Coastal Services Center

Mid-Atlantic

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MidAtlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA)

Date project initiated: June, 2004

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Carolyn Thoroughgood
College of Marine Studies
University of Delaware
209 Hullihen Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-4007
E-mail: ctgood@udel.edu

MACOORA Web site

Brief project summary:
As a Regional Association, MACOORA will be responsible for the design and coordinated development of Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (RCOOSs) in the Mid-Atlantic that are responsive to the needs of multiple user groups and improve as new knowledge and technologies become available. MACOORA will build an integrated observing system covering the watersheds, bays, estuaries, and open shelf waters of the Middle Atlantic Bight. Achieving success at this endeavor requires engagement between information producers and information users at the outset. For this reason, MACOORA has chosen to begin the process by assembling a team of key representatives from science, commerce, navigation, state coastal environmental management and protection, and homeland security communities whose charge it is to develop an organizational and governance structure.

Progress Reports

• Reporting period: 2004-10-01 to 2005-03-31
• Reporting period: 2005-06-01 to 2005-11-30
• Reporting period: 2005-12-01 to 2006-05-31
• Reporting period: 2006-06-01 to 2006-11-30
• Reporting period: 2006-12-01 to 2007-05-31
• Reporting period: 2007-06-01 to 2007-11-30

Additional Mid-Atlantic Projects

• Phased Deployment and Operations of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARCOOS)
• Chesapeake Inundation Prediction System (CIPS): Flood Forecast Prototype for Coastal-Bay-Estuary Resiliency to Storm Surge
• Mid-Atlantic Coastal Observation Technology System (COTS) Projects
• All FY07 project summaries

 

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