IOOS Program Office Update

1. IOOS Program Office Update SCCOOS Board Meeting Zdenka Willis

2. U.S. IOOS Program – Office Activities • Realign Staff Roles and Responsibilities • Identify Regional and Functional POCs • 1st Meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee • Summit Planning • National Glider Strategy

4. By the Numbers FY 12 • FY13: Continuing Resolution passed – until 27 March • Pres Bud: NOAA IOOS: 6.533M; Regional IOOS: 29,520M • 14,520 RCOOS; 5M HF Radar; 10M sensor innovation • Senate Mark: NOAA IOOS: 6.533M; Regional IOOS 31,055M • Committee's recommendation provides no less than $26,055,000 for regional partnerships and $5,000,000 for external funding to test and advance sensor technology development. • House Mark: NOAA IOOS: 4.9M; Regional IOOS; 26,568M • IOOS … shall ensure that sufficient resources are allocated for verification and validation of existing equipment. • BUT - Potential Sequestration – 8.2% for NOAA • FY14: NOAA budget is at OMB

5. Advisory Committee First Meeting – 29-30, August 2012 in Washington, DC • Rick Spinrad – committee chair, Oregon State University • C.J. Beegle-Krause – Environmental Research for Decision • Terence Browne – Collins Engineers, Inc. • Tom Gulbransen – vice chair, Battelle Memorial Institute • Ann Jochens – Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System • Val Klump – Great Lakes WATER (Wisconsin Aquatic Technology and Environmental Research) Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee • Lynn Leonard – University of North Carolina at Wilmington • Justin Manley – Teledyne Benthos, Inc. • LaVerneRagster – University of the Virgin Islands • Tony MacDonald – Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University • Chris Ostrander – Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System • Emily Pidegon – Conservation International • Eric Terrill – Scripps Institution of Oceanography

6. DMAC IS NOW! • SOS Reference Implementation • IOOS Catalog V3 • QARTOD • Animal Telemetry Network • Biological Project – Gulf of Mexico & South East • Annual U.S. IOOS DMAC Meeting

7. SOS Reference Implementation • With common data access services we can begin to share applications and products. • Recent and near term efforts will lower the barrier of entry for every region deploying SOS services • All RAs committed to using one of two open source SOS implementations

8. U.S. IOOS Summit

9. A Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

10. Global HF Radar Network • Under the Group Earth Observations (GEO) • 88 Member governments and the European Commission, working with 61 Participating Organizations focused on the importance of Earth Observations to Societal Benefits • Component under 2 Tasks in the GEO workplan 2012-2015 • IIN-01 Earth Observing Systems • SB-01 Oceans and Society: Blue Planet • Kicked off at Oceanology International March and 1st Ocean Radar Conference for Asia • Goals: • Transform individual HF Radar networks into a global system where we can provide high quality HF Radar for a range of used. • Development of easy to use standard products • Assimilate HF Radar data into models • Development of easy to use standard products

11. Global HF Radar Assets Global HF Radar Assets http://assets.maracoos.org/

12. National Glider Strategy http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOMeLVAWfRrvlwB475BccyUJ7jnNFaJYa