Our 2019 Annual Meeting – Learning from the Past and Planning for the Future – brought together coastal ocean scientists from around the Southeast to Wilmington, North Carolina on June 18 and 19.

The meeting provided an opportunity for attendees to provide input on the Coastal Hazards, Climate Variability and Ecosystems sections of the Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (RCOOS) plan. Materials are below.

Thank you to our meeting sponsors!

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Meeting Materials 

• Agenda for June 18 -19, 2019
• SECOORA Principal Investigator Abstracts
• Attendee List
• Draft Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System Plan (link Word Document to download)

Meeting Presentations

June 18, 2019

• SECOORA Board Meeting (PDF)

SECOORA Principal Investigator Project Briefings (PDF of abstracts)

• Marine Operations
  • Lynn Leonard, University of North Carolina Wilmington (Moorings)
  • Mark Luther, University of South Florida (Coastal Stations)
  • Bob Weisberg, University of South Florida (Models and Moorings)
  • Bob Weisberg/Cliff Merz, University of South Florida (High Frequency Radar)
  • Dana Savidge, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at University of Georgia (High Frequency Radar)
  • George Voulgaris, University of South Carolina (High Frequency Radar)
  • Harvey Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (High Frequency Radar)
  • Nick Shay, University of Miami (High Frequency Radar)
  • George Maul, Florida Institute of Technology
• Coastal Hazards
  • Catherine Edwards, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at University of Georgia (Gliders)
  • Jennifer Dorton, SECOORA (Marine Weather Portal)
  • Ruoying He, North Carolina State University (Modeling)
  • Debra Hernandez, SECOORA (Southeast Disaster Recovery Partnership)
• Ecosystems: Water Quality and Living Marine Resources
  • Denise Sanger, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (Water Quality Station)
  • Dwayne Porter, University of South Carolina (How’s the Beach)
  • Chris Kalinowsky, Georgia Department of Natural Resources (Fisheries Monitoring)
  • Joy Young, Fisheries Data Solutions, LLC (FACT Network)
• Climate Variability
  • Leslie Wickes, Thrive Blue, LLC (Southeast Ocean Coastal Acidification Network)
  • Scott Noakes/Janet Reimer, University of Delaware (Grey’s Reef Ocean Acidification Mooring)
• Data Management
  • Kyle Wilcox, Axiom Data Science

June 19, 2019

• SECOORA Members Business Meeting (PDF)
• IOOS Association Update and Congressional Outlook – Josie Quintrell, IOOS Association Director (PDF)
• IOOS Program Office – Carl Gouldman, U.S. IOOS Office Director (PDF)
• The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Process, Findings and Implications for the Southeast – Lynne Carter, Ph.D., Southeast Chapter Lead and Adjunct Faculty, Louisiana State University (PDF)
• Development of South Atlantic Ecosystem Status Report – Kevin Craig, Ph.D., NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center (PDF)
• Getting Ahead of the Curve: Augmenting Coastal Ocean Observing Systems to Better Enable Predictions of Coastal Health Threats and Benefits – Paul Sandifer, Ph.D., College of Charleston (PDF)
• Xylem Ocean and Coastal Solutions 2019 – Jon Fajans, Xylem / YSI, Gold Meeting Sponsor (PDF)