Conrad C' Lautenbacher, Jr'

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CORE Presentation to theSea Grant
AssociationNovember 15, 2001

• Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.
• Vice Admiral USN retired
• President

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What is CORE?

• Non-profit, non-governmental organization
• 67 member institutions representing
• Academia
• Federal laboratories programs
• Aquariums

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What is CORE?
Research
Education
Public Outreach
Program development and Management
Increase Support
House
Oceans Caucus 50
14 Federal Agencies
Articulate promote Ocean Science Needs Goals
CORE HQ Staff
Encourage Cooperation
Senate
Build Common Goals
Develop Ocean Science Community Consensus
Committees Subcommittees 48
Other Ocean Coastal Organizations
CORE BOG
CORE Members 67 Universities, Research
Education Centers, Aquaria
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Challenges

• How can we work together to
• Develop consensus within the ocean science
  community on priorities?
• Gain public support for those priorities?
• Encourage cooperation among federal agencies
  engaged in ocean science?
• Increase funding to meet basic science
  requirements?
• Take best advantage of the opportunities
  presented by the Oceans Commission?
• Encourage and develop ocean science education
  initiatives?
• Define and build integrated ocean observing
  systems (both coastal and ocean)?
• Build the cross disciplinary teams needed to
  address complex ocean and coastal issues?

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Challenges (1)

• How can we work together to
• Develop consensus within the ocean science
  community on priorities?
• OCEAN.US IOCOS plan
• Ocean Policy Roundtable
• CORE/Sea Grant Association
• CoML National Steering Group
• Gain public support for those priorities?
• Commission on Ocean Policy

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Challenges (2)

• How can we work together to
• Encourage cooperation among federal agencies
  engaged in ocean science?
• Increasing importance of NOPP and NORLC
• Increase funding to meet basic science
  requirements?
• Budget status
• Take best advantage of the opportunities
  presented by the Oceans Commission?
• CORE Strategy

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Challenges (3)

• How can we work together to
• Encourage and develop ocean science education
  initiatives?
• CORE White Paper
• CORE/Sea Grant Collaboration (e.g.COSEE)
• Define and build integrated ocean observing
  systems (both coastal and ocean)?
• OCEAN.US
• CORE ballpark estimate

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Challenges (4)

• How can we work together to
• Build the cross disciplinary teams needed to
  address complex ocean and coastal issues?
• UMASS IGS initiative
• CORE/AMS initiatives

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Commission on Ocean Policy
CORE Priorities Letter

• Increase funding for basic research in ocean
  sciences
• Implement an integrated and sustained coastal and
  ocean observing system
• Enhance ocean science education support and human
  resource development
• Recapitalize scientific infrastructure and
  support systems
• Improve the scientific basis for decisions about
  the use of marine resources and the protection of
  marine ecosystems and public health
• Improve interagency coordination and integration
  mechanisms

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Coastal Observing Systems
(NOAA, Navy, NASA, NSF, MMS, EPA, USGS, USCG,
USACOE)
GEM - Alaska
NEPTUNE
GoMOOS
MOOS
LEO-15
CBOS
COOS
CORMP
CARA-COOPS
SEACOOS
SCOOP
WAVCIS
CARO-COOPS- Carolina Coastal Ocean Research and
Monitoring Program CBOS - Chesapeake
Bay Observing System COMPS - Coastal
Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System COOS -
California Ocean Observing System CORMP
- Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring
Program GEM - Gulf Ecosystem
Monitoring - Alaska GoMOOS - Gulf of Maine
Ocean Observing System LEO-15 - Long
Term Environmental Observatory MOOS -
MBARI Ocean Observing System NGLI -
Northern Gulf of Mexico Littoral Initiative
SABSOON - South Atlantic Bight Synoptic
Offshore Observational Network SEACOOS -
Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System
NGLI
TABS
SFOMC
COMPS
TCOON
SABSOON
SCOOP - Southeastern Coastal Ocean
Observing System SFOMC - South Florida Ocean
Management Center TABS - Texas Automated
Buoy System TCOON - Texas Coastal Ocean
Observation Network WAVCIS- Wave-Current
Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana
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Ocean and Coastal Observing System Funding
Requirements
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Integrated Ocean and Coastal Observing System
(NOAA, Navy, NSF, NASA)
Large Scale Systems Plans Maturation

• Components
• In situ and satellite observations
• System support
• Research, outreach, services

Cost 10-year plan

• Buoys and moorings
• Coastal mapping, bathymetry
• Coastal monitoring
• Drifters, gliders, AUVs
• High frequency radar
• Regional integration
• Seafloor cables
• Vessel observations
• Water level monitoring
• Altimeter

• Ocean color
• Scatterometer
• Synthetic aperature radar
• Platform support
• Research
• Sensor development
• Communications
• Data, computer systems
• Outreach, product services and applications

Dollars in Millions
Fiscal Year
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National Ocean Research Leadership
Council (NORLC)
NOPP Organizational Structure
Ocean.US EXCOM
12 2
Federal Oceanographic Facilities Committee (FOFC)
Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP)
Interagency Working Group (IWG)
Ocean.US Office
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Program Office (NOPPO) CORE
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BACK UP
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National Ocean Research Leadership Council (NORLC)

• Department of the Navy
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• National Science Foundation
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Department of Energy
• Environmental Protection Agency
• United States Coast Guard
• United State Geological Survey
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Mineral Management Service
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Office of Management and Budget

12 2
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National Oceanographic Partnership Program

• 14 Federal agencies together providing
  leadership and coordination of national
  oceanographic research education programs
• Facilitates new interactions among federal
  agencies, academia industry
• Increases visibility for ocean issues on the
  national agenda
• Achieves a higher level of coordinated effort
  synergy across the broad oceanographic community.

www.NOPP.org
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National Ocean Sciences Bowl(NOSB)

• Timed academic competition for high school
  students that focuses on ocean-related topics
  including
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Geology
• Maritime History Technology
• CORE serves as the National Office and manages
  the NOSB. Funding is provided by both federal and
  private entities--including Industry!

www.NOSB.org
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The Census of Marine Life

• Discovering the marine communities of the past.
• Exploring the multitude of ocean life today.
• Predicting the pattern of ocean ecosystems in the
  future.

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The Census of Marine Life is

• a research program that will examine changes in
  the diversity, distribution and abundance of
  marine organisms in time and space
• an international program that will involve
  experts in a variety of biological fields from
  around the globe
• an emerging program that will identify key
  questions and support observations and research
  over the next 5-10 years

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The Census of Marine LifeBackground

• Initial concept developed by the scientific
  community with funds from the Alfred P. Sloan
  Foundation, NY
• Expert advice sought through feasibility
  workshops (1997-1998)
• Secretariat established at the Consortium for
  Oceanographic Research and Education (1999)
• Scientific Steering Committee established (1999)
• Scientific Strategy drafted for review and
  comment (early 2001)