1. Water Quality Ru Morrison, NERACOOS Pixie Hamilton, USGS Water Quality John Haines, USGS, Pixie Hamilton, USGS, Ru Morrison, NERACOOS, Mario Tamburri, ACT, Jawed Hameedi, NOAA NCOOS

2. Types of RA activities related to Water Quality Plume Tracking Observations, including support for partners Data Services - simplifying access to data for users Customized Products

3. Beach Water Quality Assessment and Modeling Activities Issue: Exposure to beach swimming waters with elevated bacterial levels is a public health concern. Goal: Develop and implement scientifically-justified decision-support tools to for accurate and defensible preemptive advisory issuance decisions. Process: 1.) Data integration 2.) Model development 3.) Model validation 4.) Operational decision-support tool Who is doing it: Related work is taking place within 6 of the RAs.

4. Drinking Water Quality: Huron Erie Corridor Waterways Forecast System (HECWFS) Goal: Reduce health risks and costs associated with pollutant spills in the Lake Huron to Lake Erie Corridor Major Elements: Link 2d model for corridor to NOAA Great Lakes Forecasting System Generate 3d public domain model Use 3d model to support water intake risk assessment work

5. Water Quality and Ecosystems light Chl & TSM DO nutrients NJDEP, EPA, Rutgers, MARACOOS Gliders: Capture spatial features DO Part of NJ water quality monitoring predict low DO Unraveled causes and help predict low DO in the Long Island Sound Buoys: Capture high resolution temporal features Nutrient Criteria Unraveled controls of light penetration in Great Bay Estuary, NH helping protect critical eelgrass habitat through developing Nutrient Criteria

6. Harmful Algal Blooms Rapid Detection/Timely Forecasts Range of Observations Lifeguards w/smart phones, Shore stations, Moorings, Gliders, fluid imaging, Satellites Technology Development ACT workshops New sensors Analysis and Modelilng NOAA Forecasts

7. Data source: N.N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, R.E. Turner, Louisiana State University Funded by: NOAA, Center for Sponsored Coastal Research Bottom Water Dissolved Oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico

8. Yield delivered to estuary from watershed, kg/yr/ha Eutrophic, influenced by nitrogen input

9. Technology to Meet User Needs Technology Trends: Affordable and accurate physical and chemical sensors Sensors deployed on multiple fixed and moving platforms Real-time data and communications Technology Needs: Improved spatial and temporal coverage Reliable/robust sensors (e.g., antifouling) that are easy to use Bio- and geno-sensors (from marine mammals to microbes) ACT supports IOOS by: Independent third-party testing for technology developers/manufacturers and users Forum for communication and consensus on state of technology and user needs Coastal and ocean technology information clearinghouse

10. Data Standards (WQX, SRS, NEMI) Web Services Catalog /Register WQDeX Portal Water-Quality Data Exchange and Portal

11. Northeast Data Management and Portal

12. Research/ discovery Trends Status Modeling ecol. impacts Source attribution Weather & ClimateAssessmentsForecastingVolunteer monitoring NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Water Quality-Related Portfolio Invasive species

13. National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. Coastal Waters and Their Tributaries (“Network”) Continuum of observations in:  Estuaries  Near-shore waters  Off-shore waters  Great Lakes  Coastal beaches  Wetlands  Flow and flux from streams, groundwater, atmosphere

14. Discussion Questions 1.There are successes (in new technology and observation capabilities, data integration and interoperability, scientific analysis and modeling and decision support tools) around the country – at the regional and national levels. How do we transform these successes into a sustained national effort? What’s working that can be expanded right now? What are the gaps/challenges that is preventing a national effort. 2. Data management provides a vehicle for the multitude of WQ providers to share data. How do we continue the progress made to date? How do we fund data management efforts? How to engage the broader interagency community and the larger community?