Appendix B
Workshop Agenda
Sustaining Ocean Observations to Understand
Future Changes in Earth’s Climate
Workshop Agenda
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW | Washington, DC 20418
NAS BUILDING
November 15-17, 2016
November 15, 2016
Meeting Location: NAS 120
OPEN SESSION
8:30 AM | Breakfast available |
9:00 AM | Welcome and Introductions: |
Mary Glackin and Bob Weller, Committee Co-Chairs | |
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9:30 AM | Keynote Address: |
John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
Introduced by: | |
Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences | |
10:30 AM | Session 1—Defining and Supporting the U.S. Contributions to GCOS and GOOS |
Session Objective: To understand how major funding decisions are made and how funding can be sustained
Session lead: Bob Weller | |
Panelists: | |
Michael Freilich, Director, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA | |
Craig McLean, Assistant Administrator, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA | |
Roger Wakimoto, Assistant Director, Directorate for Geosciences, NSF | |
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12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
1:00 PM | Session 2—International Coordination and Sovereignty |
Session Objective: To understand the challenges and potential solutions to international coordination and collecting and sharing observations in the EEZ
Session lead: Dean Roemmich | |
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Craig McLean, Assistant Administrator, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA | |
Michael Patterson, Director, US CLIVAR Project Office | |
Allison Reed, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, Marine Science and Research, Department of State | |
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interest at G7 ministerial summits on ocean observing indicate a growing international coordination to develop and support sustained ocean observing? |
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2:00 PM | Break |
2:30 PM | Session 3—Prioritizing and Coordinating U.S. Contributions to GCOS and GOOS |
Session Objective: To understand how the U.S. ocean research and observing efforts across the agencies and from remote sensing, to coastal, to open ocean are prioritized and coordinated
Session leads: Rob Dunbar and Patrick Heimbach | |
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David Legler, Division Chief, Climate Observation Division, Climate Program Office, NOAA | |
Eric Lindstrom, Physical Oceanography Program Scientist, Science Mission Directorate, NASA, and Co-Chair, Global Ocean Observing System | |
Gary Mitchum, Associate Dean and Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida | |
Rick Murray, Director, Ocean Sciences Division, Directorate for Geosciences, NSF | |
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4:00 PM | Session 4—Prioritizing and Coordinating Science at the International Level |
Session Objective: To understand the challenges in prioritizing ocean observations as seen from U.S. and international science planning and oversight groups and from intergovernmental planning perspectives
Session leads: Lynne Talley and Ed Boyle | |
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Molly Baringer, Deputy Laboratory Director and Supervisory Oceanographer, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, and Co-Chair, NOAA Climate Observing System Council, NOAA | |
Annalisa Bracco, Co-Chair, CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
Katy Hill, GCOS-GOOS Scientific Office, IOC, WMO | |
Gregory Johnson, Co-Chair, NOAA Climate Observing System Council, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA | |
David Legler, Division Chief, Climate Observation Division, Climate Program Office, NOAA | |
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5:30 PM | Meeting adjourns for the day |
6:00 PM | Committee Dinner |
November 16, 2016
Meeting Location: NAS 120
OPEN SESSION
8:00 AM | Breakfast available |
8:30 AM | Session 5—Institutional Support to Sustaining Ocean Observations |
Session Objectives: To understand the budget constraints and challenges to coordinate the contributions to GCOS and GOOS and explore opportunities for improvement
Session leads: Mark Merrifield and Bob Hallberg | |
Panelists: | |
Rick Lumpkin, Deputy Director, Physical Oceanography Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA | |
Kathleen Ritzman, Assistant Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | |
Chris Sabine, Director, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA | |
Sophie Seeyave, Executive Director, Partnership for Observation of Global Oceans (POGO) | |
John Trowbridge, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | |
Robert Winokur, Deputy Oceanographer, Navy (ret.), and Senior Advisor, Michigan Tech Research Institute | |
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10:30 AM | Break |
11:00 AM | Session 6—Illustrating the past success and future challenges of a global observing system: Argo (past, future) |
Session Objectives: To show, using the example of the Argo profiling float array, the efforts to deploy and sustain one element of the sustained ocean observing system and to also summarize challenges of responding to observing more different variables over more of the ocean
Session lead: Dean Roemmich | |
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Jim Baker, Director, Forest and Land-Use Measurement, Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Foundation | |
Molly Baringer, Deputy Laboratory Director and Supervisory Oceanographer, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory and Co-Chair, NOAA Climate Observing System Council, NOAA | |
Gregory Johnson, Co-Chair, NOAA Climate Observing System Council, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA | |
Dean Roemmich, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | |
Stan Wilson, Assistant Administrator, National Ocean Service, NOAA (ret.) | |
Nathalie Zilberman, Project Scientist, Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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1:00 PM | Lunch Break |
2:00 PM | Session 7—New Models and Solutions for Sustaining Ocean Observations |
Session Objectives: To explore and initiate the discussion of new models for sustaining ocean observations
Session leads: Mary Glackin and Rob Dunbar | |
Panelists: | |
Andrew Clark, Vice President of Research Industry Technology, Marine Technology Society | |
Adena Leibman, Ocean and Coastal Policy Advisor, Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse | |
Rick Spinrad, Chief Scientist, NOAA | |
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3:00 PM | Workshop discussion and wrap up by Jim Baker (Director, Forest and Land-Use Measurement, Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Foundation) and Ray Schmitt (Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
Wrap up will include comments based on the information gained during the workshop and a discussion of how to develop a report that has impact and makes a meaningful contribution to the current dialog. How do we capitalize on the growing international support for sustained ocean observing? This session is also intended to help set the stage for the second phase of this NAS effort.
5:00 PM | Open session adjourns |