[SCCOOS] SCCOOS News and Events

news at sccoos.org news at sccoos.org
Wed Mar 23 16:34:41 PST 2005 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          SCCOOS NEWS AND EVENTS
                              March 23 2005
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

NEWS
----
 * NSF Soliciting Proposals for Ocean Observing Systems
 * COCOMP Receives Executive Approval
 * SCCOOS Meeting for Ocean Institute Education Resources Development
    Held
 * Second SCCOOS Mooring Deployed
 * First SCCOOS Mooring Deployed
 * Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup Site Launched
 * SCCOOS Briefs Water Quality Group
 * John Orcutt's testimony to the Committee on Science is online

UPCOMING EVENTS
---------------
 * [24 March 2005] SCCOOS presents at Orange County Coastal Coalition

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
---------------------
 * NSF - Development of Technologies for Coastal Observing Systems  and
    the Study of Benthic Boundary Layer Processes
 * NSF - Partnerships for Innovation
 * NSF - Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWS ITEMS POSTED THIS WEEK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
NSF Soliciting Proposals for Ocean Observing Systems
posted March 15 2005

The NSF is soliciting proposals for Development of Technologies for
Coastal Observing Systems and the Study of Benthic Boundary Layer
Processes.

This program solicitation, the first to be released in conjunction with
NSF OCE's Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION)
Program, has as its primary goal the development of those technologies
that will enable advances in the understanding of benthic boundary layer
(BBL) processes. NSF estimates supporting 2 to 6 standard or continuing
grants from this competition. A total of approximately $5.5 million is
anticipated, pending the availability of funds, over three years
beginning in FY 2005. Proposals are due 18 May 2005. For the complete
solicitation, see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05556/nsf05556.htm.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
COCOMP Receives Executive Approval
posted March 10 2005

SCCOOS received executive approval from the State Coastal Conservancy
for the Year One work program for the Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring
Program (COCMP). 

The funding will establish the COCMP, a partnership of academic and
government institutions working with industry and private organizations
to design a real-time monitoring system for currents along the
coastline. $10,200,000 is being allocated each to SCCOOS and to a
similarly organized consortium in Central and Northern California
(CENCOOS). The state's funding will be used to monitor and map currents
along much of the 1,100-mile coast of California, and to relate that
information to the movement of pollution and other safety hazards in the
water and on the shore. Planning has been underway for this project
since the summer of 2002; formal approval of the workplan (download pdf
[http://www.sccoos.org/docs/SCCOOSworkplanapproval.pdf]) will allow the
observational groups to access funds to begin implementing the system
immediately. The proposal and related documents are available in the
documents section [http://www.sccoos.org/doc-cocmp.shtml] of this
website.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
SCCOOS Meeting for Ocean Institute Education Resources Development Held
posted March  8 2005

A meeting to develop the SCCOOS web components for an eight-week Weather
and Ocean Monitoring Program under development by the Ocean Institute
was held at SIO on Monday, 7 March 2005.

The eight-week program is being designed to meet 5th grade Earth Science
standards on the water cycle and weather; it will include new classroom
activities, science kits, CD-ROMs, web-based materials, field trips,
teacher professional development and will incorporate SCCOOS science and
scientists as a link to research being done in the field. Curriculum
development for this program will occur over a three-year period, and
will include teacher focus groups and training sessions in order to
develop a program that effectively helps prepare students for California
science standards and rigorous new assessments. Present at the meeting
were Harry Helling, Sue Magdziarz and Jennifer Long of the Ocean
Institute, Lauren Vu-Tran, Science Coordinator for the Beckman @ Science
Program and the Fountain Valley School District, Sandee Wilbur of
Chaparral Elementary School in Ladera Ranch, and SIO E&O personnel,
curriculum developers and staff.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second SCCOOS Mooring Deployed
posted March  1 2005

Niki Gruber's UCLA team has deployed the second of three SCCOOS moorings
in Santa Monica Bay.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
First SCCOOS Mooring Deployed
posted February 22 2005

SCCOOS Participant Uwe Send conducted the first of the three SCCOOS
mooring deployments.This deployment marks the initiation of a sustained
realtime monitoring system for the physical and biogeochemical
variability at selected locations in the southern California coastal
ocean. Located in 100m water depth off La Jolla, this southernmost
mooring of the array.

It is a prototype of a multidisciplinary long-term mooring for shallow
water with a surface buoy and a suite of sensors in the water column
below.

Sensors mounted directly to the buoy measure meteorological variables,
near surface temperature, salinity, oxygen and chlorophyll
concentrations, and the current throughout the water column. Further
down the mooring wire—10m above the bottom—another sensor package
records temperature, salinity, oxygen, and chlorophyll. All data are
telemetered to shore every hour, communication with the deep instruments
happens inductively through the mooring wire.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup Site Launched
posted February 16 2005

The Resources Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched a new
Web site that will assist federal, state, and local governments in
protecting California's watersheds and beaches.

The Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup (CSMW) web site
[http://www.dbw.ca.gov/csmw] consolidates information essential to
people who are involved professionally or personally in sediment
management. The goal is for the new CSMW Web site to serve as a
communication tool to help coastal management professionals throughout
the state share information.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
SCCOOS Briefs Water Quality Group
posted February  9 2005

SCCOOS provided a briefing to the Southern California Beach Water
Quality Working Group to begin the dialogue on user input for products
within the region.

The Beach Water Quality Workgroup (BWQW) is a coalition of Federal,
State, and local governmental agencies, environmental advocacy groups,
environmental consultants, and scientific researchers. The mission of
the BWQW is to achieve continuous and immediate improvement in the water
quality at beaches throughout California.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Orcutt's testimony to the Committee on Science is online
posted January 27 2005

John Orcutt's testimony for the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee
on Science's "Tsunamis: Is the U.S. Prepared?" hearing is now available
(pdf [http://www.sccoos.org/docs/orcutt-testimony-jan05.pdf]). The
webcast will be posted as soon as it is available.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
UPCOMING EVENTS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
SCCOOS presents at Orange County Coastal Coalition
Mar 24 2005  09:00 am -  12:00 pm
Newport Beach, CA
Eric Terrill will present an overview of SCCOOS to the Orange County
Coastal Coalition in Newport Beach, CA.
Contact Name: Carolyn Keen
Contact Email: cskeen at ucsd.edu
Contact Phone: 858-822-3370

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
NSF - Development of Technologies for Coastal Observing Systems and
the Study of Benthic Boundary Layer Processes
due 18 May 2005:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05556/nsf05556.htm

NSF - Partnerships for Innovation
due 2 June 2005:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05566/nsf05566.htm

NSF - Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN)
due 27 June 2005:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05569/nsf05569.htm

_________________________________________________________________________
This newsletter is published biweekly by the Southern California Coastal
Ocean Observing System. Submit your news stories by email to
news at sccoos.org to be included in this mailing. If you have received
this mailing in error, you can unsubscribe at
http://www.sccoos.org/unsubscribe.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://siomail.ucsd.edu/pipermail/sccoos/attachments/20050323/993a6ee3/attachment-0001.htm

More information about the SCCOOS mailing list