Ocean.US

Design and implementation of an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) for the seven societal goals requires participation and support from a broad spectrum of communities and organizations. Since its inception in 2000, Ocean.US has convened meetings and workshops aimed at bringing together diverse groups of stakeholders for the purpose of catalyzing the coordinated development of the IOOS within the framework of the international Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

22-24 July 2008: IOOS Modeling and Analysis Workshop (Washington, DC)
At this second meeting for MAST, over 50 representatives of the IOOS National Backbone and RCOOS modeling and analysis communities, along with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) investigators and various programmatic observers, met for two-and-a-half days in July 2008 to review their collective progress, and to develop a plan for implementing the prediction and analysis component of IOOS. Meeting Website

24-26 September 2007: Maritime Domain Awareness Workshop (Washington, DC) Organized by the national interagency Office of Global Maritime Situational Awareness and by Ocean.US, the goal of the summit was to engage the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) communities in the identification of potential synergies between MDA and IOOS that will provide a framework for future collaboration and help to guide IOOS development in support of the MDA mission. Final Report Now Available

28-29 November 2006: IOOS Community Modeling Workshop (Washington, DC)
Ocean.US has established a Modeling and Analysis Steering Team (MAST) to help guide the development of modeling activities in support of the goals of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), the U.S. contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and to the oceans-and-coasts component of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). As its first act, the MAST convened a community modeling workshop to assemble a broad spectrum of 50-60 experts who use model-based products or are engaged in modeling oceanic and coastal systems for both research and operational applications.
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23-25 January 2006: Assessing Public Health Risks: Coastal Observations for Decision Making (St. Petersburg, FL)

This workshop is designed to bring together managers, coastal public health officials, and scientists to identify observations and environmental information needed for ecosystem-based decision making for public health issues related to coastal waters. One key goal of this workshop is to develop a blueprint for building an integrated global ocean observation and disease surveillance system that can deliver useful and timely information about ocean and coastal public health risks to managers and decision-makers. While the need for observations to address a suite of public health issues is apparent, this workshop will focus on issues broadly related to beach management, including pathogens, marine diseases, harmful algal blooms and marine biotoxins, and will introduce the use of sentinel species issues as they related to the above topics. Meeting Website

3-4 May 2005: Second IOOS Implementation Conference (Arlington, VA)

Recognizing that the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) must address data and information needs on global, national and regional scales, Ocean.US, in collaboration with the federal agencies and nascent Regional Associations (RAs), convened this forum for leaders involved in IOOS development on all three scales to work together in establishing priorities for IOOS Development, with an emphasis on natural hazards causing coastal inundation. Workshop Report (Lo-Res or Hi-Res) - Proceedings: Second IOOS Implementation Conference: Multi-Hazard Forecasting (Ocean.US Report No. 12) Meeting Website

18 March 2005: IOOS Industry Day (Washington, DC)

Representatives from industry and the private sector convened to discuss the potential role of industry in the planning and development of IOOS. Meeting Transcript Meeting Website

31 August - 2 September 2004: First Annual IOOS Implementation Conference (Arlington, VA)

Ocean.US, in collaboration with federal agencies, completed a preliminary IOOS Development Plan for the initial Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) in early August 2004. Recognizing that the plan must reflect both federal and common regional priorities, the First Annual IOOS Implementation Conference provided a forum for the leaders of nascent Regional Associations (RAs) to work directly with participating federal agencies to provide guidance for completing the First IOOS Development Plan. Workshop Report (Lo-Res or Hi-Res) - Proceedings: First Annual Implementation Conference for the Integrated Ocean Observing System (Ocean.US Report No. 8) Meeting Website

28-30 March 2004: Regional Organizational Workshop (Washington, DC)

The Regional Organizational Workshop continued the work of the 2003 Regional Summit and provided a venue for regional groups and federal agencies to establish criteria for certification of Regional Associations (RAs) as the entities responsible for governance of the integrated and sustained regional coastal ocean observing systems. Workshop Report — Regional Organizational Workshop: Building Regional Capacity for the IOOS (Ocean.US Report No. 5) Meeting Website

22-24 March 2004: IOOS-COOS and Education Workshop (Charleston, SC)

Participants at the IOOS-COOS and Education Workshop met to develop recommendations and a strategic implementation plan for education and communications allied with the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Workshop Report (Lo-Res or Hi-Res) - Promoting Lifelong Ocean Education: Using the IOOS to Shape Tomorrow&undefined;s Earth Stewards and the Science and Technology Work Force (Ocean.US Report No. 4) Meeting Website

29-30 October 2003: Observing Systems Forum: Determining the Need for Interoperability, Demonstrating the Value of Integration (Arlington, VA)

The Coastal Services Center co-hosted, with the Office of Naval Research, a one-day forum for grantees of regional coastal observing system projects. Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, 40 participants identified key components of ongoing efforts that can be integrated to demonstrate the value of working together toward an integrated ocean observing system. A consensus was reached to combine data now being collected on particular parameters and post products on a web site, with the objective of better informing the public of coastal conditions, such as sea surface temperature, currents, winds. Meeting Report Meeting Website

31 March - 1 April 2003: Regional Observing Systems Summit (Washington, DC)

The purpose of this summit was to reach consensus among scientists and other leaders in the development of ocean observing systems on actions needed to create and operate regional observing systems that can be linked together in a federation so as to contribute to and benefit from the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) as a whole. Workshop Report - Regional Ocean Observing Systems: An Ocean.US Summit (Ocean.US Report No. 3) Meeting Website

10-15 March 2002: Airlie House (Warrenton, VA)

The goal of this Ocean.US workshop was to provide information and guidance for the formulation of a phased implementation plan for a sustained and integrated ocean observing system (IOOS) for the U.S. Workshop Report — Building Consensus: Toward an Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System (Ocean.US Report No. 1) Summary Report — An Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System (IOOS) For the United States: Design and Implementation (Ocean.US Report No. 2) Meeting Website