NASA Ocean Color Research Team (OCRT)

Meeting Agenda
11-13 April 2006 (Newport, RI)

TUE - 11 Apr

NASA Headquarters Update

8:30-8:35 Welcome -- P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

8:35-9:00 Program Update for NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry (Advance Planning/ROSES/Budget) -- P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

Future Project Updates

9:00-9:30 NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) and NPOESS Programs & NASA-NOAA Research to Operations Working Group -- J. Gleason/NASA GSFC

9:30-9:50 NPP VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite) -- W. Esaias/NASAGSFC

9:50-10:10 GLORY Mission and Possibilities for Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry -- J. Chowdhary/NASA GISS

10:10-10:30 BREAK

Current Project Updates

10:30-11:00 Terra/Aqua MODIS & Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Data Processing -- C. McClain/NASA GSFC

11:00-11:20 Data Policy, SeaBASS, Modeling -- G. Fargion/UCSD- CHORS

Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction

11:20-11:40 Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program -- D. Anderson/NASA HQ

11:40-12:00 Assimilation and Ocean Color Modeling -- W. Gregg/NASA GSFC

12:00-1:15 LUNCH

Advance Planning Discussion

1:15 - 2:30

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

2:30-3:00 BREAK

3:00-3:55 Discussion and Community Input/Recommendations -- P. DiGiacomo/NASA JPL and P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

3:55-4:00 Expansion of Argo capabilities -- B. M. Uz/UMD

Atmospheric Correction

4:00-4:20 Refinement of MODIS Atmospheric Correction Algorithm -- M. Wang/NOAA NESDIS

4:20-4:40 Atmospheric correction of satellite ocean-color imagery -- R. Frouin/UCSD-SIO

4:40-5:00 Coastal Water Retrievals of Aerosol Optical Properties -- K. Stamnes/Stevens Inst. Tech.

5:30-8:00 Poster Session

6:00-6:30 GIOVANNI Demo - Jim Acker/NASA GSFC

6:30-8:00 Food/Cash Bar

WED - 12 Apr

Carbon Research

9:00-9:20 The mechanisms driving interannual variability in air-sea CO2 flux -- S. Doney/WHOI

9:20-9:40 Algorithms for Prediction of Coastal CO2 -- R. Letelier/OSU

9:40-10:00 Assessment of River Margin Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes -- S. Lohrenz/ USM

10:00-10:20 Organic Matter Metabolism in a Coastal Ocean Ecosystem -- P. Matrai/Bigelow Lab.

10:20-10:40 BREAK

10:40-11:00 The Bermuda Bio-optical project -- N. Nelson/UCSB

11:00-11:20 Eddy-driven changes in phytoplankton species composition in the Sargasso Sea -- D. McGillicuddy/WHOI

11:20-11:40 An interdisciplinary study of land-sea carbon coupling between Maine's Penobscot River and the Gulf of Maine -- B. Balch/Bigelow Laboratory

11:40-1:00 LUNCH

Carbon Budgets/Modeling

1:00-1:20 Eastern U.S. Continental Shelf Carbon Budget -- E. Hofmann/ODU

1:20-1:40 Carbon Cycle off the West Coast of North America -- J. McWilliams/UCLA

1:40-2:00 Carbon Flux along Continental Margins -- F. Muller-Karger/USF

2:00-2:20 Nutrient Budgets and Carbon Export -- S. Neuer/Arizona State University

Carbon and Interdisciplinary Science (con't)

2:20-2:40 Aeolian Iron Input and Ocean Nitrogen/Carbon Cycle -- Y. Gao/Rutgers Univ.

2:40-3:00 Can the Photochemical Oxidation of Carbon to CO2 on Continental Shelves Be Estimated From Satellite Ocean Color Measurements? -- R. DelVecchio/UMD

3:00-3:20 BREAK

3:20-3:40 Nutrient constraints in the tropical Pacific -- M. Behrenfeld/OSU

3:40-4:00 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

4:00-4:30 SeaWiFS Analog Chlorophyll Algorithm Refinement (Improving the Chl algorithm) -- J. Campbell/Univ. of New Hampshire

4:30-4:50 A semi-analytical ocean color inherent optical property model: approach and application -- T. Smyth/PML

5:30-7:00 Poster Session (Plaza Foyer)

THU - 13 Apr

Coupled Bio-Physical/Productivity

8:30-9:00 Primary Production from Space -- M. E. Carr/NASA JPL

9:00-9:20 Spatial and Temporal Variability in Chlorophyll, Primary Production and Export Production in the Southern Ocean -- G. Mitchell/UCSD-SIO

9:20-9:40 Seagrass, CDOM, and sediments: Remote sensing in optically shallow waters of the Bahamas Banks and Florida Bay -- H. Dierssen/Univ. of Connecticut

9:40-10:00 Physical Forcing of Phytoplankton on the New England Shelf -- H. Sosik/WHOI

10:00-10:20 Meso- to Submesoscale Variability of Marine Biological Patchiness -- D. Glover/WHOI