[SCCOOS] SCCOOS News and Events

Wed Jun 29 11:33:38 PDT 2005

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                          SCCOOS NEWS AND EVENTS
                               29 June 2005
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NEWS
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 * "Watch The Water" Seeks Input for Stakeholder Report
 * Senate Earmarks IOOS Funding in Appropriations Bill
 * NFRA Continues to Garner Congressional Support
 * Governor's Association Addresses Drought Issues
 * The Renewable Natural Resources Foundation Releases Report on Coastal
    Solutions
 * CORE Workshop on Ocean Literacy Held
 * California Ocean Protection Council Meeting Held in San Francisco
 * SCCOOS Presented to Oil Spill Response Committee
 * Border Water Quality Roundtable Meeting Held
 * SCCOOS solicits input for planned Huntington Beach water quality study
 * Heal the Bay Annual Report Card Released
 * NOAA JIMO Funding Renewed
 * The SCCOOS Nearshore Working Group presented to SCCWRP

UPCOMING EVENTS
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 * [6 Jul 2005] SCCOOS Presentation to SMBRC
 * [7 Jul 2005] 2005 Clean Water Summit
 * [21 - 22 Jul 2005] Ocean and Coastal Economic Summit in Long Beach
 * [3 Aug 2005] The Wave of the Future: Shoreline Preservation
    Technologies and Strategies Board Conference

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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 * [1 July 2005] NOAA: Undersea Research Projects
 * [15 July 2005] NOAA Distinguished Scholars in Oceans and Human Health
    (OHH) opportunity
 * [15 July 2005] NSF: ADVANCE
 * [18 July 2005] NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
    (LTREB)
 * [10 February 2006] NASA ROSES: Research Opportunities in Space and
    Earth Sciences - 2005

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NEWS ITEMS POSTED THIS WEEK
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"Watch The Water" Seeks Input for Stakeholder Report
posted 27 June 2005

"Watch the Water," the real-time Los Angeles County Coastal Monitoring
Network led by Michael Bateman, seeks your input to their "Stakeholder
Project Experience Report;" this is a brief survey of 11 questions
designed not only for users of the current system, but for anyone who
would like to see similar sites developed for their own communities.
Your participation is critical to the network; survey results will be
used for a comprehensive project assessment, which will impact the
future of this site, as well as the development of others like it. The
survey may be accessed at
http://www.ahainc.com/stakeholders/stake_survey.htm.

"Watch the Water" is sponsored by the County of Los Angeles Fire
Department, Lifeguard Division, the County of Los Angeles Department of
Beaches and Harbors, and the USC Sea Grant Program, and is a SCCOOS
funding partner. http://watchthewater.co.la.ca.us

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Senate Earmarks IOOS Funding in Appropriations Bill
posted 27 June 2005

The Senate has included $109.7 million for the Integrated Ocean
Observing System in their version of the FY06 Appropriations bill. $47
million of this is earmarked for regional ocean observing initiatives,
including $1.5 million for SCCOOS. The remaining $62.7 million is
allocated across a variety of NOAA programs. See the Ocean Observation
System Coalition legislative update here
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/6-27-05OceanUpdate.doc].

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NFRA Continues to Garner Congressional Support
posted 27 June 2005

The National Federation of Regional Associations continues its
activities to garner support by the federal government for the Regional
Associations. The recommendations formally adopted at the NFRA Governing
Committee meeting in Washington, D.C. on 2 May were recently sent to the
Chair of the Ocean.US Executive Committee, and can be accessed here
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/nfra-excom.pdf]. Letters from NFRA to
Congressman Gilchrest and Senator Snowe can be accessed as pdfs here:
Gilchrest [http://www.sccoos.org/docs/gilchrest.pdf] and Snowe
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/snowe.pdf].

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Governor's Association Addresses Drought Issues
posted 27 June 2005

The Western Governor's Association (http://www.westgov.org) recently
adopted a Drought Resolution, calling for a "comprehensive, integrated
response to drought emergencies," and calling attention to "severe and
long-term droughts that have occurred in the Western United States" over
the past ten years. The Resolution offers strong support for GEOSS and
IEOS. view here [http://www.sccoos.org/docs/DroughtResolution-2.pdf]

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The Renewable Natural Resources Foundation Releases Report on Coastal
Solutions
posted 27 June 2005

The Renewable Natural Resources Foundation released their report
"Building Capacity for Coastal Solutions," which identifies areas of
high priority as: governance (citing a need for collaboration and
support for regional councils); information technology and science, and
community empowerment. The Executive Summary can be accessed here
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/RNRFexecsumm.pdf].

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CORE Workshop on Ocean Literacy Held
posted 15 June 2005

The Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education sponsored a
workshop with the Aquarium of the Pacific on Ocean Literacy. SCCOOS
funding partner California COSEE representative Cheryl Peach attended
the workshop. The workshop agenda can be viewed here
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/OceanLiteracyWorkshop-A.pdf].

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California Ocean Protection Council Meeting Held in San Francisco
posted 10 June 2005

The California Ocean Protection Council's second meeting was held on 10
June in San Francisco. The Council was established per the California
Ocean Protection Act in 2004, and will "help coordinate and improve the
protection and management of California's ocean and coastal resources."
A variety of documents, including a listing of programs approved for
funding are available at:
http://resources.ca.gov/ocean/copc/6-10-05_meeting/index.html.

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SCCOOS Presented to Oil Spill Response Committee
posted 2 June 2005

SCCOOS Chief Operating Officer Eric Terrill presented SCCOOS to the San
Diego Area Committee, which is tasked with creating the Southern
California Oil Spill Response & Recovery Plan. This plan is mandated
under the National Response Plan in accordance with the 1990 Federal
Water Pollution Control Act (33 USC 1321, Sect. 311). The Area Committee
and SCCOOS are collaborating to develop products using real-time HF
Radar data to monitor and predict surface transport of oil in the event
of a spill. The US Coast Guard envisions eventual use of these products
by shipboard personnel via shipboard computers with high speed internet
access. Attendees included members of the Coast Guard, State Department
of Fish & Game, California Coastal Commission, NOAA, Chevron/Texaco,
Orange County Coastkeeper, and SD County Agency Representatives.

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Border Water Quality Roundtable Meeting Held
posted 1 June 2005

Serge Dedina, Executive Director of Wildcoast, a non-profit conservation
team based in Imperial Beach, California, organized a roundtable
discussion with Eric Terrill, lead scientist of the San Diego Coastal
Ocean Observing System (SDCOOS), SDCOOS engineers, and members of an
informal South San Diego/Border Water Quality Monitoring Team. The
roundtable focused on articulation of first steps toward development of
a Comprehensive Border Water Quality Community Action Plan for the
US-Mexico border region. A recently created SDCOOS outreach document can
be accessed here [http://www.sccoos.org/docs/GCOOS.pdf]. The meeting was
held at the offices of the City of Imperial Beach.

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SCCOOS solicits input for planned Huntington Beach water quality study
posted 1 June 2005

A meeting of SCCOOS scientists and collaborating stakeholders was held
at the Orange County Sanitation District in Orange County to seek
stakeholder input into planned observations in the Huntington Beach
area; this site was selected by stakeholders and SCCOOS scientists
because of its chronic water quality problems, combined with the
existence of datasets from past observations. Objectives of the
experiment, tentatively planned for summer/early fall 2006 in the region
immediately north of the Santa Anna River mouth, are to provide data
sets useful for validation and calibration of SCCOOS models, and to
improve understanding of the mixing and dispersal of pollutants in the
inner shelf and surf zone. The details of the experiment design and
timing are not finalized, and input and participation from stakeholders,
as well as from scientists and engineers not presently associated with
SCCOOS, were sought. Attendees included SCCOOS scientists, USGS
personnel, and Los Angeles and Orange County Sanitation District
engineers. A list of attendees can be accessed here
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/attendees_050601.xls].

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Heal the Bay Annual Report Card Released
posted 25 May 2005

Heal the Bay released its 15th Annual Beach Report Card for 2004-2005.
The report can be accessed at http://www.healthebay.org/brc/annual/2005.

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NOAA JIMO Funding Renewed
posted 19 May 2005

The Joint Institute for Marine Observations (JIMO) underwent its
five-year review by NOAA. JIMO is the vehicle by which NOAA resources
are transferred to SCCOOS. Eric Terrill presented SCCOOS progress to
date to the review committee; his Powerpoint presentation can be
accessed here [http://www.sccoos.org/docs/sccoos_jimo.ppt]. NOAA's
resultant review listed SCCOOS as an observing system that "could
position JIMO and the region as a true leader in the Earth system
research and observations field." JIMO has been renewed for five more
years.

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The SCCOOS Nearshore Working Group presented to SCCWRP
posted 18 May 2005

SCCOOS scientist Bob Guza presented plans of the SCCOOS Nearshore
Working Group to the Southern California Water Resources Control Board
Beach Quality Water Workgroup at the SCCWRP offices in Westminster,
California.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
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SCCOOS Presentation to SMBRC
6 Jul 2005
Eric Terrill will brief the Santa Monica Bay Restoration 
Commission on SCCOOS with the goal of exploring potential areas of 
collaboration between SCCOOS and the Commission's charge to develop a 
monitoring program for the Santa Monica Bay.

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2005 Clean Water Summit
7 Jul 2005
Supervisor Pam Slater-Price and the County of San Diego will 
host the 2005 Clean Water Summit, "Preserving the Blue--Clean Water 
Challenges for the Future," at the University of San Diego. 

For more information, visit http://www.projectcleanwater.org/html/cws_2005.html

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Ocean and Coastal Economic Summit in Long Beach
21 - 22 Jul 2005
Long Beach, California
The California Ocean Protection Council will co-host with the California
Biodiversity Council an Ocean and Coastal Economic Summit in Long Beach,
California, 21-22 July 2005.

For more information, visit http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiv/oceans.html

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The Wave of the Future: Shoreline Preservation Technologies and
Strategies Board Conference
3 Aug 2005
Supervisor Pam Slater-Price will host "The Wave of the 
Future: Shoreline Preservation Technologies and Strategies Board 
Conference" at the County Administration Center.

Contact Name: Erika Black
Contact Phone: (619) 531-5533

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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NOAA: Undersea Research Projects
Due 1 July 2005

The NOAA Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina
Wilmington seeks proposals for undersea research projects to be
conducted in 2006 and 2007 off the southeast U.S. from North Carolina to
Texas. This announcement is soliciting proposals for four specific
funding opportunities. Preliminary proposals are required and must be
submitted by email by July 1, 2005; proposals must be received by the
center no later than August 19, 2005. For more information, visit
http://www.uncw.edu/nurc/funding/opportunities.htm.

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NOAA Distinguished Scholars in Oceans and Human Health (OHH) opportunity
Due 15 July 2005

This opportunity is designed to recognize scientists working at the
interface of oceans and human health through the establishment of
competitive awards for distinguished scholars to work with NOAA
scientists. This opportunity is offered as part of NOAA's OHH Initiative
recently established by the Oceans and Human Health Act passed by
Congress in December 2004.

>From 2-4 awards will be granted, each of 6-18 months duration and funded
at up to $250,000 per year. Research may start as early as October 1,
2005 and must be concluded by September 30, 2007. Full proposals must be
received by July 15, 2005. Details are available on the CORE website
[http://www.coreocean.org/].

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NSF: ADVANCE
Due 15 July 2005

Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic
Science
and Engineering Careers. For more information:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&from=fund

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NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
Due 18 July 2005

Synopsis of Program: the Division of Environmental Biology encourages
the submission of proposals aimed at generating long time series of
biological and environmental data that address particular ecological and
evolutionary processes. NSF will support competitively reviewed projects
that continue critical and novel long-term data collection aimed at
resolving important issues in environmental biology. Researchers must
demonstrate at least six years of data collection to qualify for funding
and the proposal must convey a rationale for at least ten additional
years of data collection. As part of the requirements for funding,
projects must show how the collected data will be shared broadly with
the scientific community and the interested public.
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05583

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NASA ROSES: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2005
Due 10 February 2006

NASA's "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2005 
(ROSES-2005)," is available at NASA Research Opportunities homepage 
at http://nspires.nasaprs.com (link through the menu listings 
"Solicitations" to "Open Solicitations"). This NASA Research 
Announcement solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied 
research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space 
science program elements relevant to one or more of the three defined 
NASA science themes: Earth-Sun System, Solar System, and Universe. 
Proposal due dates are scheduled starting on April 8, 2005, and 
continue through February 10, 2006.

Potential proposers should be aware of a major change in the NASA
proposal submission process from 2004. NASA has implemented a new master
proposal data base system. All proposers, co-investigators, and
proposing organizations must register with the system at
http://nspires.nasaprs.com. Further information about specific program
elements may be obtained from the individual Program Officers listed for
each program element in this NRA, while questions concerning general NRA
policies and procedures may be directed to Dr. Paul Hertz, Assistant
Associate Administrator for Science, Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546-0001; E-mail: paul.hertz at nasa.gov;
telephone: 202-358-0986. 

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