Ten years ago, NOAA established an Education Council to coordinate activities across the agency and elevate the education portfolio. So what is the status of NOAA's investment in education? Over the past decade, NOAA has seen new grant and scholarship programs, resources and legislative authorities for education. We actively participate in major conferences such as the National Science Teachers Association. The Council produced a twenty-year Education Plan and the National Research Council conducted a review of programs. Come hear Marlene Kaplan, Vice Chair of the Education Council, discuss accomplishments and opportunities resulting from these efforts at the agency and interagency level. In addition, Jeannine Montgomery of the Education Outreach Center will discuss how you can get involved in this community.

Marlene Kaplan has more than 25 years experience at NOAA working across the spectrum of resource policy and management issues and more recently on education. In 2002, she came to NOAA's Office of Education and has been instrumental in expanding it from a $1 million planning office to a $50 million office with major programmatic responsibilities that includes grants, scholarships and partnership programs. She serves as the Vice Chair of the NOAA Education Council which coordinates efforts across the agency and oversees planning and policy. She led development of the NOAA Education Strategic Plan 2009 - 2029. She also co-chairs the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Education, where she is currently working on the strategic actions for education called for in the Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force. Dr. Kaplan holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in biochemistry and a doctorate in environmental science and engineering (D. Env) from UCLA.

Jeannine Montgomery manages the NOAA Office of Education's Outreach Center in Silver Spring, MD. The center specializes in connecting people with educational resource materials to promote environmental literacy, career pathways, and stewardship capacity. Before coming to NOAA, she held positions as a seasonal Park Ranger and Supervisory Park Interpreter at Yellowstone National Park and Chief of Interpretation and Heritage Resource Management at Fort Harrison State Park, Indiana. Her degrees are in geology, biology and geography education with an Illinois Teacher Certification for grades 6-12.

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James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program in the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, was the chief scientist for the 2010 scientific mapping and documentation of the Titanic wreck site. That project, in cooperation with RMS Titanic Inc./Premier Exhibitions, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the National Park Service, and NOAA, mapped 25 square miles of seabed and imaged area of the Titanic site never before mapped. The expedition also conducted a detailed three-dimensional scan and completed 3D imaging of Titanic's bow and stern sections. Delgado will share insights into the ongoing saga of Titanic and the documentation of the wreck site as well as preliminary results of the 2010 expedition.

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A body of literature suggests that stratospheric water vapor concentrations are controlled, to first order, by temperatures at the tropical cold-point tropopause. Our understanding of the variability and long-term evolution of this climate feedback process is hampered by uncertainties in observations of both temperature and water vapor. Studies have used radiosonde measurements to infer a cooling trend at the tropical tropopause over recent decades. The objective of our study is to examine thoroughly and rigorously the sensitivity of this finding to inhomogeneities in the radiosonde records, incorporating the most recent observations. Our approach consists of comparison of temperature trends at the cold point and at nearby fixed pressure levels in unadjusted data with trends at fixed levels in a number of adjusted data sets, and comparison of cold-point trends for different times of day. The results indicate that previous studies using unadjusted data overestimated the magnitude of the cooling trend at the tropopause over recent decades. However, there still appears to be cooling after data inhomogeneities are accounted for, at many stations and in some regions of the tropics. The sharp temperature decline at the end of 2000 noted in previous studies is a robust feature. We also analyze the relationships between variability and trends in tropopause height, pressure and temperature.

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Vegetation roots provide a fundamental link between the below ground water and nutrient dynamics and above ground canopy processes such as photosynthesis, evapotranspiration and energy balance. The "hydraulic architecture" of roots, consisting of the structural organization of the root system and the flow properties of the conduits (xylem) as well as interfaces with the soil and the above ground canopy, affect stomatal conductance thereby directly linking them to the transpiration. Roots serve as preferential pathways for the movement of moisture from wet to dry soil layers during the night, both from upper soil layer to deeper layers during the wet season ('hydraulic descent') and vice-versa ('hydraulic lift') as determined by the moisture gradients. The conductivities of transport through the root system are significantly, often orders of magnitude, larger than that of the surrounding soil resulting in movement of soil-moisture at rates that are substantially larger than that through the soil. This phenomenon is called hydraulic redistribution (HR). The ability of the deep-rooted vegetation to "bank" the water through hydraulic descent during wet periods for utilization during dry periods provides them with a competitive advantage. However, during periods of hydraulic lift these deep-rooted trees may facilitate the growth of understory vegetation where the understory scavenges the hydraulically lifted soil water. In other words, understory vegetation with relatively shallow root systems have access to the banked deep-water reservoir. These inter-dependent root systems have a significant influence on water cycle and ecosystem productivity. HR induced available moisture may support rhizosphere microbial and mycorrhizal fungi activities and enable utilization of heterogeneously distributed water and nutrient resources. To capture this complex inter-dependent nutrient and water transport through the soil-root-canopy continuum we present modeling results using coupled partial differential equations of transport in soils and roots along with that for nutrient dynamics. We study the feedbkack of HR on the dynamics of water and nitrogen cycling in the soil and how these dynamics influence root water and nitrogen uptake and consequently carbon assimilation by the canopy. The forcing data is obtained from the Ameriflux Tower located in Blodgett Forest, Sierra Nevada, California. We consider single-species (Ponderosa Pine) and multi-species (overstory Ponderosa Pine and understory shrubs) interaction. When single species is considered, the near surface soil-moisture available from HR during dry summer season is an important source of evaporation and contributes significantly to the total ET flux. However, when multi-species interactions are taken into account, the soil-water from the HR becomes an important source of transpiration from the understory. The results also show that passive plant nitrogen uptake is higher when HR is present and it is critical for sustaining expected rates of carbon assimilation.

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Significant number of oceanographic observations is being carried out on episodic oceanographic stations (or oceanographic casts). Each cast provides vertical profiles of physical, chemical and biological parameters. Efforts by the international oceanographic community brought to the accumulation of most historical cast data in large scale databases which support online data selection (for example WOD09, SEADATANET). Intensive four years large scale project SESAME is aimed to assess and predict long term changes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems. A SESAME-CAST system was developed to integrate historical and new multidisciplinary data as well as provide easy processing and analysis of the data. The system includes four software packages:

• Mobile Mediterranean Microsoft ACCESS database (MEDACC).
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MEDACC is a portable MS ACCESS database developed in Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research (IOLR) for storage, exploration, visualization and processing of multidisciplinary marine data acquired in oceanographic cruises by casting of measurement equipment and/or water samplers on sea stations. The system supports data import in MEDATLAS and Sea-Bird ASCII formats as well as EXCEL tables in a form similar to generic Ocean-Data-View (ODV) spreadsheet format (Schlitzer, R., 2001: Ocean-Data-View). Selected data can be exported to ASCII files in MEDATLAS format or in the generic ODV spreadsheet format. Data imported into MEDACC could be explored using the common ACCESS query builder as well as an oceanographic oriented interface for most typical data visualisation. To plot data the MEDACC uses the widely distributed commercial software "SURFER" (Golden Software Inc), and Microsoft "Excel". The "MEDACC setup utility" as well as "User Manuel" and "update utility" can be downloaded from ISRAMAR server. The setup utility creates an empty MEDACC type database. One can also download a MEDACC type database containing Mediterranean and Black Sea public available data. The MEDACC type database with the entire SESAME cast data collection has limited dissemination according to SESAME data policy.

Advanced data Quality Control block for MEDACC type database is developed by MHI team. The QC block implements mostly SEADATANET accepted procedures, including SEDATANET convention for QC flags values. The procedures require the use of a climatic array for parameters. Current version uses MEDAR/MEDATLAS II based climatology where only limited number of physical and chemical parameters are presented. Once activated, the QC block checks all user selected data and estimates the QC flags corresponding to the controlled metadata and data. The QC block can work in either automatic or manual mode. The manual mode allows users to visualize observations, validate assigned QC flags and make interactive corrections to metadata, data and QC flags. The software can be downloaded as a zip file from the SESAME-CAST web page.

Advanced oceanographic interface for MEDACC type database (Hydrolog-MEDACC) is a development of MHI. Hydrolog-MEDACC is a version of the Hydrolog software package for oceanographic analysis and processing of multiparametric cruise data which are stored in a MEDACC type data base. Hydrolog-MEDACC provides graphical user interface for data selection and production of various plots or maps and transects which are generated using "SURFER" (Golden Software Inc). The Hydrolog-MEDACC software can be downloaded as zip file from the SESAME-CAST web page.

Online interface for SESAME-CAST database allows access to the metadata of the most recent collections of marine cast data within SESAME project. The collection is constantly updated by ISRAMAR team in a MEDACC type database named SESAME-CAST-Mobile. All datasets submitted through the SESAME data management web site in MEDATALAS or ODV Excel formats are controlled and imported periodically into SESAME-CAST-Mobile database. After each update, the MS SQL Server database is synchronized with the updated mobile database. The MS SQL Server database is used as the base of the online interface to the SESAME cast data collection. Using the interface any visitor can perform metadata queries in the SESAME-CAST DB and download data in ODV generic format. However, the user's ability to download data is limited by the degree of data accessibility, which is defined according to SESAME data policy.

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Twitter, a microblogging service that allows users to send short updates to "followers," is one of several social media tools approved for use by the Department of Commerce (DOC) and thus is available for use by NOAA. This presentation will take a closer look at Twitter--what it is (and is not) and who is using it (and how). We'll look at Twitter as a communications and marketing tool and ways that you can evaluate whether or not it is an appropriate and necessary tool for your office. I will provide an overview of what is required for you to get an 'official' DOC-sanctioned Twitter account and what is required (in terms of policy and resources) to maintain an account. Finally, I'll give you a few tips/insights into what seems to work best for the National Ocean Service Twitter account (http://twitter.com/usoceangov), which is currently over 25,000 followers strong.

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The "Running-in-Place (RIP)" and "Quasi Outer-Loop (QOL)" methods are proposed to improve the ability of Ensemble Kalman Filter to handle the nonlinearity of the evolving dynamics that can take place in long assimilation windows. Using a no-cost EnKF smoother, the RIP algorithm aims to improve both the accuracy of the mean and "flow-dependent" error statistics carried in the ensemble perturbations. As a simplified version of RIP, QOL has the purpose of re-centering the ensemble perturbations around a more accurate ensemble mean.

The performance of the LETKF with the QOL and RIP methods is tested with the Lorenz 3-variable model. Results show that the use of the QOL allows the LETKF to use longer assimilation windows with significant improvement of the analysis accuracy during periods of highly nonlinear growth and the more expensive RIP can further improve the analysis accuracy. Both RIP and QOL achieve the accuracy that better than the 4D-Var using optimal long assimilation windows and the quasi-static variational analysis. Comparisons are also made with the Ensemble Randomized Maximum likelihood (EnRML) method, another iterative EnKF based on the Gauss-Newton minimization method. Results show that RIP robustly has its advantage over EnRML at the unstable locations of phase transitions or saddle points.

The RIP method has been successfully applied to several realistic frameworks. In this talk, the RIP application to typhoon data assimilation will be presented.

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The Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NOAA/NCEP/EMC) have agreed to collaborate on the context of the development of the NMMB model and its applications to air quality and weather forecasting within the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding. BSC is implementing on-line gas-aerosol chemical modules within NMMB in collaboration with several research institutions (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, International Research Institute for climate and Society and University of California, Irvine, University of Murcia, Technical University of Catalonia).

In this contribution we will describe the status of development of the system and some evaluation results. A mineral dust module has been coupled within the NMMB to simulate the atmospheric life cycle of the eroded dust. In order to complement such development, the implementation of a fully on-line tropospheric gas-phase chemical mechanism within the system has been done. The chemical mechanism is based on the Carbon Bond CB05, the Photolysis rates are computed with the Fast-J scheme, on-line deposition schemes and biogenic emissions are considered, and stratospheric ozone is driven with a linear stratospheric scheme. Future efforts will be oriented to incorporate a multi-component aerosol module within the system with the aim to solve the life-cycle of relevant aerosols at global scale (dust, sea salt, sulphate, black carbon and organic carbon).

Additionally, several tasks are undertaken to port and benchmark the system under different computing platforms (ranging from workstations to large HPC facilities). The recent experience acquired porting the model to the Marenostrum and the CURIE supercomputers will be presented together with some benchmark and performance results.

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Ms. Steinmetz's research examines the site formation processes of commercial fish trawling and dredging impacts on mid-Atlantic outer continental shelf shipwrecks. Exploring this human-related interaction required multi-disciplinary sources, including historical research, maritime archaeologists, fishermen who experience damage and loss of gear, and recreational divers who observe shipwreck damage.

From diver observations 75 to 235 ft. deep, statistical analysis showed 69% of 52 sample shipwrecks had 1 to 5 snagged nets or dredges. The economic loss to the fishing gear owner ranges from $10 to $50K per lost system. Conservatively, $76 million of gear has been lost over 25 years on shipwrecks from Maine to Cape Hatteras. Case studies include the 1847 sidewheel paddle steamer Admiral DuPont, Civil War and early 20th century wrecks, the U.S. Navy tugs Nina and Cherokee, the 1920 submarine USS S-5, and the steam yacht and WWII patrol boat St. Augustine. The last four cases are protected from salvage under the Sunken Military Craft Act of 2005 but commercial fishing is exempt from liability for any damage it causes to such wrecks. Off Delmarva, three rotational scallop gear-restricted areas concentrate gear losses and cultural resource damage.

Interviews with trawl netters, scallop dredgers, and clam dredgers reveal that each gear type has a different cost and probability of loss. Fishermen cited the accuracy of obstruction locations as a risk factor. Despite the increasingly common use of advanced technologies (hang logs, global positioning systems and chart plotters) by the commercial fishing industry, diver observations confirm that fishermen continue to lose gear. Gear impacts accelerate structural wreck deterioration and scramble or extract historic wreck contents. The purpose of Ms. Steinmetz's research is to bring factual awareness and provide a foundation for solutions. A successful collision prevention solution could provide economic benefits for fishermen, conserve essential fish habitat, preserve recreational tourism, and safeguard non-renewable underwater cultural resources.

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Population pressure in coastal New Hampshire challenges land use decision-making and threatens the ecological health and functioning of Great Bay, an estuary designated as the site of both a NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve and an EPA National Estuary Program. Regional population here has exploded in the last four decades, leading to sprawl, increased impervious surface cover, and ecological degradation of the estuary. All of Great Bay's contributing watersheds face similar challenges, resulting in the need for strategies that successfully address growth, development, and land use planning. This study sought to discover whether there was potential for shifting from political border-based to watershed-based land use planning by conducting a social landscape analysis of decision-making in one case study watershed. The background necessary for this study included a wide range of both natural and social science theory, accumulated through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary training and practice. A mixed qualitative social science approach was applied using semi-structured interviews and geospatial tools as visual probes within a grounded theory analytical strategy. Importantly, this approach not only integrated social and natural science, but actively collaborated with decision-makers and resource managers, building a process which led to a highly successful methodology and a participatory action research environment. This collaborative engagement resulted in sustained civic action in all of the towns in the watershed, culminating in an outcome that transcended political boundaries, and was unprecedented in the history of the state. This presentation will describe the theoretical background, social science methods, data collection, analysis and results, and offer general reflections on the process, challenges, opportunities, and replication potential in the Great Lakes region.

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In 2008, NOAA Fisheries began developing a strategic plan to improve the agency's ability to conduct and provide the science needed to meet the habitat-related mandates of the Magnuson-Stevens Re-authorization Act. The resulting Marine Fisheries Habitat Assessment Improvement Plan (HAIP) was published in May 2010 (http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st4/documents/habitatAssesmentImprovementPlan_052110.PDF). Habitat assessment is defined as the process and products associated with consolidating, analyzing, and reporting the best available information on habitat characteristics relative to the population dynamics of fishery species and other living marine resources. The scope of the HAIP is the 519 managed stocks and stock complexes within fishery management plans, with particular focus on the 230 stocks in the Fisheries Stock Sustainability Index (FSSI), which yield over 90% of commercial landings. The HAIP contains nine major recommendations to enable the agency to improve the scientific basis for habitat management, conservation and restoration, and to improve stock assessments by reducing habitat-related uncertainty.

A key first step to support the HAIP was to convene an internal workshop to identify national and regional issues and strategies for implementation. The first National Habitat Assessment Workshop, co-sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology and Habitat Conservation, was held in May 2010 (http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st4/documents/NSAW_NHAW_Proceedings_final.pdf). This workshop was designed to catalyze internal communication, and included a joint session with the agency's 11th National Stock Assessment Workshop. Other recommendations currently being implemented include supporting pilot projects that incorporate habitat information into stock assessments, and convening of a work group to develop criteria for prioritizing stocks and geographic areas for habitat assessments.

Another key recommendation of the HAIP involves seeking opportunities for inter-line office collaboration on habitat science. This effort has already borne fruit. NMFS scientists are working with scientists from NCCOS's Biogeography Branch on the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP). This team developed the coastal component of the NFHAP report: Through a Fish's Eye: The status of Fish Habitats in the United States 2010 (http://fishhabitat.org/images/documents/fishhabitatreport_012611.pdf). For this effort, the team was awarded NFHAP's 2010 Science Achievement Award. We believe that there are many more opportunities for collaboration in the future.

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The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) coastal assessment represents an unprecedented nationwide effort to describe the status and threats to estuarine, coastal and marine habitats in the continental United States. The coastal assessment complements a national assessment of inland fish habitat conducted concurrently by scientists at Michigan State University. This study synthesizes existing nation-wide data sets on anthropogenic disturbance and natural drivers affecting estuarine and coastal ecosystems, and includes indicators of land cover, hydrology, eutrophication, and water quality. A quantitative assessment of habitat components was nested into a multiscale spatial framework for the coastal Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico using NOAA's Coastal Assessment Framework (CAF). A relative disturbance index was developed for each of the four indicators in each estuary spatial unit within the CAF. Composite habitat condition scores were then calculated for each unit by combining the four individual indices to determine the total current risk of habitat degradation. Results of this analysis allow regional and subregional comparisons to be made and identify major sources of habitat degradation in estuarine and coastal habitats. Data limitations prevented some sources of habitat indicator data from being included in the national coastal assessment. Information on sedimentation, shoreline armoring, fish tissue contaminants, and biogenic habitat status will be included in further coastal assessment efforts at the regional level. Next steps for the NFHAP coastal assessment include testing how these scores predict fish species composition and abundance metrics of well-studied stocks. Additional analyses within regions will be completed to further refine habitat conditions and assist in establishing critically degraded areas.

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Pursuant to Executive Order 13508 to restore the Chesapeake Bay, the EPA has set targets for reducing nutrient and sediment loading to tidal waters. Bay States were required to submit plans for achieving these targets that include improvements for both "gray infrastructure" (e.g., wastewater treatment plant and municipal stormwater management upgrades), and "green infrastructure" (e.g., agricultural and development best management practices that decrease non-point source pollution). The purpose of this analysis, which is being conducted for EPA's Ecosystem Services Research Program, is to determine the most cost-effective mix of green and gray infrastructure improvements that would achieve the load reduction targets, and also to consider the levels of "bonus" ecosystem services (i.e., services not directly associated with the Bay's water quality improvements) that would be delivered by this mix of improvements. An important objective of this analysis was to evaluate how different policies could affect the cost of meeting nutrient and sediment reduction goals and the level of ecosystem services derived from actions taken to meet those goals. The analysis indicates that the least cost solution favors a mix of green and gray infrastructure improvements (leaning toward green infrastructure), and that the cost of achieving nutrient and sediment loading targets could be partially offset by the value of ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, hunting, and freshwater angling associated with green infrastructure improvements.

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The diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, is the only North American turtle that is an obligate inhabitant of brackish water environments of salt marshes, bays, and estuaries. The terrapin represents a keystone predator in these habitats and can contribute to maintaining salt marsh integrity. This species has experienced a rich cultural history as it once was considered a gourmet delicacy, even being a required course at White House events. However, many populations were over harvested in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and they have not been able to rebound due to a number of current threats including crab pot mortality, habitat loss, nest predation, and road mortality. In 2004, a comprehensive study commenced in Alabama with the purpose of gathering baseline data on the survival status of the state's diamondback terrapin population and the threats it faces. Through a number of field survey methods, it was concluded that the Alabama population existed in several isolated remnant aggregations. The largest aggregation was found to inhabit Cedar Point Marsh, which was the location of a large terrapin farm in the late 1800's. Because crab pot mortality and nest predation were determined to be the largest threats in Alabama, a recovery strategy was initiated that attempted to address these threats. By-catch reduction devices (BRDs) were developed by Wood (1997) to prevent terrapin entry into pots without inhibiting crab capture, and their efficacy in Alabama was examined. Although crab capture was higher in non-BRD crab pots, BRDs reduced terrapin catch in crab pots by 90%. Also, a head-start program began in 2008, and, by the end of 2011, over 200 turtles will be returned to Cedar Point Marsh where the aggregation was estimated from mark-recapture data to be approximately 340 individuals.

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The beaches of state of Florida host one of just two rookeries in the world that support more than 10,000 loggerhead nests a year and represent over half of all western Atlantic nesting for the species. Loggerhead nest counts on Florida's vital nesting beaches have shown a marked decline in the past decade - but what does this tell us about the Atlantic population? While coastal development, erosion and recreational use put a strain on nesting habitats, nest counts for other species which share the same nesting beaches with loggerheads have increased over the same period. To help explain the drop in loggerhead nesting we must look at other factors, such as population dynamics and offshore habitat selection. Very few night-time saturation tagging projects exist in the state of Florida; in-depth evaluation of the long-term datasets that are available may shed light on broader population trends.

For this study a twenty year mark-recapture dataset from the loggerhead nesting beach on Keewaydin Island, off the southwest coast of Florida, was analyzed using a two-state open robust design model in Program MARK. Parameters such as survival, encounter probability, population size and residence time for this nesting assemblage were estimated and examined for trends over time. The relatively low survival rate estimated for this assemblage shows population decline is an important factor to consider in explaining declining nest counts and highlights the need for specific management to enhance the survival of Florida nesters. The mark-recapture analysis was supplemented with a satellite tracking component to identify the offshore foraging areas utilized by Keewaydin nesters. Eleven nesting females were outfitted with platform terminal transmitters. The released turtles transmitted for 42 to 300+ days, including inter-nesting intervals and subsequent migration to foraging grounds. Site fidelity tests and density kernel home range analyses were used to identify and describe foraging habitats. Females foraging in the eastern Gulf of Mexico were within the recent 64 m bottom longline fishery restriction. While the loggerhead females from this particular nesting beach do not frequent the same foraging area, the sites they selected are near those used by other loggerheads tracked from the western coast of Florida. Areas identified as important habitats during the remigration interval may be used to create targeted management strategies and aid population recovery without the use of broad fishery closures.

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Summary of Dr. Hinkelman's Talk: Widespread deployment of photovoltaic (PV) energy production systems requires understanding the spatial and temporal variability of the available solar irradiance. This talk presents the results of variability studies conducted using data from 17 radiometers deployed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at a site on Oahu Island.

Laura Hinkelman received her Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Upon graduation, she became a research scientist affiliated with the NASA Langley Research Center, focusing on surface energy budgets derived from satellite measurements. Since 2009, she has worked with scientists at NREL to study the spatial and temporal variability of insolation at different scales. She is currently on the research staff of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington (Seattle).

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Summary of Dr. Laszlo's Talk: Solar radiation at the surface from GOES data in real time has been routinely estimated at the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Currently available and planned products will be described along with the techniques used to produce them.

Istvan Laszlo received an M.S. degree in Astronomy/Physics and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. He is a research scientist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) of NOAA/NESDIS and also an adjunct professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland. Dr. Laszlo's research interests include atmospheric radiation, radiative transfer, radiation budget and remote sensing of atmospheric and surface properties from space.

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This symposium addresses present and future impacts of rapid changes in Arctic Ocean sea ice cover on a wide range of maritime operations. The forum, the fourth in a series, is a key opportunity for federal entities to discuss their response to changes in both the Arctic environment and associated policies. This year's event is builds upon the inaugural symposium on "Naval Operations in an Ice-free Arctic" sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NIC, the Oceanographer of the Navy, and the USARC in April 2001, the next symposium on the "Impact of an Ice- Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations" co-sponsored by NIC and USARC in July 2007, and the prior gathering at the U.S. Naval Academy in June 2009. The first symposium focused mainly on naval operations and national strategic issues, but since 2007 the symposia have expanded the discussion to impacts on other maritime operations such as commercial transportation, oil and gas exploration and exploitation, fisheries, and oceanographic research. This year's symposium continues the discussion vis-a-vis recent events that include:

• The continued downward trend of Arctic sea ice extent and total volume including significant loss of multi-year ice;
• The response of U.S. agencies to the National and Homeland Security Presidential Decision on Arctic policy, such as the Navy Arctic Roadmap (pdf), the ongoing U.S. Coast Guard's Arctic Requirements and Planning efforts, and NOAA's Arctic Vision & Strategy;
• National Ocean Council development of a Strategic Action Plan on "Changing Conditions in the Arctic," one of nine strategic action areas identified in the 2010 National Ocean Policy;
• The Arctic Council Arctic Search and Rescue (SAR) Task Force development of an Arctic SAR Agreement;
• The IMO development of a Polar Code for vessels operating in polar waters;
• The increased interest in government as well as private industry joint Arctic oil spill response(PDF) research;
• The expanded energy exploration activities as part of BOEMRE lease sales in the Chukchi Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and the Beaufort Sea;
• The IMO/IHO/WMO establishment of 5 new Arctic NAVAREAs/METAREAs for maritime safety information services;
• The International Polar Decade(PDF) proposed by the WMO Executive Council; and
• The mounting calls for U.S. Senate ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The symposium provides a unique high-level overview of the latest activities and plans of key agencies in response to an increasingly accessible Arctic Ocean. It also serves to further publicize results and outcomes from efforts such as the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (AMSA) and the CNO Naval War College Global Shipping Game. As in prior symposia, the 2011 gathering will continue to provide an opportunity to review changes in Arctic sea ice conditions observed over the previous 2 years, evaluate advances in sea ice seasonal and climate forecast model predictions, and discuss the impact of environmental conditions on naval and maritime operations.

Attendance to this symposium is open to the public, but advance registration is required. 4th Symposium General Information. For further information please contact Pablo Clemente-Colon (Pablo.Clemente-Colon@noaa.gov)

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Remote access TBD. For further information please contact Hyun-Sook Kim [(301) 763-8000 ext 7207; hyun.sook.kim@noaa.gov]

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This webinar will highlight many of the impacts from climate change on Alaska's weather. These impacts span the range of environmental impacts from Aviation to Volcanic Ash and everything in between. The presentation and discussion period will provide information and develop a shared understanding about links between climate change and weather and how these links drive the services, decision-support, research & development, and policy of NOAA. We will also discuss the future directions being planned for more focused, collaborative approaches to dealing with climate change adaptation in Alaska and the hurdles & pitfalls that potentially litter the way.

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The Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Mechanism (RACM) is a widely used mechanism for air quality modeling. Recently a new version of the mechanism, RACM2, has been developed. RACM and RACM2 have been applied to an analysis of a number of daytime and nighttime modeling cases. This study includes an investigation of the response of forecasted ozone, nitric acid and sulfate to representative initial conditions for both mechanisms. Understanding this response is expected to be critical for the development of new chemical data assimilation methods for air quality forecasting.

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The United States Coast Survey was an intrinsic part of the Union effort to quell the rebellion of the Southern States. Coast Survey hydrographers, topographers, and cartographers served the Union in the field in all theaters of the war and in the national capital producing thousands of maps and other products for the Union forces. The Coast Survey developed tactical maps for battlefield commanders, surveyed hostile harbor entrances, and piloted Union vessels in major naval actions of the war. Strategically, the Coast Survey helped plan the Union blockade through the Blockade Strategy Board and then implement it through its "Notes on the Coast of the United States." Even prior to hostilities, the Coast Survey was planning for the eventual conflict and had produced the best available maps of the coastline and major port cities of the South from Chesapeake Bay to the Texas-Mexico border. As in future wars of the United States, Coast Survey skills helped move men and materiel, helped plan major actions, and provided skilled surveyors, engineers, and scouts on the battlefield. This presentation will be an introduction to the Civil War service of the Coast Survey.

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A longstanding partnership between the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-Fisheries) and Pacific Marine Environmental Lab (NOAA-Research) is yielding new insights into the structure and function of the nation's high latitude large marine ecosystems. These new insights into climate-mediated forcing mechanisms provide the necessary understanding and data for 3 of the 6 Integrated Ecosystem Assessment components: 1) developing ecosystem indicators, 2) characterizing the ecosystems susceptibility and resilience to perturbation, and 3) monitoring of the ecosystem indicators. The North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity (NPCREP) network demonstrated a clear shift in the mode of climate variability in the last 15 years from a state where interannual variability dominated to one where 4 - 6 year periods of warm and then cold conditions predominated. These results along with a historic collaboration among NOAA, the National Science Foundation, the North Pacific Research Board, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delineated some of the critical climate-mediated mechanisms responsible for determining the recruitment success of fisheries such as walleye pollock and Pacific cod. This new knowledge is being applied to both the annual stock assessments and has been used in both qualitative and quantitative projections of future distribution and size of fishable populations. The lessons learned are applicable to both the fisheries and protected species aspects of NOAA's responsibility to protect and maintain healthy ecosystems.

So while it is sweltering in D.C. come and listen to how sea-ice and "cool" research results are furthering NOAA's ability to help society adapt to changing climate in one of the Nation's most productive ecosystems.

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The Dead Sea precursor - Lisan Lake covered the Jordan Rift Valley entirely from Sea of Galilee to the Sodom about 25,000 years ago. The modern Dead Sea was formed as a result of recession in the Lisan surface level about 10,000-14,000 years ago. For hundreds of years prior to 1950, the Dead Sea surface level was about -400+-20 m. During this period dilution of the upper layer by the fresh water runoff was sufficient to support stable stratification due to low salinity in the upper layer (about 247 g/kg) and high salinity in the deep layer (about 276 g/kg) even during the winter seasons. Anthropogenic reduction of runoff and water consumption for industrial mineral production led to significant changes in dimensions and hydrology of the Dead Sea. The sea level has been dropping almost continuously since 1960 (-397 m). During the last 16 years the rate of the level decrease is about 1 m/year and at present (Spring 2011) the Dead Sea level is -424 m. Until 1978 the morphology of the Dead Sea consisted of a large and deep northern basin (depth about 320 m) and a smaller and shallower southern basin. Following the recession of the water level, the entire southern basin would have dried up. However, dikes were erected to transform the Southern Basin into evaporation ponds for mineral production.

Gradual salinity increase in the upper layer led to the first overturn of the two layer structure in winter 1978-1979 bringing to an end the long-term stable hydrological regime. A haline stratification, preventing winter overturns, was restored twice after extremely rainy winters of 1980 and 1992, however it lasted for 3-4 years each time. The main body water salinity increased continuously and reached about 285 g/kg in the 2011. Halite in the Dead Sea is saturated since about 1980 and permanent precipitation is observed on submerged objects. Increase of ionic concentration leads to decrease of evaporation rate, therefore sea level drop rate is expected to decrease in the future. Different estimates of the future Dead Sea water budget came to a common conclusion that in about 500 years the sea level will be about -500 m.

In 2005 the governments of the Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories supported by the World Bank agreed to conduct a feasibility study for a cannel or pipeline between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Dead Sea transporting initially Red Sea water and eventually high salinity end brines (byproduct of desalinization) into the Dead Sea. The most evident problems concerning this proposal are: restoration of stable stratification; mass precipitation of gypsum, development of new life forms in the Dead Sea.

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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is a marine renewable energy technology that uses temperature differences between deep cold water and warm surface water to generate a constant source of electricity. The electricity can be generated from an off-shore facility and sent to land by power cable. The technology is considered particularly viable in tropical areas with year-round warm surface water. There are currently no commercial OTEC facilities, however, federal agencies and private industry are conducting and pursuing OTEC-related demonstration and research projects. NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management is responsible for licensing OTEC facilities. In this seminar, OTEC technology, a brief OTEC history, and NOAA's activities in OTEC will be discussed.

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Monk seals are the only completely tropical species of seal in the world and are in trouble. Centuries of human exploitation and habitat destruction have caused the remaining populations of Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) and Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) to drop to perilously low numbers, while the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) has become extinct. Scientists from Greece and the U.S. are in a race against time and are working together from opposite sides of the World to save the remaining monk seals. The MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with over 20 years of experience in the research and conservation of Mediterranean monk seals in Greece and abroad. Researchers at MOm have gained rare insights in the biology and behavior of the Mediterranean monk seal, including recent innovative technology that has enabled the seals to be monitored remotely inside their breeding caves. Current and future collaborations with U.S. scientists who study Hawaiian monk seals will provide important insights into new ways to help the two remaining species of monk seals survive into the future.

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The Barnegat Bay Watershed is a highly urbanized coastal watershed that contains four major ecosystem services in need of repair: soil retention, water quality, habitat provisioning, and recreational use. The willingness to pay (WTP)2 of watershed residents for ecosystem restoration services was calculated using the contingent valuation method (CVM)3. Surveys containing a dichotomous choice WTP question were sent to households in Ocean County to determine both the WTP of residents and factors that affect it. It has been determined that women are willing to pay more than men, and younger residents more than older residents. Results from the surveys show that residents are willing to pay an average of $11.06 in addition to their monthly water bills, or $132.72 annually per household. All the households in Ocean County would pay a total of $6.62 million to $29.3 million, depending on whether non-responding households make any contribution or not. The lower bound remains $1.34 million less than the costs of restoring the four ecosystem services, which was originally estimated by the Barnegat Bay Partnership (BBP)4 to be $6.63 million in 2002, or $7.96 million in 2011 dollars.

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Scientific progress is increasingly predicated on accessing and analyzing increasingly larger datasets with increasingly complicated descriptive-metadata and use-metadata. Jointly-analyzing datasets frequently involves a multitude of transformations, different formats, different time and spatial resolution, different projections, and different systems for expressing that necessary use-metadata.

Our working example is composed of the datasets and some of the metadata in the IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library. These data services enable access and analysis by providing data in a framework which allows format translation, rendering, and application of a variety of analysis functions, including sampling, averaging, regridding, EOFs, and statistical operators. Datasets are both local and remote, allowing a federation of data servers to appear in a uniform space of data access and functionality.

Describing the library's contents requires concepts like datasets, units, dependent variables, and independent variables. These datasets have been provided under diverse frameworks that have varied levels of associated metadata. We have created an RDF expression of a taxonomy that forms the basis of a dynamic earth data search interface. The concepts include location, time, quantity, realm, author, and institution. We have also started cross-walking these metadata into various existing metadata schema, so that our data can be found in the corresponding systems.

Building and expanding upon such systems, one can envision a future where not only are definitive versions of datasets and standard analyses of ever-larger datasets rapidly available on request, but that chains of analysis can be built non-programatically with equally accessible results.

Benno Blumenthal received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1987. Arriving at Columbia University soon after, he was a Senior Staff Associate at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory when he became the IRI Data Library Manager in 1997 (see http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=1&mode=2&objID=5061)

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Dr. Keiner will discuss her book The Oyster Question, for which she relied upon the valuable resources of the NOAA Central Library. Using insights from the history of biology, environmental history, agricultural history, and other fields, the book challenges standard interpretations of the oyster fishery as the epitome of the "tragedy of the commons," and addresses the role of historical knowledge in influencing contemporary estuarine resource-use policymaking. The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 (published by the University of Georgia Press) won the 2010 Forum for the History of Science in America Prize and co-won the Maryland Historical Trust's Heritage Book Award, as well as Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.

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In this talk I will give a short overview of the operational ocean forecasting systems that emerged from the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) as well as the Bureau's BLUElink OceanMAPS system. A summary of the performance of the current system, particularly in relation to SST and sea surface height other relevant metrics will be given. The BLUElink Coupled Limited Area Model is our developmental system that has been trialed with TCLAPS and now ACCESS-TC for tropical cyclone prediction and recent extensions to more general coupled prediction. Some results from this system and other examples of coupled relationships will be presented as well as the benefits to ocean prediction. Should NWP consider a slab, coarse ocean or an eddy ocean and other debatable topics will be raised as the motivation for a joint WGNE-GODAE workshop on short- to medium-range coupled prediction.

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The Chandler Wobble is one of the largest periodic or quasi-periodic variations in the earth's orientation. While its forcing was resolved after over a century of research -- atmospheric circulation and induced ocean circulation and pressure -- the question of why there should be such forcing in the atmosphere has remained open. I suggest that variations in earth-sun distance is the source which provides this forcing to the atmosphere and thence ocean. Analysis of searth-sun distance, earth's orientation, and atmospheric pressure and winds shows a coherent relationship between the atmosphere and earth orientation at just those periods expected from the earth-sun distance consideration. As this is a general mechanism, it can be used in examining regular climatic variations on a wide range of periods and for climate parameters other than the earth's orientation.

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Understanding human uses of the ocean is an essential component to successful marine resource planning and management. Unfortunately, spatial data on ocean uses are limited, as use patterns are often qualitative, subjective and difficult to capture consistently over large areas. Emerging technologies in the arena of participatory GIS are providing new ways to tap this critical knowledge and document human uses patterns in a spatial context. Engaging experts in the delineation of use patterns and providing a forum to gather and refine spatial data, the participatory GIS approach helps to bring often inaccessible expertise and knowledge into the spatial arena and yields critical information to support resource planning and decision-making. NOAA's Marine Protected Areas Center has been engaged in various participatory mapping efforts to document human uses of the ocean throughout the U.S. in recent years. Through a refined participatory process, we have mapped nearly 30 distinct uses of the ocean at multiple scales, across different domains and for a variety of marine management applications. These projects have targeted a wide variety of uses, but broadly include consumptive, non-consumptive, industrial and military activities. The process has been successfully completed for California's state and federal waters, the coastal and marine environments of New Hampshire and Southern Maine and the state waters off the Northwest coast of Hawaii. This presentation will provide a summary of our mapping approach and key lessons learned throughout our process with tips for designing and implementing a successful participatory GIS project for related applications.

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