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Regional Priorities: 1) Safety at Sea – Search and Rescue 2) Ecosystem Decision Support Fisheries 3) Water Quality 4) Coastal Inundation 5) Offshore Energy

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Investigator Affiliation Investigator Affiliation

• A. Allen

U.S. Coast Guard

• L. Atkinson

Old Dominion University

• A. F. Blumberg

Stevens Institute of Technology

• W. Boicourt

University of Maryland

• W. Brown

University of Massachusetts

• M. Bruno

Stevens Institute of Technology

• D. Chapman

University of Delaware

• A. Cope

NOAA Mount Holly WFO A.Gangopadhy ay University of Massachusetts

• T. Herrington

Stevens Institute of Technology

• D. Holloway

OPeNDAP

• E. Howlett

Applied Science Associates

• D. King

University of Maryland

• J. Kohut

Rutgers University

• B. Lipphardt

University of Delaware A.MacDonald Monmouth University

• J. McDonnell

Rutgers University

• J. Moisan

NASA Wallops

• J. O’Donnell

University of Connecticut

• M. Oliver

Rutgers University

• O. Schofield

Rutgers University

• H. Seim

University of North Carolina

• J. Titlow

WeatherFlow Inc.

• D. Ullman

University of Rhode Island

• J. Wilkin

Rutgers University

• R. Wilson

SUNY, Stony Brook

• W. Wittman

Public Service Electric & Gas

• M. Yarosh

CIT

• A. Voros

NY/NJ COAST

• S. Glenn

Rutgers University

30 Co-PIs, 20 Institutions, 10 States

MARCOOS

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System

NWS WFOs Std Radar Sites Mesonet Stations LR HF Radar Sites Glider AUV Tracks USCG SLDMB Tracks NDBC Offshore Platforms CODAR Daily Average Currents

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Observations (2008 – Present)

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Ocean Models

HOPS

• U. Massachusetts, Dartmouth

ROMS

Rutgers University

STPS

• U. Connecticut

NYHOPS

Stevens Institute of Technology

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1: Maritime Safety, Search And Rescue

Aggregate View

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What can we measure without going to sea that fish “care” about? Our Approach: Develop statistical models based on bottom trawl survey and OOS data to predict species distribution based on

• bserved or forecasted OOS fields.

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Stratification Bottom temp Surface salinity (residuals vs. depth)

Benthic

Depth (log-transformed) Slope (residuals vs. depth) Sediment grain size

Remote

SST 443 nm reflectance 551 nm reflectance (residuals vs. depth) Proximity to fronts Cross-shore velocity Variance in cross-shore velocity Divergence trend

CTD

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Percent of Explained Community Variation

Partial CCA

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Important Environmental Variables

• n Axis 1:

As Axis 1 Scores increase… ↓ Temperature ↓ Depth ↑ Grain Size ↑ 551 nm Reflectance Residuals ↓ Slope Residuals ↓ 443 nm Reflectance

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Important Environmental Variables

• n Axis 3:

As Axis 3 Scores increase… ↑ Stratification ↑ SST ↑ 443 nm Reflectance ↑ Variance in cross-shore velocity ↓ Surface Salinity Residuals ↓ Cross-shore velocity

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Prey abundance IOOS remote Pelagic in situ Benthic

Pelagic Demersal

Intercorrelated

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Adult habitat GAM-Autumn

• ffshore migration & spawning

= bottom temperature + bottom rugosity + current divergence + Chlorphyll-a*

*Autumn

30 d - October 8 d - October

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1: Maritime Safety, Search And Rescue

232 km 154 km

Before HF Radar

After HF Radar

Coast Guard SAROPS

123 km 100 km

After HF Radar

HF Radar Surface Current Maps STPS Statistical Forecasts 100 Weatherflow Wind Stations Are now Operational inputs to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Search And Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS)

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Hourly Surface Current Maps

High Frequency Radar

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1: Maritime Safety, Search And Rescue

Individual Site Data Data Aggregator Forecast Product Generation Product Aggregator Decision Tool

MARCOOS Totals HF Radar Radials ROMS (Rutgers) STPS, (UConn) HOPS (SMAST) NYHOPS (Stevens) EDS NOAA National Network SAROPS

Year 1 & 2 Year 3 Distribution: OPeNDAP/ THREDDS Data Format: NetCDF

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1: Maritime Safety, Search And Rescue

Validation of Optimal Interpolation Totals Feb 24- April 4, 2007 39 days

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1: Maritime Safety, Search And Rescue

Drifter OI UWLS

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MARCOOS Regional Theme 1: Maritime Safety, Search And Rescue

Coast Guard Drifter Deployments January 2006 - December 2007 HF Radar National Network

National HF Radar Product in SAROPS in 2010 – 2011

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CIPS: End-to-end System

User Requirements : Begun at MACOORA inundation users workshop (Baltimore,

2006) with input from regional emergency managers and other inundation forecast users; has continued with economist-led meetings and surveys.

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Observations

Real time meteorological (wind, pressure, temperature), water level, waves, currents, rainfall, stream gauge/flow at least hourly or better

Modeling and Analysis

System requires access to partner- run high-resolution (2-4 km) hourly, 36 hr. meteorological forecasts. These in turn drive multiple hydrodynamic / coastal inundation models with very high resolution coastal grids. Inundation outputs are converted to visualization layers for integration with maps or aerial/satellite photos for delivery to end users.

Data Management and Communications

System has been developed by Applied Science Associates, supported by NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office and MACOORA.

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25 Northern Bay stations 17 Southern Bay stations 10 DE stations (SOAP Web service) 6 stations (XML-RPC Web Service) 11 real-time stations 25 near-time stations (Web page scraping) 7-10 stations (ASCII Download) 4 stations (NetCDF Download) 37 MD stations 67 VA stations + 20-30 from PA/DE/WV (XML Download) 21 MD stations 35 VA stations + 6-10 from PA/DE/WV (REST Web service) Chesapeake Bay Labs 2 stations (ASCII) VIMS CBL

CBOS

Automated Collection Scripts

SOS

PostgreSQL

CIPS

THREDDS

MDDN R Application s

Model Validation Time series graphing Interactive GIS Mapping Station RSS Feeds Data Portal Public API for Data Access

NDBC NWS USGS PORTS CBIBS

Automated Collection Scripts

NWS Regional WRF Downloadable on East Coast FTP site as NetCDF

Winds

Weatherflow Downloadable as GRIB and NetCDF VIMS ELCIRC HPL ROMS NOAA RFC

Precip Hydro Pull Pull Forcing

OBSERVATIONS MODELS

ncWMS Java SOS

Results

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Simpler… please…

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Even simpler… please…

CIPS Partners Data Management Products IOOS Standards

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Wind bard support in NcWMS

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Vector support in NcWMS

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WMS for unstructured grids (FVCOM)

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WMS for unstructured grids (ELCIRC)

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What should we work towards?

• Tools to compare models with observation data
• Forcing hydrodynamic models with different CIPS met

models interchangeably using open standards

• Integrate hydrology information into system
• On-the fly visualization of model-predicted inundation
• Web site for immediate access to all data - must be fast

and that generates warnings (twitter, mobile devices etc.)

• Google Earth for 3d “on the fly” visualization
• Operational system

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Implementation Timeframe

Funded as IOOS project in FY 2008 with a three-year grant, ending in September

• 2010. Hope to be demonstrate end-to-end funtionality by end of project, with

further hope of continued funding to move towards a geographically limited ‘pre-

• perational’ capability that can be expanded in the future. Ultimately hope to see

CIPS developments incorporated into a larger scale operational inundation forecast system. Future Updates Primary limiting factors are: Lack of computational resources to run real-time high- resolution hydrodynamic forecast model; lack of high resolution bathy/topo data; mapping of high res bathy/topo daa to model grid; efficiency and speed of visualization process. Improvements on all these fronts would lead to better system performance.

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The Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System

Doug Wilson NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

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CBIBS: Objectives

John Smith Water Trail Education & Outreach Chesapeake Bay Observing System (IOOS)

• System is built around an Integrated information network - connects buoys,

data, web, education, information resources – embracing IOOS concepts and standards.

• Buoys are Education cornerstones –

buoy information is used in classrooms

• Buoys are markers for the National Park

Service’s Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail; they convey local and historic references.

• Buoys are versatile coastal observing

platforms collecting a broad suite of measurements

The Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) is a system to collect, transmit and interpret real-time environmental data from the Chesapeake Bay to a wide variety of constituents – including scientists,

• n-the-water users, educators, and natural resource decision-makers –

and to fill critical observational gaps in the Chesapeake Bay.

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CBIBS: Target audience

Groups engaged in marine activities, with a special mission to support the National Park Service’s Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. Present buoys are located at historically significant locations along the Trail, and the System supports educational and informational tools to interpret the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

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CBIBS: Target audience

CBIBS employs integrated ocean observing system methods and technology to meet the needs of Chesapeake Bay users. CBIBS is a component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, supported by the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) and Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS) partners. CBIBS provides an unparalleled opportunity to demonstrate the broad utility and versatility of observing systems. CBIBS has been designated a significant component

• f the Monitoring and Observing

System being proposed in response to the recent Chesapeake Bay Executive Order.

Environmental and natural resource planners and decision makers, and the scientists, analysts, and applications developers who support them.

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CBIBS: Target audience

Education and Outreach interests. Recognizing that efficient use of environmental information requires an environmentally literate audience, a major focus of CBIBS is developing educational and interpretive context for the information provided by the observing

• system. Users include

educators and their students, and environmental, historical, geographical, and cultural interpreters and their interest base.

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CBIBS Access: www.buoybay.org

The primary web site for CBIBS is WWW.BUOYBAY.ORG

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CBIBS Access: www.buoybay.org

Explore Buoy Data and Access Data and Metadata These pages serve the needs of the traditional

• bserving system users.

They include a Google Maps-based buoy locator page; a page displaying all the most recent data readings; a comprehensive graphing tool (including property- property plots) to visualize data time series; and a page to download single sensor or integrated data sets.

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CBIBS Access: www.buoybay.org

Visit the Buoys These pages provide access to real time data for those on the water or considering a trip, and also deliver historical, geographical, and environmental information tied to the buoy locations. In addition to basic data products, there is an option for data delivery via mobile device, and access to informational audio tracks. These tracks, as well as audio access to data, are also available via the 877- BUOYBAY phone service.

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CBIBS Access: www.buoybay.org

Buoys in the Classroom

This section contains both INVESTIGATIONS and CURRICULUM sections. Investigations are modules that explain environmental concepts to the user using real-time data; presently there are modules explaining temperature and turbidity. The curriculum sections have extensive modules – ESTUARIES 101 and CHESAPEAKE 102 – developed by teachers and education professionals to utilize real- time data in classrooms. The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office offers teacher training in the use of these modules, as well as grants through the B-WET program to develop other teaching applications.

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CBIBS Access: Data Management

• AXYS Watchman 500 data collection platform
• AXYS DMS (running on a commercial ‘virtual’ server system) downloads data to

an SQL data base.

• XML-based Web Services connect this data ‘back end’ to data management

‘middleware’.

• Data Archive Handler performs transformations and preliminary QA/QC checks

& stores data.

• Data Retrieval Handler interfaces with Storage and provides external and

internal access to the data.

• Contains an OpenDAP server,

access to external data sources, and a Client Data Request Handler. Requests include browser based or designated users (e.g., the Verizon voice IVR, NWS, CBOS, applications, kiosks) via an API key.

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CBIBS Access: Data Management

• For internal management, applications provide notification for off-line buoys,

erroneous sensors, or deviations from a geographic location (‘anchor watch’).

• The system also supports applications for data delivery through RSS feeds and

widgets, or any XML requests.

• A free-standing kiosk – duplicating the

look of the buoy an featuring an audio and touchscreen interface - has been implemented on shore in view of the Nauticus buoy on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, VA.

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Data Available at Weatherflow

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Users: Williamsburg, VA Coast Guard Auxiliary

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Users: National Geographic FieldScope

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CBIBS: Demonstrating the Broad Potential of IOOS

• Platforms supporting evolving Coastal and Estuarine observing

technologies - working on Nitrate, GPS water level, Phosphate, other; Next phase is smaller tributary buoys with equivalent capacity.

• The interpretive nature of the buoys, their use of multiple media (phone,

web, mobile devices) to deliver data, and the educational curricula that are being built around them, demonstrate an underemphasized aspect

• f observing system utility.
• Support for operational oceanographic measurements from a broad and

diverse user base is a critical asset to maintaining long term sustainability and funding for a system.

• Partnerships, Partnerships, Partnerships… NGOs, Federal Agencies,

State and Local, Private (Nauticus, Dominion Power/MARI)

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CBIBS: Demonstrating the Broad Potential of IOOS

• High Profile

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CBIBS: Proposed sites