IOOS 101 NERRS-IOOS Partnership, Phase I Workshop

January 21st, 2016 | St. Augustine, FL

Jennifer Bosch, Ph.D. | U.S. IOOS Program Office

U.S. IOOS®: Program Overview

Codified in law (P.L. No 111-11, March 2009)

Partnership effort that leverages dispersed

national investments to deliver ocean,

coastal and Great Lakes data relevant to

decision-makers

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1 Coastal Component

– 17 Federal agencies

– 13 regional partners

– Academia & Industry

Global Component

– Champions US contribution to GOOS

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US IOOS Program Office

(within NOAA)

IOOS Advisory

Committee

Interagency Ocean Observation

Committee (IOOC)

Federal Agencies IOOS

Association

Subcommittee on Ocean Science &

Technology (SOST)

National Ocean Council (NOC)

Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT)

Global Earth Observation

System of Systems (GEOSS)

Global Ocean Observing

System (GOOS)

U.S. IOOS

Key:

Direct Relationship

Advisory

Coordination

NOAA

IOOS Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed (COMT)

11 Regional Associations

(RAs)

Derived from: http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/about/governance/summit2012/ioos_summit_report.html

IOOS implementation

IOOS Office Primary Roles:

- Provide Programmatic

Leadership

- Foster Operational

Capability

- Forge Robust Partnerships

- Champion Regional and

National Stakeholder

Interests

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U.S. IOOS Program Office

US IOOS Program Office

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Griesbauer, L Program Assistant

Gouldman, C

Deputy Director

Federal IOOS Liaisons

Lillycrop, L - USACE

Oliva, J Proj Mgmt Support

Willis, Z Director

Coordination Coordination

across

U.S. IOOS

Enterprise

Harlan, J HF Radar Proj Mgr

Regions, Budget & Policy

Division

Jungbluth, G Division Chief

Snowden, J Physical Scientist

Davila, C Business Manager

Evans, R Grants Specialist

Easter, D Regional Point of Contact

Canonico-Hyde, G Regional Point of Contact

Rhoades, J Regional Point of Contact

Kromer, V Reception/Office Manager

Culpepper, K. Communications Specialist

Operations and

Communications Division

Snowden, D Division Chief/DMAC Systems

Architect

Bosch, J Oceanographer

Moustahfid, H Biology/Ecosystem Proj Mgr

Johnson, Eric (LCDR) Project and Action Officer

Bailey, K Oceanographer

Baltes, B Modeling Testbed Proj. Lead

Ketcham, T. Info Mgmt Support

Ragsdale, R DMAC Architecture Support

IOOS - National Backbone

Buoys, Water Level Gauges,

Coastal and Estuary stations

PORTS® Satellites

Stream Gauges Water

Quality

Research

Infrastructure

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IOOS Regional Associations

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How are RA’s Structured?

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Non-Profit Organizations governed by a Board of Directors

RA Strategic Planning

• 10 year build out plans developed for each Region

in 2011

• Each RA has their own method of strategic planning

on 5-year and annual timeframes

• 5-year Cooperative Agreements with funding from the

U.S. IOOS Office and other sources

• Annual projects scoped to funding levels

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Engage RAs with Project ideas any time!

HF Radar:

Gliders:

Animal Telemetry:

Wave Measurements:

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IOOS: Advancing Communities

Ocean Technology Transition

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Fostering the transition of advanced observing technologies to operations

Ocean Acidification

East Coast - UNH Harmful Algal Blooms

GOM & GMex

Check out the website: http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/ocean_tech/welcome.html Contact Jenifer.Rhoades@noaa.gov with questions

Water Quality

NERACOOS - NECAN

• A venture facilitating model testing and transitions into

operations.

• Improving ties to different NOAA and partner Agency efforts.

• Currently 5 projects

• Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay

• Inundation in Puerto Rico/USVI

• West Coast Operational Forecast System

• Cyberinfrastructure tools for comparing models/data

US IOOS Coastal & Ocean Modeling Testbed

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DMAC: Delivering and Enhancing Information

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Final thoughts

IOOS Expertise and Resources available to NERRs

• A place to highlight NERRs within a national and

global network of monitoring data through the IOOS

program

• Connections to a broader network of resources

• Inclusion in “communities of practice”

• An avenue to technology transition (OTT)

• Partnership in modeling efforts (COM-T)

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