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Partnerships:

IOOS delivers on its promise, through unmanned systems and more

Gerhard Kuska IOOS Association MARACOOS (Mid-Atlantic IOOS)

Overview

• 1. Background
• 2. IOOS and unmanned systems
• 3. The right tool for the right job: Why is

IOOS a useful construct for partnering?

• 4. Opportunities

The promise of partnership

2004 Final Report of the US Commission on Ocean Policy

• Ch.26 – Achieving a

sustained Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOs)

• Promote strong partnerships

through IOOS

IOOS Overview

Coastal Component

17 Federal agencies 11 regional associations Academia & Industry

Global Component

US contribution to GOOS 63% of the Global Climate Ocean Observing System completed

Mission Areas

Predicting Weather & Climate variability Support Safe & Efficient Transportation and Commerce Preparedness and Risk Reduction for Coastal Communities

Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing System (ICOOS) Act (P .L. No 111-11, March 2009)

IOOS Association

• Non-federal

umbrella

• rganization for

IOOS partners / regional associations

• Advocacy
• Coordination among

regions

• Common and

Emerging Issues

• Special Projects
• It is an important

partnership venue f IOOS

Observing our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes Providing information to those who need it, when they need it

U.S. IOOS Enacted and President’s Budgets FY04-20

Glider history and IOOS partners

• 2005-06: Navy funded Glider Technology Centers
• 200x: IOOS Regional Associations provide glider observations and

worked to advance the technology.

• 2009: RU27: MARACOOS/Rutgers - Crossing the Atlantic
• 2012: Held first national glider meeting
• 2013: Established a National Glider Data Assembly Center

(NGDAC)

• 2014: Released a Glider Network White Paper
• 2015: Established an IOOC Glider Task team
• 2017: Established Underwater Glider User Group (UG2)
• 2019: Hosted International Glider Workshop

Certified National Network

• National consistency while addressing

unique and diverse regional needs

• Ready access, and preserves data with

transparency and documentation

• Enhances efficient interagency

coordination at the regional and national level

All 11 regions have met the rigorous federal standards for governance and data management

Why does it matter?

IOOS Glider DAC

IOOS sponsors the glider Data Assembly Center for integrating and disseminating non-federal data Easy access to glider data for the entire nation All IOOS RAs are certified to the same data management standards as Federal Agencies

• National standard

data format

• NDBC GTS Access
• NCEI Archive
• QARTOD Manual
• QA/QC tool
• Delayed mode

data upload tool

https://gliders.ioos.us/

Glider Days by Year

https://gliders.ioos.us/

Many themes to address stakeholder needs

Climate/Ecosystem/Fisheries Management/Water Quality Hurricane Forecasting Response to Oil Spill

SoCal Niño Index

CalCOFI

Fish Tracking HABs

Deep Water Horizon Alaska Hypoxia Exercising the Network Offshore Wind

Examples of areas to fill gaps

• Alaska - Marine

mammals, fisheries

• Northeast – Right whale,

HABs

• Great Lakes - HAB and

hypoxia in Erie, SagBay and Green Bay

• California - Marine heat

waves and navigation, oil spill response, HABs and fisheries.

Glider partnerships through IOOS

Demonstrating the coordination / leveraging of glider operations of multiple

• rganizations with varying

funding sources and missions 18 partner institutions 36 Gliders Canada to the Gulf of Mexico Summer through Fall

Group Gliders 1 Memorial University 3 2 Dalhousie (OTN) 2 3

• Univ. of Maine

2 4 Woods Hole Inst. 5 5

• Univ. of Mass. Dartmouth

1 6 Teledyne Webb 3 7 NSF OOI 3 8 Rutgers Univ. 4 9

• Univ. of Delaware

1 10

• Univ. of Maryland

1 11 VIMS 1 12 BIOS 1 13 Skidiaway Inst 1 14 Mote Marine Lab 1 15 Univ of S. Florida 1 16

• US. Navy

2 17

• Univ. of Southern Miss.

1 18 Texas A&M 3 TOTAL: 36

Gliderpalooza 2014

Hurricane gliders

IOOS-NOAA-Navy partnership Needs dictated by oceanographic features 4 IOOS RAs- Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Southeast and MidAtlantic NOAA AOML Objective is to improve ocean models to contribute to improved hurricane intensity forecasting

Advancing science as a benefit of

• perations
• Essential ocean features
• Essential ocean processes
• Rapid intensification
• Rapid de-intensification
• And there are still many

unknowns to study, understand, and transition into operations

• Essential Ocean Features
• Known to cause rapid intensification and de-

intensification

• Occur close to populated and vulnerable coastlines
• Challenging for models to get right due to dynamic

nature and limited observations Examples

• Loop Current
• Atlantic Warm Pool
• Gulf Stream
• Mid-Atlantic Cold Pool

IOOS User Group

Purpose: to strengthen international collaboration through community dialogue, exchanges of information, sharing of experiences, and development of best practices to support the glider community.

Education and workforce development

• Undergraduate and

graduate courses

• Special summer courses
• Interns/ Staff
• Instilling in students/staff

a culture of collaboration and partnering across institutions, disciplines, and regions

Why is IOOS a useful construct for partnering?

• Partnership types and vehicles
• Providing UxS services and/or data
• R&D partnerships
• Geographic considerations
• Communication and transparency
• Agility, flexibility, and adaptability in

partnerships

• Entrepreneurial opportunities
• Workforce development
• CENOTE Act considerations
• Setting and managing expectations for both

partners

It is the right tool for the right job:

Opportunity: The right tool at the right time

• Turn on the engine that is this consortium of

groups that is:

• Managing at the regional scale
• Operating cost effectively
• Demonstrating reliability and flexibility
• Meeting federal standards
• Nurturing relationships with local

communities of stakeholders

• Drawing in and leveraging the best

experts across the country from academia, the private sector and government

• Under the stewardship and guidance of

NOAA

Opportunity areas for partnering

Develop and expansion is recommended in a number of areas:

• Operations - prepping, deploying,

recovering underwater gliders

• Working with the research community to

transition new technology and services

• Serving as a testbed for innovating new

unmanned systems (primarily underwater gliders, but possibly also small aerial systems)

• Testbed for new sensors
• Data management
• Operational support; for example, for

models

• Community of Practice
• Education and workforce development
• (And IOOS partners are strong research