Speaker presentations and Webcast recordings are now available.

SECOORA at The Coastal Society

On Wednesday, June 16, SECOORA will be hosting a panel at the 22nd International Conference of The Coastal Society, being held in Wilmington, NC.  The panel is entitled "Supporting Regional Coastal and Ocean Managers: Linking Ocean Observing Tools and Capabilities to the Priority Needs of Managers and Users in the Southeast Region".
 
Presenters include: Debra Hernandez, SECOORA, Harvey Seim, UNC-Chapel Hill, Susan Libes, Coastal Carolina University, and a representative of the Digital Hurricane Consortium. The panel will focus on three of SECOORA's priority areas: Ecosystems, Marine Operations, and Coastal Hazards.

 

SECOORA will also be sponsoring a booth throughout the conference in coordination with NFRA, ACT, NERACOOS, and MACOORA.  

 

SECOORA's current fiscal year is coming to an end on June 30, and we are ramping up for another membership drive! Many of you already received membership information from Cliff Merz, SECOORA Treasurer and Finance and Audit Committee Chairperson. If not, please contact him at cmerz@dialytics.com for information on how to join our organization. Administrative questions may be directed to Susannah Sheldon at susannah@secoora.org. If you know of any individuals or institutions that may be interested in joining, please have them contact us as well!  We appreciate your assistance in reaching out to the coastal and ocean observing community in the Southeast, and your continued interest in our success.

 

SECOORA members continue to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf. 

Some recent press includes: 

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy asked Ocean Leadership to be the conduit for a meeting with the academic research community on the fates and effects of the oil leak. With less than a 36-hour notice, over 50 people representing 12 member institutions, including some in the Gulf Coast, were able to participate.  The meeting was an opportunity for the Federal government to hear from the academic community on the short-term and long-term research needs of the oil spill and its aftermath. Dr. John Holdren, Science Advisor to the President, and Dr. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, moderated the half day long meeting. 

 

SECOORA was well represented by to Dick Dodge, Mitch Roffer, John Proni, and Frank Mueller-Karger.  Discussion at the meeting was focused on three areas: talking about the fate of the oil, the effects of the oil, and needed research.

 

Much of the meeting focused on what we need to know, including the following:

 View materials from the meeting:

Florida Delegation Letter to President
The Florida Delegation sent a letter to the President of the United States titled Urgent Data Collection Needs Related to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Plume.  

 

Rutgers has developed a web portal to provide a gathering place and social network to optimize efforts in the Gulf.  The system includes 1) an email distribution list 2) a series of links to other extremely useful web sites (federal, academic, and commercial), 3) a library (that will hopefully grow) of Google Earth KMZ produced by many partners (these KMZ files can be downloaded to work on your computer), 4) a blog site which is open to everyone to use (note: you must register to get access to the Word Press blogging software.  The link is at the top right of the page), and 5) a scraping tool for media reports which will go to an archive.

Read the NOAA IOOS Z-Gram for May 14, 2010

May 23-26, 2010 Pattullo Conference, Charleston, SC

 

May 27-28, 2010 SouthEast Coastal Oceanography and Meteorology (SECOM), Tallahassee, FL

 

 

June 8-10, 2010 ENERGYOCEAN 2010, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

 

June 9, 2010 Forum on Earth Observations, Washington, DC

  

 

November 3-5, 2010 Sustainable Ocean Energy & the Marine Environment, Palm Beach Gardens, FL