Alaska Region

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Alaska Region
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What is ACT?
NOAA funded partnership of research institutions,
state/ regional resource managers, and private
sector companies
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What does ACT do?
Interested in developing and applying sensor
technologies for use in monitoring coastal
environments.
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ACT Organization and Functions

• Caters to academics, resource managers, and
  private sector companies
• Funded by NOAAs Coastal Service Center,
  
  Charleston, South Carolina
• Made up of a Headquarters office, Partner
  institutions, and a Stakeholder Council

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ACT Regions
Alaska SeaLife Center and University of Alaska
University of Michigan Cooperative Institute
for Limnology Ecosystems Research
Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Coastal Services Center
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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Stakeholder Council
Recruited from private sector companies and
environmental management agencies nationwide

• Up to 21 members with term appointments
• Representing geographic and sector diversity
• Alaska stakeholders currently
• Dr. Phil Mundy, NMFS, Auke Bay Lab

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ACT Organization and Functions

• An evaluation program for sensor technologies
• An information clearinghouse for sensor
  technologies
• A forum for capacity building and outreach

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Technology Evaluation Program

• Purpose
• Document sensor technology performance under
  Third Party set protocols and procedures, in all
  regions
• Methods
• Stakeholders input to prioritize technologies to
  be tested
• Voluntary participation by vendors
• Benefits
• Fairness, Credibility, Transparency, Quality,
  Responsiveness
• Community access on ACT website to high quality
  information on sensor performance
• Accelerated adoption of innovative
  technologies

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Technology Evaluations Activities

• Past / Present Testing
• In Situ Dissolved Oxygen Sensors,2004
• In Situ Fluorometers for measures of chlorophyll,
  2005
• Turbidity Sensors
• 2006 now underway

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Data and Information Clearinghouse

• Information on process and results of ACT
  technology evaluations.
• Updates on upcoming and reports on past workshops
  and seminars
• A searchable sensor technology database

• web Site (www.act-us.info)

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Searchable Technology Database
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Workshops Held PY 2004-2005

• In Situ Fluorometers Determining Primary
  Productivity in Near Shore Environments
• Measurement of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
  Speciation in Natural Waters
• Application of Sensor Technology to Assess
  Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in the
  Coastal Zone
• Transfer of Medical Technology to Environmental
  Monitoring
• Remote Imaging Technology II Trace Metal Sensors
  for Coastal Monitoring

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ACT Sensor Technology Brokering

• OceanUS
• US IOOS - Federal Backbone
  - Regional Systems
• State Resource Management Regulatory Compliance
  Monitoring

Operational Experimentation Deployment

• ACT Functions
• Identifying Technology Requirements and Needs
• Demonstrating Verifying Technology Performance
• Fostering Technology Development
• Providing Information on Technologies

• Technology Sources (RD)
• Industry
• Academics
• NOAA
• ONR
• Other agencies

Support
Facilitate
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Integrated Ocean Observing System
MBARI, MUSE 2000
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ACT Alaska Region FFY 2005
Funding Initiated

• Hosted Remote Sensing Session
• Co-Sponsored the Alaska Marine Science Symposium
• Hired Technical Coordinator
• Participated in Partnership/Stakeholder meeting
  at GoMOOS
• Attended Turbidity Technical Meeting

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ACT Alaska Region FFY 2006
Full Funding

• Initiate Outreach Efforts
• Hire Workshop Coordinator
• Host Biological Platforms Workshop
• April 2007
• Co-Sponsor 2007 Alaska Marine Science Symposium

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ACT Alaska Region FFY 2006
Full Funding

• Selecting Platform Site-Resurrection Bay
• Develop Testbed Capabilities
• Enhance on-going monitoring efforts in North Gulf
  of Alaska

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North Gulf Monitoring Efforts
From tidewater glacial fjord Ailik Bay to edge
of continental shelf

• Gulf of Alaska
• Chiswell Island Video
• Fish Biomass monitoring
• Hydroacoustics
• Weather observations
• GAK line

• Coastal
• CTD fluorometry and DO in Aliak Bay
• ACT platform monitoring
• Ferry box in Resurrection Bay
• Plankton monitoring

North Gulf Observation should be a subregion