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J a n u a r y A c t i v i t i e s
S C C O O S N e w s
F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 4
Revised IOOS National Glider Network Plan out for Review
January Activities
Bill Sydeman, Director of the Farallon Institute, Releases the 2013
Seabird Annual Data Report
California Coastal Commission Approves Californias First Aquaculture
Farm in Federal Waters
Program Profile: Ocean Acidification
Where is SCCOOS?
January 8,2014
SCCOOS Products Featured for West Coast
National Marine Sanctuary Education Coordinators
January 13 & 14, 2014
SCCOOS Participates in CeNCOOS Governing Council/
Stakeholders Meeting
January 16, 2014
SCCOOS Presents for Norwegian Mapping
Authority at Maritime Alliance Meeting
January 29, 2014
Tim Moltman, Integrated Marine Observing System
(IMOS) Director, Visits with SCCOOS
The U.S. IOOS and their Regional Associations have been
working on a National Glider Network (NGN) to determine
how gliders are deployed and operated, community
standards for data access and organization, and what the
candidate expansion paths might be towards a national
capacity for gliders for observing.
IOOS has made this revised NGN plan as well as comment
response synopsis available for review. Comments are due
to Becky Baltes by March 21.
IOOS National Glider Network Plan out for Review
http://imos.org.au/http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/glider/strategy/natl_glider_ntwrk_plan_draft_v9.pdfhttp://www.ioos.noaa.gov/glider/strategy/glider_comment_response_012114.pdfhttp://www.ioos.noaa.gov/glider/strategy/glider_comment_response_012114.pdfmailto:[email protected]?subject=National%20glider%20network%20comments
B i l l S y d e m a n R e l e a s e s t h e 2 0 1 3 A n n u a l S e a b i r d R e p o r t
Left: Farallon Institute Logo. Middle: Cooks Petrel. Right: Spatial
distribution of all seabird spp. Across all seasons, 2013.
Recently, Bill Sydeman, a SCCOOS Principle Investigator, submitted his 2013 seabird report that
can be found on the SCCOOS website. This data report summarizes observations made during 3
seasonal CalCOFI/CCE-LTER (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations/California
Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research) cruises (winter, spring, summer 2013). A
total of 45 days of survey effort, covering 3,759 km of ocean habitat is summarized.
CalCOFI was originally formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population.
The focus of the cruises are now to the study of the marine environment off the coast of
California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and
climate change. The California current plays an integral role in the economy of coastal
communities.
The California Coastal Commission recently approved the states first aquaculture farm to be
located in federal waters, Catalina Sea Ranch.
The location of the farm will be 8 miles offshore from Long Beach. The key to this approval was
their willingness for a monitoring program. Alongside the Integrated ocean Observing System
(IOOS) regional institutions and experts, SCCOOS will assist with executing a monitoring plan for
evaluating any environmental and social impacts from the 100-acre shellfish ranch.
Catalina Sea Ranch Receives
Approval from the California
Coastal Commission
http://sccoos.ucsd.edu/docs/Summary_CAC_2013.pdfhttp://www.calcofi.org/http://cce.lternet.edu/http://catalinasearanch.com/Catalinasearanch.com/Home.htmlhttp://catalinasearanch.com/Catalinasearanch.com/Monitoring.htmlioos.noaa.gov
P r o j e c t P r o f i l e : O c e a n A c i d i f i c a t i o n
SCCOOS originally got involved in Ocean Acidification (OA) when the shellfish industry sought input
from the OOSes to understand why they were experiencing massive die-offs in their stocks. In an
effort to create an all-encompassing OA information center, SCCOOS has combined information
about their observation assets as well as info from their other Southern California collaborative
programs in to a SCCOOS OA project page. Below is a brief list of SCCOOS OA efforts, thus far.
1. Dan Rudnick added dissolved oxygen sensors to the Spray Glider 11 for monitoring hypoxia in
coastal waters and to estimate pH and aragonite saturation.
2. In 2004 SCCOOS added 9 nearshore stations of the CalCOFI water samples at the 20 m isobath.
3. The West Coast OOSes will receive pCO2/tCO2 analyzer and install them in local shellfish farms
in support of the FY14 Marine Sensor Innovation Project.
4. The West Coast OOSes receive a Sea Grant Fellow, Laura Lilly, for a one-year West Coast
Oceanographic Integration Fellowship through the West Coast Governors Alliance.
W h e r e i s S C C O O S ?
Southern California Bight Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
National Regional Local
www.sccoos.org [email protected] (858)534-9808 8855 Biological GradeIsaacs Hall La Jolla, CA 92093
http://sccoos.org/projects/2012OA/http://www.sccoos.org/data/spray/history/?mission=0011acthttp://sccoos.ucsd.edu/data/cast/calcofi/http://sccoos.ucsd.edu/index.html