The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program will participate in the 2012 Ocean Sciences conference in February with a variety of sessions, posters and information sharing opportunities throughout the show.
The 2012 Ocean Sciences conference will be held Feb. 20-24, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Ocean Sciences is sponsored by The Oceanography Society, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the American Geophysical Union. More than 4,000 attendees are anticipated at the four day event. For more specifics about the event please visit: http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2012/
In addition to scheduled scientific sessions, the OOI Team will hold a special discussion on three days to provide interested attendees with an update on the OOI and how they can become involved. That informational talk, Ocean Observatories Initiative: Information and Community Opportunities, will be offered from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Thursday, Feb. 23 in Ballroom D and on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at that same time in Ballroom J.
“The Ocean Sciences meeting provides us with a great forum to share our progress on the OOI with the our colleagues and provide information to future users of OOI data on how to become involved now,” said Tim Cowles, Vice President & Director of Ocean Observing Programs at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. “We look forward to a productive exchange of information throughout the week and will have a number of our project scientists on hand to answer questions about the OOI and the opportunities it will provide for research.”
Steven Ackleson, Senior Project Scientist for the OOI, will lead a discussion at Ocean Sciences on recent insights and the future for ocean observing. “The OOI is the single, largest, national investment in ocean observing within the careers of practicing oceanographers and will likely define the research activities of many ocean scientists for the next quarter of a century,” Ackleson said. “The Ocean Sciences Meeting gives us a chance to reflect on this and discuss ways of realizing the fullest potential of this new capability.”
In addition to the scheduled sessions, members of the OOI Team will be available throughout the week at the OOI Booth in the exhibit area Booth #59 to discuss aspects of the program.
Please continue to visit the OOI Website and OOI Facebook and Twitter accounts for event coverage prior to and during the show.
See the information below for more details on the OOI’s presence at 2012 Ocean Sciences. For more information on full abstracts visit: http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2012/.
INTEGRATIVE POWER OF OCEAN OBSERVATORIES: RECENT INSIGHTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 10:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M., Room 151
Information: Steve Ackleson, Senior Project Scientist for the OOI at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, will lead this session. At the start of the session, Ackleson will present a talk: OCEAN OBSERVATORIES: EVOLUTION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. This presentation will provide an overview on the evolution of ocean observatories, summarize key science accomplishments and discuss future directions.
In addition, following OOI-related posters will be presented on Tuesday:
OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE: CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS UPDATE
Authors: Tim, Cowles (Consortium for Ocean Leadership), Sue Banahan (Consortium for Ocean Leadership)
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 10:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M., Poster/Exhibit Hall
Information: The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is implementing the construction and operation of an interactive, integrated ocean observing network. This presentation will provide information on major advances in OOI construction and an update on overall program plans.
SCIENCE AND DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Lorraine Heilman, Susan Banahan, Sarah Webster, Jon Fram, Mike Vardaro, Giora Proskurowski, William Bergen, Steve Ackleson
Information: This poster will describe the OOI data, products, algorithms, levels of processing, quality control, intermediate products, sampling frequencies, data volumes and data rates. Several specific examples of data processing will be described along with the description of all planned data products. It will introduce the scientific community to the specific products that will be available in this unprecedented opportunity for oceanographic, benthic and air-sea research
COMPARING AUTOMATIC VERSUS HUMAN-CREATED QUALITY CONTROL FLAGS OF OCEANOGRAPHIC MOORING DATA AND APPLICABILITY TO THE OOI
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Matthias Lankhorst, Hey-Jin Kim
Information: A suite of computationally simple algorithms for data quality control (QC) is presented that generates pass/fail flags for oceanographic data from moorings. This presentation will address the development and tuning of these algorithms as part of the OOI.
OOI SAMPLING STRATEGY AND CORE INSTRUMENTATION
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, February 21, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Mike Vardaro, Jack Barth, Oscar Schofield, Doug Luther, and Deborah Kelley
Information: This poster will address the OOI sampling strategy that must consider event-driven sampling responses, mitigation of between-sensor interference, data products that require multiple sensors, the need for physical sampling to validate and calibrate OOI sensors, and the eventual incorporation of non-core sensors into the network.
NEW OOI PLATFORMS FOR LONG TERM SAMPLING OF THE ENTIRE WATER COLUMN IN ROUGH SEAS NEAR THE COAST
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM. – 6:00 P.M., Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Jon Fram, Edward Dever
Information: This year the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) tested platforms for consideration at its 25m depth Oregon and Washington long-term observation sites. This presentation will address assessments of recent tests and plans for platforms for long term sampling. Results the mechanical performance of mooring and profilers will be shown along with an illustration from these data of the scientific value these paired platforms will provide.
THE ROLES OF COASTAL GLIDERS IN THE OOI
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Edward Dever, Jack Barth, Al Plueddemann, Oscar Schofield; Uwe Send
Information: The OOI plans to begin operational deployment of gliders on the coastal scale OOI arrays in May 2012. This presentation will describe the roles of coastal gliders in OOI, report on the testing progress and update the plans for operational deployments in the coastal scale arrays of OOI.
BUILDING A HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH CABLED OBSERVATORY ON AN ACTIVE VOLCANO: AXIAL SEAMOUNT
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM. – 6:00 P.M., Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Deborah Kelley, John Delaney and OOI RSN Team
Information: Axial Seamount is the most active volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, erupting in 1998 and 2011. It is both seismically and hydrothermally active, and hosts diverse biological communities. It is a long-term NOAA-PMEL observatory where long-term co-registered fluid chemistry-temperature-microbiological measurements have been made that begin to quantify the microbial evolution at the decade scale of seafloor eruption cycles. Because of these characteristics, Axial was chosen as the US’s first cabled observatory at a submarine volcano. This 5-year construction and 25-year operational project is part of the NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative. This session will address this area and the OOI RSN teams work there.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CORE INSTRUMENT MODELS AND LOCATIONS
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM. – 6:00 P.M., Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Merrie Beth Neely, Anthony Ferlaino, Barry Stamey
Information: The OOI has selected the vendors and models for many of the 49 Core Instrument Families that will be located on the arrays. The sensor models and their location-specific features are presented here, with reference to their generalized data product available from OOI’s Integrated Observatory Network data portal. Approximately 750 instruments are expected to complement the OOI arrays at the time of commissioning. This presentation will provide information on core instruments and locations.
OBSERVATIONS OF ANOMALOUS NEAR-SURFACE, LOW-SALINITY PULSES OFF THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5:00 PM. – 6:00 P.M., Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Craig Risien, Piero Mazzini, Jack Barth
Information: The Columbia River plume is a dominant feature of the Pacific Northwest coastal hydrography. This presentation presents the spatial/temporal evolution of low-salinity pulses during June and July 2011. Analysis of in situ data off of Newport collected from OSU autonomous underwater gliders, Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF funded) and the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS; NOAA funded) moorings, as well as remotely sensed data, show that the on-offshore location of the plume front is not controlled by riverine discharge rates, but rather by Ekman dynamics, and that these freshwater pulses reach the coast.
Additional presentations by the OOI Education & Public Engagement and Regional Scales Node Team at Ocean Sciences include:
THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE EDUCATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: DELIVERING REAL TIME DATA FOR TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN THE UNDERGRADUATE CLASSROOM
Type: Oral
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 8:30 AM, Ballroom F
Authors: Mike Crowley
Information: This talk will discuss the education and public engagement component of the OOI and opportunities for using data from autonomous vehicles and drifters to support education and outreach.
UNDERSTANDING THE PLANETARY LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM: NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE IN THE OCEAN BASINS
Type: Oral
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2:00 PM, Room 250
Session 064: Oceanography in 2030
Authors: John Delaney, Deborah Kelley
Information: Driven by solar and internal geothermal energy, the complex processes interacting within the global ocean constitute our planetary life-support system. New approaches to understanding this “oceanic modulator” are arising from submarine cabled networks, such as the one now under construction by the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative, that provide electrical power and bandwidth to distributed sensors. This talk will address understanding the planetary life support system and next generation science in the ocean basins.
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND IMPACTS ON OCEANOGRAPHY IN 2030
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2:00 PM, Room 250
Session 064: Oceanography in 2030
Authors: John Orcutt
Information: This talk will explore the “game changers” or disruptive technologies that may have an impact on oceanography 20 years from now, including discussion of emerging trends and impacts of advancements such as increasing computational and networking capabilities.
REAL TIME PUBLIC AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT DURING THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INIATIVE’S VISIONS 2011 EXPEDITION TO AXIAL SEAMOUNT
Type: Oral
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 12:00 PM, Ballroom F
Session 102: Live from the ocean: engaging students and the public in active research projects at sea
Authors: Allison Fundis, Deborah Kelley, Giora Proskurowski, Mark Stoermer, Leslie Sautter, John Delaney
Information: The VISIONS’11 expedition took place aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson with the remotely operated vehicle ROPOS in support of the ongoing installation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s high-power and high-bandwidth cabled ocean observatory at Axial Seamount, a volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge that had erupted just 4 months prior. This talk will discuss successes and lessons learned in engaging onshore scientists, students, and the public through the various outreach efforts employed during the expedition.
METHANE BUBBLE PLUMES AT HYDRATE RIDGE: MULTIBEAM IMAGING OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY AS PART OF THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Feb. 23, 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Session 060: Marine Gas Hydrate Deposits: Research, Monitoring Strategies and Present-Day Knowledge
Authors: Alden Denny, (Graduate Student on the Visions’11 Cruise); Deborah S. Kelley, Evan Solomon, Giora Proskurowski, Brendan Philip, Carla Stapleton, John R. Delaney
Information: Southern Hydrate Ridge (SHR) will be connected to the Internet in 2013 with a myriad of seafloor sensors connected to the terrestrial grid by high power and bandwidth cables, as part of the OOI. This presentation will address the SHR as a location for methane studies hosting both methane hydrate and methane gas and future study plans there for the OOI.
POST-ERUPTIVE HYDROTHERMAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE WATER COLUMN ABOVE AXIAL SEAMOUNT
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Feb. 23, 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Session 112: Ocean Spreading Centers: Connecting the Subseafloor with the Open Ocean
Authors: Giora Proskurowski, Deborah S. Kelley, John R. Delaney, Allison T. Fundis, Dave A. Butterfield, Marvin D. Lilley, Edward T. Baker, Sharon L. Walker, Julie A. Huber, John E. Lupton
Information: In April 2011 Axial Seamount erupted along the south rift zone from the east wall of the caldera down 9km of the southern flank. Two expeditions, a NOAA NeMO cruise in July and an OOI-RSN cruise in August, conducted water column sampling campaigns at Axial to assess the magnitude and composition of the hydrothermal plumes associated with the known vent fields and newly erupted lavas. The data collected shipboard by the OOI-RSN is publicly available at www.interactiveoceans.org. This presentation will discuss the site and expedition
THE FUTURE OF REAL-TIME MONITORING OF METHANE HYDRATE DEPOSITS AT ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS: THE OOI CABLED OBSERVATORY AT HYDRATE RIDGE
Type: Poster
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Feb. 23, 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM, Poster/Exhibit Hal
Authors: Orest Kawka, Deborah S. Kelley, John R. Delaney, Evan Solomon, OOI-RSN Team
Information: Hydrate Ridge is characterized by an extensive system of subsurface gas hydrate deposits, active plumes, and extensive biological communities. Previous studies of its subsurface geology and these seep-supported benthic communities highlighted the need for an integrated, synoptic, and long-term approach to the study of carbon cycling in such continental margins. In 2013, the cabled observatory component of the OOI, known as the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN), will begin deploying an array of seafloor instruments at Southern Hydrate Ridge. The presentation will discuss
RSN’s built-in expandability and 25-year lifetime will provide unprecedented opportunities for long-term high-resolution studies, furthering our understanding of gas hydrates and carbon cycling in such systems and potential global effects associated with tectonic activity and climate change.
AN ASSESSMENT OF REAL-TIME DATA USE IN UNDERGRADUATE CLASSROOMS
Type: Poster
Authors:
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 8:00 AM. – 10:00 AM, Poster/Exhibit Hall
Authors: Janice McDonnell, Sage Lichtenwalner, Annette deCharon, Carla Companion, Craig Risien, Debi Kilb, Allison Fundis, Andrea McCurdy, Scott Glenn
Information: The Education and Public Engagement (EPE) Implementing Organization for OOI, is tasked with providing a new layer of cyber-interactivity for educators to bring real and near real time data, images and video of the Earth’s oceans into both formal and informal learning environments. In this session will discuss results of a recent study to assess how undergraduate professors are currently using oceanographic data in their classrooms. A total of 14 professors from community colleges and universities, teaching both science and non- science majors were interviewed for the study. Participants shared their current teaching practices and made recommendations on how OOI software developers can design tools to improve undergraduate students’ ability to interpret and analyze oceanographic data.