Ocean Leadership Presence at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting
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The Consortium for Ocean Leadership will be participating in the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, occurring February 20-24, 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Salt Palace Convention Center. During this international gathering of more than 4,000 ocean science experts, Ocean Leadership is holding or contributing to a number of sessions, workshops, town hall meetings and supplemental activities:
Ocean Leadership Booth Numbers: 57, 58, 59
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Booth Number: 56
Mel Briscoe (Ocean Leadership Vice President & Director, Research & Education): 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting Co-Chair
Kristin Kracke (Ocean Leadership Communications Manager): 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting Press Liaison
Title: COMMUNITY BUILDING IN MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
Type: Oral
Date: Monday, February 20
Time: 08:00 AM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom F
Session 098: The Critical Importance of Community Building in the Ocean Sciences
Information: The Census of Marine Life was a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the oceans. The largest scientific collaboration conducted in the field of marine biology, the program brought together more than 2,700 researchers from 80 nations and, to date, produced over 3,100 scientific papers and other information products, and the results are being used in marine resource policy. The Census built new collaborations that transcended disciplines, institutions and countries and pioneered global-scale marine biodiversity research, including the demonstration of technologies and approaches for long-term biodiversity observation in the oceans.
Title: IODP: ENGAGING NEW STAKEHOLDERS WHILE MAINTAINING ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS
Type: Oral
Date: Monday, February 20
Time: 08:45 AM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom F
Session 098: The Critical Importance of Community Building in the Ocean Sciences
Information: The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international marine research program that brings to the surface new insights into climate and environmental change, tectonics and earthquake genesis, and the nature of life in extreme environments. The program crosses disciplines, international boundaries, and generations in a collaborative effort to collect subseafloor cores and data for studying the planet. IODP faces similar challenges to those confronted by many established research programs; particularly, how does a program engage early career scientists and new participants without diminishing the value and expertise of more experienced community members and researchers? This presentation will discuss some of the community engagement activities undertaken by the U.S. IODP program member office to address this challenge.
Title: THE NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: BUILDING A COMMUNITY THROUGH COLLABORATION WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES, ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY
Type: Oral
Date: Monday, February 20
Time: 09:15 AM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom F
Session 098: The Critical Importance of Community Building in the Ocean Sciences
Information: The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) is a collaboration of federal agencies that strive to provide leadership and coordination of national oceanographic research and education initiatives. NOPP facilitates interactions among federal agencies, academia and industry, achieving a higher level of coordinated effort across the oceanographic community. Through NOPP, the public and private sectors are brought together to support larger, more comprehensive interdisciplinary and inter-sector projects, to promote sharing of resources and to foster community-wide innovative advances in ocean science, technology and education. The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships strives to create a strong oceanographic community within the federal agencies by meeting monthly to build funding opportunities and discuss dynamic oceanographic events.
TITLE: ASSESSING THE STATE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN THE OCEAN SCIENCES
Type: Poster
Date: Monday, February 20
Time: 04:00-06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/ Exhibit Hall
Session 193: Education, Scientific Outreach, Scientific Workforce
Author: Allison Miller
Information: Building on over two decades of related work, The Consortium for Ocean Leadership now annually sends surveys to 56 academic members to assess the state of their graduate programs, spanning oceanography, marine sciences, ocean technology, fisheries, and marine policy. The survey examines demographics of entering students, degree programs, and entry into the workforce after graduation. We highlight results from the past Academic Year 2010-2011 in the context of past data and discuss the importance of continued studies.
Title: NATIONAL OCEAN POLICY: THE IMPORATNCE OF SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING POLICY
Type: Town Hall
Date: Monday, February 20
Time: 12:30-02:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center
Moderator: Robert Gagosian
Title: INTERAGENCY OCEAN OBSERVATION COMMITTEE (IOOC) TOWN HALL
Type: Town Hall
Date: Wednesday, February 22
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom I
Moderator: Dr. David Legler (NOAA)
Speakers: Molly McCammon (Executive Director, AOOS) and Dr. Eric Lindstorm (NASA Physical Oceanography Program Scientist)
Information: The Interagency Ocean Observation Committee (IOOC) is bringing together ocean observers, researchers, and data managers to discuss how to shape the next decade of ocean observing. IOOS will hold a large-scale summit during November 2012 and is hosting this town hall to provide OSM attendees an opportunity to influence the design and the outcomes of the Summit. Several IOOC/IOOS leaders will seek audience input through presentations and facilitated discussions. Most importantly, they will be looking to Ocean Sciences ‘12 attendees for suggestions on enhancing marine research, operations, and funding.
TITLE: IT’S ALL IN WHO YOU KNOW – TEACHERS CONNECTING STUDENTS TO SCIENTISTS AT SEA IN REAL TIME
Type: Oral
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom F
Session 102: Live from the ocean: engaging students and the public in active research projects at sea
Information: Live ship-to-shore connections between scientists at sea and student or family learning groups can be highly motivational. Shore-side participants express and demonstrate a desire for further learning about the science and careers they experience during these immersive events. Teachers are known to influence career paths and college choices. Can they have the same effect when serving as at-sea facilitators for interactions between scientists working aboard the nation’s vessels and children and youth onshore? Do their established relationships with students improve or multiply the effect of live science? How can we measure differences in impacts of teacher-facilitated interactions? Initial findings from data collected during fifteen live programs over two eight-week expeditions aboard the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s JOIDES Resolution will be presented.
TITLE: LIVE FROM THE OCEAN: AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT EXPERIENCES
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 10:30-12:30 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Session 102: Live from the ocean: engaging students and the public in active research projects at sea
Authors: Sharon Katz Cooper, Leslie Peart
Information: Deep Earth Academy sails Onboard Education Officers on every expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) drillship JOIDES Resolution. In an effort to educate, inspire and excite a wide variety of audiences – including teachers, students of all ages, and the museum-going public – these educators use the authentic, cutting-edge research being conducted on the ship to engage these audiences through live ship-to-shore video broadcasts, blog posts, photos and videos, related classroom activities, and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Over the course of more than three years, the technology and methodology used has evolved, as have best practices, feedback mechanisms, and support for educators and their participants. This session will share these lessons learned, statistics and feedback, and explore questions for achieving broader reach going forward.
TITLE: Ocean Observatories Initiative: Information and Community Opportunities
Type: Informational Talk
Dates: Tuesday, February 21; Wednesday, February 22; Thursday, February 23
Time: 12:30-02:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom D (Tuesday & Thursday) and Ballroom J (Wednesday)
Information: A special discussion to provide interested attendees with an update on the Ocean Observatories Initiative and how they can become involved.
Title: INTEGRATIVE POWER OF OCEAN OBSERVATORIES: RECENT INSIGHTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Type: Oral
Date: Monday, February 21
Time: 10:30 AM– 02:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Room 151
Information: Steve Ackleson, Senior Project Scientist for the OOI at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, will lead this session. At the start of the session, Ackleson will present a talk: Ocean Observatories: Evolution and Future Directions. This presentation will provide an overview on the evolution of ocean observatories, summarize key science accomplishments and discuss future directions.
Title: OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE: CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS UPDATE
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Tim Cowles (Consortium for Ocean Leadership), Sue Banahan (Consortium for Ocean Leadership)
Information: The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is implementing the construction and operation of an interactive, integrated ocean observing network. This presentation will provide information on major advances in OOI construction and an update on overall program plans.
Title: SCIENCE AND DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Lorraine Heilman, Susan Banahan, Sarah Webster, Jon Fram, Mike Vardaro, Giora Proskurowski, William Bergen, Steve Ackleson
Information: This poster will describe the OOI data, products, algorithms, levels of processing, quality control, intermediate products, sampling frequencies, data volumes and data rates. Several specific examples of data processing will be described along with the description of all planned data products. It will introduce the scientific community to the specific products that will be available in this unprecedented opportunity for oceanographic, benthic and air-sea research
Title: COMPARING AUTOMATIC VERSUS HUMAN-CREATED QUALITY CONTROL FLAGS OF OCEANOGRAPHIC MOORING DATA AND APPLICABILITY TO THE OOI
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Matthias Lankhorst, Hey-Jin Kim
Information: A suite of computationally simple algorithms for data quality control (QC) is presented that generates pass/fail flags for oceanographic data from moorings. This presentation will address the development and tuning of these algorithms as part of the OOI.
Title: OOI SAMPLING STRATEGY AND CORE INSTRUMENTATION
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Mike Vardaro, Jack Barth, Oscar Schofield, Doug Luther, and Deborah Kelley
Information: This poster will address the OOI sampling strategy that must consider event-driven sampling responses, mitigation of between-sensor interference, data products that require multiple sensors, the need for physical sampling to validate and calibrate OOI sensors, and the eventual incorporation of non-core sensors into the network.
Title: NEW OOI PLATFORMS FOR LONG TERM SAMPLING OF THE ENTIRE WATER COLUMN IN ROUGH SEAS NEAR THE COAST
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Jon Fram, Edward Dever
Information: This year the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) tested platforms for consideration at its 25m depth Oregon and Washington long-term observation sites. This presentation will address assessments of recent tests and plans for platforms for long term sampling. Results the mechanical performance of mooring and profilers will be shown along with an illustration from these data of the scientific value these paired platforms will provide.
Title: THE ROLES OF COASTAL GLIDERS IN THE OOI
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Edward Dever, Jack Barth, Al Plueddemann, Oscar Schofield; Uwe Send
Information: The OOI plans to begin operational deployment of gliders on the coastal scale OOI arrays in May 2012. This presentation will describe the roles of coastal gliders in OOI, report on the testing progress and update the plans for operational deployments in the coastal scale arrays of OOI.
Title: BUILDING A HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH CABLED OBSERVATORY ON AN ACTIVE VOLCANO: AXIAL SEAMOUNT
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Deborah Kelley, John Delaney and OOI RSN Team
Information: Axial Seamount is the most active volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, erupting in 1998 and 2011. It is both seismically and hydrothermally active, and hosts diverse biological communities. It is a long-term NOAA-PMEL observatory where long-term co-registered fluid chemistry-temperature-microbiological measurements have been made that begin to quantify the microbial evolution at the decade scale of seafloor eruption cycles. Because of these characteristics, Axial was chosen as the US’s first cabled observatory at a submarine volcano. This 5-year construction and 25-year operational project is part of the NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative. This session will address this area and the OOI RSN teams work there.
Title: ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CORE INSTRUMENT MODELS AND LOCATIONS
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Merrie Beth Neely, Anthony Ferlaino, Barry Stamey
Information: The OOI has selected the vendors and models for many of the 49 Core Instrument Families that will be located on the arrays. The sensor models and their location-specific features are presented here, with reference to their generalized data product available from OOI’s Integrated Observatory Network data portal. Approximately 750 instruments are expected to complement the OOI arrays at the time of commissioning. This presentation will provide information on core instruments and locations.
Title: OBSERVATIONS OF ANOMALOUS NEAR-SURFACE, LOW-SALINITY PULSES OFF THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 05:00- 06:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Craig Risien, Piero Mazzini, Jack Barth
Information: The Columbia River plume is a dominant feature of the Pacific Northwest coastal hydrography. This presentation presents the spatial/temporal evolution of low-salinity pulses during June and July 2011. Analysis of in situ data off of Newport collected from OSU autonomous underwater gliders, Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF funded) and the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS; NOAA funded) moorings, as well as remotely sensed data, show that the on-offshore location of the plume front is not controlled by riverine discharge rates, but rather by Ekman dynamics, and that these freshwater pulses reach the coast.
Title: THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE EDUCATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: DELIVERING REAL TIME DATA FOR TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN THE UNDERGRADUATE CLASSROOM
Type: Oral
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 08:30 AM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom F
Authors: Mike Crowley
Information: This talk will discuss the education and public engagement component of the OOI and opportunities for using data from autonomous vehicles and drifters to support education and outreach.
Title: UNDERSTANDING THE PLANETARY LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM: NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE IN THE OCEAN BASINS
Type: Oral
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 02:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Room 250
Session 064: Oceanography in 2030
Authors: John Delaney, Deborah Kelley
Information: Driven by solar and internal geothermal energy, the complex processes interacting within the global ocean constitute our planetary life-support system. New approaches to understanding this “oceanic modulator” are arising from submarine cabled networks, such as the one now under construction by the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative, that provide electrical power and bandwidth to distributed sensors. This talk will address understanding the planetary life support system and next generation science in the ocean basins.
Title: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND IMPACTS ON OCEANOGRAPHY IN 2030
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 02:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Room 250
Session 064: Oceanography in 2030
Authors: John Orcutt
Information: This talk will explore the “game changers” or disruptive technologies that may have an impact on oceanography 20 years from now, including discussion of emerging trends and impacts of advancements such as increasing computational and networking capabilities.
Title: REAL TIME PUBLIC AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT DURING THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INIATIVE’S VISIONS 2011 EXPEDITION TO AXIAL SEAMOUNT
Type: Oral
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom F
Session 102: Live from the ocean: engaging students and the public in active research projects at sea
Authors: Allison Fundis, Deborah Kelley, Giora Proskurowski, Mark Stoermer, Leslie Sautter, John Delaney
Information: The VISIONS’11 expedition took place aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson with the remotely operated vehicle ROPOS in support of the ongoing installation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s high-power and high-bandwidth cabled ocean observatory at Axial Seamount, a volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge that had erupted just 4 months prior. This talk will discuss successes and lessons learned in engaging onshore scientists, students, and the public through the various outreach efforts employed during the expedition.
Title: METHANE BUBBLE PLUMES AT HYDRATE RIDGE: MULTIBEAM IMAGING OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY AS PART OF THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 04:00PM- 6:00PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Session 060: Marine Gas Hydrate Deposits: Research, Monitoring Strategies and Present-Day Knowledge
Authors: Alden Denny, (Graduate Student on the Visions’11 Cruise); Deborah S. Kelley, Evan Solomon, Giora Proskurowski, Brendan Philip, Carla Stapleton, John R. Delaney
Information: Southern Hydrate Ridge (SHR) will be connected to the Internet in 2013 with a myriad of seafloor sensors connected to the terrestrial grid by high power and bandwidth cables, as part of the OOI. This presentation will address the SHR as a location for methane studies hosting both methane hydrate and methane gas and future study plans there for the OOI.
Title: POST-ERUPTIVE HYDROTHERMAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE WATER COLUMN ABOVE AXIAL SEAMOUNT
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 04:00-6:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Session 112: Ocean Spreading Centers: Connecting the Subseafloor with the Open Ocean
Authors: Giora Proskurowski, Deborah S. Kelley, John R. Delaney, Allison T. Fundis, Dave A. Butterfield, Marvin D. Lilley, Edward T. Baker, Sharon L. Walker, Julie A. Huber, John E. Lupton
Information: In April 2011 Axial Seamount erupted along the south rift zone from the east wall of the caldera down 9km of the southern flank. Two expeditions, a NOAA NeMO cruise in July and an OOI-RSN cruise in August, conducted water column sampling campaigns at Axial to assess the magnitude and composition of the hydrothermal plumes associated with the known vent fields and newly erupted lavas. The data collected shipboard by the OOI-RSN is publicly available at www.interactiveoceans.org.
Title: THE FUTURE OF REAL-TIME MONITORING OF METHANE HYDRATE DEPOSITS AT ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS: THE OOI CABLED OBSERVATORY AT HYDRATE RIDGE
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 04:00-6:00 PM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Orest Kawka, Deborah S. Kelley, John R. Delaney, Evan Solomon, OOI-RSN Team
Information: Hydrate Ridge is characterized by an extensive system of subsurface gas hydrate deposits, active plumes, and extensive biological communities. Previous studies of its subsurface geology and these seep-supported benthic communities highlighted the need for an integrated, synoptic, and long-term approach to the study of carbon cycling in such continental margins. In 2013, the cabled observatory component of the OOI, known as the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN), will begin deploying an array of seafloor instruments at Southern Hydrate Ridge. The presentation will discuss
RSN’s built-in expandability and 25-year lifetime will provide unprecedented opportunities for long-term high-resolution studies, furthering our understanding of gas hydrates and carbon cycling in such systems and potential global effects associated with tectonic activity and climate change.
Title: AN ASSESSMENT OF REAL-TIME DATA USE IN UNDERGRADUATE CLASSROOMS
Type: Poster
Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 08:00 – 10:00 AM
Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Janice McDonnell, Sage Lichtenwalner, Annette deCharon, Carla Companion, Craig Risien, Debi Kilb, Allison Fundis, Andrea McCurdy, Scott Glenn
Information: The Education and Public Engagement (EPE) Implementing Organization for OOI, is tasked with providing a new layer of cyber-interactivity for educators to bring real and near real time data, images and video of the Earth’s oceans into both formal and informal learning environments. In this session will discuss results of a recent study to assess how undergraduate professors are currently using oceanographic data in their classrooms. A total of 14 professors from community colleges and universities, teaching both science and non- science majors were interviewed for the study. Participants shared their current teaching practices and made recommendations on how OOI software developers can design tools to improve undergraduate students’ ability to interpret and analyze oceanographic data.
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