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SECOORA Newsletter
SECOORA's latest newsletter is available! Read about our Annual Meeting Registration, SE Coastal Resilience Grant, Update on Cape Canaveral buoys, and more
Southeast States Win Coastal Resilience Grant
NOAA Regional Coastal Resilience Grant program awarded $803,713 to the Southeast states to strengthen disaster recovery of coastal communities.The project will improve planning for long-term recovery from storms, hurricanes and other natural disasters for Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) Executive Director Debra Hernandez is the project PI. “I’m excited about the...
Registration Open for 2016 Annual Meeting
Please register for the SECOORA 2016 Annual Meeting, May 18, 19 and 20, 2016 at the North Carolina State University- Jane S. McKimmon Conference and Training Center (1101 Gorman Street, Raleigh, NC 27606). Click here to register! Click here for the meeting website. Sponsor our meeting! Consider increasing your organization’s exposure at the SECOORA 2016 Annual Meeting. Become a sponsor and showcase your organization’s services and...
Reauthorization Update: ICOOS Act of 2009
Reauthorization of the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System (ICOOS) Act of 2009 is moving forward in both the House and the Senate. In early December 2015, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee sent S.1886, the Senate ICOOS Act Reauthorization bill, to the Senate floor for consideration. Senators Wicker (R-MS) and Cantwell (D-WA) introduced S. 1886 under the name Coordinated...
UNCW CORMP Job Posting
The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program (CORMP) is hiring a Research Specialist. The mixed role position involves supervision, planning, coordination and participation in scientific research in the coastal ocean, including oceanographic mooring deployment and maintenance, research and analysis in a laboratory setting, at-sea oceanographic sampling and data collection, scientific SCUBA diving, data management, and...
December Board Meeting
The SECOORA Board meeting was held in Charleston, SC December 3-4, 2015. The two-day meeting primarily focused on Strategic Planning. Board members worked together to draft a Strategic Plan for SECOORA. The components of the plan include a mission statement, vision, core values, and strategic goals for SECOORA. A Strategic Planning Steering Committee is meeting to finalize a draft plan...
UPDATE: Cape Canveral Buoys
January 21, 2016: National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Observations has directed National Buoy Data Center (NBDC) to maintain the Cape Canaveral Buoys 41009 and 41010 through the end of 2016. Ship time permitting, NBDC is planning to service the buoys this spring. Watch for more updates. Click here to read more.
Fisheries and Climate Workshop Summary Report
October 26-28, 2015, partners convened a workshop in St. Petersburg, Florida to advance our understanding of the impacts of climate variability on fisheries resources and management in the large marine ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. More than 55 experts from fishery management councils, federal and state fisheries and climate entities, academia and private industry...
SOCAN Hosts First Meeting To Discuss Coastal and Ocean Acidification In The Southeast
South Carolina, January 11, 2016: From North Carolina to Florida,ocean acidification (OA) impacts in the Southeast US are largely unknown. Ocean acidification is a term that describes the change in the chemistry of ocean waters, largely due to increased carbon from the atmosphere entering the ocean. These changes in ocean and coastal water chemistry can affect the entire marine ecosystem. The...
SECOORA at AGU
SECOORA and partner Regional Association, CeNCOOS, produced and presented a poster at the Fall 2015 American Geophysical Union Meeting. The poster titled, “Climate Outreach Using Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System Portals,” focused on the 11 IOOS Regional Association’s data portals and using those portals for outreach. Click here to read the abstract.Data Portals have emerged as an interactive tool for...