NASA Ocean Color Research Team (OCRT)
Meeting Agenda
4-6 May 2009 (New York City, NY)
MON - 4 May
NASA Headquarters Update
9:00-9:05
Welcome/Logistics - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
9:05-9:30
Program Update for NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
Current and Future Projects, Data Policy Updates
9:30-9:45
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) and NPOESS Program Update - K. Turpie/NASA GSFC
9:45-10:00
Pathfinder to MODIS to VIIRS: Evolution of a CDR - B. Evans/Univ. Miami
10:00-10:30
SeaWiFS, MODIS Reprocessing, Ocean Biology Processing Group Update/ISRO/ESA Collaborations - B. Franz/NASA GSFC/SAIC
10:30-11:00
BREAK
11:00-11:30
Earth Science Update - J. Kaye/NASA HQ
11:30-12:00
Cal/Val Office Update/AOP Workshop/Round Robins - S. Hooker/NASA GSFC
12:00-1:30
LUNCH
Project/Program Updates
1:30-2:00
Semi-Analytical Algorithm Workshop/SeaBASS Update - J. Werdell/NASA GSFC/SSAI
2:00-2:15
NACP/Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Office - G. McKinley/Univ. Wisconsin
2:15-2:30
Ocean, Carbon, & Biogeochemistry Program Update - W. McGillis/Columbia Univ.
2:30-3:00
Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (ACE) Mission - C. McClain/NASA GSFC
3:00-3:30
BREAK
3:30-4:00
Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE Mission/Korea's GOCI Mission - A. Mannino/NASA GSFC & J. Campbell/Univ. New Hampshire
4:00-4:15
Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (Hyspiri) - F. Muller-Karger/Univ. Mass.-Dartmouth
4:15-4:30
The airborne sensor: PRISM - H. Dierssen/Univ. Connecticut
4:30-4:50
MEASURES PAR - R. Frouin/UCSD-SIO
4:50-5:10
The Ocean Color MEASURES Project - S. Maritorena/UCSB
5:10-5:30
Mapping Subsurface Density Profiles - M. Oliver/Univ. Delaware
TUE - 5 May
8:45 - 9:00
Use of SeaWiFS data in human-environment research and for indicator development - A. de Sherbinin/Columbia Univ.
Field Campaigns
9:00-9:30
Investigations into the biology and biogeochemistry of a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean - K. Arrigo/Stanford Univ.
9:30-9:50
Cal/Val Efforts in Ligurian Sea (2008-09) - C. Trees/NATO NURC
9:50-10:10
Southern Ocean GasEx Cruise 2008 - C. DelCastillo/Johns Hopkins Univ.
10:10-10:40
The ocean below: reducing uncertainty in satellite ocean color products with measurements made from gliders and floats - M.J. Perry/Univ. Maine
10:40-11:00
BREAK
Project Updates
11:00-11:30
Particles, Backscattering & Ocean Color: Status & Path(s) Forward - D. Siegel/UCSB
11:30-12:00
Abandoning Sverdrup - M. Behrenfeld/Oregon State Univ.
12:00-1:30
LUNCH
1:30-2:00
Trait trade offs and cell size for ocean ecosystem modeling - S. Dutkiewicz/MIT
2:00-2:20
Applications of MODIS SWIR-based Ocean Color Remote Sensing - W. Shi/NOAA
2:20-2:40
Phytoplankton Community Size Structure in the Global Ocean - C. Mouw/Univ. Wisconsin
2:40-3:00
IOPs of suspended sediments in rivers and coastal margins - towards modeling turbid-water photochemistry from space - M. Estapa / Univ. Maine
3:00-3:30
BREAK
3:30-4:00
A class-based approach to characterizing and mapping the uncertainty of the MODIS ocean chlorophyll product - T. Moore/Univ. New Hampshire
4:00-4:30
Beyond Fluorescence Line Height - making sense from phytoplankton fluorescence - R. Morrison/Univ. New Hampshire
4:30-5:00
Plankton Analysis by automated submersible imagining-in-flow cytometry - H. Sosik/WHOI
WED - 6 May
Project Updates
8:30-9:00
Coastal ocean color remote sensing: Where are we and what's next - C. Hu/Univ. South Florida
9:00-9:30
Ocean Acidification of the Greater Caribbean Region 1999-2009 - D. Gledhill/NOAA NESDIS
9:30-10:00
Coastal Time Series: Documenting change across the land-sea transition zone - B. Balch/Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
10:00-10:30
BREAK
10:30-11:00
Progress in ocean product development using CALIPSO combined with other sensors - Y. Hu/NASA Langley
11:00-11:30
Rrs Modeling and the BRDF Correction - Z. Lee/Mississippi State Univ.
11:30-12:00
Phytoplankton C:Chl ratio differences between the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans: implications for estimates of carbon biomass - W. Wang/Univ. Maryland
12:00-12:30
Feedback and Action Items - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
12:30
ADJOURN