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Operations
Need to develop a region-wide operational vision. SECOORA should administer a systems assessment and provide some short-term demonstrations, such as, sediment transport. Focus on development of nowcast/forecast products. SECOORA would be a good platform for administering regional development/testing of sensors, and models.
Infrastructure
SECOORA needs to inventory existing technologies (sensors, models, seafloor mapping) and identified needs. The needs to be identified include among both product users and the needs of developers, in order, to boost product characteristics. Encourage synergy through coordinated centers for modeling and ocean obs.
Relationships
Currently, there is poor communication and little support for Fisheries, Sediment Transfer, HF Radar Tests, and Data Management Strategy. Coordination needs to occur from SECOORA subregions all the way up to links at national level.
Resources
Simplify administration, and diversify funding sources. Include additional funding sources such as NIH by developing products with new applications. The region would save funds by having a central location for calibration of sensors, and potentially biological and chemical sensor development.
Matrix
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Current State |
Transition Actions |
Desired Future State (1 year) |
Transition Actions |
Desired Future State (3–5 years) |
| Operations |
- Need national backbone coordination
- Need additional observations (benthic/biological)
- Enhanced user communications
- Unclear what operational means
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- Establish robust offshore systems that can transition to operations
- Coordinate experiment and model system design with the national backbone
- Develop data modeling plans
- Conduct gap analysis for measurements
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- Continued systems assessment
- Short term demonstration
- Improved regional coordination
- Enhanced focus on coastal hazards
- Biological observations
- Observation technology assessment
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- Develop/test nowcast/forecast system
- Coordinate data management at enterprise and regional levels
- Further develop biological and chemical observations
- Examine annual and interannual trends
- Train next generation in development and operation of COOS technology
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- Operational nowcast/forecast system
- Thorough data management
- SECOORA-wide ecosystem analysis
- Improved sensors and observations
- Education (graduate degrees in operational oceanography)
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| Infrastucture |
- Inventory of existing sensor capabilities
- Inventory of communication infrastructure
- Test/gain experience with sensors and offshore observing systems
- Early quasi-operational capability models
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- Share capabilities and personnel
- Develop cost estimates
- Enhance benthic dynamics and habitats mapping
- Develop sensor and computation testbeds
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- Improved sensor and observational technology development
- Testbeds
- Increased seafloor mapping Better dialogue and coordination
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- Improve technologies for HF radar, bio and water quality, metazoan detection, seafloor/seabed, air-sea, etc.
- Continue development of acoustic arrays, biosensors, seafloor mapping
- Acquires data and computers, and develop models for modeling center
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- Continue to enhance sensor and observational technology developments
- Expanded geographic and data type coverage
- Distributed modeling center to share resources (models, data, computers)
- Improved coordination of build-out activities
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| Relationships and Procedures |
- Poor communication in general (sub-region, region, between regions)
- Little support for: fisheries, sediment transport, HF Radar tests, data management strategies
- Developing communications between R-COOS and Federal Backbone
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- Coordinate and establish relationships with entities such as OMB, CEQ, ORION, etc.
- Coordinate and establish relationships at the State and County levels, with Water Districts, etc.
- Coordinate regional R&D efforts
- Establish relationships with non-traditional funding sources
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- Links at national level
- Links at local level
- Regional-level R&D efforts
- Increased funding from entities such as NIH, foundations, etc.
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- Expand/develop links with applied science and advanced materials academic sectors, Federal fisheries and EM contacts, and instrument manufacturers in the private sector
- Improved regional-level R&D activities
- Conduct R&D activities with other regions
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- Improved linkages with the academic sector, Federal agencies, and private industry
- Significantly expanded and improved interoperability
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| Resources |
- Continue RA and external coordination
- Need external coordination
- Resource needs are specific
- Limited funding sources
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- Focus on model development, data coordination, grant applications, and national coordination
- Seek out a stable funding source
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- Established regional resource coordination and Federal support
- Peer review subregional assessments w/in RA
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- Concentrate on finding Federal resources
- Share technical staff regionally
- Establish central facility for regional obs systems
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- Identified sources of funding and other resources
- Established R&D administration/staff
- Observing system needs identified and met
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