NASA Ocean Color Research Team (OCRT)

Meeting Agenda
14-16 April 2004 (Washington, D.C.)

WED - 14 Apr

NASA Headquarters Update (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

8:30-8:35 Welcome & NASA's Strategy for an Integrated Ocean Color Team - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

8:35-9:15 NASA ESE Focus Areas, Ocean Research, and Interagency Efforts - J. Kaye/NASA HQ

9:15-9:45 NASA's Vision for Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry (Questions/Themes/Roadmaps/Budgets) - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

9:45-10:00 NASA's Role in the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) & Update on SST - E. Lindstrom/NASA HQ

10:00-10:15 NASA's Coastal Management (Application) Program - L. Friedl/NASA HQ

10:15-10:30 BREAK

Agency Plans (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

10:30-10:50 IWG Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC) Report & North American Carbon Program (NACP) Ocean Component- S. Doney/WHOI

10:50-11:10 CCSP Ocean Color Collaborations - M. Conkright Gregg /NOAA Climate Office / Climate Change Science Program Office (CCSPO)

11:10-11:30 NSF's ORION (Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks): The Coastal Component - J. Yoder/NSF

Projects (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

11:30-11:50 MODIS Terra/Aqua - C. McClain/NASA GSFC

11:50-1:00 LUNCH (Salon C)

1:00-1:25 GOES-R: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES)- S. Wilson/NOAA NESDIS

Discussion Session I (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

1:30-3:00 Topics:

Structure for a Future Calibration/Validation Program for Ocean Color Data: What does the community need? - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
Vicarious Measurement Requirements/MOBY - D. Clark/NOAA NESDIS
SeaPRISM, Venice Tower, BOUSSOLE - S. Bailey/NASA GSFC
Coastal Cal/Val Requirements - B. Arnone/NRL-SSC
Polarization Discrimination of Fluorescence - S. Ahmed/NASA COSI

3:00-3:20 BREAK

3:20-4:15 Calibration/Validation of Ocean Color Data (continued)

4:15-5:00 Results from MODIS Calibration Workshop - J. Mueller/SDSU

5:30-8:00 Poster Session (Great Hall- Salon E)

(6:30-8:00) Food/Cash Bar (Salon D)

THU - 15 Apr

Agency Plans (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

8:30-8:45 ONR Optical, AUV's and Hyperspectral Programs - J. Cleveland/ONR

8:45-9:05 NOAA Repeat Survey & Ships of Opportunity - R. Feely/NOAA PMEL

Data Issues (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

9:05-9:45 Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Processing - C. McClain, G. Feldman/NASA GSFC Processing Part 2

9:45-10:00 Protocols and HPLC Analysis for Pigments - C. Trees/SDSU

10:00-10:15 BREAK

10:15-10:30 Ocean Color Time Series - W. Gregg/NASA GSFC

10:30-11:00 NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) & National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite) - B. Murphy/NASA GSFC

Discussion Session II (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

11:00-12:15 Topics:

Climate Data Records - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
A Model for Data Product Selection - C. McClain/NASA GSFC
MODIS Product Scope - C. DelCastillo/NASA HQ

12:15-1:30 LUNCH (Buffet in Salon D)

Discussion Session III (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

1:30-2:45 Topics:

Future Planning for Remote Sensing Measurements & In Situ Concepts - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ
Future directions in science - D. Barber/Duke University
Phytoplankton Physiology and Productivity - M. Behrenfeld/NASA WFF
PhyLM - M. Behrenfeld/NASA WFF
Laser Fluorescence Analysis of Phytoplankton: Beyond Chlorophyll Concentration - A. Chekalyuk/NASA WFF
NASA UAV-Ocean Color Imager - J. Myers/SAIC NASA ARC
Biogeochemical Sensors on Autonomous/Lagrangian Platforms - M.J. Perry/Darling M R Center
What is the ideal Coastal Mission: Hyperspectral or geostationary or both? - J. Campbell/Univ. of New Hampshire
Ocean Color Science: A Need for Measurements Based on a Reductionist Approach - D. Stramski/UCSD SIO
Constraining model parameterizations of our governing equations for spectral reflectance and primary production: A 10-year concept - B. G. Mitchell/UCSD SIO

2:45-3:05 BREAK

3:05-5:00 Future Planning for Remote Sensing Measurements & In Situ Concepts (continued)

5:30-7:00 Poster Session (Salon E and Great Hall)

FRI - 16 Apr

Projects (con't) (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

8:45-9:00 Earth Science Education - P. Coble/NASA HQ

9:00-9:20 Evolution of EOSDIS, Science Data Systems, and DAACs - M. Maiden/NASA HQ

9:20-9:35 SeaWiFS - G. Feldman/NASA GSFC

9:35-9:55 MERIS - J. Aiken/Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

9:55-10:10 EO-1 - B. Arnone/NRL-SSC

10:10-10:25 NPP VIIRS - W. Esaias/NASA GSFC

10:10-10:25 BREAK

10:25-12:00 Feedback and Action Items (Working Group Formation) - P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

12:00 ADJOURN

NASA Ocean Color Research Team (OCRT)

Meeting Agenda14-16 April 2004 (Washington, D.C.)

WED - 14 Apr

NASA Headquarters Update (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Agency Plans (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Projects (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Discussion Session I (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

THU - 15 Apr

Agency Plans (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Data Issues (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Discussion Session II (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Discussion Session III (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

FRI - 16 Apr

Projects (con't) (Grand Ballroom - Salons A & B)

Meeting Agenda
14-16 April 2004 (Washington, D.C.)