NOAA/CSC: Fostering the Regional Component of the Integrated Ocean Observing System

NOAA/CSC: Fostering the Regional Component of the Integrated

Ocean Observing System

SECOORA Workshop12-13 September 2006

Geno Olmi

Three Focus Areas

• Partnerships and capacity

• Data, modeling, and applications infrastructure

• Coastal community participation

CSC’s Goal: Coastal and ocean professionals are better able to manage, protect, and utilize coastal and marine resources using ocean observation information and tools.

Partnerships & Capacity

• Support Ocean.US by administering funds and providing staff and support

• Support Regional Association development by providing coordination grants

• Assist in communication and coordination among Regional Associations, Ocean.US, and NOAA

• Assess and address needs of the Regional Associations

• Administer grants for sub-regional observing systems (Coastal Observation Technology Systems)

• Participate in NOAA IOOS planning

Coastal Observation Technology Coastal Observation Technology System (COTS)System (COTS)GEM

CIMT

CI-CORE

WAVCIS

Caro-COOPS

CORMP

COOA

WallopsACT

LISICOS

GoMOOS

COMPS

SCCOOS

Pilot Projects GoMOOS Oregon Health & Sciences Inst. Univ. of South Florida

RA Coordination GCOOS SECOORA MACOORA GLOS NANOOS CeNCOOS SCCOOS AOOS NERA PacIOOS CaRA

COTS ACT Wallops/CIT CORMP Caro-COOPS COMPS OrCOOS SCCOOS CIMT CI-CORE AOOS GoMOOS SCOOP LISICOS COOA JCOOT CenGOOS

NOAA Contribution to Regional Capacity:Regional Association Development

Coastal Observation Technology System (COTS)

IOOS Regional Coordination Workshop

Purpose: Further the development of a national network of Regional Associations to advance the regional component of IOOS

7-9 November 2006, Chicago, IL

Data, Modeling, and Applications Infrastructure

• Participate on Data Management and Communication (DMAC) steering committee and expert teams

• Establishing a testbed for data transport processes

• Developing mechanisms to improve information sharing for data transport

• Developing data standards and best practices

• Supporting community modeling approaches for coastal issues

Community Information Repository

• Information on data sharing and collaboration focused on regional IOOS groups

• “How-to”, cookbooks, best practices for IOOS data sharing

• Input from various sources – compiled in one place

http://www.ocean.us/CIR

Data Transport Lab• Will evaluate most

commonly used transport technologies (OPeNDAP, OGC, SOAP/XML, etc…)

• “Cookbooks“ for using these technologies to share and access IOOS data

• Engage regional data providers to test, participate, and give/receive technical assistance

Coastal Community Participation

• Conducting workshops, conference sessions, and other opportunities to incorporate coastal management issues into IOOS

• Developing demonstration tools and applications for using IOOS information

• Supporting economic studies to communicate the value of IOOS to coastal management issues

Conference sessions

• Coastal Zone 03

• Coastal Zone 05

• ERF 03

• ERF 05

• Oceanology/MTS 2004

• Ocean Sciences 2006

• The Coastal Society 2004

• The Coastal Society 2006

Communication and Engagement

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cbolt

IOOS Applications: Making IOOS matter

• Highlighting end-user applications of IOOS

• Beginning with CSC applications– Chesapeake Bay Oyster

Larvae Tracker

• Promote Regional applications– Need partners

• Demonstrating the value of “interoperability”

• Inundation modeling and visualization

CCS contacts:

• IOOS Theme Lead: Mary Culver

• Regional Associations/COTS: Geno Olmi, Dave Easter

• Data Management Infrastructure: Jim Boyd

• IOOS Applications: Dave Eslinger

Web Sites

• www.csc.noaa.gov/coos

• www.csc.noaa.gov/cots

• http://www.ocean.us/CIR

NOAA/CSC: Fostering the Regional Component of the Integrated Ocean Observing System