Ocean Color Research Team Meeting

Wednesday - 11 Apr 2007


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

8:35-9:00 - Update from NASA Headquarters/NRC Decadal Survey - M. Freilich/NASA HQ

9:00-9:30 - Program Update for NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry (Advance Planning/ROSES/Budget/OCB/SOCP/ORPP) - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

Current and Future Projects, Data Policy Updates (Paris Ballroom)

9:30-9:55 - NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) and NPOESS Program Update - J. Gleason/NASA GSFC

9:55-10:20 - SeaWiFS, Aqua MODIS, Ocean Biology Processing Group Update - C. McClain/NASA GSFC

10:20-10:40 BREAK

10:40-10:55 - Status of Terra MODIS Ocean Color - B. Franz/NASA GSFC/SAIC

10:55-11:10 - MODIS 250 & 500-meter Bands for Oceans - B. Franz/NASA GSFC/SAIC

11:10-11:25 - Coastal Application Development:A Chesapeake Bay Case Study - J. Werdell/NASA GSFC/SSAI

11:25-11:45 - Data Policy, Archive, Data Product Workshop Report - G. Fargion/SDSU

11:45-12:00 - Use of Ocean Remote Sensing Data in the IOOS Era - D. Foley/U. Hawaii/JIMAR

12:00-1:15 LUNCH 

Vicarious Calibration and Validation Activities (Paris Ballroom)

1:15-1:45 - Current and Future Calibration and Validation Activities Advance Planning, and Future Round Robins: Will We Be Ready for the Next Mission? - S. Hooker/NASA GSFC 

1:45-2:05 - On-going Vicarious Calibration Activities - J. Werdell/NASA GSFC/SSAI

2:05-2:25 - Spectral Ocean Radiance Transfer Investigation and Experiment (SORTIE) - K. Voss/Univ. of Miami

2:25-2:45 - HPLC Fix Update - G. Fargion/SDSU

2:45-3:05 - HPLC Processing, Progress, Uncertainties - L. VanHeukelem/UMD-HPL

3:05 - 3:30 BREAK

Advance Planning Discussion: (Ballroom)

3:30-4:00 - Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Advance Planning: The Undiscovered World Report Overview - D. Siegel/UCSB 

Next Steps - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

Time Series for Earth System Data Records (Paris Ballroom)

4:00-4:25 - Ocean Color Climate Data Records - W. Gregg/NASA GSFC

4:25-4:50 - Ocean Color Time Series - S. Maritorena/UCSB

4:50-5:00 - GlobColour - S. Lavender/UoP

6:00-7:00 - Poster Session/Cash Bar - Plaza outside Ballroom 

Thursday - 12 Apr 2007

Advances in Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (Paris Ballroom)

9:00 - 9:20 - Ecological Modeling Skill Assessment Workshops - D. McGillicuddy/WHOI

9:20 - 9:50 - Thoughts on Modeling Community Structure - M. Follows/MIT

9:50 - 10:20 - Seasonal Plankton Cycles in the Subpolar North Pacific and Atlantic Revisited - P. Schultz/Princeton Univ.

10:20-10:40  BREAK

10:40-11:10 - U.S. Eastern Continental Shelf (U.S. ECoS) Carbon Budget: Modeling, Data Assimilation and Analysis - M. Friedrichs/VIMS

11:10-11:40 - Connections between ocean color and oceanic vertical exchange - A. Gnanadesikan/NOAA GFDL

Prospective Workshops (Paris Ballroom)

11:40-11:45 - EEMs - P. Coble/U. South Florida

11:45-11:50 - Quantifying atmospheric soluble iron input to the ocean: A workshop design - Y. Gao/Rutgers University

11:50-1:00  LUNCH

New Frontiers for Ocean Observing: (Paris Ballroom)

1:00-1:30 - Perspectives on Observational Frontiers - R. Zaneveld/WetLabs, Inc.

1:30-2:00 - CO2 and organic Carbon flux - K. Banse/U. Washington

2:00-2:30 - APEX Floats - E. Boss/U. Maine

2:30-3:00 - CALIPSO work in ocean color - Y. Hu/NASA Langley

3:00-3:15 - BREAK

Ocean Carbon, Biogeochemistry, and Interdisciplinary Research: (Paris Ballroom)

3:15-3:45 - Colored Dissolved Organic Material Distributions from CLIVAR - N. Nelson/UCSB

3:45-4:15 - Export production from ocean color - T. Westberry/OSU

4:15-4:45 - Net Community Production in the Southern Ocean - M. Bender/Princeton Univ.

4:45-5:00 - IDS Gulf of Maine work - B. Balch/Bigelow Lab.

5:30-6:00 - IOCCG Town Hall (J. Yoder/IOCCG Chair/WHOI)

6:00-7:00 - Poster Session/Cash Bar 


Friday - 13 Apr 2007

Ocean Carbon, Biogeochemistry, and Interdisciplinary Research: (Paris Ballroom)

8:30-9:00 - The impact of large tropical rivers on nitrogen fixation and carbon sequestration - A. Subramaniam/Columbia Univ.-LDEO

9:00-9:30 - Ocean-climate coupling: biogeochemical responses in the tropical Pacific during 1950-2005  W. Wang/Univ. of Maryland

9:30-10:00 - Empirical algorithm for global chlorophyll: Is it really that bad? Z. Lee/NRL

10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30-11:00 - Coral reef observations and modeling - E. Hochberg/U. Hawaii

11:00-11:30 - Eurasian warming driven changes in hydrography and biological productivity in the Arabian Sea -  J. Goes/Bigelow Lab.

11:30-12:00 - Feedback and Action Items  P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

12:00 ADJOURN