Review of AMS Annual Meeting Abstracts 1-slide briefings by STAR Scientists

Alaska Climate In The Modern Era

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Progress in Climate Science: NOAA's Tropical Moored Buoy Array Program

Vaquita Expedition 2008 Developing acoustic monitoring for the world’s most endangered marine mammal

Comparative evaluation between Feng Yun 1D, NOAA AVHRR, MODIS and LandSat 5 TM images working as a satellite constellation for burned areas detection on Paraná Medio Flooding Valley in Argentina

Oysters and Breast Cancer

Storm Surge Modeling and Forecasting using MIKE 21 and MIKE FLOOD

Dr. Ole Petersen works for DHI in Denmark, and has nearly 25 years of comprehensive experience in modeling estuarine problems, both numerically and physically. The fields of interest comprise hydrodynamics, stratified flows, sediment transport and morphology with focus on cohesive sediments. He has coordinated and participated as a core member of development teams of hydrodynamic models with focus on two- and three-dimensional estuarine models of stratified flows and sediment transport. He has a substantial academic and research record, has coordinated international research projects, acted as lecturer and external examiner for Danish universities and as reviewer for several international journals and science foundations.

Mr. Dale Kerper works for DHI in Encinitas, CA and has nearly 20 years of modeling experiences in a wide variety of fields, including offshore, coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Recent experience has focused on tides, storm surge, wave modeling, including overland flow for flood inundation studies. Mr. Kerper has performed and reviewed numerous flood studies for FEMA in coastal, riverine and alluvial environments, and is an acting reviewer for FEMA for the ongoing restudies of Louisiana and Texas coastlines. Relevant past experiences includes implementing a storm surge modeling system for the City of Venice Flood Warning System, and recently assisting LSU with implementing a Wave Forecast System for the Gulf of Mexico.

Endnote training for NOAA staff

Ocean Surface Roughness Measurement from CALIPSO and its Application in Wind and Air-Sea Gas Exchange

Uncertainty associated with vertical gas exchange at ocean surface is a major contributor of uncertainty in global carbon budget assessment. The estimate of ocean carbon uptake varies from 1.1 PgC/yr (Liss and Merlivat (1986) to 3.3 PgC/yr (Wanninkhof and McGillis, 1999) as a result of difference in air-sea gas exchange estimates. High resolution lidar measurements of ocean surface roughness may lead to significant reduction in global air-sea gas exchange uncertainty. Air-sea exchange is linearly proportional to wave slopes at all wave scales (wave number ranging from 50 to 800 rad/m), especially the smaller scale waves such as capillary waves (Frew et al., 2003). The air-sea gas exchange is currently parameterized to wind information associated with microwave measurements (such as QuikScat and AMSR-E). Microwave measurement of ocean surface roughness is directly related to lower frequency surface waves (<50 rad/m). The link between microwave measurement and higher frequency waves is nonlinear. At shorter wavelengths (1 micron), lidar measures wave slope variance of all waves more directly. Thus it provides direct and accurate gas exchange information. High resolution near surface wind speed can also be derived from the lidar ocean surface roughness measurements (Hu et al. 2008). One of the shortcomings of satellite based lidar measurement (such as CALIPSO) is its limited spatial coverage (nadir or near nadir only). It is thus highly desirable to study global gas exchange and near surface wind with combine lidar/SAR measurements since SAR provides high spatial ocean surface backscatter at a wider swath. This talk intends to introduce the lidar ocean surface roughness measurements from CALIPSO, and to initiate discussions on potential collaborations between NOAA and NASA in the field of high resolution near surface wind and gas exchange studies with combined lidar/SAR measurements.

Ecological Forecasting: Climate Change and Intertidal Biogeography

The Yukon River Basin Water Quality Monitoring Program: Partnership between Government and Grassroots at the National and International Levels

In 2004, YRITWC and USGS began partnering to continue and extend water quality monitoring into a long-term database. YRITWC worked with USGS to develop sampling methods, protocols and a training structure modeled after USGS methods (USGS, TWRI, Book 9). In March 2006, YRITWC began monitoring the Yukon River Basin, funded by an Administration for Native Americans (ANA) grant for regulatory enhancement. Sample sites were established between Dawson City, Yukon Territory, and Pilot Station, Alaska. Discretionary funds were used to establish the Dawson City site. The scope of the Yukon Territory monitoring effort is determined, to a large degree, by available funding. In early 2007, YRITWC received a grant from EC to conduct a workshop with EC, USGS, Yukon Territory Government, and Water Survey of Canada. At the workshop, interested native tribes joined the YRITWC to assist in ongoing water quality monitoring efforts. In early 2008, YRITWC secured a grant through the Northern Strategies Trust of Canada and began a partnership with the Yukon Territory Government (YTG). This partnership extended the monitoring project to cover the Yukon Territory. The expansion of the project has lead to the first time in history that water quality will be seen in a single ‘snapshot’ at the large basin scale.

Climate Change and Tourism in Alaska

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Impact of Solid Wastes on the Atmosphere and on Coastal Areas of Developing Countries: Issues and Emerging Solutions

Martin Medina received a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Yale University and a Master's in Ecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has received several international awards for his work, including 4 consecutive from the Global Development Network, the world's largest competition in development research. Author of a book on waste management and recycling in developing countries and of a recent piece in Foreign Policy magazine.

National Cancer Institute's Marine Collection Programs: Problems, pratfalls and lessons learned

Sea-Level Rise and Wetland Design at Poplar Island, MD

Regional Data Assimilation of AIRS Observations at the SPoRT Center

Free Consulting Services – Resources and Solutions You Can Leverage to Enhance Your Organizational and Staff Effectiveness

The CERES S’COOL Project: Bringing Cloud Science and Satellite Data To The K-12 Classroom

Seminar 1: Conservation Action Plans in CNMI
Seminar 2: American Samoa Population Growth and its Impacts on Coastal Resources
Seminar 3: RARE Pride Environmental Campaign in Guam

Seminar 1 (speaker: Kathleen M. Herrmann). Ms. Herrmann has facilitated the completion of a Conservation Action Plan for Laolao Bay and is working with agency staff to implement the plan. She is facilitating a capacity building training for local staff to design and implement socioeconomic monitoring in Laolao Bay. She has also facilitated the Talakhaya Watershed Restoration project; a multiagency partnership which in 2008 planted 31,473 seedlings, employed 25 community members through the Luta Livelihoods Initiative, and has documented statistically significant improvement on adjacent coral reefs.

Seminar 2 (speaker: Alyssa Edwards): An ecological treasure in the South Pacific, the U.S. Territory of American Samoa consists of five volcanic islands, plus two atolls, all of which are surrounded by fringes of coral reefs. American Samoa is the only jurisdiction to identify population pressure as a key threat to local coral reefs. NOAA Coral Reef Management Fellow Alyssa Edwards is currently working with the government's Coral Reef Advisory Group to identify ways of reducing rapid population growth and its impact on coastal resources.

Seminar 3 (speaker: Elaina Todd). Elaina works with the Guam Coastal Management Program where she coordinated the Guam Year of the Reef, planning a recreational user stewardship workshop, coral bleaching training, children’s snorkeling & educational fair and the grand finale event including a free screening of the 11th hour, a reef stewardship awards ceremony and movie in the park for kids! She is currently training at Georgetown University to launch a Rare Pride campaign focused on conserving Guam’s coral reefs.

Interactive Earth: Tools for Earth System Science program

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission and Falling Snow Algorithm Development

High spatial and temporal resolution global precipitation estimates are important for understanding the Earth’s energy and water cycles. Thus, the upcoming NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission seeks to estimate precipitation (falling snow as well as liquid rain) globally using physically-based retrieval approaches. The GPM concept centers on deploying a Core spacecraft carrying a dual-frequency precipitation radar and a microwave radiometric imager with channels from 10 to 183 GHz to serve as a precipitation physics observatory and a calibration reference to unify a constellation of dedicated and operational passive microwave sensors. A summary of the GPM mission, scientific objectives, and sensors will be provided. Next, progress and challenges associated with early development work for GPM snowfall detection and estimation will be presented. The focus is on NOAA’s AMSU-B (MHS) radiometer data and field campaign data collected during the Canadian CloudSat/CALIPSO Validation Project (C3VP) from Oct 2006 to March 2007. Approaches for detecting falling snow and obtaining surface emissivity will be reviewed. This seminar will show that surface emission contributions to the satellite observed brightness temperatures over land can add uncertainty in detecting and estimating falling snow. It will also discuss mitigation approaches for reducing these uncertainties. The above work and future work to incorporate knowledge about falling snow retrievals into the framework of the expected GPM Bayesian retrievals will be described during this presentation.

High Resolution Radar Precipitation Evaluation

Recollections on Wintering Over at The South Pole 1979 on The 30 Year Anniversary

Commercial Open Ocean Fish Farming in The United States

“MOBY” The Marine Optical Buoy

Basin-scale Habitat Studies in The Eastern Bering Sea – Defining Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Through The Eyes of Fish

The Alaska Marine Information System Project Browser And Database

Predicting Coral Bleaching From Satellite Retrievals of Sea Surface Light and Temperature

Collaborative NOAA-Russia Ocean Observations in The Bering and Chukchi Seas

Dr. Crane has worked in Arctic Research and Management since 1980. Her early research centered around the tectonic evolution of the Arctic Ocean Basin, and the study of Arctic methane hydrates. She participated in numerous expeditions with Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada and the USA in this region. In 1992, Dr. Crane worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to develop the first "Arctic At Risk " program in the United States. As the Soviet Union transformed into the Russian Federation, she helped to facilitate many international collaborative efforts with Russian scientists leading to the present- day Russian American Long-term Census of the Arctic. Dr. Crane received her PhD in 1977 at the Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, carried out post-doctoral research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and later was a researcher at the Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. In 1985 - 2002 Dr. Crane became an Associate and then Full Professor of Geology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 2002 she accepted the position of Program Manager in NOAA's Arctic Research Office.

Monitoring the Meridional Overturning Circulation

Modeling Climate-to-Fish-to-Fishers: Yes We Can!

Assessing Stock Structure and Movements in Relation to Naval Exercises and Fisheries: A Multi-species Satellite Tagging Effort with Hawaiian Odontocetes

Utilizing High Resolution Satellite-derived SST Analysis Products to Develop a New Satellite Based Air-Sea Heat Flux Climatology

International Fisheries Trade Trends

Download: Exporting Seafood to the European Union Powerpoint slides [PPT]
Download: Us Exports to NE Asia Powerpoint slides [PPT]

The Nature Conservancy's Coral Triangle Program: Conservation priorities and strategies in Southeast Asia and the Melanesia

Aquarius and Sea Surface Salinity

Dr. Eric Lindstrom: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/docs/09/OneNOAA_JCSDA_23Mar2009_Eric_Lindstrom_BIO.pdf
Dr. Gary Lagerloef: http://www.esr.org/mainfiles/staff/glagerloef.html

Into the Abyss: Submarine Exploration of the World’s Largest Undersea Canyon

Institutional Legitimacy and Comanagement of Marine Protected Areas: The Case of Xcalak Reefs National Park, Mexico

The Hope for Integrated Management: Network governance in fisheries and watershed management.

Coupled Biophysical Modeling in the Northern California Current: GLOBEC Results and Future Directions

Global Climate Variability and its Impacts on North Pacific Ecosystems

NOAA Restoration Day: Bay Grass Growing Workshop *Silver Spring, MD only*

Formation and Climate Impacts of Arctic Haze

Friday, 03 April 2009; 12:00-13:00 ETZ (SSMC-3, 2nd Floor, NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, NODC Seminar)
A NODC seminar as part of the "NOAA work in the high latitudes and the International Polar Year 2007-2008 seminar series"
For further information about the IPY seminars see: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/NODC-seminars09.html#IPYSeminars

Dr. Ming is a research scientist at NOAA GFDL with interests in Aerosol physics and chemistry, Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, Anthropogenic and natural climate forcings, and Global and regional climate change. For further information please see http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/yi-ming-homepage. A short CV: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/docs/09/Yi_Ming_vitae_short.pdf

Strengthening Coral Reef Resilience to Climate Change Impacts

Population Dynamics of Pacific Salmon

The ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager) on the GOES-R series

Climate Influence On Ice Breakup In Alaska

IPY and Indigenous People: Local Knowledge Contributes to the Study of Arctic Change

Doing Business in China

PSU Applied Research Laboratory Assimilation Projects

Challenges in Using Advanced Infrared Sounders to Derive Useful Climate Products

Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation Methodologies

Improving Stream Temperature Predictions for River Water Decision Support Systems

Virtual Alaska

Analysis of the Upper Ocean Response to Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico Using Satellite Observations and Model Simulations

The Vertical Structure of Arctic Warming

Changes In The Bering Strait - Pacific Gateway To The Arctic

Friday, 24 April 2009; 10:30-11:30 Seatle, Washington Local Time (13:30-14:30 Maryland Local Time) [Presentation available by teleconference from Seatle, WA in SSMC-3 Room 4817, NODC Seminar)
A NODC seminar as part of the "NOAA work in the high latitudes and the International Polar Year 2007-2008 seminar series"
For further information about the IPY seminars see: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/NODC-seminars09.html#IPYSeminars

Using Social Network Analysis to Address Coastal Management Issues

Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and the Special Case of Antarctic Climate Change

Dr. Susan Solomon is Co-Chair, Climate Science Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) and Senior Scientist, NOAA/ERL, Chemical Sciences Division. See http://cires.colorado.edu/people/solomon/.

OneNOAA Science Seminar added Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:31 AM / Last updated Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:58 AM
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/NODC-seminars09.html

Project FishSmart: A stakeholder-centered approach to improve fisheries conservation and management

Synthesis of Southern Ocean Food Webs

The Antarctic Integrated System Science on the Antarctic Peninsula

The discoveries of disciplinary science increasingly highlight the need for integrative approaches to forge new understanding of the complex interactions that govern Antarctica and its past, present and future roles in the earth system. To respond to this need and foster progress on some of societies’ most pressing issues on a planet subject to potentially accelerated change, the Antarctic Integrated System Science (AISS) program was established in 2007. An initial vision for the AISS program is outlined in the executive committee synthesis of a June 2007 community-based workshop that is available at: http://cresp.tamu.edu/AISSWorkshop. The synthesis includes examples of cross-cutting integrated system science questions that are not meant to be exhaustive. Initial activities funded under the IPY call can be found on the IPY award list (http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/ipy/ipy_awards_list.jsp). In general terms, the AISS program administers projects that transcend disciplinary boundaries, are highly integrated and address questions broader in scope than those typically supported by the disciplinary programs described above. AISS projects must have compelling intellectual merit, broad impact and expand the frontiers of our knowledge. AISS does not fund programs that recast disciplinary questions into a form requiring minimal expertise from other disciplines when progress is possible within a discipline. Projects must not be so broad in scope that tractable research strategies are not practical. It is recognized that integrated system proposals can be challenging to review. At this juncture in accordance with existing NSF guidelines, proposers may choose to submit single collaborative proposals or multiple related proposals that share some common text. Proposals will be reviewed by both ad-hoc mail reviews and a combination of panelists from the disciplinary panels as appropriate. Those considering submission to AISS are encouraged to contact the program director in advance. See http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503240&org=NSF&from_org=NSF

How Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products Can Protect the Health of Cats, Kids, and Killer Whales

High-resolution bathymetric mapping with the new broad-bandwidth, split-beam, scientific, multibeam sonar installed on the new NOAA FSVs

Barents Sea Warming

Wednesday, 06 May 2009; 12:00-13:00 ETZ (SSMC-3, 2nd Floor, NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, NODC Seminar)
A NODC seminar as part of the "NOAA work in the high latitudes and the International Polar Year 2007-2008 seminar series"
For further information about the IPY seminars see: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/NODC-seminars09.html#IPYSeminars

Using Heat as a Tracer to Characterize Tidal Inundation of Wetlands in Delaware's Murderkill Estuary

Coral Reef Conservation and Management in an Era of Global Climate Change

NOAA’s Role in the Science and Management of Arctic Fish and Marine Mammals

Thursday, 07 May 2009; 12:00-13:00 ETZ (SSMC-3, 2nd Floor, NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, NODC Seminar)
A NODC seminar as part of the "NOAA work in the high latitudes and the International Polar Year 2007-2008 seminar series"
For further information about the IPY seminars see: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/NODC-seminars09.html#IPYSeminars

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Au‘au Channel, Hawai‘i

Climate change, marine food webs and survival of juvenile salmon during the first summer at sea in the northern California Current

Examination of Depth/Temperature Bias in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal: Implications for Climate Studies

Recent Arctic climate change: Observations and model simulations

Thursday, 14 May 2009; 12:00-13:00 ETZ (SSMC-3, 2nd Floor, NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, NODC Seminar)
A NODC seminar as part of the "NOAA work in the high latitudes and the International Polar Year 2007-2008 seminar series"
For further information about the IPY seminars see: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/NODC-seminars09.html#IPYSeminars

Dr. Walsh is Professor of Climate Change & Chief Scientist, International Arctic Research Center. See http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/people/indiv/iarc_all_staff.php?photo=jwalsh

Multispecies Tradeoffs Near Marine Reserves

Experimental Forecast of Area Burned For Interior Alaska

Measuring the Effects of Coastal Restoration on Coastal Uses

A Sensitivity Study of the Operational NSSL WRF Using Unique NASA Assets

NOAA Ancestors In The Polar Regions 1860-1970

International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere: Challenges for a NOAA Climate Service

The International Polar Year was a designated period of world wide collaboration on polar research that started in March 2007 and just ended in March 2009. A number of legacy projects have resulted from the IPY that are expected to continue into the foreseeable future. One of these projects originated within NOAA; the International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA). The main mission of IASOA is coordination of atmospheric data collection at existing and newly established intensive Arctic atmospheric Observatories in the 7 Arctic countries with participation and support from additional non-Arctic countries. Data of interest to the IASOA consortium include measurements of standard meteorology, greenhouse gases, atmospheric radiation, clouds, pollutants, chemistry, aerosols, and surface energy balances that are collected continuously with instruments on the ground. These measurements support studies of Arctic climate change attribution (why things are changing), not just trends (how things are changing). IASOA is responsive to growing evidence that the earth system may be approaching environmentally critical thresholds within decadal time scales. The information from IASOA will not only enhance scientific understanding but will also support decisions by the global community regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

IASOA is a potential building block for the atmospheric, Arctic component of a NOAA Climate Service and could potentially contribute significantly to the operations of all NOAA line offices and mission goals. However, there are significant challenges which can only be solved by NOAA acquiring the authorities and support protocols for operating with international partners in a timely manner. This talk will be specifically addressed to the NOAA staff offices including International Affairs, Acquisition and Grants, General Consul, Finance, Travel, Communications and Education and will address a shopping list of current “show stoppers and dampers” that hinder NOAA support of IASOA. Specific examples will be used for on-going activities in Canada, Russia and Finland.

How NOAA got to High Latitudes in the First Place: George Davidson of the Coast Survey, and Koh-klux, and Alaska

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Assessing Human Health Impacts of Environmental Contamination in the U.S. Arctic

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High-resolution MODIS / AMSR-E composite SST for diagnostic and regional weather prediction studies

XBT lines in The Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

Development of the Fishing Ecosystem Analysis Tool (FEAT)

Reducing Threats of Land-based Sources of Pollution to Human and Ecosystem Health: A case study for the Island of Dominica

Flows and mixing in abyssal channels of the Atlantic (Vema Channel 31°S), Romanche Fracture Zone (equator), Vema Fracture Zone (11° N)

What Can Science Tell Us That Fishermen Don’t Already Know?

Understanding Lightning and Lightning Safety