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Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Meeting - 2006

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Presenter(s)

Various

Hosted By

NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Group

Time

April 11-13, 2006,8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT(1230-1600 UTC)

Location

Newport, RI

Agenda - April 11, 2006

NASA Headquarters Update

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
8:30 a.m.	Welcome - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
8:35 a.m.	Program Update for NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry (Advance Planning/ROSES/Budget) - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

Future Project Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
9:00 a.m.	NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) and NPOESS Programs & NASA-NOAA Research to Operations Working Group - J. Gleason/NASA GSFC
9:30 a.m.	NPP VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite) - W. Esaias/NASAGSFC
9:50 a.m.	GLORY Mission and Possibilities for Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry - J. Chowdhary/NASA GISS
10:10 a.m.	Break

Current Project Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
10:30 a.m.	Terra/Aqua MODIS & Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Data Processing - C. McClain/NASA GSFC
11:00 a.m.	Data Policy, SeaBASS, Modeling - G. Fargion/UCSD- CHORS

Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
11:20 a.m.	Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program - D. Anderson/NASA HQ
11:40 a.m.	Assimilation and Ocean Color Modeling - W. Gregg/NASA GSFC
12:00 p.m.	Lunch

Advance Planning Discussion

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
1:15 p.m.	Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Advance Planning: The Undiscovered World Introduction - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ et al. Science Questions - D. Siegel/UCSB Observational Strategies - M. Behrenfeld/OSU & P. DiGiacomo/NASA JPL Systematic Observations, Partnerships, Modeling, In situ planning, Summary - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
2:30 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Discussion and Community Input/Recommendations - P. DiGiacomo/NASA JPL and P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
3:55 p.m.	Expansion of Argo capabilities - B. M. Uz/UMD

Atmospheric Correction

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
4:00 p.m.	Refinement of MODIS Atmospheric Correction Algorithm - M. Wang/NOAA NESDIS
4:20 p.m.	Atmospheric correction of satellite ocean-color imagery - R. Frouin/UCSD-SIO
4:40 p.m.	Coastal Water Retrievals of Aerosol Optical Properties - K. Stamnes/Stevens Inst. Tech.
5:30 p.m.	Poster Session
6:00 p.m.	GIOVANNI Demo - Jim Acker/NASA GSFC
6:30 p.m.	Food/Cash Bar

Agenda - April 12, 2006

Carbon Research

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
9:00 a.m.	The mechanisms driving interannual variability in air-sea CO2 flux - S. Doney/WHOI
9:20 a.m.	Algorithms for Prediction of Coastal CO2 - R. Letelier/OSU
9:40 a.m.	Assessment of River Margin Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes - S. Lohrenz/ USM
10:00 a.m.	Organic Matter Metabolism in a Coastal Ocean Ecosystem - P. Matrai/Bigelow Lab.
10:20 a.m.	Break
10:40 a.m.	The Bermuda Bio-optical project - N. Nelson/UCSB
11:00 a.m.	Eddy-driven changes in phytoplankton species composition in the Sargasso Sea - D. McGillicuddy/WHOI
11:20 a.m.	An interdisciplinary study of land-sea carbon coupling between Maine's Penobscot River and the Gulf of Maine - B. Balch/Bigelow Laboratory
11:40 a.m.	Lunch

Carbon Budgets/Modeling

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
1:00 p.m.	Eastern U.S. Continental Shelf Carbon Budget - E. Hofmann/ODU
1:20 p.m.	Carbon Cycle off the West Coast of North America - J. McWilliams/UCLA
1:40 p.m.	Carbon Flux along Continental Margins - F. Muller-Karger/USF
2:00 p.m.	Nutrient Budgets and Carbon Export - S. Neuer/Arizona State University

Carbon and Interdisciplinary Science (con't)

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
2:20 p.m.	Aeolian Iron Input and Ocean Nitrogen/Carbon Cycle - Y. Gao/Rutgers Univ.
2:40 p.m.	Can the Photochemical Oxidation of Carbon to CO2 on Continental Shelves Be Estimated From Satellite Ocean Color Measurements? - R. DelVecchio/UMD
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:20 p.m.	Nutrient constraints in the tropical Pacific - M. Behrenfeld/OSU
3:40 p.m.	Rising productivity in the Arabian Sea linked to shrinking snowcaps - How satellites helped connect the dots - J. Goes/Bigelow Laboratory

Chlorophyll a - Primary Productivity Algorithms

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
4:00 p.m.	SeaWiFS Analog Chlorophyll Algorithm Refinement (Improving the Chl algorithm) - J. Campbell/Univ. of New Hampshire
4:30 p.m.	A semi-analytical ocean color inherent optical property model: approach and application - T. Smyth/PML
5:30 p.m.	Poster Session (Plaza Foyer)

Agenda - April 13, 2006

Coupled Bio-Physical/Productivity

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
8:30 a.m.	Primary Production from Space - M. E. Carr/NASA JPL
9:00 a.m.	Spatial and Temporal Variability in Chlorophyll, Primary Production and Export Production in the Southern Ocean - G. Mitchell/UCSD-SIO
9:20 a.m.	Seagrass, CDOM, and sediments: Remote sensing in optically shallow waters of the Bahamas Banks and Florida Bay - H. Dierssen/Univ. of Connecticut
9:40 a.m.	Physical Forcing of Phytoplankton on the New England Shelf - H. Sosik/WHOI
10:00 a.m.	Meso- to Submesoscale Variability of Marine Biological Patchiness - D. Glover/WHOI
10:20 a.m.	Break
10:40 a.m.	Assimilation Numbers in the Ocean - J. Marra/Columbia-LDEO
11:00 a.m.	Coastal Ocean Biological Response to Urbanization and Climate Variability in the Southern California Bight - P. DiGiacomo/NASA JPL
11:20 a.m.	Fluorescence Analysis of Phytoplankton Pigment, Group, and Physiological Variability - A. Chekalyuk/NASA WFF
11:40 a.m.	Feedback and Action Items - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
12:00 p.m.	Adjourn

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