MARACOOS Operations Call SUMMARY
June 1, 2012
Attendees: Mike, Carolyn, Larry, Oscar, Scott, Steve, Peter, Nancy, Jim, Avijit, Gerhard, Bill, Doug, John
Wilkin, Josh, Nickitas, Wendell, Teresa
1. MARACOOS Year 1 Semi-Annual Report
a. Due June 29, 5pm (Friday).
b. What have you done since Dec 1? = That will be the report focus
c. Steve will send out reminders on financials. We need updated invoices.
d. Text due to Mike Friday, June 15!!
e. MARACOOS board will review on June 28/29.
2. FY12 MARACOOS Funding
a. Everyone should have received and email from Steve requesting rebudget info.
3. MTS Abstracts Due today, June 1
a. http://www.oceans12mtsieeehamptonroads.org/
b. MARACOOS/SECOORA/NERACOOS will have a booth, and we will ask people to
volunteer a couple of hours at the booth during the week.
BE PREPARED TO SUBMIT CO-AUTHORS
d. We will send out list of authors, sessions, times to the team.
e. Abstracts: 500-1000 words
c.
4. Recent Meetings
a. Scott in Korea
i. Asset map used in multiple talks (Zdenka as well)
5. Upcoming meetings
a. June 4: Mike, Peter, Tom Herrington visit to Army Corps in Boston
b. June 4: Coastal Managers meeting in Miami (Gerhard)
c. June 4-5 New Bedford, Pioneer Array Meeting: Researchers talking about what science
should be done with OOI Pioneer array. Paid by state of Mass. Wendell going.
d. June 4-8: CHOW – MARACOOS table – Carolyn, Gerhard, Peter, Student interns, Doug.
e. June 13-14: Fish Expo in New Bedford. Wendell is attending COL booth to smooth over
Pioneer array issues. Greg DeDominico is asking if MARACOOS would like to have
booth. Peter, Josh, Greg may attend.
f. June 18: NCEP (Jay, Scott, Gerhard, Eoin, Alan, John, Avijit, Lou). Focus: 1-Ocean
impact on the weather, 2-Assimilation of MARACOOS data improves the forecasts.
i. Schedule has been sent out and is attached below
g. June 19: Fisheries Meeting at Rutgers (Josh, John, Nickitas, John Hare, Peter). Focused
on getting MARACOOS habitat data into Butterfish assessment.
h. June 25: Legislative Staff Visit to D.C. coordinating with university outreach teams.
i. June 28-29: MARACOOS Board Meeting in Baltimore
j. June 30: MARACOOS Semi-Annual Report due (Reporting period Dec 1-May31)
k. October 14-19: Oceans MTS meeting in Hampton Roads
l. October 25-Nov 1: Tentative MARACOOS Annual Meeting
m. November 13-16: IOOS Summit, Dulles Airport Hilton
ii. White papers due June 30. They should be 1000 words to 5 pages. Including
figures.
iii. Two focus areas: how do we respond? How do we influence?
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iv. http://www.iooc.us/summit/ioos-summit/
v. Want to focus on the future. The build out plans should be integrated into this
meeting by IOOS.
vi. When talking about the future: Is it scalable? Can you demonstrate impact?
vii. Topics for white papers
1. HF-RADAR
2. Models
3. Education (we will likely be only RA focusing on this).
4. Stakeholder Liaisons
5. International expansion
6. Fisheries
viii. We will need an intro paragraph: ACTION: Gerhard/Carolyn/Mike
ix. Everyone send final papers to Gerhard/Mike
6. Fisheries Update
7. Modeling
a. About to release latest version of Espresso model
b. Going to focus on analysis of impacts of assimilation pieces on model changes. What
observing asset impacted the forecast and where.
c. ACTION: Jay, can modelers have access to the ensemble meteorological forecasts?
d. We are using our own forecasts as well as NOAA
e. Jim ODonnell is looking for two postdocs for data assimilation.
8. Operations
a. Weather Ensemble (Jay not on call)
b. Ocean Forecast Ensemble
c. DMAC (fishing asset map moving ahead, good feedback,
d. Satellite Update
e. Gliders
i. Blue Deployed
ii. Wave Glider (August to November)
iii. Deepwater reimbursement: August?
f. HF-RADAR
g. Fisheries
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National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Monday, June 18, 2012
MARACOOS meeting
World Weather Building, Room 707
10:00 a.m.
Welcome
Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, NCEP Director
Zdenka Willis US IOOS Director
10:05 a.m.
Overview: National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, NCEP Director (20)
Dr. Hendrik Tolman, EMC, Ocean Model Backbone (5)
Dr. Ming Ji, OPC, Ocean and Coastal Guidance and Services (5)
Dr. Frank Aikman, CSDL, Hydrodynamic & Ecological Modeling (5)
Ms. Becky Baltes, IOOS, Ocean Model Testbed (5)
10:45 a.m.
Overview: MARACOOS Observations and Access
Dr. Scott Glenn, MARACOOS PI and Board Member (8)
Mr. Eoin Howlett, President ASA and MARACOOS Member (7)
11:00 am.
Attending the OPC daily map discussion
11:15 a.m.
Impacts of MARACOOS Data on Atmospheric Forecasts
- Weather Ensemble Forecast, Dr. Jay Titlow
- Hurricane Irene data, Dr. Scott Glenn
 Getting MARACOOS data to NCEP for NCEP use
12:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
Assimilation of MARACOOS Data into Ocean Models
- ROMS model assimilation, Dr. John Wilken
- NYHOPS model assimilation, Dr. Alan Blumberg
 Collaborative development of new data-assimilative modeling capabilities
2:45 p.m.
Next Steps – Summary of discussions and follow-up activities
1. Are any MARACOOS data sets of interest to NCEP? Are there other data that NCEP
does not have access to that MARACOOS could collect in future? How can
MARACOOS get these data sets to NCEP?
2. How can NCEP/MARACOOS promote a collaborative environment for model
development?
3. How can MARACOOS best access NCEP results for MARACOOS new product
development?
3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
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