Annual Election Results Are In!

Our annual election to fill four seats on CeNCOOS’ 15-member Governing Council is complete. The newly elected members are:

Non-Profit Seat: Mary Miller (San Francisco Exploratorium)

Industry Seat: Greg Dale (Coast Seafoods, Inc.)

Educator Seat: Krista Kamer (CSU Council on Ocean Affairs Science and Tech)

Federal Government Seat: Eric Bjorkstedt (NOAA/NMFS Fisheries Ecology Division)

CeNCOOS Governing Council Meetings

December 10, 2012: CeNCOOS Governing Council meeting at Bodega Marina Laboratory. The meeting was comprised of program updates and a special session on high frequency radar planning. The agenda, a meeting summary, and meeting presentations can be accessed here.

January 14, 2013: Governing Council second facilitated working meeting in Santa Cruz, CA to advance strategic planning by building on results of the Oct 2012 meeting. No presentations or general discussion are planned. The intended product is the adoption of a decision-making framework for future CeNCOOS activities and resources.

Liquid Robotics, Inc. Announces Finalists for Pac-X Challenge

Two of the winners have worked with CeNCOOS PIs at UC Santa Cruz. Nicole Goebel of UC Santa Cruz is a marine scientist in the Chris Edwards modeling group, and Andrew Lucas of UC San Diego was a postdoctoral fellow with Raphe Kudela. The goal of the Pac-X Challenge is to encourage scientists and students to make use of the Pac-X glider data in interesting, productive, or innovative ways.

CeNCOOS Governing Council Chair, Selected as Leopold Leadership Fellow

Erika McPhee-Shaw was selected as one of 20 North American environmental scientists for the 2013 Leopold Leadership Program.

Based at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the program provides academic environmental researchers with skills for communicating and working with partners in NGOs, business, government and communities to integrate science into decision making. They will receive intensive leadership and communications training to help them engage effectively with leaders in the public and private sectors who face complex decisions about sustainability and the environment.

Ocean Observing Training for Water Resources Control Board

CeNCOOS and their Southern California counterpart, SCCOOS, teamed up to lead three training sessions for CA State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) employees. The trainings have focused on how to access and use California’s ocean observing data sets, with a particular focus on harmful algal bloom monitoring, regional ocean models and drifter trajectory tools, surface currents, and underwater glider ocean profiles.