NASA Ocean Color Research Team (OCRT)

Meeting Agenda
May 2023

Mon - 8 May 2023

NASA Headquarters Update

9:00 am

Welcome/program update for NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry/ Advanced Science Plan/Community Q & A
– L. Lorenzoni / NASA, J. Scott/NASA Headquarters

Marine Debris Detection

10:00 am

Optical remote sensing of marine debris: what’s possible and how?
- C.Hu/USF

10:12 am

SQOOP: Spaceborne quantification of Ocean micrO-Plastics
- H. Dierssen / U. Connecticut

10:24 am

Fluorescence Lidar for Ocean Research and Observations (FLORO) investigates lidar measurements
- M Cowell/ Ball Aerospace

10:36 am

- V. Chirayath / U. Miami

10:48 am

Toward Optical Characterization of Marine Microplastic Pollution
- R. Foster/NRL

11:00 am

- BREAK (20 min) -

Advances in foundational and future optics

11:20 am

Uncertainties in Remote Sensing Reflectance Product from Ocean Color Satellite Sensors
- A Gilerson/CCNY

11:32 am

Developing a data-driven model to minimize adjacency effects in Landsat-8 imagery
- C. Begeman / SSAI

11:44 am

CALIGOLA and POLCUBE: Introduction of Measurement Capability
- Y. Hu / NASA Langley

11:56 am

Advantages of lidar for ocean research: spotlight on CALIPSO and ICESat-2
- K. Bisson / OSU

12:02 pm

Quantifying uncertainty via machine learning models in aquatic remote sensing
- A. Saranathan / SSAI

12:14 pm

Cross-calibration of ocean color sensors in polar orbit using an intermediary geostationary sensor
- J. Tan / SIO

12:20 pm

- LUNCH (1 hr, 20 min) -

Carbon and climate

1:40 pm

EXPORTS update
- I. Cetinić / GSFC

2:00 pm

Sea Surface pCO2 reconstruction and assessment in the Western Arctic Ocean under a changing climate
- Y.Li / U. Delaware

2:12 pm

Ocean carbon and oxygen response to Mt Pinatubo
- G. McKinley/ Columbia U Land ocean continuum

Land ocean continuum

2:24 pm

A Land to Sea Paradigm: Impact of Spatially and Temporally Varying Nutrient and Freshwater Fluxes on Coastal Carbon Dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- M. Gierach/JPL

2:36 pm

Estimating carbon fluxes using remotely sensed river discharge
- J. Gehring/ Northeastern

2:42 pm

Scaling patterns and tradeoffs in ecosystem resistance and resilience
- Lerner / TAMU

2:48 pm

Dissolved organic carbon and particle dynamics in Mississippi-Atchafalaya deltaic system using adaptive semi-analytic and multi-satellite approach
- E. D'sa/Louisiana State U.

3:00 pm

Mapping Concentration and Carbon Content of Total Suspended Solids in the Coastal Marshes and Estuaries of Louisiana Using Imaging Spectroscopy
- J. Harringmeyer / BU

3:06 pm

Quantifying the global sink of CDOM by photobleaching in the surface ocean using remote sensing
- X. Zhu / BU

3:12 pm

Impact of islands on ocean ecology
- G. Bourdin / U Maine

3:18 pm

- BREAK (12 min) -

Little life: marine phytoplankton and zooplankton

3:30 pm

Copepods from space: detecting swarms of Calanus in the Gulf of Maine
- C. Mitchell/Bigelow

3:42 pm

Phytoplankton community structure in the Tropical Atlantic
- A. Subramaniam/Columbia

3:48 pm

Diel Vertical Migrations of Mesozooplankton: Asymmetry in Swimming and Mixing
- Y. Su / Brown U

3:54 pm

Regional and basin scale trends in ocean NPP linked to climate change
- J Wu/ Columbia

Icy ecosystems

4:00 pm

- S. Bushinsky / U Hawai′i Manoa

4:12 pm

Remote Sensing of Biophysical Properties in Coastal Arctic Waters – Preliminary Results
- W. Moses/NRL

4:24 pm

Arctic Deltas and Coastal Margins as Buffers and Transformers of Carbon
- M. Tzortziou/CCNY

4:36 pm

Assessing the lateral transfer of dissolved organic carbon from North American boreal terrestrial ecosystems to the Arctic Ocean using observations and models
- C. Fichot / BU

4:48 pm

Characterizing Northern Alaskan river runoff over sea ice during spring freshets using remote sensing reflectance spectra
- L. Catipovic / WHOI

4:54 pm

Wrap up day 1
- L. Lorenzoni

Tue - 9 May 2023

Ocean biology and biogeochemistry: Our Science – spotlight on MUREP

9:00 am

Welcome/ introduction to day 2
- L. Lorenzoni / NASA Headquarters

9:10 am

Focused mentoring and wider workshops to connect high school students with NASA science
- J. Beckler / FAU

9:25 am

Genomic-to-space measurements reveal global ocean nutrient stress
- A. Martiny/UCI

9:40 am

Engaging Students and Stakeholders in Predictions of Harmful Algal Blooms
- M. Peacock / NWIC

9:55 am

Integrating Systems Models and Remote Sensing to Explore Aquatic Ecosystem Vulnerability to Global Change in Lake Huron
- C. Calvo (on behalf of J. Martina)/Texas State U.

10:10 am

Remote Sensing of Sargassum Accumulation and Impacts on Tropical Marine Ecosystems
- R. Armstrong/UPR

10:25 am

Wildfire impacts on watershed transport of carbon to coasts
- M. Lopez on behalf of E. Hestir/U. Merced / JPL

10:40 am

Mapping coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise to support healthy coastal communities in Hawai′i
- J. Burns /U. Hawai′i

10:55 am

Building and Evaluating Pipelines to Identify Submerged Kelps in New England from Remote Sensing Imagery
- J. Byrnes/UMass. Boston

11:10 am

Sometimes you have to walk first: public databases, Sargassum inundations, and downstream nutrient fluxes in the Caribbean
- E. Cruz-Rivera/Morgan State & UVI

11:25 pm

- BREAK (25 min) -

NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group updates

11:50 am

NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group update
- B. Franz / NASA GSFC

12:10 pm

SeaBASS
- C. Proctor, I. Soto / NASA GSFC

12:30 pm

Field program support group update (in situ protocols, fieldwork)
- A. Mannino / NASA GSFC

12:40 pm

GLIMR
- A. Mannino on behalf of J. Salisbury / NASA GSFC

12:50 pm

- LUNCH (1 hr, 10 min) -

NASA flight/mission updates

2:00 pm

Flight program updates (PACE and PACE SVC)
- J. Werdell/ NASA GSFC

2:20 pm

PACE SAT updates
- H. Dierssen/UCONN

2:35 pm

PACE Applications updates
- M. Tzortziou/NASA GSFC

2:45 pm

SBG
- K. Turpie/UMBC

2:55 pm

AOS
- K. Knoblespiesse/GSFC

3:05 pm

- BREAK (25 min) -

Existing, emerging, and future of remote sensing

3:30 pm

Tracking the wildfire response of California's giant kelp forests
- L. Berberian / UC Merced

3:36 pm

Fish from space: Acoustic and remote sensing data fusion reveals the dynamics of mid-trophic level organisms
- J. Guiet / UCLA

3:48 pm

Demonstrating Fresh and Coastal Water Products from PACE/OCI Proxy Observations
- R. O’Shea /SSAI

3:54 pm

Aquaverse: An Aquatic Inversion scheme for remote sensing of fresh and coastal waters
- A. Ashapure /SSAI

4:00 pm

Atmospheric CO2 observations over the ocean from OCO-2: Challenges and Opportunities
- A. Chatterjee/JPL (OCO)