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Agenda - Monday, May 8, 2023

NASA Headquarters Update

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
9:00 a.m.Welcome/program update for NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB)/Advanced Science Plan/Community Q&A
– L. Lorenzoni / NASA, J. Scott/NASA Headquarters

Marine Debris Detection

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
10:00 a.m.Optical Remote Sensing of Marine Debris: What’s possible and how? (PPTX, 30.7 MB)
- C.Hu/USF
10:12 a.m.SQOOP: Spaceborne Quantification of Ocean micrO-Plastics (PPTX, 10.2 MB)
- H. Dierssen / University of Connecticut
10:24 a.m.Fluorescence Lidar for Ocean Research and Observations (FLORO) investigates lidar measurements
- M Cowell/Ball Aerospace
10:36 a.m.V. Chirayath/University of Miami
10:48 a.m.Toward Optical Characterization of Marine Microplastic Pollution (PPTX, 33.1 MB)
- R. Foster/Naval Research Laboratory
11:00 a.m.Break - 20 min

Advances in Foundational and Future Optics

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
11:20 a.m.Uncertainties in Remote Sensing Reflectance Product from Ocean Color Satellite Sensors
- A Gilerson/City College of New York
11:32 a.m.Developing a Data-Driven Model to Minimize Adjacency Effects in Landsat-8 Imagery (PPTX, 29.3 MB)
- C. Begeman/Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI)
11:44 a.m.CALIGOLA and POLCUBE: Introduction of measurement capability (PPTX, 6.9 MB)
- Y. Hu/NASA's Langley Research Center
11:56 a.m.Advantages of Lidar for Ocean Research: Spotlight on CALIPSO and ICESat-2 (PPTX, 16.0 MB)
- K. Bisson/Ohio State University
12:02 p.m.Quantifying Uncertainty Via Machine Learning Models in Aquatic Remote Sensing (PDF, 16.1 MB)
- A. Saranathan/SSAI
12:14 p.m.Cross-Calibration of Ocean Color Sensors in Polar Orbit Using an Intermediary Geostationary Sensor (PPTX, 1.8 MB)
- J. Tan/SIO
12:20 p.m.Lunch - 1 hour 20 min

Carbon and Climate

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
1:40 p.m.EXPORTS Update (PPTX, 64.8 MB)
- I. Cetinić/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
2:00 p.m.Sea Surface pCO2 Reconstruction and Assessment in the Western Arctic Ocean Under a Changing Climate (PPTX, 6.3 MB)
- Y.Li/University of Delaware
2:12 p.m.Ocean Carbon and Oxygen Response to Mt Pinatubo (PPTX, 30.2 MB)
- G. McKinley/Columbia University Land ocean continuum

Land Ocean Continuum

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
2:24 p.m.A Land to Sea Paradigm: Impact of Spatially and Temporally Varying Nutrient and Freshwater Fluxes on Coastal Carbon Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (PPTX, 7.5 MB)
- M. Gierach/NSA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
2:36 p.m.Estimating Carbon Fluxes Using Remotely Sensed River Discharge (PPTX, 61.9 MB)
- J. Gehring/Northeastern University
2:42 p.m.Scaling Patterns and Tradeoffs in Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience (PPTX, 19.2 MB)
- Lerner/Texas A&M University
2:48 p.m.Dissolved organic carbon and particle dynamics in Mississippi-Atchafalaya deltaic system using adaptive semi-analytic and multi-satellite approach
- E. D'sa/Louisiana State University
3:00 p.m.Mapping Concentration and Carbon Content of Total Suspended Solids in the Coastal Marshes and Estuaries of Louisiana Using Imaging Spectroscopy
- J. Harringmeyer/Boston University
3:06 p.m.Quantifying the Global Sink of CDOM by Photobleaching in the Surface Ocean Using Remote Sensing (PPTX, 11.1 MB)
- X. Zhu/Boston University
3:12 p.m.Impact of Islands on Ocean Ecology (PPTX, 144.4 MB)
- G. Bourdin/University of Maine
3:18 p.m.Break - 12 min

Little Life: Marine Phytoplankton and Zooplankton

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
3:30 p.m.Copepods From Space: Detecting swarms of Calanus in the Gulf of Maine
- C. Mitchell/Bigelow
3:42 p.m.Phytoplankton Community Structure in the Tropical Atlantic (PPTX, 5.2 MB)
- A. Subramaniam/Columbia University
3:48 p.m.Diel Vertical Migrations of Mesozooplankton: Asymmetry in Swimming and Mixing
- Y. Su/Brown University
3:54 p.m.Regional and basin scale trends in ocean NPP linked to climate change
- J Wu/Columbia University

Icy Ecosystems

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
4:00 p.m.S. Bushinsky/University of Hawai′i Manoa
4:12 p.m.Remote Sensing of Biophysical Properties in Coastal Arctic Waters – Preliminary Results (PPTX, 8.6 MB)
- W. Moses/Naval Research Laboratory
4:24 p.m.Arctic Deltas and Coastal Margins as Buffers and Transformers of Carbon
- M. Tzortziou/City College of New York
4:36 p.m.Assessing the lateral transfer of dissolved organic carbon from North American boreal terrestrial ecosystems to the Arctic Ocean using observations and models
- C. Fichot/Boston University
4:48 p.m.Characterizing Northern Alaskan River Runoff Over Sea Ice During Spring Freshets Using Remote Sensing Reflectance Spectra (PPTX, 13.3 MB)
- L. Catipovic/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
4:54 p.m.Wrap up day 1
- L. Lorenzoni

Agenda - Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry: Our Science – Spotlight on MUREP

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
9:00 a.m.Welcome/introduction to day 2
- L. Lorenzoni/NASA Headquarters
9:10 a.m.Focused Mentoring and Wider Workshops to Connect High School Students With NASA Science (PPTX, 18.2 MB)
- J. Beckler/Florida Atlantic University
9:25 a.m.Genomic-to-Space Measurements Reveal Global Ocean Nutrient Stress (PPTX, 3.3 MB)
- A. Martiny/University of California, Irvine
9:40 a.m.Engaging Students and Stakeholders in Predictions of Harmful Algal Blooms (PPTX, 59.7 MB)
- M. Peacock/Northwest Indian College
9:55 a.m.Integrating Systems Models and Remote Sensing to Explore Aquatic Ecosystem Vulnerability to Global Change in Lake Huron (PPTX, 35.9 MB)
- C. Calvo (on behalf of J. Martina)/Texas State U.
10:10 a.m.Remote Sensing of Sargassum Accumulation and Impacts on Tropical Marine Ecosystems (PPTX, 128.7 MB)
- R. nasa-flight-mission-updates/NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center/University of Puerto Rico
10:25 a.m.Wildfire impacts on watershed transport of carbon to coasts
- M. Lopez on behalf of E. Hestir/University of California, Merced/JPL
10:40 a.m.Mapping Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise to Support Healthy Coastal Communities in Hawai'i
- J. Burns/University of Hawai′i
10:55 a.m.Building and Evaluating Pipelines to Identify Submerged Kelps in New England from Remote Sensing Imagery (PPTX, 35.2 MB)
- J. Byrnes/University of Massachusetts Boston
11:10 a.m.Sometimes you have to walk first: public databases, Sargassum inundations, and downstream nutrient fluxes in the Caribbean
- E. Cruz-Rivera/Morgan State and University of Virgin Islands
11:25 a.m.Break - 25 min

NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group Updates

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
11:50 a.m.NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group Update (PPTX, 39.9 MB)
- B. Franz/NASA Goddard
12:10 p.m.SeaBASS (PPTX, 7.8 MB)
- C. Proctor, I. Soto/NASA Goddard
12:30 p.m.Field Program Support Group Update (in situ protocols, fieldwork) (PPTX, 16.4 MB)
- A. Mannino/NASA Goddard
12:40 a.m.GLIMR (PPTX, 43.8 MB)
- A. Mannino on behalf of J. Salisbury/NASA Goddard
12:50 p.m.Lunch - 1 hour 10 min

NASA Flight/Mission Updates

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
2:00 p.m.Flight program updates (PACE and PACE SVC)
- J. Werdell/NASA Goddard
2:20 p.m.PACE SAT Updates (PPTX, 35.8 MB)
- H. Dierssen/University of Connecticut
2:35 p.m.PACE Applications Updates (PPTX, 69.2 MB)
- M. Tzortziou/NASA Goddard
2:45 a.m.Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) (PPTX, 9.0 MB)
- K. Turpie/University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2:55 p.m.A Brief Overview of the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) (PPTX, 32.1 MB)
- K. Knoblespiesse/NASA Goddard
3:00 p.m.Break - 25 min

Existing, Emerging, and Future of Remote Sensing

TimeSpeaker/Affiliation
3:30 p.m.Tracking the Wildfire Response of California's Giant Kelp Forests (PPTX, 17.1 MB)
- L. Berberian/University of California, Merced
3:36 p.m.Fish From Space: Acoustic and remote sensing data fusion reveals the dynamics of mid-trophic level organisms (PPTX, 141.2 MB)
- J. Guiet/University of California, Los Angeles
3:48 p.m.Demonstrating Fresh and Coastal Water Products from PACE/OCI Proxy Observations (PPTX, 55.8 MB)
- R. O’Shea/SSAI
3:54 p.m.Aquaverse: An aquatic inversion scheme for remote sensing of fresh and coastal waters (PPTX, 20.8 MB)
- A. Ashapure/SSAI
4:00 p.m.Atmospheric CO2 observations over the ocean from OCO-2: Challenges and Opportunities
- A. Chatterjee/JPL (OCO)
4:12 p.m.Toward Understanding the Drivers of Global Kelp Forest Dynamics (PPTX, 55.5 MB)
- T. Bell/Woods Hole Oceanic Institute
4:24 p.m.Evaluating the Use of Satellite Remote Sensing for cyanoHAB Public Health Warnings (PPTX, 4.7 MB)
- B. Lopez Barreto/University of California, Merced
4:30 p.m.Wrap up
- L. Lorenzoni/NASA Headquarters
4:45 p.m.Adjourn to JSW poster session

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