Transcript Alaska Ocean Observing System 2009 Regional Coordination Workshop Seattle, WA August 25, 2009

Alaska Ocean Observing System
2009 Regional Coordination Workshop
Seattle, WA
August 25, 2009
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Part 1: Project Status Report
Alaska Regional Coastal and Ocean
Observing System and Regional
Association
Project Investigators:
Ms. Molly McCammon
Dr. Mark Johnson
Dr. Carl Schoch
Project Duration:
FY 07: 1 year, Aug 07-08, $750k
FY 08-10: 3 years, just began year 2; $1 m each year
Project Status Report: RCOOS Schedule & Milestones
Data and Information System
•Long-term office space, high-speed internet connectivity and access to significant
data storage at UAF’s supercomputing center
• DMAC users identified including: oil & gas, insurance companies, agencies,
researchers
• DMAC structure designed & implemented & real time data acquired & displayed
•Custom pages developed , satellite data services
• Provide data management services for other programs (e.g., NPRB, NSSI, ARCOD)
Prince William Sound Observing System
• NDBC buoy upgrades
• Weather station & mooring deployments
• WRF, SWAN & ROMS model domain development for PWS
•Data assimilation for PWS ROMS model
• NPZ model domain development for PWS
• PWS OSE – field experiment complete; data analysis now underway
Education and Outreach Program
• Stakeholder focus groups & workshops
• Implement successful COSEE Alaska
Develop and test prototype Harbornet
• Station designed & built at Seward Harbor
• Real-time field testing underway
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Project Status Report: RA Schedule & Milestones
Stakeholders, partnerships, user needs
• Refine user needs assessments
• Formalize stakeholder councils
• Develop partnerships
Governance and administration
• Adopted new MOA, now updating w/procedures
• Finalize committee structure
Business and operations plans
• Develop plans for AOOS implementation – waiting more guidance
• Individual plan components in place: data mgmt, E&O, RA mgmt, obs, models
Plan for & implement RCOOS: Alaska Statewide and 3 regions
• Workshops
• Collaboration w/other funding entities
Data management and communications subsystem
• DMAC Committee, national DMAC activities
•Data support for PWS Field Experiment
• Pursue additional support: federal & industry data groups
Education, outreach and public awareness
• Website & print materials
• Materials for PWS FE
• Implement successful COSEE Alaska
Collaborations
• Many
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Project Status Report: RCOOS Accomplishments
Overall
• Statewide recognition of AOOS
• Support of federal and state agencies
• Significant player in other ocean observing planning initiatives
Data Management System
• System developed compliant with national standards & protocols
• AOOS data plan viewed as model regional plan
• Serves as regional data portal: provides statewide data and information products
• Provides data management services to NPRB & other programs: AMIS
• Provided data support for PWS FE
PWS Observing System
• Observing system components deployed
• WRF, SWAN, ROMS & NPZ models completed and running
• Models & data assimilation tested during Sound Predictions 2009: major field
experiment July 2009
• AOOS DMAC tested for ingesting & serving up data
• USCG, NOAA Hazmat, & Alyeska used AOOS data during FE to test their models
• Products: web-based drifter trajectory tool from JPL; Google-Earth products
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Project Status Report: RA Accomplishments
Stakeholders, partnerships, user needs
• Recognized as significant player in all stakeholder/partnership activities
• AK Climate Change Strategy Initiative; Federal Climate Change Roundtable, NOAA regional
collaboration team, etc.
Governance and administration
• Adopted new MOA
• State, federal & research partnerships actively engaged; now adding private sector
Business and operations plans
• MTS Journal article submitted describing a model for incorporating scientific, stakeholder, &
social & economic concerns into setting priorities for 3 year plan
Plan for & implement RCOOS: Alaska Statewide and 3 regions
• Arctic Collaboration Workshop w/industry & agencies
• PWS Field Experiment
Data management and communications subsystem
•Data support for PWS Field Experiment
• AMIS: support from NPRB
Education, outreach and public awareness
• Website & print materials
• Materials for PWS FE
• Implement successful COSEE Alaska
Collaborations
• PWS Field Experiment - numerous
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Keys to Success
Development of AOOS Data and Information Management System
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Developed data management plan w/assistance of national IOOS DMAC team &
AOOS DMAC Committee – recognized at natl level as model regional initiative fully
compliant w/natl IOOS standards; recognized at state level as THE marine data
system for AK
Support from federal agencies & regional science entities – all on AOOS board
Active participation in and support from NOAA Regional Collaboration Team
AK is one region for most federal agencies; one university system
PWS Field Experiment
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Partnerships are essential: no 1 entity can do this alone
Scale is tractable
Statewide Collaborations
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NOAA Regional Collaboration Team
Potential for IOOS RA, Sea Grant, RISA, CZM, Cooperative Institutes
Climate change: issue bringing initiatives together
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Challenges
Potential and/or real challenges
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Geographic scale of AK & lack of existing infrastructure– 4 LMEs
Priorities can be determined, but implementation depends on $$$$
Who are our users? How do we get “market” feedback from them?
Uncertainty of funding = instability in attracting & keeping skilled workers
Agencies and other users facing own budget problems – difficult to get funding
support for AOOS
Power & telecommunication issues exacerbated by remoteness & harsh
weather: e.g., HF radar
Much historical data needs rescue & mining
Additional funding opportunities are available, but don’t have staff or
resources to pursue
Resolving challenges
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Need longer term funding protocol, including leverage & access to other funds
Partnerships are essential, but difficult to maintain over long term
Create AMIS so that it works so well people want to give us their data
Provide federal support for “data rescue and mining”
Technological (remote power and telecommunications) – funding for R&D
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Current Status: Products
Level One
Level Two
Minimal processing
Products
Ecosystem/Climate
Trends
Value-added
Model
RT Decision
RT Data Outputs Satellite Data Support
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Maps
Time
Series
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Water Quality
Marine Operations
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Coastal Hazards
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Current Status: Product Examples
• Provide 1 stop shop for regional coastal & ocean data
• Provide nowcasts and forecasts of ocean conditions for
third party applications including fishery management,
oil spill response & search and rescue
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Current Status: Observations
Variables/
Platforms
Fixedin water,
multipurpose
Fixedin water
single
purpose
Physical
X (5)
X (4)
Fixed –
on land
Remote
Transects Sensing
X (6)
X (8)
Meteorological
Chemical
Biological
X (3)
X (6)
Geological
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Current Status: Modeling and DMAC subsystems
Modeling*
Region-wide**
Sub-region
Atmospheric
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Circulation
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Not at all
Inundation
Wave
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Hydrological
Sediment transport
Water Quality/Ecosystem
X
Fisheries
DMAC
Complete
RA Website that serves data
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DIF - working to ensure
interoperability
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Regional Data Portal
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* See guidelines for definitions
In-progress Not at all
**Regionwide = entire RA
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Map 1a: Existing Observing Assets
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Directions - Use a Google earth background of your region, please provide a map of your
existing system using the legend provided by the sample map of SCCOOS - Consistent
backgrounds and legends will enable the development of the final report. If possible, add
your RA logo to the lower right side. Below is a sample map from SCCOOS.
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Nested ROMS Model for PWS Field Experiment
1-km
3-km
9-km
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(PI: Yi Chao)
OurOcean/PWS Portal to analyze real-time data and model
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(PI: Yi Chao)
Tracking the Observed Drifter Trajectories
There are five types of drifters at four different depths:
Surface, 1-m, 10-m, 40-m
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(PI: Yi Chao)
Interactive Web-based Drifter Trajectory Tool
using the hourly ROMS current forecast
Option I:
Track individual
drifters
Option II:
Track a cluster of
drifters
(PI: Yi Chao)
(Jointly funded18by
CeNCOOS & AOOS)
Interactive Web-based Drifter Trajectory Tool
using the ensemble ROMS forecast
A drifter is released and
tracked with an ensemble of
12+ ROMS forecasts. The
trajectory forecast error can be
estimated; for this particular
drifter release, the error is 8km for a 48-hour forecast.
(PI: Yi Chao)
(Jointly funded19by
CeNCOOS & AOOS)
Part 2: Looking Forward:
Future Plans
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Future Plans: Major Products
Level One
Products
Ecosystem/Climate
Trends
Level Two
Model
RT Decision
RT Data Outputs Satellite Data Support
X
Maps
Time
Series
X
X
X
X
X
X
Water Quality
Marine Operations
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Coastal Hazards
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Future Plans: Observations
Platforms
Fixedin water,
multipurpose
Physical
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• Variables/
Meteorological
3
Fixed –
on land
6
Remote
Transects Sensing
6
4
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Chemical
5
Biological
5
Geological
Fixedin water
single
purpose
6
4
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Future Plan: Modeling and DMAC
Modeling*
Region-wide
Sub-region
Atmospheric
Not at all
X
Circulation
X
Inundation
X
Wave
X
Hydrologic
X
Sediment transport
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Water quality/ecosystem
X
Fisheries
?
DMAC
RA Website that serves data
DIF - working to ensure
interoperability
Regional Data Portal
Yes
In-progress No
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X
X
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Future Plans: Map
Instruction: Using Google earth as a background and the
same legend as before - provide a general idea of the
location of your proposed observing assets.
See Sample map from SCCOOS
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Funding Scenario
Funding Scenarios
Modeling
Observing
DMAC and Product
Development
RA Management and
Outreach
$3 million
$1 million
$600k: only in PWS &
CI for GOA, some in
Arctic, none in Bering
Sea or SE Alaska
No modeling
$1.2 m:only in CI &
PWS, some in Arctic,
not in Bering Sea or
A few key obs in PWS SE, 1 HFR
$300k
$700-800k: maintain About $500k effort is
regional portal, satellite minimum to keep data
data processing
portal & website going
Reduced to 1 person
$400k: maintenance staff - $200k; no
level staffing
collaboration initiatives
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