IOOS Program Office Update SCCOOS Board Meeting Zdenka Willis 1

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

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By the Numbers 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 4 FY 12

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. LaVerne Ragster – 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 5

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 6

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 7

U.S. IOOS Summit 8

A Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) 9

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 –IIN-01 Earth Observing Systems –SB-01 Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Kicked off at Oceanology International March and 1 st 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 10

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