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Greetings!
We’ve had a great month here at GCOOS! It was wonderful to see so many of you at our recent Fall Meeting! Some 75 people joined in the virtual conference, which included GCOOS updates on projects, programs and funding — particularly opportunities for funding under the federal Inflation Reduction Act, which will support many projects across the entire U.S. IOOS system.
We also had robust discussions of two pressing issues affecting us in the Gulf of Mexico: marine heat waves and offshore wind renewable energy data, and presentations from several of our principal investigators, who provided updates on information collected during hurricanes, the Marine Biodiversity Observing Network, HAB early-warning systems and more. I think the meeting was an especially great opportunity to begin developing new connections in the offshore wind energy community and to talk about data collection on these new wind platforms that are in the early stages of development in the Gulf.
I’m also pleased to welcome new and returning members who officially take their seats on the GCOOS Board of Directors during our annual Fall Meeting. Welcome to newly elected member Suraida Nañez-James (representing the outreach and education sector). Returning members are:
- Joe Swaykos and Dr. Sara Graves, also in the outreach and education sector;
- Dave Driver, private sector;
- Dr. Antonietta Quigg, academic sector;
- and Dr. Kim Yates and Kirsten Larsen representing the government sector.
Their terms will expire in 2026.
If you were unable to attend the meeting, you can review a summary and the meeting recordings here.
We’ve also tentatively scheduled our Spring Meeting to take place in person in Galveston, Texas, May 9 and 10. We’re planning some new networking opportunities for the meeting, something many of you said you wanted more of during our last spring session. We’ll share details here, on our website and on our social media channels as plans coalesce.
Until next month,
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GCOOS Seeks Marine Mammal Biologist for CETACEAN | |
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GCOOS is seeking a highly motivated and skilled marine mammal biologist interested in contributing to the understanding of marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico as part of a multi-year effort with NOAA to build the Compilation of Environmental, Threats, and Animal Data for Cetacean Population Health Analyses Platform (CETACEAN). Funded by the Deepwater Horizon Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group, CETACEAN is a comprehensive project to build a platform to provide access to data and analytical products to enhance the capabilities of decision-makers to understand and manage the restoration of open ocean whales and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico.
This project seeks the integration of a database useful in supporting plans and performance tracking of population restoration efforts during the next several years.
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GCOOS Developing CETACEAN Data Platform | |
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GCOOS has completed a needs assessment to guide and prioritize the data and visualization tools desired by restoration managers and is now is seeking and collecting all available population, environmental and anthropogenic stressor data identified in the needs assessment. The data will be standardized and quality-assured then distributed through a project website of the tabulated results. When applicable, the platform will include links to visualize the data in the repository via GIS infrastructure.
The system capabilities are envisioned to provide the building blocks for dynamic visualization and analytical tools to guide and track the restoration of open ocean Gulf of Mexico cetacean species.
- If you have relevant data to share to this project or have any questions, please contact the CETACEAN project manager Grant Craig grant.craig@gcoos.org.
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Congratulations to Tuomo Saari, GCOOS Scientific Computing Specialist, who recently completed his certification as a Systems Administrator from the Linux Foundation! Systems Administrators design, build, implement, and maintain server infrastructure based on the Linux operating system and have in-depth knowledge of an organization's day-to-day operational functions and configure the systems it needs. Way to go!
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Congratulations also go to Jennifer Vreeland-Dawson, who is now GCOOS Program Coordinator! The new title better reflects her role at GCOOS as coordinator for the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Acidification Network (GCAN) and her work providing organizational and project coordination as well as serving as the Board of Directors liaison.
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We had a fabulous week at Oceans 2023 GulfCoast in Biloxi, Mississippi! Thought we’d share a few snaps! | |
OA and Hurricanes: Webinar | |
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Did you miss our recent webinar with Tacey Hicks, doctoral candidate from Texas A&M University, who presented “Tropical cyclone-induced coastal acidification in Galveston Bay, Texas?” If so, you can view the webinar recording on our YouTube channel, along with past webinars in the series.
Hicks is a John A. Knauss Sea Grant Fellow at NOAA-NOS, where she works as an ocean policy analyst. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Montana State University and is a Ph.D. candidate in oceanography. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change to the ocean and coastal water carbonate chemistry of calcifying ecosystems, with an emphasis on the influence of extreme events and environmental conditions.
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New HFR in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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Congratulations to TAMU's Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (TAMU-GERG) which has a new high frequency radar station now online on the south Texas coast. You can find data from the Port Mansfield GERG CODAR station (PMGC) on the GCOOS HFR Portal.
This new station is part of a wider effort to bridge high priority HFR data gaps in the Gulf of Mexico. In the past year, GCOOS has awarded funds to Florida State University to work in collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi to install a new station in Panama City, Florida, which will be operational in 2024.
We’re also pleased to share the news that we will be collaborating with Louisiana State University (LSU) on a new $5 million, NOAA-funded expansion that will install up to eight HFR along the Louisiana coastline. Spearheaded by LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences' Dr. Kevin Xu, and LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics' Dr. Sam Bentley, the HFR will allow near-real-time monitoring of the speed and direction of ocean surface currents in coastal waters.
HFR data is particularly important for U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue operations, emergency response to oil, gas and other hazardous chemical spills and for the National Weather Service’s marine forecasts.
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Once the radars are installed, GCOOS will be hosting the data on its HFR Portal.
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Read more about the LSU project
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Supporting Climate Resilience | |
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In September, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced the availability of $100 million to support climate resilience projects through the U.S. IOOS Regional Associations as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda and funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.
This investment is an opportunity to address coastal community needs and priorities within the footprints of Regional Associations, as well as system-wide priorities for several or all regions. It prioritizes system longevity, underserved and frontline communities, as well as our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Funds will be available to the 11 IOOS Regional Associations — including GCOOS — to help recapitalize and modernize infrastructure and sustain services that address climate resilience needs and priorities, particularly in frontline and underserved communities.
Funding will enhance national and regional coastal ocean observing systems while prioritizing climate resilience services and equitable service delivery. Projects will also advance the role of IOOS in the New Blue Economy by recapitalizing and modernizing technologies and advancing the IOOS ocean information technology network.
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Southeast Conservation Blueprint Expanded to the Gulf of Mexico | |
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The latest update of the Southeast Conservation Blueprint is now available. The Blueprint is a product of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) and a living, spatial plan to achieve the SECAS vision of a connected network of lands and waters across the Southeast and Caribbean. It identifies priority areas based on a suite of natural and cultural resource indicators representing terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. It includes a connectivity analysis that identifies corridors that link coastal and inland areas and span climate gradients. So far, the Blueprint is helping more than 350 people from more than 140 organizations bring in new funding and inform conservation decisions.
The latest update, released this month, expands the Blueprint to the full offshore U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico. For the first time, the Blueprint now uses consistent methods and data across 15 Southeast states and all U.S. Gulf and Atlantic waters, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the surrounding nearshore marine environment.
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NCCOS and the Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Program (ECOHAB) have announced a new funding opportunity to support research advancing the understanding and prediction of harmful algal blooms (HABs) and their impacts in natural field conditions. Projects addressing risks related to subsistence use of specific coastal and marine resources that may be affected by HABs are especially encouraged. Approximately $3 million will be made available to fund the first year of three-to-six projects lasting up to three to five years.
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NOAA has awarded approximately $20.1 million in funding for harmful algal blooms and hypoxia research in Fiscal Year 2023. These projects will advance new methods for HAB toxin measurement in seafood to prevent human illnesses; enhance HAB monitoring and response at all scales (local to national); continue development of the Gulf of Mexico HAB forecasting testbed; support making fisheries threatened by hypoxia resilient to climate change; and improve the understanding of effects of hypoxia – and potential synergies with other stressors — on marine ecosystems.
The $20.1 million investment in these projects represent a coordinated effort between NCCOS and the U.S. IOOS Office to advance our nation's ability to observe, monitor, forecast and manage blooms and hypoxia.
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The next webinar in the National Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Network (NHABON) will focus on Sargassum Observing.
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New Paper: Vibrio spp. as Indicator of Climate Change? | |
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A new paper in the journal mBio shows evidence of the increase in Vibrio spp. related to climate change, along with a spike in Vibrio vulnificus on Florida's west coast following Hurricane Ian in 2022 that resulted in 11 deaths.
It also concludes that Vibrio spp. can be "a valuable microbial indicator of the impact of a changing global climate on public health."
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Read the study "Genomic diversity of Vibrio spp. and metagenomic analysis of pathogens in Florida Gulf coastal waters following Hurricane Ian"
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Fig 1 Area of study. (A) Path of Hurricane Ian and total number of confirmed Vibrio spp. infections in FL at the county level for October 2022. Counties reporting V. vulnificus cases and number are indicated. Track, timeline, and windspeed of Hurricane Ian, indicated by diamonds, were retrieved from the International Best Track Archive for Stewardship (IBTrACS) project. The outlined red box indicates an area of sampling locations. (B) Map of sampling locations, indicated by red diamonds. Scale bar corresponds to distance according to World Map Data from Natural Earth. (C) Percent change in a time series analysis to determine potential impact of anomalous weather events before (24 July 2022 to 23 September 2022), during (24 September 2022 to 30 September 2022), and after (1 October 2022 to 30 November 2022) Hurricane Ian, for sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll (CHL). (D) Confirmed vibriosis (excluding cholera and V. vulnificus) and V. vulnificus cases between 1992 and 2022. Correlations among axis variables were respectively generated using Kendall’s tau method. (E) Confirmed vibriosis (excluding cholera and V. vulnificus) and V. vulnificus cases at a monthly scale between January 2022 and July 2023. (F) Confirmed vibriosis (excluding cholera and V. vulnificus) and V. vulnificus cases during the month of October between 1992 and 2022. Boxes summarize distribution by indication of interquartile range (IQR), with median shown as the center bar of each group. Whiskers represent 1.5 times the IQR. | |
Save the Date: Radiowave Operators Working Group Meeting | |
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The next meeting of the Radiowave Operators Working Group (ROWG) is being organized by GCOOS to take place May 21-23 and be hosted by the University of Southern Mississippi, a GCOOS member and partner.
The meeting is open to operators of HFR worldwide and registration and attendance are free (attendees must pay for their own travel/lodging/meals). This event is funded with support from the NOAA’s IOOS Surface Currents Program and CODAR Ocean Sensors.
In line with the ROWG charter, the focus of this meeting will be on the installation, operation and maintenance of oceanographic and liminographic HF-radar sensors, and organizers are seeking feedback for sessions.
- Click here to provide information about your interest in participating and topics that you’d like to discuss.
Topics could include:
- HF-radar operation and maintenance
- International Telecommunications Union (ITU) frequency bands allocated for HF-radar
- Site logistics
- Processing to radial velocity component vectors
- Measurement of waves with HF-radar
- Total surface current vector products and data management
Organizer Contacts: kevin.m.martin@usm.edu, uchenna.nwankwo@tamu.edu, eromero@ucsb.edu
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Analyzing Impacts of Gulf Leases | |
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced a Notice of Intent to prepare a draft programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) to analyze the potential impacts of a representative oil and gas lease sale (Proposed Action) and the potential associated site and activity-specific OCS oil- and gas-related activities in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program (2024-2029 PFP) includes proposed OCS oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
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Save the date for the next webinar in the Underwater Glider User Group (UG2) webinar series: “Women Working with Gliders!” The webinar will feature a panel of successful women who work within the glider community. During the webinar, they’ll discuss career paths, challenges, successes, future goals and advice for women entering the field.
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Panelists: Karen Dreger, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at the University of Georgia, Professor Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Trent University, Dr. Patricia Chardón-Maldonado, CARICOOS, and Katherine D. Zaba, MRV Systems
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When: 2-3:30 p.m. ET Nov. 16
- Zoom link
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Engaging the Ocean Enterprise | |
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The Department of Commerce and NOAA have announced an award of $3.9 million to the Marine Technology Society (MTS) to establish a multi-year framework to engage the Ocean Enterprise as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The Ocean Enterprise includes public, private, non-profit, tribal and academic entities that provide ocean observation, measurement and forecasting data or deliver operational ocean information products and services.
Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act — the largest climate investment in history — this project will support NOAA in defining Ocean Enterprise requirements and identifying new market opportunities to advance public-private partnerships in support of coastal and ocean climate resilience and workforce development. These partnerships provide critical services and support to many marine environmental management activities and economic sectors, including offshore energy, shipping and coastal resilience.
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Loop Current Dynamics Webinar Series | |
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The next webinar in the UGOS webinar series led by early career researchers Luna Hiron, Sakib Mahmud and Aryan Safaie will focus on data and data management.
UGOS is designed to advance understanding and prediction of Loop Current dynamics to reduce risks to offshore energy exploration and production, improve hurricane intensity forecasting, support fisheries management and deal with other challenges such as sea-level rise.
The webinar series is focused on UGOS-funded work and related research.
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When: 11 a.m. ET, Monday, Oct. 30
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Speakers | Topics: José Miranda, Ph.D. student at Florida State University (advised by Olmo Zavala-Romero) will speak on the "Generation of synthetic temperature and salinity profiles for the Gulf of Mexico using Machine Learning" and Felimon Gayanilo GCOOS Co-Data Manager and Information Systems Architect and Enterprise IT Specialist with TAMU-CC will focus on "The state-of-the-art in data management as it relates to UGOS activities."
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Register here
Additional information: Email webinar series organizers Luna Hiron, Sakib Mahmud or Aryan Safaie.
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New Station Supporting Marine Operations | |
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A new National Ocean Service station that is part of the Mobile Bay PORTS® is officially operational! Station 8734383 is located at the Fort Morgan Marina, relocated from about two miles away.
It provides information on real-time visibility, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, air temperature and air pressure and can be accessed by the National Weather Service through a new NWS ID: FRMA1. The project, supported by FY22 community funds secured by the Alabama Port Authority, addresses a long-standing gap in visibility data needed by the Mobile Bar Pilots. Congratulations to the NOS/CO-OPS Field Office in Pensacola for leading the effort.
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Hurricane Idalia made landfall just to the north of the local area near Keaton Beach, Florida in the Big Bend as a category 3 hurricane at approximately 7:45 a.m. on Aug. 30. Data is still coming in post-storm:
- The National Weather Service has created a story map of Hurricane Idalia as it moved across west and central Florida.
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From Aug. 31-Sept. 2, the National Geodetic Survey collected aerial damage assessment images of the aftermath. View collected images here
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Funding for Modeling Testbeds | |
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The Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed FY2024 notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) has been published in Grants.gov. The COMT serves as a conduit between the federal operational and research communities and allows sharing of numerical models, observations and software tools.
The funding opportunity aims to support projects that facilitate and accelerate the transition of models and model based technologies from research environments toward operational readiness. The U.S. IOOS Program is seeking to fund projects that advance new or existing solutions addressing long-standing and emerging coastal modeling and forecast product development challenges.
- Applications will be due at the end of February
- Details
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Coastal Modeling Testbed Update | |
The Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed team led by LSU’s Kehui Xu continues to advance development of the coupled river-estuary-ocean continuum model using Hurricane Harvey-related data from Galveston Bay to drive development. Model development is under way to couple the watershed and ocean models so that water, sediment, and potentially contaminants can be represented across the land-to-sea continuum. The major goals for sediment / contaminant transport modeling are to link runoff-based sources of sediments and contaminants with estuarine sources, sinks and tracers. The modeling framework is being developed to account for the deposition, erosion and transport of sediment and contaminants. Now that the coupled modeling suite has been adapted to the study area and the domain extent and resolution of the sediment and mercury transport model determined, efforts are focused on validating the coupled model for Galveston Bay and generating boundary conditions. GCOOS co-data manager Felimon Gayanilo continues to work on transitioning data and products, including model outputs and dependencies, to GCOOS facilities following NOAA IOOS requirements. This is being achieved via development of a model handler and viewer that allows project members to view their model outputs and enter the required metadata that accompanies the model. | |
Mapping Global Marine Biodiversity | |
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MBON has signed an MOU with the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO’s Seabed 2030 and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development’s Marine Life 2030 that emphasizes the need for globally coordinated and sustained ocean mapping and biodiversity observing to assess the state of the ocean and detect changes in marine life in the face of change.
“We need such global networks to bring different people together to work on difficult questions like where marine life exists and how and why it is changing,” said Frank Muller-Karger, GEO BON MBON co-chair, Marine Life 2030 co-lead and lead investigator on two U.S. MBON projects in collaboration with GCOOS. “The knowledge will help manage when, where, and how we can use ocean resources in a way that conserves the amazing diversity of marine life, for the joy and benefit of our own and future generations.”
The international Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) also met this month for the Monitoring Biodiversity for Action conference in Montreal, Canada. The group works to coordinate data on all biological diversity, including plants, animals and micro-organisms from around the globe. MBON is the ocean component of GEO BON and has the ultimate objective of understanding how and why life in the ocean is changing, how local changes relate to changes taking place over larger regions, and to apply the information into policies aimed at conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. GCOOS works with the U.S. MBON team, including SECOORA, on the development of best practices and new technologies for biodiversity observations and communication in support of conservation action.
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Healthy Ecosystems & Living Resources | |
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The Ocean Biodiversity Data System (OBIS), in collaboration with the OceanTeacher Global Academy, has just launched an online self-paced OBIS training course, with eight modules teaching the OBIS data life cycle. The detailed course will walk attendees through the steps required for publishing data to OBIS from learning how to format datasets so they adhere to Darwin Core biological data schema to how to publish them to OBIS.
What to expect from the course.
The training course is supported by NORAD and LifeWatch
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Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA)
Abstract Submission Deadline Extended
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GOMA has extended the deadline for abstract submissions for GOMCON ’24 to this Friday, Oct. 20. More than 30 sessions are available for presenters, including coastal watershed management, oil spill science, nature-based solutions, wildlife and fisheries management, open oceans, corals, and other coastal habitats and more. (There is no fee for submission.)
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U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
IOOS Advisory Committee Seeks New Members
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IOOS is seeking 10 new members to serve three-year terms on its Advisory Committee. Membership on the IOOS Advisory Committee is required to be fairly balanced in terms of viewpoints represented and the functions to be performed, as well as including the interests of geographic regions of the country and the diverse sectors of our society (business and industry, science, academia, and the public at large). To assess the eligibility of a possible candidate please refer to the federal register notice.
- Information on the current board members can be found here
- Federal register notice
- Materials (max. eight pages) should be submitted to Laura.Gewain@noaa.gov no later than Jan. 2, 2024.
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Advisory Committee Meeting | |
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Details on the next meeting of the Advisory Committee have been published to the federal register. The meeting is open to the public and will be held virtually and in person.
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When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 4-5
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Where: In person in College Park, Maryland
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Kelli Paige has joined IOOS as the new Equity, Partnerships, and Service Delivery Lead to ensure that underserved communities are able to directly access or benefit from funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), including the development and implementation of comprehensive DEIJA planning documents to expand partnerships with underrepresented communities and define new service delivery outlets. Kelli will also be instrumental in implementing recent recommendations from the IOOS Advisory Committee pertaining to DEIA.
Kelli previously served as Executive Director and CEO of the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), where she led partner engagement strategies for a diverse and complex network of stakeholders representing local communities, academia, industry, and various levels of government including municipal, state, international, and Tribal. Kelli's email is kelli.paige@noaa.gov and her duty station is Silver Spring.
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IOOS Association (IOOSA)
Nomination Deadline Drawing Near
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The deadline is looming for nominations for the 2024 IOOSA CARAID awards. Candidates can be any person who has contributed to observing and understanding the oceans, coasts and/or Great Lakes through collaboration, innovation and/or a commitment to working with stakeholders. Nominations from previous years will not roll over.
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Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI)
Aww, Shucks! Thanks for the Support
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HRI at TAMU-Corpus Christi has announced a donation from H-E-B to support the Sink Your Shucks™ Oyster Recycling Program and the TAMU-CC Foundation as part of “Our Texas, Our Future.”
Sink Your Shucks™ was founded by HRI in 2009 and is led by Dr. Jennifer Pollack with the Coastal Conservation and Restoration Lab and a key partnership with the Texas Surf Conservancy. The program was the first in Texas to reclaim oyster shells from local restaurants and return them to local waters, providing both substrate to form new reefs and habitat for fish, crabs and other organisms.
| NOAA Awards HRI More Than $3 Million for Collaborative Projects | |
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The NOAA RESTORE Science Program has awarded HRI more than $3 million to TAMU-CC and HRI project researchers to conduct collaborative Gulf of Mexico research on waterbird nesting and oyster reefs.
“I am thrilled to see these projects funded, as they all will have valuable implications for how we study and manage important Gulf of Mexico resources,” said Dr. Greg Stunz, HRI Senior Executive Director. “The work that TAMU-CC and HRI researchers will be able to accomplish as a result of these awards will undoubtedly make a meaningful difference for the health of Gulf ecosystems.”
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TAMU-Texas Sea Grant
New Director Sought
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Texas Sea Grant, based at TAMU, is seeking a new director. The Director assumes overall responsibility for leadership and programmatic oversight of Texas Sea Grant and, together with staff distributed across the state of Texas, builds successful partnerships across numerous and diverse regions and constituencies, and facilitates high-impact research, outreach, education and communications activities to increase the understanding, wise use of and stewardship of Texas’s ocean and coastal resources. The position is based at TAMU-College Station
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National Academies Gulf Research Program (GRP)
Transitioning to New Energy in the Gulf
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The GRP convened a two-day workshop in December 2022 to generate new insights and coordination for the transition of energy sources in the Gulf of Mexico. Participants across academia, industry, government and Gulf communities shared ideas, concerns and discussed cascading impacts. A new publication summarizing the discussion is now available.
- Download it here
- You can also watch a video summary of the meeting — just click the image below
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Funding Opportunity: Mental Health Consequences of Climate Change | |
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The GRP aims to enhance the understanding of mental health consequences of climate change within coastal communities in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Alaska regions. This funding opportunity will support research that identifies risk factors for climate-induced mental health effects.
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ESIP Earth Science Information Partners
Call for Sessions
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The Call for Sessions for the 2024 January ESIP Meeting (Jan. 22-26, Online) is now out. Proposals are due by Nov. 13.
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GCOOS: Marine Mammal Biologist/Data Scientist
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Texas A&M University: Sea Grant Director
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Board on Gulf Education and Engagement: Program Officer
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he University of Southern Mississippi: Associate Marine Instrumentation Specialist
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The University of Miami (RSMAS): Tenure or Tenure-Track Professor
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GOOS Biology: Data Manager
- Mote Marine Laboratory
Postdoctoral Positions:
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National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Sciences, NRC Research Programs
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: Postdoctoral Fellowship
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National Research Council: Research Associateship Programs Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Animal Teletmetry Postdoctoral Fellow
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Mississippi State University: Postdoctoral Associate
Fellowships:
- Susan L. Williams National Coral Reef Management Fellowship
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National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration - Coastal Management Fellowship
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National Academies of Science, Engineering and Mathematics: Early Career Fellowships
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Department of Defense: Visualization of Coastal Data, Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Fellow
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National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration – Translating Coastal Research into Application
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Early Career Research Fellowship
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National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: American the Beautiful Conservation Initiative
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; Gulf Research Program: Understanding Climate-Induced Mental Health Impacts
- Gulf of Mexico Alliance
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GCOOS is the Gulf of Mexico regional component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and the only certified system dedicated solely to the Gulf of Mexico. Our mission is to provide on-demand information about the Gulf’s coastal and open ocean waters that is accurate, reliable and benefits people, ecosystems and the economy. | |
Dr. Jorge Brenner, Executive Director • Dr. Barbara Kirkpatrick, Senior Advisor • Bill Lingsch, Underwater Glider User Group Coordinator • Dr. Chris Simoniello, Outreach & Education Manager • Felimon Gayanilo, Systems Architect, Co-Data Manager • Bob Currier, Product Developer, Co-Data Manager • Dr. Uchenna Nwankwo, Oceanographer • Marion Stoessel, Senior Research Associate • Tuomo Saari, Scientific Computing Specialist • Jennifer Vreeland-Dawson, Research Associate, GCAN Coordinator • Grant Craig, Program & Volunteer Coordinator • Laura Caldwell, Program Assistant • Nadine Slimak, Public Relations & Content Marketing, Vetted Communications, LLC
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In Memoriam: Matt Howard, 1952-2018
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