2015 Annual Meeting

10:00am – 10:15am          

Welcome (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

• Roll Call
• Agenda Review
• Minutes (12/9/14 & 3/12/15)

10:15am – 10:45am

Treasurer Report (Peter Hamilton, SECOORA Treasurer)

• Review of FY15 Budget as of March 31, 2015
• Review of Membership Dues Report as of March 31, 2015 

10:45am – 11:15pm

IOOS Proposal (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director)

• Process and Participants
• Next Steps

11:15am – 11:45pm

SECOORA DMAC (Vembu Subramanian, SECOORA RCOOS Manager)

• Rob Bochenek, Information Architect, CEO, Axiom Data Science

11:45am – 12:00pm

Future Meetings (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

• July Board Call / Officer Elections
• 2016 Annual Meeting Dates / Location
• December 2015 Board Meeting Dates (Charleston, SC)

12:30pm – 1:00pm

Membership Enhancement (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

• Member Recruitment
• Board Recruitment (Competitive Elections)
• Write-in Option for Board Elections

1:00pm – 1:30pm

By-law Review (Mitch Roffer, Governance Committee Chair)

• Executive Committee Participation by Former Chair
• Committee Operations
• Stakeholder Advisory Committee
• By-law Amendment for a Name Change (Article V, Section 3):
  • Replace National Federation of Regional Associations with IOOS Association  

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Board Goals for 7/15 – 6/16 (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

• Strategic Planning

2:00pm – 2:30pm

SOCAN Briefing (Scott Noakes, University of Georgia)

2:30pm 

Adjourn

3:00pm –3:15pm                                                  

Welcome (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

• Introductions / Roll Call
• Sponsor Recognition

3:15pm – 3:30pm

Innovations in Surface HF Radar and Subsurface Acoustic Ocean Technologies for use in Coastal Ocean Observatories (David Fissel, ASL Environmental Sciences Inc.)

3:30pm – 4:00pm

IOOS Association Update and Congressional Outlook (Josie Quintrell, Director, IOOS Association)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

SECOORA Members Business Meeting

• SECOORA Annual Update (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director)
• By-law Amendment (Mitch Roffer, Governance Committee Chair)
  • Replace National Federation of Regional Associations with IOOS Association (Article V, Section 3)
• SECOORA FY16 Operating Budget (Peter Hamilton, SECOORA Treasurer)
• Review of Election Procedures / Annual Election of Board of Director
  (Mitch Roffer, Board Development Committee Chair)
• Board Member Recognition (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Happy Hour with Sponsors (Room 4101)

• Beer and Wine Provided with Light Hors d’Oeuvres 

8:30am – 8:45am    

Welcome (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair)

8:45am – 9:15am    

State of IOOS (George Jungbluth, Chief, Regions, Budget and Policy, U.S. IOOS)

9:15am – 10:00am  

Accomplishments SECOORA IOOS Award 2010-2015 – Part 1 (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director)

• 2010-2015 SECOORA Overview
• Governance and Staff Operations Years 1-4
• Outreach & Education
• Discussion 

10:00am – 10:30am

Break with Sponsors (River Terrace #3)

10:30am – 12:15pm

Accomplishments SECOORA IOOS Award 2010-2015 – Part 2

• Broad field remote observations – HF-radar (Nick Shay, UM)
• In situ observations – buoys, shore stations (Yonggang Liu, USF)
• Regional modeling (Ruoying He, NCSU)
• DMAC (Dwayne Porter, USC)

Discussion 

12:15pm – 1:05pm  

Lunch and Guest Speaker (River Terrace #3)

• 12:45pm – 1:05pm, Capt. Mike Getchell, Jacksonville Marine Transportation Exchange, Inc.

Discussion 

1:05pm – 1:15pm           

Process for PI Poster Session (Vembu Subramanian, SECOORA Program Manager)

1:15pm– 2:15pm 

PI Poster and Q&A Session (River Terrace #3)

• Purpose: Ensure meeting attendees learn about work accomplished by individual PIs

2:15pm – 2:45pm 

SECOORA IOOS Proposal 2016-2021 – Part 1 (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director)

• What process was used to determine proposal components?
• Priorities and Proposal Framework

2:45pm – 3:00pm 

Break with Sponsors (River Terrace #3)

3:00pm – 4:00pm 

SECOORA IOOS Proposal 2016-2021 – Part 2 (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director)

4:00pm – 4:30pm 

Wrap-up and Adjourn (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director)