1. 1 Zdenka Willis IOOS Program Director March 20, 2015 Zdenka Willis IOOS Program Director March 20, 2015

2. Congratulations! CariCOOS continues to build strong observing partnerships in the Caribbean –Maintaining the La Parguera CO2 buoy in support of the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program ‘s national observing priorities –La Parguera also supports the Atlantic OA testbed and NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program –CariCOOS-Sea Grant Nearshore Breaker Model is fully operational –Joint glider deployment with AOML Advancing ocean observing in the region –2015 CariCOOS Summer Internship for outstanding undergraduate students –Congratulations to Dr. Aponte’s student for receiving the Excellence in Poster Presentation Award at the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics this January 2

3. IOOS By the Numbers 3

4. 8 5 6 11 2 4 10 3 7 9 1 U.S. IOOS ® : Program Overview Codified in law (P.L. No 111-11, March 2009) Partnership effort that leverages dispersed national investments to deliver ocean, coastal and Great Lakes data relevant to decision- makers 12 Coastal Component –17 Federal agencies –13 regional partners –Academia & Industry Global Component –US contribution to GOOS –64% of the Global Climate Ocean Observing System completed 4

5. US IOOS Program Office (within NOAA) IOOS Advisory Committee Interagency Ocean Observation Committee (IOOC) Federal Agencies IOOS Association Subcommittee on Ocean Science & Technology (SOST) National Ocean Council (NOC) Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) U.S. IOOS Enterprise Key: Direct Relationship Advisory Coordination NOAA IOOS Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed (COMT) 11 Regional Associations (RAs) http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/ about/governance/summit 2012/ioos_summit_report. html

6. US IOOS Program Office: DMAC Focus Technical solutions Image courtesy steve-dale.net Building community Implementation across the enterprise Image courtesy proactive IT Technical solutions 6 PeopleProcessTechnology

7. DMAC What’s New 7

8. IOOS: Advancing Communities HF Radar: Gliders: Animal Telemetry: 8 Wave Measurements:

9. HF Radar Updates 9

10. Marine Sensor Innovation 10 Sensor Evaluation Coastal Modeling Test bed Ocean Technology Transtion

11.  A third-party testbed for evaluating technologies  P H Sensors (2013/2014) – 7  DO Sensors II (2014/2015) – 10  Nutrient Sensor Challenge (2015/2016)  A forum for capacity and consensus building  An information clearinghouse for environmental technologies ACT Services Alliance for Coastal Technologies 11

12. US IOOS Coastal & Ocean Modeling Testbed Venue to facilitate testing and transitions into operations. Improving ties to different NOAA and partner Agency modeling efforts. 5 projects; Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay, Inundation in PR/USVI, West Coast Operational Forecast System, CI tools for comparing models/data 12

13. Ocean Technology Transition – FY14 13 Fostering the transition of marine sensor and other advanced observing technologies to operations mode. IOOS awarded five grants totaling $2.1 million Operational Nutrient Observatory for the Northeastern United States – Industry Partner: WetLabs Imaging Flow CytoBot in SF Bay – Industry Partner: McLain & Axiom The “Burk-o-lator” – developing low cost OA sensors

14. Marine Biodiversity 3 MBON projects: showing how marine and coastal data can be integrated into the system This U.S. regional contribution to GEO BON Four geographic areas: –the Florida Keys –Monterey Bay –Santa Barbara Channel Islands –U.S. Chukchi Sea http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/biodiv ersity/welcome.html 14 Credit: MBARI

15. Competitive Award & Certification 15 Open for Certification - July 20145-Year Funding Opportunity Published – February 2015

16. Ocean Enterprise Study of U.S. Businesses >600 private sector firms Most companies < 10 employees 83% providers; 9% intermediaries Input Needed: http://www.usworks.com/usioos/ 16

17. Key Events - 2014 17 Launch of Institute for Community Resiliency and Climate adaptation University of Connecticut Avery Point GEO Unanimously Endorsed for Another 10 Years Northeastern Seaboard Workshop Hearing to Focus on New Ocean Technologies May 21, 2014 Hill Events (2) IOOS IGNITE

18. Communications 18 Web Site: www.noaa.ioos.govwww.noaa.ioos.gov https://www.facebook.com/usioosgov @usioosgov – New this Year Z-Gram USGEO exhibit storymap: http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/understanding_eart h/index.html http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/understanding_eart h/index.html Press Release: Pacific Portal MBON MARES HF Radar into PORTS Video – 2 Videos

19. Enables decision making Fosters Advances in Science and Technology www.noaa.ioos.gov https://www.facebook.com/usioosgov @usioosgov US IOOS at Work 19