Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

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Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
Ocean.US

• Dr. Jack Hayes
• Deputy Assistant Administrator
• National Ocean Service
• March 24, 2005

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Outline

• What is IOOS?
• Why is IOOS Important to NOAA?
• What is NOAAs Role?
• NOAA IOOS Investments
• IOOS Examples Involving NOAA
• NOAA IOOS Governance
• Challenges and the Way Ahead

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What is IOOS?
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Integrated Ocean Observing System
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Vision of the IOOS
The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is
envisioned as a sustained, coordinated national
and international network of observations, data
management and analyses that systematically
acquires and disseminates data and information on
past, present and future states of the oceans and
the nations Exclusive Economic Zone
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Multiple Ways to Look at IOOS

• National (the backbone) and Regional (RAs)
  systems
• Coastal and Global Components
• 3 subsystems
• - Observations (in situ and remote sensing)
• - Data Management and Communications
• - Modeling and Analysis
• 4 stages of implementation
• Operational - Pre-operational - Pilot
  - Research

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IOOS is part of GEOSS
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External Drivers

• Plans
• Ocean Action Plan
• IOOS Development Plan
• Organizations
• U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
• National Ocean Research Leadership Council
  (NORLC)
• Ocean.US
• Constituents States, Tribes, NGOs
• Legislation
• Senate and Congressional language
• International climate and ocean observing
  efforts
• Global Earth Observing System (GEOSS)
• Interagency Working Group on Earth Observations
  (IWGEO)
• World Climate Research Program (WCRP)

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Interagency IOOS Involvement

• The United States simply cannot provide the
  economic, environmental, and security benefits
  (needed) to achieve new levels of understanding
  and predictive capability, or generate the
  information needed by wide range of users,
  without implementation of the IOOS
• An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century
• U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, September 2004
• Copy available at http//www.oceancommission.gov/

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First Annual IOOS Development Plan

• Part I Structure and Governance (principles of
  operation and concepts of governance)
• Part II Fiscal Years 2005 2006 Integrating
  Existing Assets (initial IOOS)
• Part III Improving the IOOS Through
  Enhancements and Research (FY07 FY11)
• Copy available at http//ocean.us

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Why is IOOS Important to NOAA?
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State of Oceans Coasts Varies Across Time and
Space
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All IOOS Societal Goals Are Integral to All NOAA
Mission Goals
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What Is NOAAs Role?
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NOAAs Leadership, Organization and Expertise

• NOAA has the science and technology
• NOAA owns much of the infrastructure
• NOAA has the mandates and programs
• NOAA is organized to accommodate a focus on ocean
  research, observations, products, and services
• All IOOS objectives are inherent to NOAA mission

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Examples of NOAA External Ocean Leadership
Activities

• Global Ocean Observing System
• World Climate Research Program
• Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS)
• Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
• National Ocean Partnership Program
• CENR/NSTC Joint Subcommittee on Oceans ST
• Climate Change Science Program
• Ecosystem regions
• OCEAN.US

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NOAA IOOS - Related Operating and Program
Investments

• Ecosystems
• Coral monitoring and assessment
• Coastal and marine resources
• Habitat
• Ecosystems observations
• Coastal Change Analysis Program C-CAP
• Climate
• Climate observations and services
• Climate predictions and projections
• Commerce and Transportation
• Coastal tides and currents, geodesy, mapping and
  charting
• Coastal response and restoration

• Weather and Water
• National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
• NWS Science and Technology Infusion
• Volunteer ships, moored buoys, Detection,
  Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART),
  Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN), Alaska
  data buoys
• Coastal Storms Initiative
• Modeling
• Hydrology
• All Goals
• POES, GOES, DMSP, QuickSCAT, SeaWIFS, MODIS
• NOAA Data Centers
• NOAA ship and aircraft support
• Information technology

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• NOAA IOOS Investments

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This slide shows the current IOOS program and all
proposed changes that will be forwarded by the
Goal Teams in the FY 07 program plans, including
above core recommendations.
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Key FY 05 DeliverablesBudget Increases for FY 05

• Pilot Projects and demos
• AUVs to link water quality to land use in the
  Chesapeake Bay
• Increase efficiency with Video plankton recorder
  to replace net sampling
• Web access to integrated biological and physical
  observations in the Pacific Northwest
• Operations
• Tsunami warning and storm surge monitoring
  upgrades
• Increase Density of
• Water quality monitoring and stream gauge network
• Wave measurements
• Wind observations
• Global Ocean Observing networks (Arctic buoys)
• High-resolution surface currents

• Governance and Coordination
• IOOS requirements documented for CZM and MTS
  sectors
• Economic and coastal policy impacts for 35
  coastal states
• Research
• Harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring expanded to
  West coast
• Real-time data for zooplankton in the Great Lakes
• Wave Forecast System to near real-time
• Technology
• Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUVs) sensors and
  accurate positioning
• IOOS DMAC architecture for Navy and NOAA

CZM Coastal Zone Management MTS Marine
Transportation System
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NOAA IOOS Governance
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NOAAs Proposed Internal IOOS Structure
PPI Goal Team Leads Overall integration
NOC Technical direction for integrating NOAAs
ocean observing requirements, proposing
priorities and investment strategies.
NOSC Technical direction for integrating IOOS
data management requirements, proposing
priorities and investment strategies.
NOAA Ocean Council
NOAA Observing Systems Council
NOAA IOOS Coordination Group
Lead Interim IOOS Manager - NOS Technical
Director Deputy Interim DMAC Focal Point - NODC
deputy
Goal Teams
Weather and Water Hydrology Coasts, Estuaries,
and Oceans Science, Technology, and
Infusion Local Forecasts and Warnings Environmenta
l Modeling Program
Commerce and Transportation Marine
Transportation Systems Geodesy
Climate Climate Observations Analysis
Ecosystems Ecosystem Observing Program Coastal
and Marine Resources Corals Habitat
Mission Support Satellites Information
Technology Ships/Aircraft
Coordination group Secretariat staffed by NOS
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Overall IOOS C.G. Roles/ Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing leadership and coordination for
  IOOS activities
• Ensure that NOAA contribution is optimized and
  connected to other national and international
  observing systems and data management efforts
• Ensure consistent NOAA-wide IOOS development and
  message
• Ensure consistency with the IOOS Development Plan
  and Ocean Action Plan

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IOOS Examples Involving NOAA
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Gulf of Mexico Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast System
Made operational in NOAA/NOS, October
2004 Federal/state/commercial collaboration
Impact evaluation
Moorings
Bulletins to state local managers
Satellite imagery
Field samples
Models
OrbimageSeaWiFS
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Hurricane Isabel Example
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IOOS Data Portal Prototype
NOAA and ONR earmark recipients collaboration
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Way Ahead
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Challenges

• Requirements
• Diversity of requirements and goals to address
• Importance of data management
• Integration
• Integrating diverse stove-piped capabilities and
  capacities
• Coordinating existing NOAA efforts
• Execution across goal teams and programs
• External
• External coordination and participation

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Next Steps

• IOOS vision, strategic goals and objectives
• FY 08 PPBES process
• Ocean.US IOOS Annual Development Plan update
• Develop quarterly reporting for NOAA IOOS
• Synchronize IOOS planning with related NOAA
  observing system and data management and
  communications (DMAC) activities

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• Backup Slides

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IOOS Societal Goals

• Improve predictions of climate change
  variability (weather) their effects on coastal
  communities the nation
• Improve the safety efficiency of marine
  operations
• More effectively mitigate effects of natural
  hazards
• Improve national homeland security
• Reduce public health risks
• more effectively protect restore healthy
  coastal marine ecosystems
• Enable sustained use of marine resources

1 System, 7 Goals
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An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century
U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, January, 2005

• Implementation of a Integrated Ocean Observing
  System is overdue and should begin immediately
• User needs should be incorporated into planning
• Data should be turned into information products
  and forecasts that benefit the nation
• Coordinated with other national and international
  observing systems

Thirteen of the Ocean Commissions
recommendations relate to global, coastal and
ocean observations
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Coastal Component
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Enhancing Governance
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PROBLEM

• Ocean state changes are poorly captured,
  described, predicted, understood
• AND
• These state changes translate to economic impacts
  at or near the coasts and offshore

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Addresses Diversity of Users

• Ocean and coastal industries
• Fishermen
• Coastal citizens
• Ocean/coastal resource managers
• Scientists
• Educators
• General public
• Homeland security agencies

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Addresses Diversity of User Needs

• Climate sea ice, sea level, El Niño (flooding,
  drought)
• Marine operations surface and subsurface
  currents
• National security Estimates/predictions of
  sediment transport on hourly to season time
  scales
• Living marine resources effects of fishing on
  marine habitats and biodiversity
• Healthy ecosystems annual report on frequency
  of harmful algal bloom events
• Natural hazards improved wind-wave models
• Public health assessment and prediction of risk
  from microbial pathogens

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Examples of Internal NOAA Ocean Leadership
Activities

• NOAA Observing System Architecture (NOSA)
• NOAA Observing Systems Council (NOSC)
• NOAA Ocean Council (NOC)
• IOOS Coordination Group (ICG)
• NOAA Data Centers and Data Assembly Centers
• FY 2007 NOAA IOOS plan
• Coasts, Estuaries and Oceans Program
• Office of Climate Observations

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NOAA Contributions to IOOSGlobal Ocean-Climate
Component
(NOAA - in blue)
Satellite-based measurements sea surface
temperature, sea surface height, surface winds,
ocean color and sea ice

• In situ measurements
• - Argo array
• - tide gauge stations
• - moored buoys
• - drifter array
• - ship observations

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NOAA In Situ Contributions to the National
Backbone
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NOAAs Biological Contributions to IOOS An
Example
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FY 2005 IOOS Funding Increases 55.3M

• Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observing System
  (ICOOS)
• Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing System
• NOAA marine weather buoys (National Data Buoy
  Center)
• 2) COTS and other Observing system earmarks
• Joint NOAA/UNH Observations Technology Center
• Coastal Observation Technology System Grants

• 24.5M
• 16.5M
• 8.0M
• 30.8M
• 4.0M
• 26.8M

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Key FY 05 Deliverables

• Integration Infrastructure
• Pilot Regional Association(s)
• IOOS requirements documented for 2 sectors
• Education and Outreach Economic and coastal
  policy impacts for 35 coastal states (2 pagers)
• Strengthened Interagency coordination through
  Ocean.US

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Key FY05 Deliverables

• Research
• Sensor Development
• Coastal Data Assimilation and modeling techniques
• Observational technique development
• Harmful Algal bloom monitoring techniques and
  geographic expansion
• Technology
• New sensors and technologies for ocean and living
  marine resource observations
• IOOS DMAC architecture for specific applications

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Key FY05 Deliverables

• Pilot Projects and demos
• Regional implementation of DMAC standards
• Integration of ecological and physical
  observations with Regional Associations
• Operations
• Increased density in Global Ocean Observing
  System
• Prototype National Server for High Resolution
  Surface Currents
• Tsunami warning and storm surge monitoring
  upgrades
• Additional coastal wind observations
• Improvements to water quality monitoring network
• Improvements to stream gauge network and wave
  measurements

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FY 2006 IOOS Increases 38.2M

• 32.8M in base increases and program changes to
  build on existing IOOS capabilities. Some
  examples
• 9.5M for U.S. tsunami warning program
• 1.5M for C-GOOS
• 15.1M for Ecosystem mission
• 2.0M for National Vertical Datum Transformation
  Tool (VDatum)
• 1.5M for National Current Program
• 3.5M for Ocean Observations for NOAAs Climate
  Goal

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This slide shows the current IOOS estimated
contributions to IOOS for FY 2005 and the U.S.
Commission on Ocean Policy Five Year development
estimates.
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IOOS C.G. Roles/Responsibilities

• Planning
• Refine NOAA IOOS vision, strategy, outcome
  measures to optimize integration both within and
  external to NOAA
• Provide an integrated assessment of capabilities
  and capacities for IOOS
• Propose NOAA IOOS priorities within the context
  of the IOOS Development Plan and Ocean Action
  Plan
• Programming
• Assist development of IOOS portions of Program
  Plans
• Produce integrated NOAA IOOS plan Ensure
  consistency with other NOAA observing system
  plans (e.g., GEOSS)

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IOOS C.G. Roles/Responsibilities, cont.

• Budgeting
• Assist with Goal Team and Line Office
  documentation for IOOS-related contributions
• Prepare IOOS materials (1-pagers) and other
  supporting documentation
• Represent IOOS portion of the budget through the
  cycle and serve as POC for information requests
• Execution
• Monitor and report program performance related to
  IOOS milestones, goals and objectives across NOAA
  and relative to the Ocean Action Plan and IOOS
  Development Plan

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IOOS Gaps

• Fully operational regional coastal ocean
  observing systems (RCOOSs)
• Global climate subsystem fully operational and
  integrated with coastal subsystem
• Fully operational and integrated coastal
  component RCOOSs and national backbone
• System-wide integrated modeling to support all
  IOOS themes (especially ecosystem management)
• Fully functioning Research to Operations process
• Cost effective technologies for observations,
  data telemetry and data management
• Integrated data management to serve all user
  capabilities and needs
• Economic analyses for all IOOS themes
• Fully educated partners and public

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IOOS of the Future

• All sectors (academia, industry, government)
• Coastal and global components
• Research, pre-operational and operational systems
  and techniques, pilot projects comprise the
  system
• Data, products, decision tools, forecasts,
  assessments are outputs
• Support of 7 IOOS societal goals
• Build out similar to open ocean (Climate)
• Weather channel for the oceans

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Closing Messages

• IOOS is a key ocean component of GEOSS
• IOOS is an integration strategy to accomplish
  NOAAs goals
• IOOS is a system of systems that is scalable and
  extensible
• IOOS is an optimal solution
• NOAA has a clear leadership responsibility within
  IOOS
• NOAA is programmatically set up to accomplish the
  task, but needs partners and funds to complete
  the work academia, other feds, private sector
• There are challenges that are being addressed
  partnerships, roles, responsibilities,
  sustainable funding, etc.
• Way ahead will put us on a path to accomplish our
  goals