SECOORA’s 2015 Annual Meeting was held May 19-20, 2015. Entering the last year of the IOOS five-year grant, the two-day meeting focused on summarizing SECOORA’s past accomplishments and future plans. SECOORA staff would like to thank everyone who participated, sponsored and attended our meeting. We could not have done this without you! Please read the summary.
Presentations are available for each day.
Tuesday, May 19th Board Meeting: View presentations
Tuesday, May 19th Members Business Meeting: View Presentations
Wednesday, May 20th Stakeholder Meeting: View presentations and PI Posters
Day 1: May 19 – Board and Members Meeting (Agenda)
Board Meeting
| 10:00am – 10:15am | Welcome (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair) |
| 10:15am – 10:45am | Treasurer Report (Peter Hamilton, SECOORA Treasurer)
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| 10:45am – 11:15pm | IOOS Proposal (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director) |
| 11:15am – 11:45pm | SECOORA DMAC (Rob Bochenek, Information Architect, CEO, Axiom Data Science) |
| 11:45am – 12:00pm |
Future Meetings (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair) |
| 12:00pm – 12:30pm | Lunch |
| 12:30pm – 1:00pm |
Membership Enhancement (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair) |
| 1:00pm – 1:30pm |
By-law Review (Mitch Roffer, Governance Committee Chair)
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| 1:30pm – 2:00pm |
Board Goals for 7/15 – 6/16 (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair) |
| 2:00pm – 2:30pm | SOCAN Briefing (Scott Noakes, University of Georgia) |
| 2:30pm | Adjourn |
| 3:00pm –3:15pm | Welcome (Conrad Lautenbacher, SECOORA Chair) |
| 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
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| 5:00pm – 6:30pm | Happy Hour with Sponsors |
Day 2: May 20 – Stakeholder Meeting (Agenda)
| 8:00am – 8:30am | Registration and Coffee |
| 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) |
| 10:00am – 10:30am | Break with Sponsors |
| 10:30am – 12:15pm |
Accomplishments SECOORA IOOS Award 2010-2015 – Part 2
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| 12:15pm – 1:05pm |
Lunch and Guest Speaker
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| 1:05pm – 1:15pm |
Process for PI Poster Session (Vembu Subramanian, SECOORA Program Manager) |
| 1:15pm– 2:15pm | |
| 2:15pm – 2:45pm |
SECOORA IOOS Proposal 2016-2021 – Part 1 (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director) |
| 2:45pm – 3:00pm | Break with Sponsors |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | SECOORA IOOS Proposal 2016-2021 – Part 2 (Mitch Roffer, ROFFS®) |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm |
Wrap-up and Adjourn (Debra Hernandez, SECOORA Executive Director) |
- A Coordinated West Florida Coastal Ocean Observing and Modeling System, Robert H. Weisberg, Yonggang Liu, Clifford R. Merz, and Lianyuan Zheng, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
- Ocean acidification time-series mooring at Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Scott Noakes, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Wei-Jun Cai and Janet Reimer, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
- Surface current mapping offshore of North Carolina using high-frequency radar, M. Muglia, S. Haines and H. Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
- SkIO WERA HF-radar improvements, Dana Savidge, Julie Amft and Trent Moore, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia, GA
- Coastal Ocean Observing in the Straits of Florida using HF Radar: An Overview of Recent Work, M. R. Archer, Lynn K. Shay and J. Martinez-Pedraja, Upper Ocean Dynamics Laboratory, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL
- An integrated ocean circulation, wave, atmosphere, and marine ecosystem prediction system for the South Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Mexico*, Ruoying He, Joseph Zambon, George Xue, Zhigang Yao, Ethan Liu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (*poster unavailable)
- Modeling Bacteria Concentrations in Southwest Florida: Integrating Historic In Situ, Remotely Sensed and Coastal Observation System Data Sources, Matthew Neet, Dan Ramage and Dwayne Porter, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC; Heath Kelsey and Adrian Jones, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Integration and Application Network, Cambridge, MD
- An Integrated, Quasi‐Operational 24/7 Nowcasting/Forecasting System for Nearshore Winds, Waves , 3D Baroclinic Circulation, Storm Surge, and Inundation, Y. Peter Sheng, Justin R. Davis, Vladimir A. Paramygin Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Program University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
- Habitat Modeling For Fisheries Independent Trap Surveys, Roffer, M. A., Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc.; Muhling, B., Princeton University and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Pugliese, R., South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, and Reichert, M., South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
- An end-to-end Workflow for Assessing Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity and Water Level Predicted by Coastal Ocean Models, Filipe Fernandes, Centro Universitário Monte Serrat, Santos, Brazil, Richard Signell, USGS, Vembu Subramanian and Debra Hernandez, SECOORA
- SECOORA’s Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System: Providing Marine Weather Data and Information Products for Marine Community, Debra Hernandez and Vembu Subramanian, SECOORA; Jennifer Dorton, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dwayne Porter, Jeremy Cothran, Dan Ramage, University of South Carolina; Charlton Galvarino, Seccondcreek Consulting Inc.
- Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring at Clam Bayou, St. Petersburg, Florida, Mark E. Luther, Jeff Scudder, Dan Otis, Gerardo Toro-Farmer, and Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida College of Marine Science’ 140 7th Ave S, Saint Petersburg FL 33701 USA; Mike Lizotte, YSI/Xylem; Ryan P. Moyer, Christina E. Powell, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 100 8th Ave SE, Saint Petersburg FL 33701 USA
Gold Sponsor:
ASL-Helzel