Tuesday, September 27, 2005

8:00 Continental Breakfast, Penobscot Room foyer
9:00 Welcoming remarks -
9:15 Overview talks

• Goals, motivation, and guidance - Janet Campbell [Powerpoint: 725Kb]
• CDOM and its influence on satellite-derived chlorophyll - Stephane Maritorena
• Discussion

10:30 Break
11:00 Framework

• Brief background on SeaBAM methods - Jay O'Reilly
• Performance criteria for algorithms - Janet Campbell [Powerpoint: 1Mb]
• The NOMAD dataset - Jeremy Werdell [PDF: 564Kb]

12 noon - Lunch (NEC dining room)
1:30 Algorithms

• The GSM algorithm - Stephane Maritorena
• The UTOPIA algorithm - Mark Dowell
• Linear matrix inversion: advantages and disadvantages - Paul Lyon
• Algorithms optimized for Long Island Sound - Dirk Aurin

3:00 Break
3:30 Discussion of the questions that need to be answered - led by Janet and Stephane

This session will identify questions that can be answered during the workshop

Adjourn
Group dinner:  Location - The Blue Mermaid Restaurant, Portsmouth, NH

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

8:00 Continental Breakfast, Penobscot Room foyer
8:30 Feedback from yesterday's discussion
9:00 Inversion methods and other issues

• Sensitivity to the atmospheric correction - Robert Frouin
• Inversion methods make a difference - Janet Campbell [Powerpoint: 775Kb]
• HPLC vs. fluorometric chlorophylls - Chuck Trees

10:00 Break
10:30 Inversion methods and other issues - continued

• A new empirical algorithm - Jay O'Reilly
• Isopleths of chlorophyll in radiance space - Janet Campbell [Powerpoint: 438Kb]
• Field data and algorithm reviews by the OBPG - Jeremy Werdell [PDF: 853Kb]

12 noon - Lunch (NEC Dining Room)
1:30 Reaching consensus

• Discussion:  Have we reached consensus as to whether to change the chlorophyll algorithm?  If so, how should it be changed?
• What further analyses should be conducted by participants?

3:00 Break
3:30 Next steps

• Reporting on our workshop: plans for submitting a poster to Ocean Sciences
• Reactions of the OBPG to recommendations - Chuck McClain

5:30 Adjourn