Compared to terrestrial locations, offshore wind energy developers and regulators are faced with a relative paucity of information on wildlife distributions and habitats in marine areas. However, they require access to the best available information in order to make informed decisions during the siting and permitting process. The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a three-year project to gather baseline data and reduce market barriers to offshore wind in the mid-Atlantic continental shelf region of the United States. The project is designed to provide essential baseline information for assessing the effects of planned offshore developments on seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles. The Mid-Atlantic Baseline Studies Project recently initiated the first broad-scale use of aerial surveillance employing high-definition video cameras in North America. This technique has become a commonly used method for broad-scale environmental and wildlife surveys in Europe. Multiple video cameras mounted on the underside of twin-engine aircraft capture high-resolution images of objects, and video footage is later reviewed by a ground-based team of biologists to identify animals to the lowest possible taxonomic group. The video is linked to a GPS system that provides each frame with a precise geographical location, and parallax technology that estimates the flight height of avian targets. Compared with traditional direct observational aerial surveys, the advantages of this technique are many, including: faster coverage of the study area, reduced disturbance to wildlife, improved quality control, auditable data, and safer flying at much higher elevations. The technique is also proving to be a potentially useful method for surveying other marine taxa, including sharks and rays. This presentation includes preliminary results of the Mid-Atlantic surveys, focusing on the accuracy and ease of identification of different taxonomic groups, as well as the challenges faced, and recommendations on the broad application of this technique in the marine environment.

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For questions about this seminar contact Jihong.Dai@noaa.gov.

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The US Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment (NCA), synthesizes the latest science on climate change and provides information for communities about the current and projected impacts. A draft of the 2013 NCA Report is available for expert review and public comment until April 12, 2013. This webinar will present draft findings and provide opportunity for discussion about the draft report and the longer-term on-going climate assessment process in Alaska. Discussion topics will include how perceived gaps in the report might be addressed through existing and new research projects, identifying new topics for consideration in future reports and initiatives, and planning for ways that scientists, decision makers, and members of local communities, including Alaska Natives, can play a more active role in the continuing assessment process.

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The ocean plays a critical role in supporting human well-being, from providing food, livelihoods and recreational opportunities to regulating the global climate. Sustainable management aimed at maintaining the flow of a broad range of benefits from the ocean requires a comprehensive and quantitative method to measure and monitor the health of coupled human-ocean systems. We created an index comprising ten diverse public goals for a healthy coupled human-ocean system and calculated the index for every coastal country. Globally, the overall index score was 60 out of 100 (range 36-86), with developed countries generally performing better than developing countries, but with notable exceptions. Only 5% of countries scored higher than 70, whereas 32% scored lower than 50. The index provides a powerful tool to raise public awareness, direct resource management, improve policy and prioritize scientific research. Current activities and future directions for the Index will be presented and discussed.

Ben Halpern is Director of CMAP and a Research Biologist at the Marine Science Institute. He also serves as Project Coordinator for a large project on Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) of coastal marine systems, based at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and is a lead scientist for the Ocean Health Index project. Much of his research addresses issues related to Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP), including cumulative impact and ecosystem service tradeoff assessments.

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For questions about this seminar contact Reggie Thompson.

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Scientists, resource managers and other decision makers are increasingly expected to use climate information in assessment, planning and decision-making, but many struggle with the uncertainty associated with climate information. There is often a disconnect between the climate modeling and applications communities, in terms of what models can and can't do. Much of the uncertainty stems from how to best use the output from global climate models. There are three major sources of uncertainty in climate projections: i) model error, ii) how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will change in the future, often addressed by different "scenarios" and iii) natural variability. The latter can have a surprisingly large impact on short term variability and long-term trends on physical quantities, including temperature, precipitation and winds. This presentation will address the ability of climate models to simulate present day conditions and project future conditions relevant to ecological systems. We will focus on how natural climate variability can complicate using climate projections in understanding and projecting changes in hydrology and marine ecosystems. We will discuss how climate projections can be useful in ecological applications including providing strategic management advice despite these uncertainties.

Remote access TBD. For questions about this seminar contact roger.b.griffis@noaa.gov.

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Recent advances in optical spectroscopy have led to new broadband cavity enhanced spectrometers (BBCES) that combine high-finesse optical cavities with high-powered LED light sources, spectrally resolving the light output with a grating spectrometer. This technique can be used to make sensitive, in situ measurements of optical extinction. Organic compounds contribute a large fraction of aerosol mass, and glyoxal has been identified in previous laboratory and field studies to be one potential source of organic mass. We deployed a BBCES instrument to measure glyoxal during summer 2010 in Pasadena, California. We used three methods to quantify the contribution of glyoxal to aerosol in Los Angeles, and found that it accounts for only 0 - 4% of the secondary organic aerosol mass. Quantifying the optical properties of aerosols is important to understand their role in the Earth's radiative budget. Previous measurements have indicated that brown carbon aerosol has a wavelength-dependent absorption that increases in the ultraviolet spectral region, and recent modeling suggests that this is an important component of aerosol radiative forcing. We have conducted recent laboratory and field measurements of aerosol scattering and absorption in the ultraviolet spectral region to address these issues.

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To Walter Cronkite he was "the most interesting person I've ever interviewed." President Kennedy joked that the only science he knew was because of him. Colorful, sharp thinking, and intensely productive, Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus (1911-1998) was, among other things, the "Father of Sea Grant." Appointed by presidents and advisor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, his breathtakingly diverse accomplishments include a sculpture that stands in downtown New York, an oceanographic tool that helped win WWII, and a mishap that fueled the Roswell Incident. As Dr. Spilhaus's unconventional personality and notable contributions to science and the United States prove, you can do anything if you have the gall!

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After extensive redesign and redevelopment, NOAA is about ready to roll out version 2.0 of the Climate.gov Portal. David Herring will give a brief overview of what's new and how he envisions it will better serve NOAA in the agency's overall effort to promote public climate literacy as well as awareness and use of our climate data and information products. Climate.gov is and always has been a collaborative effort inclusive of personnel from all across the agency. David will discuss ways in which NWS personnel can contribute to the portal's success, and how they can put the portal to work for them.

David Herring has worked for 21 years as a science communicator, specializing in climate and Earth system science. In March 2008, David joined NOAA's Climate Program Office where he serves as Director of Communication and Education. He also serves as Program Manager of the NOAA Climate.gov Web Portal (www.climate.gov) and leads the Climate Literacy Objective for NOAA's Climate Mission Goal. Before coming to NOAA, David worked for 16 years in the Earth Sciences Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where he served as Project Manager for Education and Outreach, team leader for NASA's Earth Observatory (earthobservatory.nasa.gov), and the Outreach Coordinator for NASA's Terra satellite mission. David trained in journalism, science education, and science writing at East Carolina University, in Greenville, NC, where he received his Masters Degree in 1992.

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Millions of people from San Francisco and around the world come to Golden Gate National Recreation Area each year to enjoy the park's tremendous recreational and educational opportunities. Learn how the park has created a "ladder of engagement" to connect with everyone from casual visitors to corporate partners to build support for this world class attraction and for marine and coastal conservation.

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Climate change is likely to impact marine resource management through a variety of mechanisms, such as direct loss of temperature-sensitive habitats, such as corals, changes in temperature regulated processes such as spawning and larval growth, and altered regional larval dispersal pathways. In addition, changes in the biogeochemical environment may result in altered foodwebs and feeding conditions, affecting larval survival and eventual recruitment to adult populations.

A collaborative project between NOAA, academia and private industry has been working to combine downscaled models of future climate change conditions with habitat and spawning models for economically important pelagic fish species, focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. This presentation will summarize work to date, and demonstrate the utility of downscaled climate models for investigating climate change impacts on a wide range of marine habitats and resources.

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An update on the major findings from The Ocean Project's ongoing public opinion and strategic communications research initiative, America and the Ocean, including how those findings have been distributed and are now being applied, especially by zoos, aquariums and museums in experimental efforts aimed at inspiring visitors to do more to help conserve the ocean.

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NOAA Alaska Marine Debris Coordinator Peter Murphy will provide an update an outlook on marine debris along the North Pacific coast for 2013, including debris generated by the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

Peter Murphy started in NOAA's Assessment and Restoration Division, and joined the Marine Debris Program in 2007 as part of the Gulf of Mexico Marine Debris Project, a response to the impact of marine debris generated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Peter moved from that project to take on the Alaska Coordinator role, which he's held since 2009. Peter and his colleagues work to understand the impacts of marine debris and communicate them to policy-makers, stakeholders, and the public. Alaska, with its massive and remote coastline, significant coastal resources, and strong marine economy and culture, is a dynamic and important part of the marine debris landscape. In addition to his work with marine debris, Peter enjoys being up in the mountains, skiing, or backpacking. He also enjoys cooking and University of Washington sports, and combining those into tailgating.

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In this seminar, I will present works during my two-year stay in the NCEP/EMC, especially focusing on two topics: observation impact estimation, and better representation of Tropical Cyclone (TC) in the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF).

The first part of the talk will be about the observation impact estimation technique using the ensembles. The method of Kalnay et al. (2012) has been applied to the GFS/EnKF system assimilating almost all observation types used in the operational Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS). The basic idea is similar to the adjoint-based observation impact estimation proposed by Langland and Baker (2004). Ensemble-based method can be used without an adjoint model so that it is convenient for the ensemble-based data assimilation system. Observation impact estimation can be a powerful tool to monitor and investigate the observation quality and data assimilation system. The example of the application of the impact estimates as well as key issues using ensembles will be presented.

The second part of the talk will focus on the representation of TCs in the EnKF analysis and ensemble forecast. Current operational global EnKF analysis does not apply any TC relocation procedure. This could cause a problem on the TC structure in the EnKF analysis and high resolution GDAS analysis through the ensemble-based background error covariance. On the other hand, future Global Ensemble Forecasting System (GEFS) is planned to utilize the EnKF 6 hour forecast perturbations for its initial perturbations. Thus, the TC relocation is also necessary in the ensemble forecasting purpose. I will briefly review the current operational GEFS TC relocation method and propose a new approach allowing more consistent initial uncertainty on TCs. Results from a preliminary experiment will be shown.

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Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT) is the new National Weather Service (NWS) online, interactive tool that enables local climate studies of climate variability and change impacts by using the best NOAA data and scientifically-sound methods. Phase 1 of the LCAT implementation is scheduled for the end of March 2013. Although LCAT Phase I provides only initial capabilities, the tool's potential capabilities will allow integration of climate information into many NWS products and services including critical Impact-based Decision Support.

Marina Timofeyeva is a physical scientist in the NOAA/NWS/Climate Services Division (CSD). She has led the development of NWS local climate products and tools including LCAT. She is also the executive producer of the NWS climate training program in the CSD. Marina's area of scientific expertise includes statistical climate analysis, local climate modeling (using downscaling techniques), impacts of climate variability and change, extensions of NWS forecasts to local applications, and interpretation of climate information. Marina holds a Ph.D. in Applied Geology (Climate Change Modeling), Ph.D. in Hydrology (Low River Flow), and MS in Hydraulic Engineering.

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