Coastal Management

Coastal Management Cluster Session

Below are notes taken from the Coastal Management Cluster presentations at the 16th Federation Meeting, Jan. 4-6, 2006.

Coastal Management:

Goal: enable partner's beneficial use of NASA Earth science results to
- Enhance DSS capability
- Expand and sustain the use of results

Functional themes in Coastal Management:

--REASoN: HAB project - related to Algal blooms

--Numerous evaluations of DSTs and follow-on activities

--Depending on ROSES, may need to direct/fund more projects to jump-start efforts (no coastal related projects in June)

Future Directions:

Strong model focus & preparation for future sensors
Themes should remain similar, but bring in new partners
- NOAA: Marine Fisheries, Estuaries
- Coast Guard
- Army Corps of Engineers

Currently:

Evaluation reports
- CREWS: Coral Reef Early Warning System (complete)
- GNOME: Oil Spill modeling (complete)

Fisheries projects will be looked at for future. Lots of opportunity to use data

Gulf of Mexico alliance -- trying to get political buy-in from Governor to go to the government to address the issues

Harmful Algal Bloom Project (HAB)

HAB Monitoring

Given 30 day mean, compared to daily images, are there any anomalies? Put in decision tree and decide what needs to be done.

Rapid Prototyping

Quickly assess, does the data have potential, and if so, movie it quickly into a larger project.

Top 5 Priorities

Five benchmark reports by FY09
Strong, competitive proposals & teams
- Outreach & networking efforts to inform coastal community and solicit coastal projects
Models & future Sensors
- Strong model focus & preparation for future sensors
More NASA Centers involved in Coastal Program
- Significant involvement by >3 NASA Centers
Activities with broad set of organizations & federal agencies
- National impact through national/regional organizations & their constituents

Want to work with Non-Governmental organizations

Try to leverage the information other groups have