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Colorado State University
Yochanan Kushnir Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and
Research Columbia University Peter Lamb Cooperative Institute for
Mesoscale Meteorological Studies University of Oklahoma Larry
Langebrake Cooperative Institute for Ocean Expl. Res. and
Technology SRI International William Lewis Cooperative Institute
for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado at
Boulder Mark Merifield Joint Institute for Marine Atmospheric and
Research University of Hawaii Robert Moorhead Northern Gulf
Institute Mississippi State University Peter Ortner Cooperative
Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies University of Miami
Shirley Pomponi Cooperative Institute for Ocean Expl. Res. and
Technology Florida Atlantic University Ted Strub Cooperative
Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies Oregon State
University John Walsh Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Cc: Dana Hyde
FY 2013 Executive BoardFY 2012 Science Advisory CouncilOceanic
and Atmospheric ResearchPacific Marine Environmental
LaboratoryNational Marine Fisheries ServiceNW Fisheries Science
Center