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Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Meeting - 2012

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Presenter(s)

Various

Hosted By

NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Group

Time

April 23-25, 2012,8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT(1230-1600 UTC)

Location

Seattle, WA

Agenda - April 23, 2012

NASA Headquarters Update

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
9:00 a.m.	Welcome/Program Update for NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry/Community Q&A - P. Bontempi/NASA Headquarters

NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
10:00 a.m.	NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group Update - B. Franz/NASA GSFC
10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	OBPG Field Program Support Office and SeaBASS updates - J. Werdell/NASA GSFC & C. Proctor/NASA GSFC
11:15 a.m.	SeaDAS Updates - S. Bailey/NASA GSFC
11:30 a.m.	Discussion - OBPG
12:00 p.m.	Lunch — (on your own)
1:30 p.m.	Update on HPLC Processing and Analyses - C. Thomas/NASA GSFC

Flight Project Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
1:45 p.m.	Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) VIIRS data product assessment - K. Turpie/NASA GSFC SSAI (PDF version)
2:15 p.m.	Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) VIIRS data access - Axel Graumann/NOAA NCDC
2:30 p.m.	A report form the PACE (Pre-Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) Mission Science Definition Team - C. DelCastillo/Johns Hopkins University — Applied Physics Laboratory
3:00 p.m.	Aerosol-Cloud-ocean Ecosystem (ACE) mission: Update on ocean-relevant activities - M. Behrenfeld/OSU
3:20 p.m.	Break
3:50 p.m.	Update on NASA's Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission Pre-Formulation Activities and International Geostationary Ocean Color Activities - A. Mannino/NASA GSFC (Air Mass Fraction animation)
4:10 p.m.	Portable Remote Imaging SpectroMeter (PRISM) — An Airborne Sensor - Z. Mouroulis/NASA JPL

Project Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
4:30 p.m.	Analysis of GOCI and HICO data in Preparation for GEO-CAPE - C. Davis/Oregon State University
5:00 p.m.	Biogeochemical and Optical Analysis of Coastal DOM for Satellite Retrieval of CDOM, DOC, and Terrigenous DOM from the Northeastern U.S. Continental Margin - A. Mannino/NASA GSFC
5:30 p.m.	Adjourn
5:30 p.m.	Poster Session

Agenda - April 24, 2012

IOCCG special session: towards an international ocean color science team meeting

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
9:00 a.m.	Introduction and Overall Goals of the Special Session - D. Antoine/LOV
9:10 a.m.	The development of IOCCG since its inception, and the role it currently has in the international ocean color community - J. Yoder/WHOI
9:30 a.m.	Current IOCCG activities related to global ocean color CDRs, and rationale for an International Ocean Color Science Team Meeting - D. Antoine/LOV
9:50 a.m.	IOCCG standing working group on ocean color CDRs evaluation - J. Yoder/WHOI
10:10 a.m.	Current status of the CEOS/IOCCG INSITU-OCR initiative - S. Bailey/NASA GSFC
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:50 a.m.	An example of international science community building: the GHRSST project - P. Minnett/University of Miami
11:10 a.m.	Lessons learned from SIMBIOS, in particular in terms of international coordination - B. Franz/NASA GSFC
11:30 a.m.	Discussion session — All Above discussion in particular about: What would you expect from an annual IOCST meeting? What type of organization/content would be appropriate? What sort of outputs would be useful? Which balance between talks, working sessions, posters would be appropriate?
10:30 a.m.	Lunch — (on your own)

Student/Post-Doc Projects

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
1:30 p.m.	A model based on stacked-constraints approach for partitioning the light absorption coefficient of seawater into phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton components -Guangming Zheng/UCSD-SIO
2:00 p.m.	Variations in light absorption by phytoplankton, non-algal particles and colored dissolved organic matter in continental shelf waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico - Sumit Chakraborty /Univ. of S. Mississippi
2:30 p.m.	The Effect of ENSO on Phytoplankton Composition in the Pacific Ocean - Cecile Rousseaux/NASA GSFC/USRA
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Developing and Applying an Integrated Multi-scale Earth System Modeling Framework to Study the Impacts of Changing Climate, Local Weather, and Land Use on Watersheds and Downstream Coastal Ecosystems - Cedric David/Univ. of Texas - Austin (River flow in the Mississippi River Basin)
4:00 p.m.	Improvements in Understanding the Specular and Spectral Effects of Emergent Marsh Vegetation - Kevin Turpie/NASA GSFC SSAI (PDF version)

Project Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
4:30 p.m.	Remotely sensing primary production: Value and advantage of ocean color IOP products - Z. Lee/University of Massachusetts-Boston
5:00 p.m.	Development and application of picoseconds lifetime analyses in the upper ocean to the interpretation of satellite-based, solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence signals - M. Gorbunov/Rutgers Univ. (PDF version)
5:30 p.m.	Adjourn
5:30 p.m.	Poster Session

Agenda - April 25, 2012

Project Updates

Time	Speaker/Affiliation
8:00 a.m.	On the biogeochemical roles of the rates of phytoplankton cell division and grazing mortality - K. Banse/University of Washington
8:30 a.m.	Trends in ocean carbon uptake - G. McKinley/University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:00 a.m.	Abrupt Loss of Phytoplankton Biodiversity in the Arabian Sea — New Insights from th INDO-US Collaborative Study - J. Goes/Columbia University - LDEO (PDF version) (Salp feeding video) (Pedinomonas video)
9:30 a.m.	The Tara Oceans expedition - a world of data - E. Boss/University of Maine
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	High Reflectance Waters of the Southern Ocean — Recent observations from the 'Great Calcite Belt' - B. Balch/Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
11:00 a.m.	An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for ocean carbon uptake between the WOCE (1990s) and CLIVAR (2000s) decades - K. Rogers/Princeton University
11:30 a.m.	Open discussion/Community Q&A on OBB activities/Next OCRT - P. Bontempi/NASA Headquarters
12:00 p.m.	Adjourn

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