FY12 Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas Update

Gulf of Mexico Alliance All Hands Biloxi, Ms

NCDDC Update 13-16 February, 2012

Kate Rose, Habitat Specialist

To provide resource managers and Alliance partners to a Gulf-wide data and ecosystem support services system

• Acquire new data, fill data gaps • Promote collaboration, coordination and standardization for

data acquisition• Encourage the use of the Gulf-wide system to provide access

to physical, chemical and environmental data

GOMA EIA Action Item 2: Data Access and Acquisition

www.gulfatlas.noaa.gov

Completed in FY 11…

• Over 30 partners from federal and state agencies, NGO’s and academia

• 95 map plates in 31 different subject areas• Each plate is

– Accompanied by description of the subject matter- accessible to non-scientists

– All plates have download links to ancillary reports, scientific papers, GIS files and raw data

– Links to metadata, WMS

FY12 Data Sets for Completion- Physical Theme

• Dissolved Oxygen: SEAMAP Hypoxia Contours Animation (SEFSC)

• Dissolved Oxygen: GCOOS Non-Federal Monitoring Stations (TAMU)

• Ocean Currents: OSCAR data (NESDIS/NCDDC)

• Coastal Precipitation: TRMM data (NCDDC, NASA Goddard & LSU)

• Nutrients- Nitrates/Phosphates/Silicates: WOA data (NODC/NCDDC)

• Estuarine Bathymetry: Grand Bay NERR Bathymetry (GBNERR & NCDDC)

• Coastal/Estuarine Salinity: ELMR Coastal Salinity Zones & Seasons (NCCOS?)

• Petroleum Hydrocarbon Seeps: BOEM Seismic Anomalies

FY12 Data Sets (continued)

Biotic Theme• Benthic Habitat Maps:

Benthic Habitat, Including SAV for TX and FL (CSC)

Economic Theme• Offshore Activity: Shipping

Traffic (NETWATCH NCCOS)Environmental Quality Theme• Mussel Watch: NCCOS

Living Marine Resources• Independent Fisheries Catch

Data: CAGES Data (SEFSC Galveston & NCDDC)

• Essential Fish Habitat: Alabama Fisheries/FOCAL Survey Data -Croaker, Menhaden (NCDDC & DMR)

• Marine Mammals- Bottlenose Dolphin/Sperm Whale: SEFSC Pascagoula & NCDDC)

New Requests for FY12 Data Sets

• Seasonal SEAWIFS Chl a (SEFSC & NCDDC)• Seasonal Colored Dissolved Organic Matter

(CDOM) (NRL & NCDDC)• NASA ROSES Projects (CSC & NCDDC)• New GSMFC Managed Species (NCDDC,

GSMRC, and SEFSC)

New Source Data – FY12Grand Bay National Estuarine Research

Reserve (NERR)

Sample Sets  Erosion Monitoring Hg Monitoring Sandhill Crane Habitat Evaluation Estuarine Fish Oyster Resources Freshwater Fish SAV Monitoring Habitat Mapping and Change Salt Panne Distribution LIDAR Watershed NOAA Bathymetry Watershed-hydrologic Mapping

FY 12 Gulf Atlas Workshop

• Wednesday February 29th, 2012• USM Department of Marine Sciences, Stennis

Space Center, MS• Will also have remote access (dial-in, webex)• See Kate for details