Progress Towards Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems: Interactions between the NERRS, RAs and Sub-regional Monitoring and Observing Efforts 3 rd Meeting.

Progress Towards Regional Coastal Ocean

Observing Systems:Interactions between the

NERRS, RAs and Sub-regional Monitoring and

Observing Efforts

3rd Meeting of the GCOOS DMAC

Orlando, FL February 2009



Reserves are protected for:

Long-term research and monitoring Education Resource stewardship

27 reserves protecting 1.3 million acres estuarine lands and waters



NERRS Goals

1. Strengthen the protection and management of representative estuarine ecosystems to advance estuarine conservation, research, and education.

2. Increase the use of reserve science and sites to address priority coastal management issues.

3. Enhance peoples’ ability and willingness to make informed decisions and take responsible actions that affect coastal communities and ecosystems.



System-wide Monitoring Program

Goal: Promoting stewardship of the Nation’s estuaries through science and education using a system of protected areas

Purpose: To identify and track short-term variability and long-term changes in the integrity and biodiversity of representative

estuarine ecosystems and coastal watersheds for the purpose of contributing to effective national, regional, and site specific coastal zone management



System-wide Monitoring Program

Abiotic Monitoring Water quality Weather parameters

Biological Monitoring Habitat Biodiversity

Watershed and Land Use Classification and Change

Data Management (CDMO)3rd Meeting of the GCOOS DMAC


I. Abiotic MonitoringWater Quality &

NutrientsWeather Parameters

II. Biological MonitoringHabitat Change

BiodiversityIII. Land Cover/Use and

Habitat ChangeSpatial Patterns

Human Impacts

System-Wide Monitoring Program Phases



SWMP “Abiotic” Monitoring(Phase I)

Identify and track short-term variability and long-term changes in the integrity and biodiversity of estuarine ecosystems. 3rd Meeting of the GCOOS DMAC


Initial DeploymentCoverage

Reference site

Non-pointSource-influenced

Enhanced DeploymentCoverage Salinity

Land-use Habitat Vertical

“Estuarine Gradients”

Deployment Strategy

Impacted site



SWMP I. Water Quality, Weather &

Nutrients

SWMP III. Watershed Land-use & Land Cover

SWMP II. Species, Communities, &

Habitats

NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVESYSTEM-WIDE MONITORING PROGRAM

Centralized Data

Management Office



Centralized Data Management Office

The Centralized Data Management Office (CDMO) was established in 1995 in support of the National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) System-wide Monitoring Program (SWMP) which involves 26 sites around the US and Puerto Rico in order to:

develop, implement and manage the basic infrastructure and data protocol of the NERR SWMP, and

support the assimilation and exchange of data and metadata within the NERRS framework



CDMO Priorities1. The advancement of the System-wide Monitoring Program data

and information management program

2. To maintain the online data and information server which provides access to data, metadata and derived products associated with all monitoring efforts http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu

3. To provide technical support services via telephone, e-mail, and individual and group training to NERRS

4. The continuation of the CDMO Data Management Committee annual workshop to provide an additional avenue for the exchange of ideas and information related to database management, technological advances, and other data collection and monitoring program

5. The continuation of the annual Technician Training Workshop series to provide training to NERR technicians working on SWMP initiatives

6. Provide technical support for special NOAA projects and provide information for management and outreach support



http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/

CDMO Data Ingestion and Dissemination

Conservatively, the CDMO reviews, archives and disseminates:

• 13.5 million data points per year for the water quality monitoring program (4 stations collecting 8 parameters every half-hour at 27 NERRS sites)• 34.4 million data points per year for the meteorological monitoring program (1 station collecting 25 parameters quarterly, hourly and daily intervals at 27 NERRS sites)• 31,104 data points per year for the nutrient monitoring program (4 stations collecting monthly grabs and 1 station collecting monthly diel of 6 parameters at 27 NERRS sites)3rd Meeting of the GCOOS DMAC


According to the IOOS vision …According to the IOOS vision …

The successful coastal ocean observing The successful coastal ocean observing system is one that integrates from the system is one that integrates from the offshore, to the nearshore, to the estuaries, to offshore, to the nearshore, to the estuaries, to the upland in support of improved …the upland in support of improved …

Coastal Monitoring EffortsCoastal Monitoring Efforts



National NERRS IOOS Activities

• In support of being a component of the national backbone, the NERRS has undertaken several significant efforts:

• A metadata translation effort.• Implementation of telemetry for

improved data delivery.• Advanced QA/QC.• Supported end-user application

development.3rd Meeting of the GCOOS DMAC


• Metadata translation effortThe conversion

program takes the existing metadata and reformat it so that it can be imported into Meta-Door.

Meta-Door then takes the metadata and make it FGDC compliant.




• Metadata translation effortStart with text End with XML




• Metadata translation effort

And publish FGDC- compliant metadata




• Improved data delivery

GOES telemetry systems are being installed for near real-time delivery of meteorological and water quality data.




Telemetry through Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)

NERRS Weather& Water

Data CollectionPlatforms

GOES Satellite

NERRS Satellite Receive Station at the University of South Carolina,

Columbia National Ocean DataCenter Archive

NODC

NERRS/Centralized

Data Management

Office (CDMO)

Annually

Wallops Island Commandand Data

Acquisition Facility Hydro-Meteorological

Automated Data System

DOMSAT



• Improved QA/C

• Initial “on-the-fly” automated QA/QC.

• Secondary data review by individual NERRS results in posting of “provisional” data.

• Tertiary review by CDMO and Reserves results in “authoritative” data




Targeted NERRS SWMP Data Users

Coastal resource managers

Research Commercial Fisheries Other resource users Modelers

Weather forecasters Teachers & students Recreational users Search & rescue

operations Nationwide decision-

makers



Examples of Ongoing Projects with Examples of Ongoing Projects with NERRS ParticipationNERRS Participation

Partnerships with NOAA NWLON NOAA NWLON

Partnerships with USGS SGNUSGS SGN

Partnerships with NOAA NWSNOAA NWS

Involvement in OpenIOOS efforts and EPA Data Exchange Format




Long Bay Hypoxia StudyLong Bay Hypoxia StudyFunded by SECOORA & SE Universities Research Funded by SECOORA & SE Universities Research Association and incorporates SWMP data and Association and incorporates SWMP data and NERRS outreach expertise.NERRS outreach expertise.



Long Bay Hypoxia StudyLong Bay Hypoxia Study



Long Bay Hypoxia StudyLong Bay Hypoxia Study




Monitoring Water Conditions in Shellfish Monitoring Water Conditions in Shellfish Harvesting Waters ProjectHarvesting Waters Project

Funded by NANOOS, CICEET, and local entities Funded by NANOOS, CICEET, and local entities and incorporates SWMP data and NERRS outreach and incorporates SWMP data and NERRS outreach expertise.expertise.




Preemptive Modeling of Bacterial Loadings Preemptive Modeling of Bacterial Loadings in Support of Shellfish Management and in Support of Shellfish Management and Beach Swimming Advisories ProjectsBeach Swimming Advisories Projects

Funded by NOAA and incorporates SWMP data Funded by NOAA and incorporates SWMP data and NERRS outreach expertise.and NERRS outreach expertise.



Shellfish Harvest Area Management in South Carolina

Harvest Area Classification

Management for public health risk

Relationship between precipitation and fecal coliform bacteria

Beaufort County, SC

Hilton Head Island

1919

Harvest Area 19

19-0519-0619-22

19-0419-20

19-07

19-08

19-0319-21

19-0919-02

19-11

19-01

19-1219-14

19-1819-1919-2419-16

19-17F19-02A

19-17A

Legend

Harvest AreaClassification

Approved

Restricted

Prohibited

Sampling StationsFCMPN

0.0 - 1.9

2.0 - 14.0

14.1 - 43.0

South Carolina

$0 1 2 3 4 50.5 Kilometers

At l a n t ic Oc ea n

Area 19

Area 9A

Area 4

South Carolina

Legend

Study Areas

Shellfish Harvest Areas

0 10 20 30 40 50 605 Kilometers$



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