U.S. IOOS 2014 Annual Report to the IOOC

Carl Gouldman, NOAA Representative

January 26, 2015

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Introduction & Background

• Discussed the ICOOS Act-required annual report at September IOOC meeting

• Received input on the utility of past report format and content

• Agreed that a new structure may be:–More useful to IOOC if it can better track IOOS implementation

progress against higher level requirements documents–Less time intensive to develop

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Objective & Process• Map 2014 US IOOS accomplishments to requirements drivers• Drivers include:

–ICOOS Act–Framework for Ocean Observing–GOOS PICO Report–NOP Implementation Plan Appendix–IOOS Summit Recommendations–IOOS Program Annual Guidance Memo and Activities

• Develop table of accomplishments through requested input from agencies and regions

• Analyze accomplishments against requirements • Identify gaps and suggest next FY priorities from drivers

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Requirements Drivers Reviewed

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FY2014 Accomplishment Sources

• IOOC:• NOP action reports• Task Team accomplishments • Summit recommendation tracker• Bi-monthly meeting content

• IOOS Program Office:• NOP action reports• IOOS Milestones in the NOS Annual Operating Plan• FY2014 IOOS Program Office Gantt Charts

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IOOS Program Annual Planning CycleFor FY2015

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Draft IOOS Annual

Guidance Memo

Executive Calendar

Division Gantts and Final Joint

Plans

Director and

Division Chiefs

Review Draft AGM

Division Review and PlanningKey Documents:•Draft IOOS AGM•Division Plans•Requirements Marketplace•Prior Year Accomplishments•Workload and Budget Analysis•Initial Risk Identification

Final Draft AGM

Review

Final AGM

Director Review and FY15 Planning

Guidance

Strategic Document Review

Key Documents:National Ocean PolicyNOAA Strategic PlanNOS Strategic Plan

NOAA AGMICOOS Act

IOOS Strategic PlanIOOS Blueprint FY14 IOOS AGM

Coastal Intel White Paper NOS draft road map

Director Review•2-Digit Gantt•Milestones (tent) •Budget Execution Plan

Division Level

Detailed Planning

FY15 Final Gantt

Approval

Annual Planning Meeting

3-21 Mar 14

24 Mar - 1 Apr 14 2-4 Apr 147-17 Apr 14

18 Apr - 14 May 14

22 May 14

23 May – 2 Jun 14 3 Jun – 21 Aug 14

15-21 Aug 14

22 Aug -10 Sep 14

7 Oct 14

8-31 Oct 148-31 Oct 14

Share coordination copies with:

•IOOC Co-chairs•RA Exec Directors•Foundation 4 Leadership

18 Apr – 14 May 14

Risks to RMT

8-31 Oct 14

Joint Planning Mid-Year Assessment

and Proposed Priorities

Joint Planning Planning Teams Form and Create

Draft Plans

4- 5 Mar 14 6 Mar – 1 May 14

Joint Planning End of Year Assessment

7 Oct 14

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Results• U.S. IOOS made significant accomplishments in FY2014

• Identified over 250 distinct accomplishments toward meeting U.S. IOOS mandates and requirements in FY2014

• Sustained existing observing capability • Supported IOOC Task Teams; address community

challenges• Advanced DMAC:

• All 11 RAs serve data in common format• Enhanced data discovery tools• Integrated biological data project• Established ATN data management

• Published Regional certification final rule• Met ICOOS Act and National Ocean Policy requirements

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Improving Access to Federal Biological Data

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Collect Publish/Preserve

Access Products

DMAC-based processBest Practices / Data Standards•Metadata•Terminology•Web Services•Tools

Data Sources:

•Federal•Academic•State•NGO

Data Include - Species (or taxon) •presence•absence •abundance

• Safe Ocean Operations

• Healthy Oceans• Sustainable Use• Hazard Protection • Economic Support

Results (cont.)• We made progress on meeting Summit recommendations

• 25 High-level Summit Recommendations• 86 sub-recommendations• 3 of 86 sub-recommendations completed• 44 of 86 sub-recommendations in progress• IOOC 9 Summit Priority Recommendations

• 42 Priority sub-recommendations• 28 of the 42 sub-recs are in progress

• Analysis behind the numbers

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Summit Recommendations

• Full spreadsheet is included in your meeting materials

Subsystem Status Short description

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Consider options for strengthening the leadership and oversight of U.S. IOOS, to include: Completed

1.1 Convene group to decide priority, order, and timing for these recommendations Completed Gov Completed PSTT

1.2Establish groups under the IOOC to address the highest-priority recommendations Completed Gov Completed On going task teams

1.3 Develop funding or another mechanism for more federal interaction Completed Gov Completed

Done to the extent agencies have interest at this time.

2Prepare and brief a report twice annually to the IOOC on reccomendations In-Progress Gov In Progress

LFA annual report and IOOC Online Summit tracker

3 The IOOC should arrange annual briefings to agency heads, NOC, OMB, and congressional ocean caucuses In-Progress Gov In Progress

IOOS PO Hill briefings; Summit tracker; expectation of IOOC agencies informing their leadership.

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OMB should review all Federal ocean observation programs to identify overlaps and gaps in the process of preparing the President’s Budget Pending Gov Pendng

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Congressional Ocean Caucuses should provide recommendations for investment in national ocean observations Pending Gov Pendng

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The IOOS Advisory Committee should consider potential mechanisms to strengthen the leadership and consolidation of IOOS efforts In-Progress Gov In Progress

IOOS AC completed vision statement, business enterprise guidance (final draft), and will take on P3 discussion.

2012 IOOS Summit Recommendations IOOC Staff Analysis J Snowden AnalysisGOVERNANCE

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Summit Recommendations: Progress and Gaps

11Pending

Complete

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IOOS Program Office Recommendations

• Focus on priority Summit recommendation gaps• Use online Summit tracker for IOOC and refine

sharing with the IOOS community• Priority Projects for FY15-FY16:

– Coordinated glider network– Completed modeling strategy– Ongoing Task Team work

• BIO TT, Modeling, ATN

– Public Private Partnership discussion with IOOS AC

Forward Look at FY2015

• IOOS Program Office Over-Arching Priorities– Advocate to sustain and grow observing systems– DMAC and Modeling Progress– Marine Sensor Innovation– Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (BON)– Advancing the Animal Telemetry Network– Ocean Enterprise Study– Certification– FY16 Federal Funding Opportunity– Federal Engagement: Interagency Ocean

Observation Committee– Communicating IOOS successes on the Hill

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Ongoing and Emerging Interagency Projects

• Engage in ACT Nutrient Sensor Challenge– Support Summit Rec #13, 19

• Support Marine BON interagency projects– Supports Summit Rec #19

• Coordinate on ocean technology transfer– Supports Summit Rec #13, 19

• DMAC Development– Supports Summit Rec #22, 23, 24

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Feedback: How did this report work?

• How could we better evaluate the status and progress made to the observing systems?

• How could we better evaluate improvements in integration (the I in IOOS)?

• Discussion?

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Back-Up

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U.S. IOOS®: Program Office

IOOS Office Primary Roles:

(1)Provide Programmatic Leadership

(2) Foster Operational Capability

(3) Forge Robust Partnerships

(4) Champion Regional and Stakeholder Interests

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New five year cycle: FY16 – FY20

Staffing and Leadership Update

• New Deputy Director as of June 1, 2014 (Gouldman)• Hired George Jungbluth as RB&P Division Chief starting

Dec. 1, 2014.• Hired Derrick Snowden as OPS-C Division Chief starting

January 11, 2015.• Nancy Seeger is new COMMS POC• Torie Ketcham is our part-time web developer• Hiring Contract ‘Data Scientist’ February 2015• Next 6 months, we will hire 1-2 Oceanographers in the

Operations and Communications Division

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U.S. IOOS Partner Reported Observing System Assets

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Marine Sensor Innovation

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A third-party testbed for evaluating technologies PH Sensors (2013/2014) – 7 DO Sensors II (2014/2015) – 10

Nutrient Sensor Challenge (2015/2016)

A forum for capacity and consensus building

An information clearinghouse for environmental technologies

ACT Services

Alliance for Coastal Technologies

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US IOOS Coastal & Ocean Modeling Testbed

• Venue to facilitate testing and transitions into operations.

• Improving ties to different NOAA and partner Agency modeling efforts.

• 5 projects; Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay, Inundation in PR/USVI, West Coast Operational Forecast System, CI tools for comparing models/data

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Ocean Technology Transition – FY14• NERACOOS;WetLabs: State-of-the-Art Nutrient Sensing

• NANOOS, UW, NOAA/NMFS/NWFSC; Spyglass: Operational Ecological Forecasting of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Pacific Northwest using an Environmental Sample Processor.

• CeNCOOS, UCSB; McLain & Axiom: Integration of the Imaging Flow CytoBot into a 40-year Time Series for San Francisco Bay

• AOOS, UAF; Pacific Gyre: Real-Time Sensor System for Detecting Freeze-up on Arctic Shelves

• NANOOS, AOOS, CeNCOOS, SCCOOS, PacIOOS, NOAA/PMEL; Sunburst Sensors: Improving an Ocean Acidification Observation System in Support of Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers – continuation of FY13 project

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Marine Biodiversity

• 3 Mbon projects to show how marine and coastal data could be integrated into the system

• This U.S. regional contribution to GEO BON is focused in in four geographic areas:  the Florida Keys, Monterey Bay, Channel Islands, and the U.S. Chukchi Sea continental shelf.

• http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/biodiversity/welcome.html

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Credit: MBARI

Ocean Enterprise Study

• Determine U.S. Business Activity related to ocean measurement, observation, and forecasting

• Advocate for ocean studies• Phase I Report Released November

2014– Over 600 companies identified as

part of the private sector of the Ocean Enterprise.

– On Deck - Quantify the impact of this sector

• Study to be complete September 2015

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Certification - Five Key Points

1. Establishes minimum criteria for how a RICE operates

2. RICE = RA

3. Civil liability applies to observation data

4. Certification is not connected to funding

5. Avoids being prescriptive when possible

RICE CERTIFICATION

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FY2016 RA Federal Funding Opportunity

• Timeline:– Draft FFO – December FY2014– NOAA Approval– Publish Announcement – Q1 CY 2015 (February)– Proposal Close date – August 2015– Merit Review – Oct – Nov 2015– Forward Recommendations Jan 2016

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CenCOOS:Biological & Physical Data Integration

Emerging capability: Beta version of emerging marine mammal health mapping tool

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DMAC: Delivering and Enhancing Information

http://catalog.ioos.us http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/catalog

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