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                                            Convened at the
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                                                          TABLE OF CONTENTS




                     EXECUTIVE SUMMARY              ..................................................................................... iii



                     INTRODUCTION         ................................................................................................1


                     WORkSHOP STRUCTURE                .......... ......................................................................3



                     FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS                      ...........................................................6

                            Data and Information Management         .......................................................................6
                            Data Products and Integration     ................................................................................9
                            Partnerships, Coordination, Cooperation, and Infrastructure        ................................9
                            Training, Education, and Outreach       ........................................................................ 12



                     APPENDICES


                     A. List of Workshop Participants
                     B. Workshop Agenda
                     C. List of Background and Reference Materials
                     D. List of Proposals Submitted
                     E. Notes From Working Group Sessions












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                                                   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


                 The NOAA Coastal Ocean Data Workshop (the Workshop) was held -at the Harbor Branch
                 Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, Florida, on March I I to 13, 1997. The Workshop
                 included seventy-six invited scientists, managers, and decision-makers from Federal, state, and
                 local government agencies; the private sector; academia; and the general public. In addition,
                 thirty NOAA representatives and two members of the sponsoring institutions attended, for a total
                 of 108 -participants. Workshop participants represented the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states,
                 and the Territories.


                 FINDINGS and RECOMMENDATIONS


                 Dato and Information Management:

                 0       The use of both "carrots" and "sticks" was recommended to promote data submission to
                         NOAA/NODC, or to ensure data availability through a distributed system.

                 0       NOAANODC should develop new user-friendly strategies for serving coastal ocean data
                         over the WEB.


                 0       NOAANODC should develop on-line catalogs of coastal ocean data and information.

                 0       To facilitate differing data-access requirements, a catalog could be developed which
                         presents users with choices regarding the level of documentation or metadata viewed.

                         Software for data base queries should be standardized across platforms (PC, UNIX, or
                         MAC).

                 ï¿½       Access to historical hard-copy data is a problem. There is considerable demand for
                         support of the labor-intensive work required for data rescue and digitization. An advisory
                         group should be established to assist NODC with the formulation of policies regarding
                         identification and prioritization of data bases to access and/or rescue and to focus scarce
                         resources upon.

                 ï¿½       Considerable support was expressed by the Workshop participants for a central, long-
                         term archive at NODC in addition to, or as a backup for, local archives. All data should
                         be kept in the archive, even poor quality data.

                         There was also support for a distributed data system, with NODC archiving national data
                         sets and other "shoebox" data sets which do not have a home.












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                 ï¿½    Ecological data in coastal ecosystems is far more compl ex to manage than data from open
                      ocean systems.
                 ï¿½    As presently collected and archived, species data must be considered highly suspect, and
                      subject to errors that are potentially large and beyond correction.

                 ï¿½    A peer review process for data quality is needed, as well as standard, automated quality
                      control methods.


                 ï¿½    NOAA/NODC should conduct periodic workshops on Quality Assurance and Quality
                      Control (QA/QC) for selected data types.

                 ï¿½    There is a great deal of demand for training in the Federal Geographic Data Committee
                      (FGDC) standards, and for development of, and training in, the -use of metadata
                      documentation tools.


                 ï¿½    NODC should coordinate and collaborate with the library community.

                 ï¿½    Participants at the Workshop also identified a requirement for production of region-
                      specific bibliographies on selected coastal issues.

                 Data Products and Integration

                 ï¿½    New data bases of analysis and visualization tools need to be created, and training in their
                      access and use should be provided.

                 ï¿½    The data modeling community can cooperate with NOAA/NODC to fill in the gaps in
                      spatial and temporal coverage of coastal data.

                 ï¿½    NOAA data bases should establish and use a single consistent definition or reference
                      system for the shoreline.

                 ï¿½    Information and data should be provided on spatial and temporal scales useful for
                      addressing issues at the local, state and regional levels; not just the national level.

                 Partnerships, Coordination, Cooperation, and Infrastructure

                 0    140AA/NODC should explore the creation of regional nodes, formed by partnerships
                      among universities, libraries, NOAA, and the military sector in order to leverage outreach
                      activities to the various user and data-contributor communities.



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                   ï¿½     There are some U.S. coastal regions and Territories with connectivity problems. We
                         must ensure that these areas are brought on line, and not left in a data vacuum due lack of
                         resources, poor system design, or a lack of user-friendly tools and training.

                   ï¿½     NODC should establish a Liaison Office in the Great Lakes, and should coordinate with
                         the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission, and the Great
                         Lakes Commission.


                   ï¿½     The appropriate NODC Liaison Officers should include the U.S. Territories in their data
                         collection programs.

                   ï¿½     Better coordination and cooperation is needed at all levels among agencies and
                         organizations at the Federal, state, and local levels, as well as among regions and among
                         disciplinary experts and managers. NOAAYNODC should establish links within these
                         sectors and make their data resources more accessible to the various coastal user
                         communities.


                   ï¿½     Understanding coastal issues in the Gulf of Mexico is a complex challenge, involving
                         diverse nations, issues, and habitats.

                   ï¿½     The multi-state, multi-institution Gulf-Wide Geographic Information System (GWIS)
                         under development by the Minerals Management Service may serve as a good model of a
                         coastal data system.

                   ï¿½     A number of opportunities for partnering between NOAA/NODC and the Department of
                         Defense (especially the Navy) were identified during the course of this Workshop.

                   ï¿½     NODC should pursue opportunities to coordinate and collaborate with the Sea Grant
                         Institutions.


                   ï¿½     As a community, we will have to work "smarter" and in concert if we are going to
                         prepare systems and protocols to utilize anticipated data streams from the exciting new
                         observation and data collection instruments.


                   Training, Education, and Outreach

                         Periodic regional workshops following the model of this national one should be
                         conducted.
                         A "Swat Team," perhaps jointly created by NODC, CSC, and Sea Grant, could be


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                      developed to travel to various scientific meetings to provide training workshops on
                      metadata, quality control, and data access tools.

               0      Other training needs, identified in the Workshop included: Geographic Information
                      Systems (GIS), working with remote sensing data,. electronic data retrieval, digitization,
                      data interpretation, photo' interpretation, and VVEB use.

               0      U.S. Territory-based agencies, in particular, expressed needs for technical training and
                      equipment to enable them to participate in this effort at the same level as agencies in
                      other regions and sectors.

               0      NOAA/NODC should establish rotational positions to provide training for staff from
                      other agencies and organizations.

                      As we enhance management of coastal ocean data, conceptualize new architectures, and
                      develop new products, we must ensure that the requirements of educators and students are
                      considered.


               ï¿½      NOAA/NODC should seek out oppoftunities for cooperation with minority institutions in
                      securing, processing and rescuing coastal ocean data.

               ï¿½      Although NOAANODC should initially focus its coastal ocean data management
                      activities on the U.S., strategies for global coastal ocean data management should also be
                      pursued in the near future.



















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                                                       INTRODUCTION


                 The NOAA Coastal Ocean Data Workshop (the Workshop) was held at the Harbor Branch
                 Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, Florida, on March I I to 13, 1997. The workshop was
                 co-sponsored by NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), NOAA's Coastal
                 Services Center (CSC), and the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode
                 Island (GSO). Its primary goals were to increase NOAA's responsiveness to customers in the
                 coastal -ocean community, and to encourage the formation of additional partnerships and joint
                 ventures.


                 The Workshop included seventy-six invited scientists, managers, and decision-makers from
                 Federal, state, and local government agencies; the private sector; academia; and the general
                 public. In addition, thirty NOAA representatives and two members of the sponsoring institutions
                 attended, for a total of 108 participants (Appendix A). The regional distribution of the invited
                 participants was as follows:


                                East Coast             23
                                Great Lakes            9
                                Gulf of Mexico         19
                                Islands                10
                                West Coast             14


                 The results of the workshop will be used to:

                                Increase NODC's responsiveness to coastal ocean customer requirements in the
                                area of data and information management, including customers within other
                                NOAA programs;

                                Provide additional opportunities for NOAA to form partnerships and joint
                                ventures with stakeholders in the coastal ocean community;

                                Increase the knowledge and awareness of NOAA's activities within the coastal
                                ocean community; and

                                Be responsive to the new National Oceanographic Partnership Program.

                 The major areas addressed were:

                                Identification of data NOAA should acquire, which can be useful to address major
                                regional and national coastal ocean issues and scientific research priorities;













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                                Identification of specific data management requirements: data types, levels of
                                precision, national and international standards, levels of quality control, metadata
                                and documentation, formats, accessibility, timeliness, synthesis products, etc.;
                                and

                                Identification of potential partnerships, joint ventures, and networking to
                                implement the recommendations.

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                                                WORKSHOP STRUCTURE


                 After an initial introductory plenary session (Appendix B), the Workshop was divided into five
                 working groups for the Identification ofData Required to Address National and Regional
                 Coastal Ocean Issues and Scientific Research Priorities. The five working groups were
                 organized by geographic region:

                                East Coast;
                                Great Lakes;
                                Gulf of Mexico;
                                Islands (including U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam,
                                Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [CNMI], and Hawaii); and
                                West Coast (including Alaska).

                 Each group was asked to briefly review, and modify if necessary, the listings of major national
                 and regional coastal issues/problems, and scientific research priorities which address these
                 issues/problems. These subjects were already addressed by the National Research Council
                 Committee to Identify High-Priority Science to Meet National Coastal Needs; the Subcommittee
                 on U.S. Coastal Ocean Science; and the Regional Marine Research Program Boards. The report,
                 Prioritiesfor Coastal Ecosystem Science (NRC, 1994), identified nine important coastal issues:

                                Eutrophication
                                Habitat Modification
                                Hydrologic and Hydrodynamic Disruption
                                Exploitation of Resources
                                Toxic Effects
                                Introduction of Nonindigenous Species
                                Global Climate Change and Variability
                                Shoreline Erosion and Hazardous Storms
                                Pathogens and Toxins Affecting Human Health

                 A background package of additional reports on this topic was mailed to participants prior to the
                 workshop, and hot links were established to relevant material available on line from the
                 workshop home page (Appendix Q. Tables summarizing the issues and scientific research
                 priorities were posted in each of the breakout rooms used by the working groups.

                 Participants were then asked to identify historical and contemporary data and information which
                 NODC should acquire to support research, management, and decision-making addressing these
                 issues and priority research areas. The coastal data sets already archived by NODC were
                 identified in the NODC report, Inventory of US. Coastal Ocean Data, in the package of


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                background material.

                Cross-cutting issues (e.g., data quality and format standards, data sharing and accessibility, data
                integration and product development) were covered in the next working group session.

                At the end of the first day, in a second plenary session, a representative selected by each group
                provided a ten-minute summary of the group's discussions.

                On the second day, the Workshop was divided into five new working groups. The focus of these
                discussions was on Specific Data and Information Requirements. Four of the groups were
                divided up along scientific disciplinary lines: biological, chemical, geological, and physical. The
                fifth group was composed of managers and decision-makers. The technical data and information
                specialists in attendance were distributed among all of the groups.

                Each of the four disciplinary groups discussed data and information requirements regarding:

                              data/parameter types, units, levels of precision and accuracy, levels and types of
                              quality control;
                              metadata and supporting documentation;
                              national and international data and metadata format, content, exchange standards;
                              search and retrieval capabilities of the data and metadata. systems; and
                              means of access to data and information systems, platforms, media.

                The fifth group discussed data and information requirements from a management perspective,
                regarding:

                              search and retrieval requirements for systems;
                              means of access to data and information systems, platforms, media;
                              turnaround time for requests;
                              visualization/display, analytical, and conversion tools; and
                              data, information, and synthesis products.

                On the afternoon of the second day, each working group reported on its discussions and
                recommendations to all of the Workshop participants during a plenary session.

                The final working group session, Implementation ofthe Recommendations through Partnerships
                and Cooperative Ventures, was organized by stakeholders' sectors: Data and Information
                Systems Management; State, Territory and Local Governments; Military, Classified or
                Proprietary, and Industrial Data bases; and Sea Grant, Universities, and "Shoebox" Data Set
                Creators/Custodians.



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                  These four groups were tasked to:

                         0      Share information about existing coastal data and information management
                                activities, since a number of efforts in this area have been initiated;
                         0      Propose potential partnerships, joint projects, and cooperative efforts to
                                implement projects growing out of the requirements and recommendations
                                developed in the first two working sessions;
                         0      Identify potential sources of resources to support the activities, responsible
                                parties, organizations, other project details, etc.; and
                         0      Present and discuss any written proposals prepared in advance (Appendix D).

                  A final plenary session on the last day provided the opportunity for the selected representatives
                  of the latter working groups to report on their firidings and recommendations. Then, the entire
                  Workshop participated in a discussion leading to a set of recommendations and concerns for
                  communication to NOAA.


                  The next section summarizes the major findings and recommendations from all the workshop
                  sessions. The lists of data sets addressing the major coastal ocean science issues and research
                  priorities can be found in Appendix E, within the individual working group reports.
























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                                        FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS


                 Data and Information Management

                 Data Submission


                        The use of both "carrots" and "sticks" was recommended to promote data
                        submission to NOAA/NODC, or to ensure data availability through a distributed
                        system. Most Federal ftindmig agencies already have a requirement within their grants
                        and contracts that all data be forw'arded in a timely fashion to the appropriate National
                        Data Centers. We need to ensure that the spirit as well as the letter of this requirement is
                        widely adhered to in the scientific community. Prior to transmittal to a Data Center, data
                        must be formatted, labeled, and supplied with metadata consistent with practice and
                        standards. These activities all cost investigators precious time and money. A number of
                        straw-man strategies for encouraging this process were offered:

                                Credit for submission of high quality data sets, akin to peer-reviewed
                                publications, should be given to the author(s). The credit should carry sufficient
                                significance to encourage others to cooperate in the same fashion.
                                A dialogue with the fiinding agencies (e.g., NOAA, National Science Foundation,
                                Office of Naval Research, Minerals Management Service, Department of Energy,
                                etc.) should be initiated regarding augmentation of overhead support already
                                included in grants, so that it reflects the costs of data processing and quality
                                control required for submission to the National Data Centers.
                                The idea of "sunset" grants to senior retiring faculty and researchers should be
                                considered, to encourage their participation in quality-assurance, labeling, and
                                packaging their private data sets for inclusion in the National Data Center
                                archives.
                                Data-exchange credits should be provided by NOAA/NODC for submissions.

                Access, Search, Retrieval

                        NOAA/NODC should develop new user-friendly strategies for serving coastal ocean
                        data over the WEB. Strong support was expressed for the proposed National Virtual
                        Data System, a seamless, distributed ocean/coastal data network system with regional,
                        state and local nodes. Access systems should enable the user to browse the data before
                        downloading them.

                 0      NOAA/NODC should develop on-line catalogs of coastal ocean data and
                        information. There should be user-friendly ways to query data bases and catalogs.


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                         Controlled vocabularies should be developed to facilitate search and retrieval of data, in
                         coordination with the library community. Participants recommended development of an
                         issue-driven catalog of coastal data sets, as well as the inclusion of hot links from
                         NODC's home page to other sites which serve coastal data. Additional access
                         requirements, included the capability to search and retrieve data by:

                                 geographic area;
                                 biological genus and/or species;
                                 level of precision; and
                                 instrument type.

                 ï¿½       To facilitate differing data-access requirements, users should be presented with
                         choices regarding the level of documentation or metadata viewed from a catalog or
                         data base system. Different users may require different levels of metadata. For
                         example, the highly knowledgeable user may need only to view a project name or a
                         geographic area in order to select desired data, while a k thru 12 student may require a
                         full suite of metadata in order to make his or her selection.


                ï¿½        Software for data base queries should be standardized across platforms (PC, UNIX,
                         or MAC). A gap exists between the tools available for UNIX systems compared to those
                         available for the PC and MAC machines. There is a similar need to make software tools
                         for data visualization and modeling available for these platforms.

                ï¿½        Access to historical hard-copy data is a problem. There is considerable demand for
                         support of the labor-intensive work required for data rescue and digitization. An
                         advisory group should be established to assist NODC with the formulation of
                         policies regarding identification and prioritization of data bases to access and/or
                         rescue and to focus scarce resources upon. In many cases historical data require
                         digitization; quality control, including addition of metadata and format/unit conversions;
                         and loading into standard data bases with on-line access. The Workshop participants
                         expressed a concern for the fate of data sets thirty, fifty, or a hundred years after their
                         collection. Global climate change research and studies of the changing coastline resulting
                         from anthropogenic activities are two examples of research which have a critical need for
                         historical data.


                Archive Issues


                         Considerable support was expressed by the Workshop participants for a central,
                         long-term archive at NODC in addition to, or4s a backup for, local archives. All
                         data should be kept in the archive, even poor quality data. Raw data used to generate


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                      integrated data sets and other valued added products should always be accessible from the
                      deep archives for reference purposes. Novel unanticipated uses or new analysis tools
                      may make these original data sets valuable'to future investigators. Finding the resources
                      to support updating and maintenance of the deep archives presents a significant
                      challenge. Perhaps internships and partnerships can be arranged among the Data Centers,
                      Sea Grant, other agencies, and the academic community to provide the necessary support.
                      Long-term archiving of data may present special problems for islands, polar regions, and
                      other areas subject to natural disasters and severe weather.

                      There was also support for a distributed data system, with NODC archiving
                      national data sets and other "shoebox" data sets which do not have a home.


                Quality Control

                ï¿½     Ecological data in coastal ecosystems is far more complex to manage than data from
                      open ocean systems. For example, in addition to offshore production measurements
                      employing carbon isotopes and pigments, coastal data may include leaf lengths, root
                      biomass, tree girth, and leaf litter fall.

                ï¿½     As presently collected and archived, species data must be considered highly suspect,
                      and subject to errors that are potentially large and beyond correction. There are no
                      agreed upon international standards for the attributes necessary for the recognition of
                      particular species, and all species are subject to redefinition based on further study. In
                      addition, there are no agreed upon standards of quality assurance for species
                      identification, even if the species have been carefully defined by a competent taxonomist.
                      The new Interagency Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) which is replacing the old
                      NODC Taxonomic Code system is an improvement. However, it makes the error of
                      assuming that species is a well-defined category, and that there is no error in assignment
                      to category.

                ï¿½     A peer review process for data quality is needed, as well as standard, automated
                      quality control methods.

                ï¿½     NOAA/NODC should conduct periodic workshops on Quality Assurance and
                      Quality Control (QA/QC).for selected data types.

                Intonnation Management, Documentation, Metadata

                0     There is a great deal of demand for training in the Federal Geographic Data
                      Committee (FGDC) standards, and for development of, and training in, the use of


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                       metadata documentation tools. There was much discussion of metadata, and
                       participants recognized the requirement for metadata standards such as FGDC.
                       Participants noted that metadat@ should include, at a minimum:

                               identity of data source;
                               level of QA/QC; and
                               extent of data set, with linkages to subsets so it is always possible to reassemble
                               project data.

                       NODC should coordinate and collaborate with the library community. There should
                       be discussions, clarification, and recognition of the potential role of libraries in coastal
                       ocean data management. Librarians are evolving into guides and navigators of multi-
                       media information and data sources. Libraries could become additional sources for
                       NOAA and other governmental data products. Through bibliographies of data sets,
                       catalogs of extensive grey literature holdings, and utilization of the new generation of
                       metadata, search and recovery systems, the libraries have tremendous potential to
                       contribute to data management and utilization. Future regional workshops that follow up
                       upon this effort should encourage the participation of university and research institute
                       librarians in the mix of stakeholders.


                0      Participants at the Workshop also identified a requirement for production of
                       region-specific bibliographies on selected coastal issues.

                Date Products and Integration

                ï¿½      New data bases of analysis and visualization tools need to be created, and training in
                       their access and use should be provided. As new analysis and visualization tools
                       become available, a data base of these and other decision-making aids should be made
                       available on line. Archives of digital images from satellites; archives of aerial
                       photographs of the coast; recently de-classified military and national reconnaissance
                       assets; and historical photographic archives such as that held by the National Marine
                       Fisheries Service (and currently undergoing digitization) should be created. They shodld
                       then be integrated with existing data already archived by the Data Centers. Next
                       Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) generates gigabytes of meteorological data (not
                       yet widely available) that can b@ of great value to coastal researchers seeking to link
                       atmospheric forcing to coastal problems.

               ï¿½       The data modeling community can cooperate with NOAA/NODC to fill in the gaps
                       in spatial and temporal coverage of coastal data. Model data and model validation
                       through dual use programs such as the Navy Oceanographic Data Distribution System


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                         (NODDS) will enhance understanding of coastal processes.

                 0       NOAA data bases should establish and use a single consistent definition or reference
                         system for the shoreline.

                         Information and data should be provided on spatial and temporal scales useful for
                         addressing issues at the local, state and regional levels; not just the national level.
                         Most habitat issues deal with a complex ocean-land interface where coastal problems are
                         increasingly seen as connected to watershed processes. NOAA should determine the
                         types and geographic scales of watershed data which should be included in its coastal
                         ocean data management efforts.

                 Partnerships, Coordination, Cooperation, and Infrastructure

                 ï¿½       NOAA/NODC should explore the creation of regional nodes, formed by
                         partnerships among universities, libraries, NOAA, and the military sector in order
                         to leverage outreach activities to the various user and data-contributor
                         communities.


                 ï¿½       There are some U.S. coastal regions and Territories with connectivity problems.
                         We must ensure that these areas are brought on line, and not left in a data vacuum
                         due lack of resources, poor system design, or a lack of user-friendly tools and
                         training. Some geographic areas have been neglected by the Data Centers, including the
                         Great Lakes and Territories. Emerging technologies hold out the promise of more rapid
                         and effective access to global ocean data archives. Sectors of our society that have
                         previously had poor access to libraries, data, and information will soon be able to search
                         for and utilize data products from even the most remote locations.

                 ï¿½       NODC should establish a Liaison Office in the Great Lakes, and should coordinate
                         with the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission,
                         and the Great Lakes Commission. Detailed lake level records exist, which together
                         with the meteorological and physical lake data, serve as a powerful tool by which to
                         examine possible effects that would result from perturbations in the hydrologic cycle such
                         as those related to global climate change. The Great Lakes are a basically closed system,
                         with hydraulic residence times ranging from 3 to 109 years. This topological
                         configuration permits mass-balance approaches as an aid in the study of water flow and
                         the fate of human-introduced chemicals.


                 ï¿½       The appropriate NODC Liaison Officers should include the U.S. Territories in their
                         data collection programs. Several opportunities for collaboration were identified at this


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                          Workshop. For example, there is a unique historical collection of aerial photographs
                          tracking shoreline change in the Virgin Islands, shared by the Island Resources
                          Foundation, the Eastern Caribbean Center, and the University of the Virgin Islands.
                          NODC could collaborate with CNMI in developing data management systems for its
                          coral reef data. There are also data for some of the islands which, it was pointed out, are
                          not readily available from the Department of Defense. NOAA/NODC may be able to
                          play a facilitation role in archiving and providing these data sets to the Territories.

                  0       Better coordination and cooperation is needed at all levels among agencies and
                          organizations at the Federal, state, and local levels, as well as among regions and
                          among disciplinary experts and managers. NOAA/NODC should establish links
                          within these sectors and make their data resources more accessible to the various
                          coastal user communities. Examples cited during the Workshop included: the
                          Environmental Protection Agency's Storage and Retrieval System (STORET), National
                          Estuary Program, and Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (E-MAP);
                          NOAA's National Estuari   ne Research Reserve and National Status and Trends Programs;
                          and the US Geological Survey's online data on nutrient flux. NODC should actively, but
                          selectively, seek out university and private sector data sets as well. As noted previously,
                          an advisory conunittee could help in identifying these desirable "shoebox" data sets.

                  ï¿½       Understanding coastal issues in the Gulf of Mexico is a complex challenge, involving
                          diverse nations, issues, and habitats. In addition to the U.S. states and Territories, there
                          are a number of other nations and island nations which should be taken into consideration
                          in establishing any regional centers or nodes for coastal ocean data management. The
                          Gulf region includes extensive reef tracts, mangrove stands, estuaries, hypersaline
                          lagoons, and many other habitats.

                  ï¿½       The multi-state, multi-institution Gulf-Wide Geographic Information System
                          (GWIS) under development by the Minerals Management (MMS) Service may serve
                          as a good model of a coastal data system. NOAA/NODC should work closely with -
                          MMS both nationally and in the Gulf of Mexico region. MMS has traditionally depended
                          on NODC. for archiving data from the extensive studies of actual and potential impacts of
                          oil and gas industry development on the U.S. outer continental shelf.

                  ï¿½       A number of opportunities for partnering between NOAA/NODC and the
                          Department of Defense (especially the Navy) were identified during the course of
                          this Workshop. NODC should prepare a listing of data submitted to NODC by the
                          Navy. A number of useful model products are now de-classified and available to the
                          community from the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOQ and other Naval
                          facilities. Archiving of FNOC model data output, once models have been standardized so












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                      that their products can be used as a proxy for data, will involve major storage
                      requirements. An index to the bathymetric data available ftom DOD would also be
                      useful to coastal oceanographers. NOAA/NODC will have to review the data products
                      becoming available from DOD sources and determine which are appropriate to archive.

               ï¿½      NODC should pursue opportunities to coordinate and collaborate with the Sea
                      Grant Institutions. Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service agents may provide a bridge to
                      Ahe holders of "shoebox" data sets. Sea Grant communicates effectively with its
                      constituents in the academic, state and local government, and private sector communities.
                      This connection may provide a gateway to data sets in these communities. Also, NODC
                      should partner with the Sea Grant Program Directors to gain access to the funds provided
                      to the Directors for coastal data and information management.

               ï¿½      As a community, we will have to work "smarter" and in concert to prepare systems
                      and protocols to utilize the anticipated data streams from the exciting new
                      observation and data collection instruments being developed. Satellite
                      photogarnmetry, ocean color remote sensing, NEXRAD data, and real-time output from
                      hundreds of future coastal observation buoys may provide an overwhelming cascade of
                      data by early in the next century. Future data needs will also include some non-
                      traditional data types such as new, improved, proxy indicators of coastal ocean ecosystem
                      health. New technologies should be employed in developing our national systems to
                      address the requirements created by these emerging technologies.

               Training, Education, and Outreach

               ï¿½      Periodic regional workshops following the model of this national one should be
                      conducted. Topics for future workshops included: identification of priority coastal
                      issues; addressing multi-institutional issues; further discussion on the roles of libraries;
                      obtaining user feedback on formats and QA/QC; and focusing on applications addressing
                      specific high priority issues.

               ï¿½      A "Swat Team," perhaps jointly created by NODC, CSC,. and Sea Grant, could be
                      developed to travel to various scientific meetings to provide training workshops on
                      metadata, quality control, and data access tools. As many as seven or eight thousand
                      scientists, graduate students, and technicians attend the annual American Geophysical
                      Union meetings. Thousands of other investigators come to the American Society of
                      Limnology and Oceanography, The Oceanography Society, Coastal Zone, and Marine
                      Technology Society meetings. These gatherings would present an ideal opportunity for
                      outreach by the National Data Centers, and for communication with coastal communities
                      regarding a common set of protocols for metadata, (tools, standards, FGDC), QA/QC,


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                       vocabulary, and new access tools.

                0      Other training needs, identified in the Workshop included: Geographic Information
                       Systems (GIS), working with remote sen   sing data, electronic data retrieval,
                       digitization, data interpretation, photo interpretation, and WEB use.

                0      U.S. Territory-based agencies, in particular, expressed needs for technical training
                       .and equipment to enable them.to participate in this effort at the same level as
                       agencies in other regions and sectors.

                0      NOAA/NODC should establish rotational positions to provide training for staff
                       from other agencies and organizations.

                       As we enhance management of coastal ocean data, conceptualize new architectures,
                       and develop new products, we must ensure that the requirements of educators and
                       students are considered. Undergraduate science education is evolving away from the
                       use of textbooks, and toward challenging young students with actual applications and
                       problem-solving assignments utilizing real-world data. This revolution in education is
                       also being extended into the K- 12 curricula, as school'systems take advantage of the new
                       access to information provided by the Intemet. Workshop participants pointed out that
                       study of the ocean environment lends itself exceptionally well to this sort of educational
                       approach. Young oceanographers should be made aware of the resources available at the
                       National Data Centers.


                0      NOAA/NODC should seek out opportunities for cooperation with minority
                       institutions in securing, processing and rescuing coastal ocean data. The Historically
                       Black Colleges and UniversitiesMA program could serve as a platform for this effort.

                4      Although NOAA/NODC should initially focus its coastal ocean data management
                       activities on the U.S., strategies for global coastal ocean data management should
                       also be pursued in the near future.













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                                                  APPENDIX A


                                    LIST OF WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS








             5/30/97                    ADDRESSES                                                                NODC Coastal Ocean Data
                                                                                                                             Workshop

            REGION STATE                  SECTOR            LAST NAME              FIRST NAME MI            TITLE/AFFILIATION                                 ADDRESS                                         CITY                ZIP CODE                 PHONE                       FAX                                E-MAIL

              East          CT            Academia                  Monahan              Edward             Director, Connecticut Sea Grant, University       1084 Shennecossett Road                         Groton                 06340              860-405-9110              860-405-9109               [email protected]
                                                                                                            of Connecticut
              East          DE            Academia                  Price                Kent               MAS Leader, Delaware Sea Grant College            700 Pilottown Road                              Lewes                  19958              302-645-4256              302-645-4007                   [email protected]
              East          FL            Academia                  Collins              John               University of Miami, Electrical and Computer      406 McArthur Bldg., Code 0640                   Coral Gables        33124-0640            305-284-5566                                         [email protected]
                                                                                                            Engineering
              East          FL          FederaVNOAA                 Hendee               Jim                NOAA/AOML, R/E/AO/OCD                             4301 Rickenbaker Cswy                           Miami               33149-1026            305-361-4396              305-361-4392                    [email protected]
              East          FL          Federal/Navy                Venezia              William            Senior Technical Representative, Naval            8010 North Ocean Drive                          Dania               33004-3033            954-926-4009                                             venazia@sftfdt. navy. mil
                                                                                                            Surface Warfare Ctr. South FL Testing
                                                                                                            Facility
              East          GA            Academia                  Marshall             Livingston         Professor, Clarke Atlanta University,                                                             Atlanta                30314              404-880-8853              404-880-6181                       [email protected]
                                                                                                            Department of Biology
              East          GA              State                   Stevens              Stuart             Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources, Coastal       1 Conservation Way, Suite 300                   Brunswick           31520-8687            912-264-7218              912-262-3143                   [email protected]
                                                                                                            Zone Management Program
              East          GA          Federal/NOAA                Bohne                Read               Manager, Gray's Reef National Marine              10 Ocean Science Circle                         Savannah               31411              912-598-2345                                          rbohne@ocean. nos. noaa. gov
                                                                                                            Sanctuary
              East          MA            Academia                  Pederson             Judith             MIT Sea Grant College Program                     292 Main Street, E38-300                        Cambridge              02139              617-252-1741              617-252-1615                       [email protected]
              East          MA          Federal/USGS                Signell              Richard            tTSGS -WoodsAole                                  384 Woods Hole Road                             Woods Hole          02543-1598            508-457-2229                                                 [email protected]
              East          MA          Federal/USGS                Butman               Brad               USGS Woods Hole, Branch of Atlantic               384 Woods Hole Road                             Woods Hole          02543-1598            508-457-2212                                                [email protected]
                                                                                                            Marine Geology
              East          MA              Private                 Remsen               David              Marine Biological Laboratory                      7 MBL Street                                    Woods Hole             02543              508-289-7441
              East          MD            Academia                  D'Elia          Christopher       F.    Director, Maryland Sea Grant College                                                         College Park                20742              301405-6371               301-314-9581                       [email protected]
                                                                                                            Program; also affil. with Chesapeake
                                                                                                            Biological Laboratory
              East          MD            Academia                  Boesch               Donald       F     University of Maryland                            P.O. Box 775, 0122 Skinner Hall                 Cambridge              21613              410-228-9250              410-228-3843                     [email protected]
              East          NC            Academia                  Shepard              Andrew             Science Director, ReFl. Undersea Research         7205 Wrightsville Ave.                          Wilmington          28403-7224            1-800-862-9872            910-256-8856               [email protected]
                                                                                                            Center, University of North Carolina -
                                                                                                            Wilmington
              East          NC              Private                 Waddell              Van                SAIC                                              615 Oberlin Road, Ste 300                       Raleigh                27605              919-832-7242              919-832-7243                  [email protected]
              East          NC              State                   Nagy                 Zsolt              NC Ctr. Geographic Information & Analysis         115 Hillsborough Street                         Raleigh                27603              919-733-2090              919-733-2090                     [email protected]
              East          NH            Academia                  Brown                Wendell      E     Director, Ocean Process Analysis                  Institute for the Study of Earth,               Durham                 03824              603-862-3505              603-862-0243                  [email protected]
                                                                                                            Laboratory, University of New Hampshire           Oceans and Space, Morse Hall
              East          NJ            Academia                  Grassle         J. Frederick            Inst. of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Cook        P.O. Box 231, Old Blake Hall              New Brunswick             08903-0231        908-932-6555 x540             908-932-8578                   [email protected]
                                                                                                            College Campus, Rutgers Univ.
              East          RI            Academia                  Comillon             Peter              University of Rhode Island, Graduate School       South Ferry Road                                Narragansett           02882              401-874-6283                                               [email protected]
                                                                                                            of Oceanography
              East          RI              Private                 Anderson             Eric               Applied Science Associates and Graduate           70 Dean Knauss Drive                            Narragansett        02882-1143            401-789-6224              4010789-1932                       [email protected]
                                                                                                            School of Oceanography, URI                                                                           I
              East          SC            Academia                  Porter               Dwayne             Director, Geographic Information Processing                                                       Columbia               29208              803-7774615               803-7778769                    [email protected]
                                                                                                            Lab. and Research Assistant Professor,
                                                                                                            Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology
                                                                                                            and Coastal Research and the Marine
                                                                                                            Science Program. University of South
                                                                                                            Carolina

              East          SC              State                   Van Dolan            Bob                Assistant Director, Marine Resources              P.O. Box 12559                                  Charleston             29422              803-762-5048              803-762-5110               [email protected]
                                                                                                            Research Institute







          Great Lakes          M!            Federal/COE                     Thieme                  Scott               Hydrologic Engineer, U.S.            y Corps of          477 Michigan Ave.                                   Detroit                    48226               313-226-4886                 3113-226-2398            [email protected]
                                                                                                                         Engineers, Detroit District
          Great Lai7es         Ml            FederaVGLERL                    Reid                    Dave                NOAA/GLERL '                                             2205 Commonwealth Blvd.                           Ann Arbor               -48105-2945              313-741-2019                 313-741-2003                         [email protected]
          GreatLakes           Ml            FedersVUSGS                     Frank                   Tony                USGS, BRD, Great Lakes              ence Center          1451 Green Road                                   Ann Arbor                    48105            313-994-3331 x263               313-994-8780                       [email protected]
          Great Lakes          Ml                Private                     Leonard                 Dennis              Principal Engineer, Detroit Edison Company               2000 2nd Avenue                                     Detroit                    48226               313-235-8714
          Great Lakes          NY              Academia                      Brandt                  Steve               Director, Great Lakes Can            Buffalo State       HC 2115 Classroom Bldg., 1300                       Buffalo                    14222               716-878-4329                 716-8784009               [email protected]
                                                                                                                         College                           I                      Elmwood Ave.
          GreatLakes           OH                State                       Rupert                  John                Coastal Management Sectidn, Ohio                         1952 Belcher Dr., Fountain                        Columbus                     43224               614-265-6415                 614-2674764                     [email protected]
                                                                                                                         Department of Natural Reso,Urces                         Square, Bldg C4
          Great Lakes          W               Academia                      Andren                  Anders              Director, Wisconsin Sea Grant Colle
                                                                                                                                                                     .9e          1800 University Avenue                            Madison                      53705               608-262-0905                 608-263-2063                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                         Program, University of Wscbnsin - Madison
                                                                                                                                                           I
          Great Lakes          W               Academia                      Edgington               David         N     Center for Great Lakes Studies, Great Lakes              Box 413                                           Milwaukee                    53201               414-382-1708                 414-382-1705
                                                                                                                         Research Facility, Universo of Wisconsin,
                                                                                                                         Milwaukee

          Great Lakes          W                 State                       Pohlman                 John                Wisconsin Natural Heritage Inventory,                    P.O. Box 7921                                       Madison                    53707               608-264-6263                                                    [email protected]
                                                                                                                         Nsconsin Department of Nkural Resources
                                                                                                                                                           I
               Gulf            AL              Academia                      Schroeder               William       W     Marine Science Program, University of                    P.O. Box 369                                      Dauphin Island               36528               334-861-7528                 334-861-7540                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                         Alabama                           i
               Gulf            AL            Federal/FWS                     Goldman                 Larry               Federal Co-Chair, Habitat L),egradation Issue            P.O. Box 1190                                       Daphne                     36526               334441-5181                  334-441-6222
                                                                                                                         Committee, Gulf of Mexico Frogram, U.S.
                                                                                                                         Fish and Wildlife Service         I
               Gulf            AL                State                       Gilder                  Gil                 ADECA, Coastal Programs Pffice                           401 Adams Avenue, Box 5690                        Montgomery                   36203               334-242-5502                 334-242-0552
               Gulf            AL                State                       Hinesley                Philip              Alabama Coastal Zone Maqager                             1208 Main Street                                    Daphne                     3-6526              334-626-0042                 334-626-3503                   PHinesley@surf. nos. noaa.gov
               Gulf            FL              Academia                      Luther                  Mark                University of South Florida, Department of               140 7th Avenue South                           St. Petersburg                  33701
                                                                                                                         Marine Science, Knight 066anographic
                                                                                                                         Research Center
               Gulf            FIL             Academia                      Ogden                   John                Florida Institute of Oceanography                        830 First Street, South                        St. Petersburg                  33701               813-893-9100                 813-893-9109                       [email protected]
               Gulf            FIL           Federal/NOAA                    Edmiston                Lee                 Apalachicola NERR                 1                      261 Seventh Street                                Apalachicola                 32320               904-653-8063                 904-653-2297
               Gulf            FL                State                       Henderson               George              Florida Marine Research Institute         Dept. of       100 Eighth Ave., SE                               St. Petersburg           33701-5095              813-896-8626                 813-823-0166
                                                                                                                         Environmental Protection
               Gulf            FIL               State                       Stage                   David         T     State Co-Chair, Data and 10formation                     112 Bloxharn Building, 725 S.                     Tallahassee              32399-0001              904-488-7986                 904-922-5929
                                                                                                                         Transfer Committee, Gulf of Mexico                       Calhoun St.
                                                                                                                         Program, In         atoon Resolirces
                                                                                                                         Commission                        I
                                                                             U1FiFe__                Marion        L.                                               n             P.O. Box 110405, Building 803                     Gainesville              32611-0405              352-392-1837                 352-392-5113                     [email protected]
               Gulf            FL              Academia                                                                  Leader, Florida Sea Grant Extensio
                                                                                                                         University of Florida             I
               Gulf            FL              Academia                      Antonini                Gustavo             Geography Department, U           iiversity of Florida   305 Grinter Hall                                  Gainesville                  32611               352-393-6233
               Gulf            LA              Academia                      Carney                  Robert        S     Louisiana State University, Dire r, Coastal                                                                Baton Rouge              70803-7503              504-388-65111                                               CARNEY@wr3600,cwr.Isu.edu
                                                                                                                         Marine Institute                  I                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I
               Gulf            LA              Academia                      Wiseman                 William       J     Louisiana State University, Director, Coastal            331 Howe-Russell                                  Baton Rouge              70808-1082              504-388-2395                                                     bj))@me)ljn. csi. Jsv, edu
                                                                                                                         Studies Institute
               3ulf            LA            Federal/MMS                     Froomer                 Norman              Minerals Management Service, co-chair Gulf               1201 Elmwood Park Blvd.                           New Orleans                  70123           504-736-2782 x2782               504-736-2631                 [email protected]
                                                                                                                         of Mexico Program Data a          id Information
                                                                                                                         Transfer Committee                I                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I
               Gulf            IVIS            Academia                      Felton                  Mack                Coordinator HBCU/MIA, Gi If of Mexico                    Building 1103, Room 202                    Stennis Space Center            39529-6000              601-688-7121                 601-688-2109                  Felton. Mac@EPAMAI L. EPA.gov
                                                                                                                         Program
               Gulf            MS            Federal/Navy                    Waterreus               J.J.                N3C, Naval Meteorology at d Oceanography                 1020 Balch Blvd.                           Stennis Space Center            39528-5005              601-688-5159                 601-688-5332            n3c%n3%cnmoc@comis. cnmoc. navy. mil
                                                                                                                         Command
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               Gulf            IVIS          Federal/Navy                    Haeger                  Steve               Naval Oceanographic Offic), OTT                                                                     Stennis Space Center            39522-5001              601-6884457
               Gulf            IVIS              Federal                     Herron                  Rex                 Gulf of Mexico Program                                   Building 1103                              Stennis Space Center                39529               601-688-7008                 601-688-2709                    [email protected]










                             Gulf            TX           Federal/NOAA                     Gittings                Steve                 Flower Garden Banks NMS                                 216 West 26 Street, Ste I D4                         Bryan                      77803                409-779-2705                 409-779-2334                   [email protected]
                             Island          AS              Territorial                   Peau-                   Lelei                 Government of American Samoa, Office of                                                                    Pago Pago                    96799             011-684-633-5155                684-633-4195                      [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Development Planning, Coastal Program
                                                                                                                                         Manager
                             Island          UMI             Territorial                   Gilman                  Eric          L       CNMI Office of the Governor                             PPP 17l, Box 10000                                   Saipan                  96950-9505           011-670-664-2238             011-670-664-2390                         [email protected]
                             Island          CNMI            Territorial                   Burr                    Susan                 Division of Environmental Quality, CNMI                 PPP 171, Box 10000                                   Saipan                  96950-9505           011-670-234-1011             Oli-670-234-1003                         [email protected]
                             Island          GU              Academia                      Matson                  Ernest        A       University of Guam Station                                                                                 Wangilao                     96923             011-671-735-2176             011-671-734-6767                         [email protected]
                             Island          GU              Territorial                   Lujan             Evangeline                  Bureau of Planning, Geographic Information              P.O. Box 2590                                        Agana                      96932                671-472-4201                 671-477-1812                              [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Systems Manager
                             Island          PR              Academia                      Grove                   Kurt                  University of Puerto Rico, Sea Grant College            P.O. Box 5000                                      Mayaguez                  00681-5000              787-832-3585                                                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Program
                             Island          PR              Territorial                   Gonzalez                Carmen                Manager, Jobos Bay NERR                                 Call Box B                                           Aquirre                    00704                787-853-4617                 787-853-4618                  [email protected]
                             Island          LISVI           Academia                      Watlington              Roy                   Eastern Caribbean Center, University of the                                                                St. Thomas                   00802                809-693-1028                 809-693-1025                             [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Virgin Islands
                             Island          LISVI           Territorial                   Kojis                   Barbara               Division of Fish and Wildlife. Dept. Planning           6291 Estate Nazareth 101                           St. Thomas                00802-1104              809-775-6762                 809-775-3792
                                                                                                                                         and Natural Resources
                             Island          US"                NGO                        Towle                   Ed                    Island Resources Foundation                             6296 Estate Nazareth No. 11                        St. Thomas                00802-1104              809-775-6225                                                           [email protected]
                             West            AK              Academia                      Hills                   Susan                 School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences,                                                                    Fairbanks                 99775-7220                                                                                 [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         University of Alaska - Fairbanks
                             West            CA              Academia                      -Sherman                Douglas               Director, University of Southern California             University Park                                    Los Angeles               90089-0373              213-740-1961                 213-740-5936                          [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Sea Granit Program, Hancock Institute of
                                                                                                                                         Marine Studies
                             West            CA                 State                      DiPietro                Deanne                California Environmental Resources                      goo N. St. Suite 250                               Sacramento                   9S814                916-653-8614                 916-654-5829                    [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Evaluation System (CERES), California
                                                                                                                                         Resources Agency
                             West            CA                 State                      yap                     Jason                 California Coastal Commission                           45 Fremont Street, Suite 1940                      San Francisco             94105-2219              415-904-5468                 415-904-5400
                             West            CA              Academia                      Harms                   Sabine                Center for Coastal Studies, 0209, Scrip s                                                                    La Jolla                92093-0209              619-534-2143                 619-534-0300                          [email protected]
                                                                                                                                                                                     'pr
                                                                                                                                         Institute of Oceanography, University
                                                                                                                                         California, San Diego
                             West            CA              Academic                      Helly                   John                  San Diego Suter Computing Center,                                                                            La Jolla                92093-0505              619-534-0505
                                                                                                                                                         a
                                                                                                                                         University of alifornia, San Diego                      9500 Gilman Dr.
                             West            CA           Federal/NMFS                     Boehlert                George                NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center.                1352 Lighthouse Ave.                               Pacific Grove             93950-2097              408-648-8447                                                       [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Pacific Environmental Group
                             West            OR                 State                      Dana                    Randy                 Oregon Department of Land Conservation                  800 NE Oregon Street #18                           1 Portland                   97232             503-7314065 x3l                 503-731-4068                          [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         and Development                                                                                            11
                             West            WA           Federal/NOAA                     Bowlby                  Edward                Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary                 138 West First Street                              Port Angeles                 98362                206-5264147
                             West            WA           Federal/NOAA                     Megrey                  Bernard               NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service,                7600 Sand Point Way, NE                              Seattle                    981'15               360457-6622                  360457-8496                     ebowlby@orean. nos. noaa.gov
                                                                                                                                         Alaska Fisheries Science Center
                             West            WA                 Private                    Crecelius               Eric                  Technical Group Manager, Marine Chemistry               1529 West Sequim Bay Road                            Sequim                  98382-9099              360-681-3604                 360-681-3699                          [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         and Ocean Processes, Battelle Pacific
                                                                                                                                         Northwest Division, Marine Sciences
                                                                                                                                         Laboratory
                             West            WA                 State                      Dzinbal                 Ken                   Manager, Ambient Monitoring Section,                    300 Desmond Dr., P.O. Box                            Olympia                    98504                360407-6672                                                        [email protected]
                                                                                                                                         Washington Dept. of Ecology                             47710
                             West            WA                 State                      Newton                  Jan                   Washington Dept. of Ecology                             300 Desmond Dr., P.O. Box                            Olympia                    98504                360407-6675                                                        [email protected]
                                                                                                                                                                                                 47710
                             West            WA           Federal/NOAA                     Small                   Jane                  N      Alaska Fisheries Science Center                  4000 SW Holgate                                      Seattle                    98116                206-933-6662                 206-933-8741                          [email protected]. net


                                          NOAA         Folks:
                                          MD                                               Scavia                  Don                   Director, NOAA Coastal Ocean Program,                   1315 East West Highway                             Silver Spring                20910                301-713-3338
                                                                                                                                         'NCOP, SSMC3, Rm. 15`147
                                          MD                                               Cammen                  Leon                  NOAA National Sea Grant Program, R/OR1,                 1315 East West Highway                             Silver Spring                20910                301-713-2435
                                                                                                                                         SSMC3, Rm. 11805








                       MD                                              Crosby                Michael                                        Office of Pcean and          1305 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910           301-713-3155 x144                                           [email protected]
                                                                                                                 =M=nagement, WORM,
                                                                                                                 SSMC4, Rm. 11536
                       IVID                                            Monaco                Mark                NOAA Office of Ocean KOWUrQeS,                          1305 East West Highway                            silver Spring            20910           301-713-3000 xI 89
                                                                                                                 Conservation and Assessment, 'N/ORCA14,
                                                                                                                 SSMC4, Rm. 9409                        1
                       SC                                              Davidson              Margaret            Director, NOAA Coastal Services Center                  2234 South Hobson Avenue                          Charleston           29405-2413             803-974-6220                                                   [email protected]
                       SC                                     Afterman-Robinson              Jennet              NOAA Coastal SeWces -Center                             2234 South Hobson Avenue                          Charleston           29405-2413             803-974-6210                                                   [email protected]
                       SC                                              Miglarese             Anne                NOAA Coastal Services Center                            2234 South Hobson Avenue                          Charleston           29405-2413             803-974-6230                                                   [email protected]
                       SC                                              Ball                  Anne                NOAA Coastal Services Center                            2234 South Hobson Avenue                          Charleston           29406-2413             803-974-6229                                                   [email protected]
                       MD                                              Reaves                Robert              NOAA, NWS, Office of Meteorology                        W/OM21, SSMC2, Rm. 13148                          Silver Spring            20910           301-713-1970 711 i
                       MD                                              Winokur               Robert         S.   NOAA, Assistant Administrator ior Satellite             NOAA Federal Bldg. 4, Rm.                         Suitland                 20233              301457-5115
                                                                                                                 and Intormation Services                                2069, 4401 Suitland Road
                       NC                                              Quayle                Robert              Chief, Global Climate Laboratory, NOAA                  151 Patton Ave.                                   Asheville            28801-6001             704-271-4245                                                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                 National Climatic Data Center !        I
                       MD                                              Miller                Chris               NOAA, Environmental information Service,                1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910              301-713-1264
                                                                                                                 E/Ell, Rm. 15531
                       MD                                              Stone                 Robert              E/SP, NOAA Science Center - WWB, Rm.                    5200 Auth Road                                    Camp Springs         207464304           301-763-8142 xI 34
                                                                                                                 510
                       IVID                                            Barrientos            Celso               E/RA3, NOAA Science Center -VWVB, Rm.                   6200 Auth Road                                    Camp Springs         207464304              301-763-8102
                                                                                                                 711D
                       CO                                              Hittelman             AJlen               NOAA, National Geophysical D@ta Center,                 325 Broadway                                      Boulder              80303-3328             303497-6215                 303497-6513                        [email protected]
                                                                                                                 E/GC                                   I
                       CO                                              Sharman               George              NOAA, National Geophysical Difta Center,                325 Broadway                                      Boulder              80303-3328             303-497-6345                303497-6513
                                                                                                                 E/GC
                       QO                                              Holcombe              Troy                NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center,                 325 Broadway                                      Boulder              80303-3328             303-497-6390
                                                                                                                 EIGC
                       MD                                              Frey                  Henry               l1rector, NOAA National Oceanographic                   1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910              301-713-3270                                                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                 Data Center, E/OC, SSMC3, 4th Floor
                       MD                                              Fauquet               Ronald              Deputy Director, NOAA, National                         1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910           301-713-3267 xI 98                                                [email protected]
                                                                                                                 Oceanographic Data Center              I
                       MD                                              Hamilton              Douglas             NOAA, National Oceanographici          Data Center      1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910           301-713-3272 x1 19                                                [email protected]
                       MD                                              Abram                 Richard             NOAA National Oceanographic. Data Center                1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910           301-713-3279 x159                                                 [email protected]
                       MD                                              Conkright             Margarita           NOAA, National Oceanographic           I'Data Center    1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910           301-713-3290 x193                                                 [email protected]
                       MD                                              Grimes                Dons                NOAA, National Oceanographic Data Center                1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910              301-713-2607                                                   [email protected],gov

                       MD                                              Cohen                 Roz                 NOAA, National Oceanographic           Data Center      1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910           301-713-3267 x146              301-713-3300                       [email protected]

                       MD                                              Sun                   Charles             NOAA National Oceanographic             ata Center      1315 East West Highway                            Silver Spring            20910              301-713-3272                                                   [email protected]

                       HI                                              Caldwell              Pat                 NOAA, National Oceanographic Pata Center,               1000 Pope Road, Rm. 316                           Honolulu                 96816              808-956-4105                                            [email protected]
                                                                                                                 Hawaii Liaison Office University.. of Hawaii,
                                                                                                                 Marine Science Bran@@                  I
                       FL                                              Crane                 Mike                NOAA, National OceanographicjData Center,               4301 Rickenbaker Causeway                         Miami                    33149              305-361-4305                                                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                 Southeast Liaison Office, AOMV
                                                                                                                                                        I
                       CA                                              Hall                  Norm                NOAA, National Oceanographic'Data Center,               8604 La Jolla Shores Drive,                       La Jolla                 92037              619-546-7110                                                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                 Southwest Liaison Office                                P.O. Box 271
                       MA                                        Heimerdinger                George              NOAA, National Oceanographic Data Center,                                                                 Woods Hole               02543              508-289-2497                                                   [email protected]
                                                                                                                 Northeast Liaison Office, McLeah
                                                                                                                 Laboratory, Woods Hole Ocean raphic
                                                                                                                 institution








                                  WA                                    Stillwaugh            Sid              NOAA, National Oceanographic Data Center, Bldg, 3, Rm. 2094, 7600 Sand                    Seattle               98115            206-526-6263                                        sstiII%[email protected]
                                                                                                               Northwest and Alaska Liaison Office            Point Way




                     Others:


                                  Fl.                                   Schwartz            Daniel             Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (on 5600 U.S. I North                           Fort Pierce             34946         561-465-2400 x654                                         [email protected]
                                                                                                               assignment at CORE in Washington DC)
                                  FL                                    Shepherd            Robert        J.   Senior Consultant, Harbor Branch               20823 Nettleton Street                     Orlando               32833            407-568-8157                                           [email protected]
                                                                                                               Oceanographic Institution
                                  R1                                     Leinen            Margaret            Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography,         South Ferry Road                        Narragansett             02882            401-874-6222
                                                                                                               University of Rhode Island
                                  RI                                      Hinge               Ken              Assistant Dean, Graduate School of             South Ferry Road                        Narragansett             02882            401-874-6888            401-874-6889               [email protected]
                                                                                                               Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
                                  NJ                                       Abel             Robert                                                            55 du-een Anne Drive                     Shrewsbury              07702            908-842-3551












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                                     APPENDIX B


                                 WORKSHOP AGENDA


                              NOAA Coastal Ocean Data Workshop
                          Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI)
                                    Fort Pierce, Florida
                                    March 11-13, 1997

            Sponsored by: NOAAtNESDIS National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC);
            NOAAtNOS Coastal Services Center (CSC); NOAA Coastal Ocean Program (COP),
            and the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO)

            1. Preparation and Background for the Workshop

            - Participants will receive a package of background material and a detailed agenda at
            least two weeks prior to the workshop..

            - Participants are encouraged to prepare written concepts for discussion in Working
            Session 3 on joint ventures.

            - Each workshop session will include a facilitator, an NODC rapporteur/resource
            person, and an NODC regional Liaison Officer.

            2. The Workshop

            Day 0 - March 10. 1997

            9:00 -4:30         Meefing of Workshop Facilitators and Conveners

            Open               Arrival of Participants and Check-in at Hotels

            5:00 - 7:00 P.M.   Registration for Workshop at Hotel Desks

            7:00 - 9:00 P.M.   Dinner meeting for all NESDIS participants, facilitators,
                               and HBOI coordinators - Convene in the lobby of the
                               Vero Beach Inn


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               7:30 - 8:30 AM               Continental Breakfast and Registration at HBOI

               8:30 - 10:10 AM              Plenary 1

               1. 8:30 - 8:40 A.M.          Welcome and Introduction: Dr. Henry R. Frey, Director,
                                            NODC
               2. '8:40 - 9:00 A.M.         Welcome Address: Mr. Robert S.. Winokur, Assistant
                                            Administrator for Satellite and Information Services, NOAA
               3. 9000 - 9:20 A.M.          Coastal Ocean Data - Setting the Agenda: Dr. Henry R.
                                            Frey
               4. 9:20 - 9:50 A.M.          Priorities for Coastal Ecosystem Science: Dr. Donald F.
                                            Boesch, President, University of Maryland Center for
                                            Environmental and Estuarine Studies
               5. 9:50-10:10 A.M.           Instructions and Questions: Captain Daniel S. Schwartz,
                                            HBOI


               10:10 - 10:30 A.M.           Break


               10:30 - 12:30 P.M.           Working Group Session I- Identification of Data
                                            Required to Address National and Regional Coastal
                                            Ocean Issues and Scientific Research Priorities

               Five working groups will form: East Coast, Islands (including U.S. Virgin Islands,
               Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and Hawaii), West
               Coast (including Alaska), Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes.

               Each regional group will:

               1. Briefly review the major national and regional coastal issues/problems already
               identified by National Research Council, Subcommittee on U.S. Coastal Ocean
               Science, Regional Marine Research Program Boards, etc.; and the major scientific
               priority research areas which address these issues (refer to NRC report in package of
               background material).

               2. Identify historical and contemporary data and information (those coastal data sets
               already archived by NODC are summarized in the NODC report in package of
               background material) which NODC should acquire to support research, management,
               and decision-making addressing these issues and priority research areas.

               Note: Cross-cutting issu es (e.g., data quality and format standards, data sharing and











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                accessibility, data integration and product development) will be covered in the next
                working group session.

                12:30 - 1:30 PM            Lunch - Speaker and Topic
                                           Margaret A. Davidson, Director, NOAA Coastal Se     'rvices
                                           Center; Coastal Ocean Data - Information for Decision
                                           Making

                1:30 - 2:40 PM             Working Group Session I (continued)

                2:40 - 3:00 PM             Break


                3:00 - 4:20 PM             Plenary 2
                A representative from each group will provide a 10-minute summary of the group's
                report; and about 30 minutes of general discussion and questions will follow.

                4:30 - TBD P.M.            Debrief (Executive Board Room)

                Sponsors, facilitators, rapporteurs will review the results of Day 1.

                5:00 - 8:00 P.M.           Social Hour and Dinner - Speaker and Topic
                                           Dr. Robert B. Abel - Data Handling from Ante Dilluvian
                                           Times to the Year 2010


                Day 2 - March 12.1997

                7:30 - 8:30 A.M.           Continental Breakfast at HBOI


                8:30 - 10:15 A.M.          Working Group Session 2 - Specific Data and
                                           Information Requirements

                Five working groups will be formed. Four of the groups will include scientists, divided
                up along disciplinary lines - biological, chemical, geological, and physical. The fifth
                group will include managers and decision-makers. The technical data and information
                specialists will be distributed* among all of the groups.

                Each of the four disciplinary groups will discuss data and information requirements
                regarding:












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                      -data/parameter types, units, levels of precision and accuracy, levels and types
                       of quality control;
                      -metadata and supporting documentation;
                      -national and international data and metadata format, content, exchange
                       standards;
                      -search and retrieval capabilities of the data and metadata systems; and
                      -means of access to data and information systems, platforms, media.

              The fifth group will discuss data and information requirements regarding:

                      - search and retrieval requirements for systems
                      -means of access to data and information systems, platforms, media;
                      -turnaround time for requests;
                      -visualization/display, analytical, and conversion tools, and
                      -data, information, and synthesis products.

              10:15 - 10:35 A.M.          Break


              10:35 - 12:00 Noon          Working Group Session 2 (continued)

              12:00 - 1:00 P.M.           Lunch - Speaker and Topic
                                          Dr. Margaret Leinen, Dean of the Graduate School of
                                          Oceanography and Vice Provost for Marine Programs at
                                          the University of Rhode Island; Coastal Ocean Data - the
                                          University Perspective

              1:00 - 2:20 P.M.            Plenary 3

              Summary report from each Working Group on requirements - 10 minutes per group,
              plus 30 minutes for general discussion and questions.

              2:20 - 2:40 P.M.            Break


              2:40 - 4:40 P.M.            Working Group Session 3 - Implementation of the
                                          Recommendations through Partnerships and
                                          Cooperative Ventures

              Four new working groups were convened by sector with respect the stakeholders' data
              capabilities and needs. These are Data and Information Systems; State, Territory and
              Local Governments; Military, Classified or Proprietary and Industrial Databases; and


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               Sea Grant, Universities, and the "Shoebox" Data Set Creators  Custodians.

               These final four groups are to: Share information about existing coastal data and
               information management activities, since a number of efforts in this area have been
               initiated. Then propose potential partnerships, joint projects, cooperative efforts, and
               modifications to existing programs to implement the requirements and
               recommendations developed in the first two working sessions. Identify potential
               sources of resources to support the activities, responsible parties, organizations, other
               project details-etc. If any participants prepared written proposals, this session is the
               place to present and discuss them.

               4:45 - TBD P.M.            Debrief (Executive Board Room)

               Sponsors, facilitators, rapporteurs will review the results of Day 2.

               5:00 - 8:00 PM             Social Hour and Working Dinner - Speaker and Topic
                                          TBD


               Day 3 - March 13.1997

               7:30 - 8:30 A.M.           Continental Breakfast at HBOI


               8:30 - 10:00 A.M.          Plenary 4

               Reports from each working group - 10 minutes each, plus 20 minutes for discussion
               and questions.

               10:00 - 10:20 A.M.         Break


               10:20 - 12:00 Noon         Plenary 5   Wrap-up and Action Items

               AdJourn












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                                                      APPENDIX C


                           LIST OF BACKGROUND AND REFERENCE MATERIALS


                 1.     Biological Resources Division (U.S. Geological Survey) - National Biological
                        Information Infrastructure Biological Metadata Standard - hot link from workshop home
                        page.


                 2.     Collins, E., Woods, M., Sheifer, I.C., and Beattie, J., 1994, Bibliography ofSelected
                        Synthesis Documents on Selected Coastal Ocean Topics, NOAA Coastal Ocean Program
                        Decision Analysis Series No. 3 - copies mailed to participants; hot link from workshop
                        home page.

                 3.     Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Research, 1996, Our Changing
                        Planet - The FY 199 7 U.S. Global Change Research Program. - hot link from workshop
                        home page.

                 4.     Federal Geographic Data Committee Home Page - Information on development of
                        national standards for selected types of data and metadata - hot link from workshop home
                        page.


                 5.     Interagency Taxonomic Information System - on-line database of taxonomic information
                        on flora and fauna from terrestrial and aquatic habitats - hot link from workshop home
                        page.


                 6.     International Coral Reef Initiative - hot link from workshop home page.

                 7.     National Oceanographic Data Center Data Submission Guidelines - hot link from
                        workshop home page.

                 8.     National Oceanographic Data Center Data, 1997, Inventory of US. Coastal Ocean Data -
                        Summaries ofData Sets availablefrom the US. National Oceanographic Data Center -
                        copies mailed to participants.

                 9.     National Research Council, 1994, Prioritiesfor Coastal Ecosystem Science - copies
                        mailed to participants; hot link from the workshop home page.

                 10.    National Research Council, 1995, Understanding Marine Biodiversity - hot link from
                        workshop home page.


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              11.    Subcommittee on U.S. Coastal Ocean Science, 1995, Setting a New Coursefor US.
                     Coastal Ocean Science, Final Report - hot link from workshop home page.












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                                                      APPENDIX D


                                        LIST OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED



                1.     Rescuing selected historical Puget Sound hydrographic data - Washington Department of
                       Ecology

                2.     Combining ocean color data and discrete chlorophyll a data to assess eutrophication in
                       Washington State marine waters - Washington Department of Ecology

                3.     Characterization of oceanic input to Puget Sound for use in assessing water quality -
                       Washington Department of Ecology

                4.     Physical circulation measurements to support a Puget Sound regional synthesis model -
                       Washington Department of Ecology

                5.     NODC rotational program in coastal oceanography - NOAA National Marine Fisheries
                       Service, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group












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                                                    APPENDIX E


                         . NOTES FROM WORKING GROUP SESSIONS











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                           GEOGRAPHICAL WORKING GROUP SESSION NOTES


                                 REPORT FROM THE EAST COAST WORKING GROUP


                PARTICIPANTS:


                Facilitator: D. S. Schwartz
                Rapporteurs: M. Conkright and G. Heimerdinger

                Edward Monahan, Kent Price, John Collins, William Venezia, Livingston Marshall, Stuart
                Stevens, Reed Bohne, Judith Pederson, Richard Signell, Brad Butman, David Remsen,
                Christopher D'Elia, Donald Boesch, Van Waddell, Zsolt Nagy, Wendell Brown, J. Frederick
                Grassle, Peter Comillon, Bob Van Dolah, John Ogden, Steve Haeger

                1. INTRODUCTION

                The working group began by identifying a the members in the group, their affiliations, and their
                specific interests and background related to coastal oceanography. This group represented a
                -cross section of federal, state, and private interests around the East Coast of the United States.

                11. GENERAL ISSUES


                Several issues of general interests were immediately identified such as:

                1. Identify non-traditional data types such as:

                       a. data needed for predictive systems (model validation) meteorology, historical data,
                       ocean color
                       b. proxy indicators - how do you measure health?
                       c. surf zone/nearshore fluxes - critical for coastal models


                2. Identify international coastal data with an emphasis on US coastal waters first, then as an
                eventual component of GOOS - albeit with a coastal data emphasis.

                3. Even though this would anticipate discussions in a subsequent session, the group felt the
                identification of user needs was not as critical as the quality of the data. For example, when
                studying non-indigenous species,.data quality is important in identifying the absence of species.
                Related to this is a need for a taxa census. In addition, there is also a statistical need to filter
                outliers in such data sets as STORET to make them useful..




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               4. The need to distinguish between historical and real time data.

               5. There is a need to identify sources of information - e.g. location of Gulf Stream.

               III. MAJOR DATA TYPES


               The group identified the following data types as important for coastal studies:

                      bathymetry (need for precise bathymetric data - e.g. for the Gulf of Maine)
                      sediment issues (sediment texture and contaminants)
                      shoreline defirtition
                      suspended particles
                      circulation (currents)
                      fishery dependent and independent (fishery data)
                      hydrography (temperature/salinity/oxygen/nutrients)
                      productivity/chlorophyll
                      marine mammaWendangered species
                      geo-referenced human use patterns (shipping lanes, coastal use)
                      habitats (fisheries, benthic, nursery grounds)
                      coastal atmospheric components (deposition, forcing)

               IV. PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH COASTAL DATA


               The group identified the following problems associated with existing data sets:

               1. incomplete work on characteristics of the sediments (e.g. sediment texture)
               2. many bathymetry sources and formats - there is a need to make NOAA databases consistent,
               e.g. single definition or reference point for demarking coastline
               3. different government. definitions of "shoreline"
               4. flexibility of data management, metadata inclusion
               5. scalar problem - local vs regional vs larger scale studies need partnerships to resolve local to
               regional issues

               V. SUMMARY OF DATA NEEDS


               1. Basic/fundamental datasets
                      bathymetry, shoreline, sediment texture
                      land use cover
               2. Datasets for model forcing and validation
                      meteorology, ocean color











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           3. Long term and historical datasets
           4., Sources, loadings, point discharge, atmospheric deposition
           5. The need for real time data in studying coastal issues
           6. Resource needs: territorial boundaries/lease blocks
                demographic/economic projections
                geo-referenced human use patterns
           7. Merged databases which are GIS compliant.
           V1. RECOMMENDATIONS


           1. Data identification and availability with an emphasis on local/state data
                - manuscript data - "shoebox" data.
           2. NOAA should indei datasets - researchers should know what is available at federal, state and
           local agencies - make data useful such as putting it in geographical context to make it useful.
           Where do you go to find all East Coast data?

           3. Applications identify needs for the data taking into account the educational community -
           current focus in education is problem solving, issue oriented - need to use data in classroom
           4. Identify long term datasets and make these a priority
           5. NODC link with local/state estuary programs - use these efforts to develop national picture
           (e.g. National Estuary Program - most have some kind of monitoring program). Need to make
           these data more. available - provide them with technology, benefits of sharing data. Other links
           are NEP, NEERS, and the USGS online data on nutrient flux entering the coasts
           6. There is a need to understand how, who, and why coastal data are collected - local, private,
           state agencies - (politics of who, why gathers data).
           7. Any new data should be available for rapid access (e.g. satellite altimeter data) - suggestion
           for linking the data rather than providing the satellite data.

           DATASETS/East Coast Group - Related to the NRC Coastal Issues List

           1. EUTROPHICATION


           A. EUTROPHICATION EXISTING DATASETS


                South Fla. Ecosystemand Monitoring System - EPA
                USGS Water Quality assessment - nutrient loading
                State Monitoring programs/- water quality -
                STORET-EPA
                Chesapeake Bay Program
                All NEP's
                Long term (LTER)












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              LMER
              NERR - National Estuarine
              ORCA - NOAA - eutrophication assessment - Mid Atlantic - regional data
                  pathway to individual institutions
              NC Corporate Geographic Database - sources
              EMAP - EPA
              NOAA OLLD - tide level - NOS
              NADP - national acid deposition
              NMFS trawl data -
              Citizen/State Volunteer Programs - Baywatch
              Aerial remote sensing - CSC
                  ODAS
                  Mid Atlantic Lidar
              Permit discharge data - NPDES
              Continuous observation systems
                . Rutgers/1JMd./FIO - Chesapeake Bay
              Submerged aquatic vegetation surveys
                  Biscayne Bay, Chesapeake Bay

         B. EUTROPHICATION DATA DEVELOPMENT NEEDS


              International eutrophication data (global)
              Atmospheric deposition
              In-situ monitoring
              East Coast Data modeling forcing/validation data
              Inventory of "shoe box" data sets by individual PI's and institutes

         11. HABITAT MODIFICATION


         A. EXISTING


              National Wetland Inventory - NMFW
              C-CAP - coastal change analysis center (CSC)
              SPOT - satellite remote sensing
              Individual state wetland
              NAP-DOQQ
              404 permits - core of engineers
              submerged aquatic vegetation surveys (SAV)
              Habitat mapping and dynamics -
                  South Florida Ecosystem and Sanctuary Monitoring System


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                        NMFS trawl data
                        Maps of shellfish closure -
                        Sediment texture - USGS and state agencies
                        Environmental sensitivi  ty maps - CSC
                        Bathymetry - NOS/Navy/COE/LJSGS
                        COE/EPA/DAMOS dredge disposal
                        Endangered species habitats
                        MMS OCS studies of habitat modification


                 B. NEEDED
                        Nursery areas - fishery natural resources
                        Regional sea floor characterization
                        COE EIS statements for past/future projects
                        Fine scale bathymetry
                        Obstacles to natural migration


                 Ill. HYDROLOGIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC


                 A. EXISTING


                        local project permit data
                        river flow data
                        COE EIS data
                        competing uses data
                        state temperature/salinity/DO data
                        rainfall data - NOS/NCDC
                        coastal structures (inlet changes, jetty structure)
                        NMFS/state fishery data
                        NFWS water fowl data


                 B.NEEDED


                        high resolution aerial photography - state/counties/private

                 IV. EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES


                 A. EXISTING


                        NMFS trawl surveys
                        state fisheries surveys


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                     catch and landing data
                     fishing effect data
                     coastal mining - mineral resources
                            beach re-nourishment
                     Seamap/MMS data
                     USGS side scan
                     MMS/OCS.
                     Virtual population data - NMFS
                     State shellfish survey
                     human use data (recreation, onshore/offshore boating activities)

              B.NEEDED


                     NMFS trawl surveys - difficult to access
                     State fisheries surveys - difficult to access

              V. TOXIC EFFECTS


              A. EXISTING


                     NST - NOS national status and trends
                     EMAP - EPA/NOAA
                     Corps permit data (COE)
                     STORET-EPA
                     Toxic substances library
                     NEP
                     Basic sediment quality/texture - state, federal
                           OC, %fine grain material
                     State monitoring programs
                     NPDES
                     TOXNET - toxic release inventory (Nat. Library of Medicine)
                           SARA-


              B.NEEDED


                     Pesticide uses inventory - USDA/EPA
                     Atmospheric loading
                           EPA Great Waters program
                     Regional Sediment quality
                     Real-time



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                            44coastal canaries"


               VI. INTRODUCTION OF NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES


               A. EXISTING


                     ballast water studies
                     circulation/hydrodynamic data

               B. NEEDED


                     species inventory data



               VII. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY


               A. EXISTING


                     historical archives
                     paleo data

               B. NEEDED


                     ice core gases data - NSF
                     data sets for modeling
                     inventory of "shoebox" data

               Vill. SHORELINE EROSION


               A. EXISTING


                     hydrologic/hydrodynamic data
                     datasets associated with particular events
                     shoreline erosion data
                           NBS continuous beach surveys
                           COE databases
                     NOS tide gauge data
                     storm track data - Nat. hurricane center
                     wave data - NDBC




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               B.NEEDED


                      shoreline definition time-series
                      now casting data
                      Lidar


               IX. PATHOGENS


               A. MUSUNG


                      health dep"ents
                      boards of health/state agencies
                      shellfish monitoring at state level



































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                               REPORT FROM THE GREAT LAKES WORKING GROUP


                PARTICIPANTS:


                Facilitator: A. Andren
                Rapporteurs: R. Abram and S. Stillwaugh

                Scott Thieme, Dave Reid, Tony Frank, Dennis Leonard, Steve Brandt, John Rupert, David
                Edgington, John Pohlman.

                Summary:

                - All of the issues in the NRC report are important in the Great Lakes region, although the
                relative priority varies from region to region and take to lake.
                - Because of the "Water Quality Agreement" between the United States and Canada, a number
                of coordinated efforts have addressed issues focussed on water levels, water quality, and
                ecological effects. These effects have in large measure been recommended by the International
                Joint Commission (IJC), which recommends action to the two parties. The Great Lakes Fisheries
                Commission and Great Lakes Commission are also responsible for the coordination of efforts
                regarding environmental resources.
                - Detailed lake level records exist, which together with meteorological and physical lake data,
                serve as a powerful tool by which to examine possible effects that would result from
                perturbations in the hydrologic cycle (i.e., global climate issues).
                - The Great Lakes are basically enclosed systems with hydraulic residence times ranging from 3
                years to 1809 years. This topological configuration permits mass balance approaches as an aid in
                studying the flow of water and chemicals.
                - As an observation by the Great Lakes group, it was noted that there would be tremendous
                benefits if more databases were available for integration into metadata.

                EUTROPHICATION


                EXISTING:


                Inputs (Rivers)
                - State DNRs (e.g., Ohio EPA)
                - IJC (D. Dolan)
                - USGS/NAWQA
                - Canada: Database (STAR)
                      CCIW (Ontario, Erie)
                - Metro sewage districts


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                Inputs (Atmosphere):
                - Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO)
                - Environment Canada (Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network - Ray Hoff)
                - EPA (Natl. Atmospheric Deposition Network)


                In-Lake:


                - GLNPO (Glenn Warren)
                - IJC (D. Dolan)
                - Canada Center for Inland Waters (CCIW - Ora Johansen)
                - NOAA/GLERL
                - COE (Dave Reid, Data Rescue)
                - Nearshore municipal water intakes (Al Becton - Report)
                - Other intakes
                - Remote sensing (e.g., CZCS, AVHRR, ADEOS, SEAWIFS)

                NEEDS:


                - New models, review loading, e.g., Lake Eric)
                - Remote sensing (need for better interpretation)
                - In situ high resolution
                - Lake surveys


                HABITAT MODIFICATION


                EXISTING:


                - Lake levels (COE, NOS, Canada)
                - Wetlands (state DNRs, aerial, remote sensing, GIS): need better classification/quality
                assessment
                     NOAA Hazmat RPI, Nature Conservancy (Sue Crispin), USFWS NatI. Wetlands
                     Inventory (Herman Robinson)
                - Submerged aquatic vegetation mapping/inventory (now mostly project specific)
                - Land use/construction (Landsat, SPOT)
                - State DNRs (GIS)


                NEEDS:


                - Better remote sensing
                - Change in biodiversity/quality change


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                Water clarity, SAV, effects of non-indigenous species

               HYDROLOGIC/HYDRODYNAMIC DISRUPTION


               EXISTING:


               - Lake circulation
                      - Localized effects
                      - Model data (derived)
                      - In situ (NOAA/GLERL, only long term data NDBC buoys)
                      - Lake Michigan nearshore (GLERL - Milwaukee, U Wisconsin GLERF)
               - Watersheds, inflow (USGS, COE)
               - Episodic events
               - Water levels


               NEEDS:


               - More buoys (in situ needed for ground truth of models)
               - ADCP data


               EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES


               EXISTING:


               - Catch statistics (state DNRs, Canada - Tony Frank)
               - Creel census/sport catch (state DNRs, Canada - Interior)
               - Research trawls (T. Frank - GL Science Center)
               - Stocking databases (DNRs, USFWS, GL Fisheries Commission)
               - Sand/gravel/minerals
                      - Removal records (state geologic surveys, e.g., Ohio)
                      - Lake Erie (Gas - Canada)


               NEEDS:


               - Acoustic trawls (extend work in Lake Michigan to other lakes)
               - Predator assessment


               TOXIC EFFECTS


               EXISTING:



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                Levels:


               - EPA STORET
               - GLNPO/EPA
               - Canada
               - lJC (42 areas of concern)
               - NOAA Status & Trends
               - State DNRs
               - USFWS
               - COE (sediment)


               Effects:


               - USFWS (e.g., reproduction effects, cross bill, tumors)
               - PCBs (Ongoing Jacobson study of mothers & children)
               - EPA "Great Waters" report (connect levels and effects)
               - Saginaw River (Rutherford & Ludwig bird study)
               - Endocrine disruption (Theo Colbom - birds)
               Sources:
               - lJC (Dolan toxic release inventory)
               - EPA (release vs. deposition)
               - GLNPO (rivers & atmosphere)
               - Environment Canada


               NEEDS:


               - Data on water changes and concentrations (Lake Michigan work needs to be extended to the
               other Lakes)
               - Mercury loadings
               - Mercury in birds (3 target species)
               - Bioactive concentration measurements
               - Mass balance (evasion)


               NON-INDIGENOUS SPECIES


               EXISTING:


               - USFWS
               - USGS/BRD - Gainesville, FL
               - Great Lakes Center



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                 - State DNRs (fish, e.g., goby)
                 - Canada - Ontario Hydro
                 - Purdue University (Web site, Sea Grant)
                 - NY Brockport (Zebra mussel Clearinghouse)
                 - GLERL (Saginaw Bay, Lake St. Clair)
                 - USCG (Ballast water, national database - Smithsonian)
                 - Great Lakes Fish Commission (sea lamprey)

                 NEEDS:


                 - Systematic survey, better overall approach
                 - Early warning system
                 - More emphasis on near-shore, adjacent wetlands
                 - Ecosystem impacts/predictive models

                 GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE


                 EXISTING:


                 - GLERL - thermal structure with thermistor strings (in works)
                 - Meteorological data (NCDC - temperature, precip., ice cover, buoy data)
                 - Lake levels
                 - Paleoclimate/proxy data
                 - Satellite data (SPOT, Landsat, etc.)


                 NEEDS:


                 - Better coordination
                 - Basin wide measurement grid

                 SHORELINE EROSION & SEVERE STORMS


                 EXISTING:


                 - Shoreline survey data (NOS, satellite, aerial surveys)
                 - Property/cadastral survey data/land records
                 - Storm intensity/frequency (NCDC)
                 Dredge records (COE)

                 NEEDS:



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              - Shoreline change analysis (via satellite)
              - Predictive ability












































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                                REPORT FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WORKING GROUP


                      PARTICIPANTS


                      Facilitator:  Carney
                      Rapporteurs: D. Hamilton and M. Crane

                      Steve Gittings, Dave Stage, Troy Holcombe, George Henderson, Larry Goldman, Bob
                      Wiseman, J. J. Waterreus, Lee Edmiston, William Schroeder, Mack Felton, Rex Herron,
                      Eric Anderson, Gus Antonini, Mark Monaco, Norman Froomer, Phillip Hinesley, Mark
                      Luther, Doug Hamilton, Mike Crane.

                      Introductions of members in the room


                      Issues:


                      General issue     Boundaries Tidal lands to shelf break


                      Tle topic of where is the shore=ward boundary and the ocean boundary was discussed.

                      1. Habitat Use                       Loss Assessment Restoration Enhancement


                      Highest category                     Concern-monitoring not mentioned
                                                                    Identification of habitat



                      2. Nutrient Inputs                   Includes contaminants

                      High category

                      3. Freshwater input                  Discharge

                      High category

                      4. Break apart and distribute to Issue 2 and Issue 8.

                      Low category

                      Population stability                 Cornmercial species and ecosystem scale



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                     low category

                     6. Trophic dynamics                   Links in ecosystem

                     low category

                     7. Physical modifications             Florida doubles survey, recreational boating late
                                                           80's
                                                           NOS to resurvey deep water harbors

                     Highest category                      Concern - qc of data

                     Data bases: local gov contracts for data collection Source USACE and local

                     8. Toxic materials                    Chronic


                     High category

                     9. Coastal Erosion


                     High category

                     10. Saltwater intrusion               aquifer

                     Low category

                     11. Catastrophic events               all

                     High category

                     12. Global change                     sea level, rainfall storminess

                     Low Category

                     13. Nuisance/exotic species,          shrimp virus, range extensions

                     Absolute lowest category

                     Additional data needs Local currents and winds         ADCP is possible with met.data



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                     Facilitator's Observations on Gulf of Mexico Coastal Data


                     Due to the location of the meeting, the Gulf Coast of Florida was heavily represented,
                     with attendance diminishing rapidly westward. A single Texan was present. When
                     reviewing the NRC coastal priorities, it was evident that habitat change caused the
                     greatest concern. Since the Gulf of Mexico contains a great diversity of habitats, it was to
                     be expected that specific regional interests would vary. The details and data sets
                     identified are given in the session report. It is the purpose of this section to point to three
                     Gulf-wide concerns.


                     1. Geographic Range of Inter-Region Similarities

                     In many respects the Gulf and Caribbean form a single unit encompassing both the
                     mainland states and islands. Between those states and the islands are a host of nations,
                     island nations, and colonial outposts making this a geopolitically complex region. If
                     NODC chooses to organize regionally, it should be prepared for a multinational effort in
                     the Gulf. The Gulf is also a complex region with extensive reef tracts, mangrove stands,
                     expansive estuaries, the Mississippi-Atchafalaya delta complex, hypersaline lagoons, and
                     many other habitat types either regionally unique or shared with some other regions. In
                     establishing regional centers, NODC bears an obligation of assuring no single habitat or
                     single issue myopia. Understanding coastal issues and coastal habitats in the Gulf and
                     elsewhere is going to be a complex challenge. Simple regional autonomy is actually
                     unlikely to meet complex regional needs.

                    .2. Issue-Based Database Development Can Not Stop at an Arbitrary Shoreline

                     Most habitat change issues deal with a complex ocean-land interface where coastal
                     problems are increasingly seen as connected to watershed processes. For example, canals
                     associated with coastal development are an issue on the Florida coast. Massive land loss
                     is an issue in Louisiana's delta regions. The Gulf of Mexico coast in Louisiana
                     experiences the most rapid apparent sea level rise on Earth. And, Texas has concerns
                     over its extensive barrier islands. NODC would be well served by an effort to determine
                     what types and geographic scales of watershed data should be included.

                     3. Do Not Ignore Offshore Oil and Gas

                     NOAA is, in some respects, an agency with a peculiar partial mandate. Its focus is the
                     ocean, but it has no mandate for, and only minimal connection to, the offshore oil
                     industry. Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Interior has that resource mandate,
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                   traditionally depended upon NODC for archiving of extensive offshore studies. In this
                   situation one can see signs of both cooperation and diluted effort. With more than 4000
                   offshore structures off Louisiana and Texas oil and gas issues are extremely important in
                   the Gulf of Mexico. NODC would be well advised to work closely with MMS nationally
                   and within the Gulf The multi-state, multi-institution Gulf-Wide Geographic
                   Information System (GWIS) under development by MMS might serve as a good model of
                   coastal data systems.













































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                                  REPORT FROM THE WEST COAST WORKING GROUP


                     PARTICIPANTS:


                     Facilitator: M. Davidson
                     Rapporteurs: R. Fauquet and N. Hall

                     Participants: Susan Hills, Douglas Sherman, Deanne DiPietro, Jason Yap, Sabine Harms,
                     John Helly, George Boehlert, Randy Dana, Edward Bowlby, Bemard,Megrey, Eric
                     Crecelius, Ken Dzinbal, Jan Newton, Jane Small.

                     10:44 AM Tuesday

                     Review priority issues
                     Identify existing and historical data sets

                     Doug Sherman (U.S.C. Sea grant Director) Will be the group's "mouthpiece" for
                     reports)

                     Introductions & expectations
                     Review West Coast priorities from NRC report

                     Problem - Addition to  priority list:

                            Coast is more thari wetside - watershed, landside, pollution, hazards (seismic &
                            volcanoes)
                     Issues:


                            Eutrophication
                            Habitat modification
                            Hydrodynamic
                            Hazards
                            The above need to be defined in terms of the range of natural variability

                     Is eutrophication a problem? Yes, especially in some local areas.

                     WHAT DATA SETS E)aST and are important to your interests:


                     A. Habitat




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                           Shore Birds survey (a NOAA data set of nesting sites) (NOS/SEA Betsy Archer)
                           Hydrographic Surveys, NOAA/NGDC available "Base layer"
                           WA State Dept. of Natural Resources Tom Mumford
                    Tidal, subtidal


                           AK DNR -- Emily Vinion
                           Moss Landing (for Washington data) Rikk Kavitek
                           UAF -- Sid Stillwaugh
                           Washington UW Bob Paine
                           USGS Subtidal BRD Ron Jameson (Corvallis)

                     Pelagic

                           Jan Newton WA DE
                           UW Historical


                           Outer Continental Self


                           SCCWRP Jim Allen (So Cal Coast Water Resources Program)
                           Rita Homer UW
                           Jack Wekell NMFS Seattle
                           U WA Miriam Guichard


                   B. "Critters"


                    Sea birds


                           Ulrich Wilson (WA)
                           Vivian Mendenhall (AK)
                           Roy Lows (OR)
                           Point Reys Bird Observatory
                           Wash. Dept Fish and Wildlife
                           Cris Thom??


                           Salmon & Steelhead Inventory
                           Washington Dept. Fish and Wildlife
                           Salmon Genetics -- Population Databases
                           Alaska Fish and Wildlife(Also Mammals)
                           Marine Laboratory, Seattle
                           CRIS -- flow. Population


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                  Sea Otters USFWS Jim Estes, UC Santa Cruz

                        US Fish and Wildlife, Marine Life Management, Anchorage
                        WA State Dept of Ecology
                        Marine Mammals Management, US Fish/Wildlife
                 Fish


                        Washington F& WL Steve Jeffries
                        OR ODFW Robin Brown
                        CA DFG -- Pete Bonidelli (unsure of spelling)
                        The Nature Conservancy Endangered List
                        Marine Mammals, Smithsonian, James Mead
                        Will Daspit, NMFS, Seattle (Sand Point)
                        International Pac. Halibut Commission. Don McCochran


                 Benthic/invertebrates at State FWS


                        Plankton CALCOFI
                        Any NMFSC
                        WA Dept of Ecology
                        UW Megan Dethier
                        U. AK Fairbanks -- Chirk Chu
                        Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

                 Shellfish


                        OR Dept. Agriculture
                        WA Dept. Agriculture -- Ray Jandl
                        Bovines


                 HAZARDS


                        SIO Coastal DATA Zoo
                        USC of E -- CA Storm Surge Model
                        Tsunami Warning Kodiak, PMEL
                        USGS Seismic
                        Palo Alto, USGS Seismic
                        CA State Div Mines &U Geol (Sacramento)
                        DOGeology and Mineral Industries OR George Priest
                        AK Geophysical Inst UAF Sherrie George


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                        UW Dept of Geophysics
                        CA Dept. Boating and Waterways -- Ron Flick at SIO
                        So. CA Earthquake Center, U. So. Cal
                        Sea Ice -- Sherrie George, & Martin Jeffries UAF

                 Man -caused problems -- Spills, etc.

                        State Spill Response
                        Office of Marine Safety
                        Coast Guard
                        HaZmAT
                        Exxon Valdez Trustee Council
                        Santa Barbara Channel Study -- SIO
                        MMS Lease Sale Environment Study

                Eutrophication

                        Wa Dept Ecology Fresh, Costal
                        AK Dept. of Environment
                        Harmful algal blooms UW Rita Homer
                        NNTS Jack Wekell
                        WA Dept of Health Guichard


                 Toxics


                        WA Dept Ecology - Ken Dzinbal
                        SCCWRP Jim Allen
                        Amer. Marine Mammal Tissue Archive Program   Paul Becker at NIST (see
                        Susan Hill for Identification)
                        EPA Superfund Data
                        NOAA Damage Assessment Center
                        DOD Coastal Military Site - (Environment study data) (Records of former
                        dumps)
                        USGS CNG Tom Chase
                        US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge spoils data

                Hydrological (Water Cycle)

                        USGS "NA Stream Flow & Water Quality A" and Stream Flow Data
                        US Army Corps of Engineers, Flow: Civil Engineering Res. Ctr., Dredge


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                          PACCLIM Dan Cayan at SIO
                          Div. Of Water Resources -- All coastal states
                          NWS: Flow data -- Office of Hydrology
                          Oregon Water Resources Dept. Mike Ciscell

                    Climate


                          Joint Institute for study of Atmos & Ocean UW Ed Miles
                          PICES Doug McCone Sydney BC (& Sid Stillwaugh)
                                 McCone is at: Inst. Ocean Science


                          Global Climate Change
                                 Retro numerical model output -- Future Will have time and scale
                          Reanalysis Project / CD Rom NOAANCEP Larry Breaker

                   IF I COULD HAVE ONE DATA SET CREATED:


                          Current and Historical wave characteristics and near shore profiles and sediment
                          characteristics
                          Current and Historical spatial and temporal flow patterns of California and Alaska
                          currents
                          Current and Historical records of patterns of exploited fish populations (fish scale
                          deposits,
                          Fish remains in archeological midden data)
                          Integrative analysis tools for Information products -- integrated together, spatially
                          referenced (Data sets expressed as GIS images)
                          Ocean Color -- Processed imaging / digital format
                          Buoy array (TOGA style) for near shore coast of Washington including Puget
                          Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca
                          Coastline change and land use change
                          One "true" shoreline


                   TIE into State Data Centers


                          One aim of increase of diversity in NODC data should be to allow documentation
                          of variability
                          Old data sets are important, even if not accurate, to provide information on range
                          of variability
                          Remember the value of historical data sets - for what they reveal about natural
                          variability



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                 Acronyms


                 AK - Alaska
                 DE - Dept. Of Ecology
                 DFG - Dept. Of Fish and Game
                 DNR - Dept. Of Natural Resources
                 F&WL - Fish and Wildlife
                 FWS - Fish and Wildlife Services
                 HAZMAT - Hazardous Materials (NOAA)
                 MMS - Minerals Management Service
                 NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
                 NWS - National Weather Service
                 ODFW - Oregon Dept. Of Fish and Wildlife
                 OR - Oregon
                 PACCLIM - Pacific Climate Program
                 SIO - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
                 UAF - University of Alaska Fairbanks
                 USCoE - US Army Corps of Engineers
                 Wa - Washington





























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                                    REPORT FROM THE ISLANDS WORKING GROUP


                     PARTICIPANTS:


                     Facilitator: A. Miglarese
                     Rapporteur: P. Caldwell and D. Grimes

                     Lelei Peau, Eric Gilman, Susan Burr, Ernest Matson, Evangeline Lujan, Kurt Grove,
                     Carmen Gonzalez, Roy Watlington, Barbara Kojis, Ed Towle.

                     Prioritize listing of issues

                     Sedimentation was added to the NRC priorities and was ranked as # 1.
                     The group also agreed that population increases is an over-riding issue.

                     Ranking priorities

                     1. Sedimentation - 8 votes
                     2. Habitat modification - 7 votes
                     3 & 4 Eutrophication and Shoreline erosion and hazardous storms (changed to coastal
                     hazards)             - 5 votes each
                     5 Exploitation of resources - 3
                     6 Hydrologic and hydrodynamic disruption - I
                     7 Toxic Effects - 0
                     8 Introduction of nonindigenous species - 0
                     9 Global climate change - 0
                     10 Pathogens & toxins affecting human health - 0

                     Issue #1 - SEDIMENTATION


                     Listing of data sets available: 14 data sets identified
                     1) USGS gauging station information (Matson) - This is a needed data set for Guam &
                     Saipan.
                     2) CCAP/NSDINGDC for collecting metadata; also USGS sponsored state and territorial
                     Metadata Coordinating Councils (Towle)
                     3) Land use data from satellite (Gonzales)
                     4)Bathyrnetric surveys taken from different years can be intercom pared (Grove)
                     5)V.I. aerial photography (source=lsland Resources Foundation, Univ. Of Virgin Islands)
                     (Watlington)
                     6) AVHRR data maintained at NODC (Hendee);CSC did retro I kin AVHRR data; runs


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                  on PC, Sea view
                  7) Ocean Color Thermal Scanner (OCTS) Data - NESDIS/OSDPD
                  8) Well drilling records (permit files from regional zoning/land use dept. For alluvial
                  plains geology "cores") (Towle)
                  9) Sediment data in Puerto Rico (contact Kathy Scadler of Woods Hole Oceanographic
                  Institute (Grove)
                  10) National Technical Means - source military (Crosby)
                  11) Miscellaneous data sets taken by commercial companies, for example,
                  cable settings by AT&T, offshore surveys by oil companies - Exxon, Puerto Rican
                  Power, MTC & Sprint for CNMI.
                  12) Directional wave data (current, pressure) Univ. Puerto Rico, (Grove)
                  13) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) - Soil data maps
                  14) Status of US EPA old STORET database

                  There is a lot out there. Need to pull disparate data together. The group had a difficult
                  time identifying know data sets, demonstrating that a primary need of the island is to
                  have these data sets made available.


                  Isolated and unique - Virgin Islands - historical sequence of aerial photos to help track
                  shoreline change do exist; shared between Island Resources Foundation and Eastern
                  Caribbean Center and the Univ. Of the Virgin Islands

                  NEEDS


                  Turbidity data needed
                  Dimension of sediment plumes in coastal waters needed.

                  Integration - correlation/interpretation needed in user friendly format needed. Data
                  alone are useless.


                  ISSUE #2 Habitat Modification


                  Data sets


                  1) Virgin Islands -All the old aerial photos - Island Resources Foundation/ Army Corps
                  of Engr. (Kojis) (Towle)
                  Highway Dept./ NOAA has flown all of the islands/but does not have all shorelines of
                  every island
                  Dept of Natural Resources/Puerto Rico (Gonzalez) - U.S.G.S. - National Wetland
                  Inventory maps. These maps are not very accurate for island because the scale is too


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                     large.
                     2) CCAP Data - Coastal Change (Miglarese)
                            New satellites coming on soon - I acre min. resolution presently available
                            SW comer of PR at Univ. of PR (Gonzales) .
                     3) Monumentation - I st order, latitude, longitude, elevation; source NOS
                     4)Univ. of Puerto Rico habitat info.- coral reef, time series

                     5)Building permits - American Samoa, V.I.
                     Problem of keeping records - destroyed by hurricanes, self-destructing celluloid
                     NOAA's data rescue effort - possible funding source
                     Need national data archive; also local archiving
                     DoD unclassified
                     6)V.1. - shelf data - reef base CD-ROM (Kojis)
                     7)St. John, V.I. - benthic map available in digital form from V.I. National Park Service,
                     also CDC/UVI has (Towle)
                     8)NOAA Harbor charts - these need to be updated for CNMI
                     9) Army Corps keeps RANS (Gilman)
                     10) Oil spill sensitivity maps - Research & Planning Institute/ NOAA Hazmat (Towle)
                     11) Sea bird and turtle nesting; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Gilman), also V.I. N Port
                     Office
                     12 )Habitat digitizing maps at Univ. Of P.R.
                     13) Conservation Data Center/P.R., V.I. have data /can help to get in touch
                     14 )Nature Conservancy - Christmas bird counts/ Audubon (Miglarese)
                     15) British Virgin Islands; - Marine Atlas has been digitized; in ArcInfo
                                   contact Louis Potter, Gillian Cambers, Towle

                     Don't know integrity of the data suggested.
                     Still needs interpretation of the data; issue driven analysis needed.

                     Margaret L. (Rhode Island) - Importance of link with the military for some coastal
                     data; NODC needs to establish this link.
                     There are very little data for the island, especially the Pacific. What data there are
                     is held by the military.
                     Suggest - resolution accepted by all five regions - for NOAA as a outcome of this
                     meeting -
                           to demonstrate; to provide a data set available to the islands.

                     AFTERNOON SESSION


                     ISSUE #3 Eutrophication


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                    Data sets:


                    CNMI - No ability to use digitized data. Higher priority for training.
                    Guam - Situation if you have the data now, you will be ready.

                    Summarization - there should also be necessity for training and infrastructure
                    development.

                    1) P.R. - contact Dr. Braulio Jimenez, Dir. Of Grad Environment, Rio Piedras Campus,
                    U. P.R.
                    Biological Research Division (Gonzales)
                    2) Guam - Water Resources Institute of Guam (U.S.G.S.)(Matson) contact: Jim Marsh at
                    Univ of Guam
                    3) Div. of Environmental Quality, Saipan - (Gilman)
                    4) Jorge Capella, Dept of Marine Sciences, Magueyes, Univ of P.R. - Circulation, temp
                    profiles, cross shelf dispersion, conductivity.
                    5) BOMEX - contact NODC, Rasmussen
                    6) National Technical Information Service - technical reports and publications
                    7 )Eutrophication assessment; contact - Mark Monaco

                    Like to have- wish list


                    1) V.I. - Instruments that actually record nitrates hourly; to tell you about the change; to
                    monitor the continuous change
                    2) Guam - diurnal change - biggest problem; Instruments not yet available; not sensitive
                    enough
                    3)AOMEL - getting ready to do air sea parameters and fluorescence telemetered via
                    satellite (Hendee)
                    4)Cman+ buoys in the Caribbean; I meter      3 meter temp salinity
                    Not just oceanographic data; add coastal

                    ISSUE #4 - SHORELINE EROSION AND HAZARDOUS STORMS
                    change to SHORELINE EROSION AND COASTAL HAZARDS

                    Data now have-


                    1) Navy has - location of submerged ordnance
                    2) NWS - P.R., Hawaii, Guam - slosh models; contact Aurelio Mercado
                    3) Corps of Engineers -100 year flood maps, storin surge
                    4) NOAA HAZMAT - environmental sensitivity


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                    5 )FIRM maps - from FEMA
                           Suggestion methodology behind FIRM maps.- asking FEMA; National Flood
                    Insurance Program; useful to know the math and logic behind the FIRM; often not
                    coordinated with slosh.
                    6) CFRAMP - Caribbean Fisheries Resource Assessment and Management Project -
                    Shoreline/erosion rates for P.R.; CARICOM, Guyana
                    7) V.I. - Pollution Susceptibility Map for territory; contact Island Resource
                    Foundation(Towle)
                    8) DNR - CDC, U.S. Army Corps Orthophoto Quads, digital with 5 foot contours -
                    Whole Territory, 1995 (Kojis)
                    9 )NOS Photogrametry
                    10) Historical storm track frequencies - Army Corps
                    11) Algae blooms; contacts: Pacific Basin Development Council; World Aquaculture
                           Association AC-A for Aquaculture - at National Agricultural Library, Sherwood
                           Hall, FDA
                    12) DCTOC - Bottle drifter studies; contact Don Atwood
                    13) Caribbean Pollution - IOC - mapping for regional pollution
                    14) Tsunami consultation workshop, May 1996, IOCARIBE; contact: Rafael Steer-Ruiz -
                           Cartagena, Columbia

                    Would like:


                    1) Historical Tsumani data - NGDC - for Pacific
                           P.R. generating data for 1918 tsunami - Workshop in June (A. Mercado)
                    2 )Outfalls
                    3) El Nino data
                    4) Landfill areas for housing (Samoa)

                    ISSUE 5- EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES
                    Wish list


                    1) Altimetry for determining bathymetry- satellite imagery for sea fioor -

                    Known Data


                    1) Fisheries data
                           NMFS catch data
                           Dept. of Aquatic Resources on Guam
                           P.R. Dept of Natural Resources - fisheries
                           Caribbean Assess of Fisheries - Canadian funded - Belize - Terracomp Science -


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                          Jorge Garcia, contact: Frank Granger
                   2) AOML - harvesting coral (Hendee)
                   3) Corps. of Engineering Mineral Management Service - lease blocks - mining, sand,
                   gravel, oil, etc.
                   4) Ocean dumping sites - NOAA








































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                    OCEANOGRAPHIC DISCIPLINES AND MANAGEMENT WORKING
                                             GROUP SESSION NOTES


                             REPORT FROM THE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY GROUP


                    PARTICIPANTS:


                    Facilitator: V. Waddell
                    Rapportpurs: R. Fauquet and N. Hall

                    Steve Haeger, John Collins, Don J. Wiseman, Jr., George Weatherly, Scott Thierne,
                    Sabine Harms, Edward C. Monahan, Eric Anderson, Rob Quayle, Roy Watlington, Van
                    Waddell, Celso S. Barrientos, Christopher Miller, Robert Reeves, Wendell Brown,
                    Richard Signell, Mark Luther.

                    PHYSICAL DATA GROUP SESSION


                    Data and Information Requirements

                    Identify sets, then step through requirements, emphasizing items not usually recorded
                    with data sets.


                    For example, what model current meter takes the current data

                    Richard Signell - Precipitation, insulation, humidity, other types of data needed for heat
                    flux calculation


                    BATHYMETRY - Grid scale (several resolutions) and original soundings

                      Depth in meters
                      Quality control
                      Spatial continuity, quality control
                      Horizontal and vertical, projection problems
                      Geoid datum
                      Report statistics (max in grid cell, etc)
                      NODC/NAVO should provide index of what bathy data is available from each source
                             (Steve Haeger & R. Signell)

                    SHORELINE


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                      Corps of Engineers - Bathy set has shoreline as zero values (or no data) in bathy files
                      Central repository for data access (perhaps Virtual Data Center covers this)
                      Gridding algorithm, complete parameters

                   TS CURRENTS (OBSERVED)

                      Start and end dates, times, for inventories (not just months)
                      Current meter data (not just inventory) online access
                      DODS system, as client for, eg, MatLab (R. Siegnell explains)
                             Reduces number of steps to access distributed data
                             Under development, official release end of this month
                      NOAA SERVER locates data, for DODS, you need to know source
                      MEL
                      (Distributed systems and access technology will have its own session
                             Wednesday PM, says H. Frey)
                      NODC Assistance in building, implementing distributed servers
                      Instrument type (metadata)

                  MOORED ADCP (Fixed Position, Stationary)
                      Signal strength/ echo amplitude

                      An NODC format is needed
                      Include temperature records
                      Instrument type
                      Instrument orientation (up or down)
                      Should vertical velocity be part of data record? (Controversial - is it useful?)
                      Assumption is that all parameters in header record will be included - what is being
                             listed should be considered the minimum, or additional items (Eric Anderson)
                      Ancillary engineering data (Wendell Brown) items taken into consideration when
                             designing ADCP experiment

                  SEA SURFACE RADAR (OSCAR

                      u, v, quality and x,y quality (Lat, Lon)
                      Info to understand reduction procedures

                  LAGRANGIAN DRIFTERS


                      Method of navigation (Argos, GPS, or other means of positioning)
                      Raw Fixes should be distinguished from interpolated data


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                QC info for argos, or other navigation
                Online access


              PROFILE INFO (XBT, XCTD, AXBT, AXCTD,
                Subsetting access and selection (Applies to all data types)
                CTD instrument type, processing method
                CTD, XBT drop rate
                     Ron F. describes XBT drop rate problem decision - keep legacy data as is,
                          with info on how to make correction, if desired
                NAVO does not include instrument type; A rep of NAVO suggests to Ron F. that
                     NAVO might be able to modify MOODS format to include instrument type
                Other profile parameters:
                     transmissivity
                     Light / PAR
                     DO - Oxygen method
                     Fluor.


              METADATA, (for all data types)

                QC, or some measure of data quality, a quality index, or characterization
                     (Not that NODC should dictate QC methods for all data types,
                     but some indication of what QC or Q Assurance has been done
                     is needed in data record
                PI identification for data set (more important than institution)
                Instrument type, Data processing procedures

              SHIPBOARD ADCP


                (Ron F. explains that E. Firing' s CODAS system is currently used at NODC)
                Ship orientation and detailed ship navigation - hard to use data from continuously
                     turning ship for example when turning to stay on station
                Calibration information, of instrument on vessel (reverse track info, etc)

              SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE


              Acronyms

              ADCP - Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
              DODS - Distributed Ocean Data System
              MEL - Master Environmental Library



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                        REPORT FROM THE BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP


                    PARTICIPANTS:


                    Facilitator: R. Carney
                    Rapporteurs: S. Still.waugh and D. Hamilton

                    Judy Pederson, Tony Frank, George Bohlert, Jane Small, Bob Van Dolah, Mark Monaco,
                    Lee Edmiston, Sue Hills, Stephen Brandt, John Pohlman, Barbara Kojis, George
                    Henderson, John Ogden, Mark Felton, Jim. Hendee, Ed Bowlby, Bob Stone, David
                    Remsen, Livingston Marshall, Bernard Megrey, Fred Grassle.

                    Data Requirements:

                    A. Primary Production - Chlorophyll, C14, biomass, nitrogen & phosphorous uptake

                    1.  Data types and units
                        Chlorophyll (milligrams per liter)
                        Carbon 14 uptake
                        Biomass
                        Nitrogen & phosphorous uptake
                    4.  Metadata and documentation*
                        Measurement methods are critical
                    6.  Search and retrieval capabilities
                        Generic geographic and time
                    7.  Access


                    B. Species Identification - needed for all other biology data types

                    1. Data types and units - need to be able to retrieve data by species (content-based
                    searches)
                    2. Levels of precision and accuracy* - species level
                    3. Levels and types of quality control* - method of identification; date of taxon list
                    important
                    6. Search and retrieval capabilities
                    7. Access - Species-derived indices are useful, but original data should also be available

                    C. Zooplankton

                    1. Data t:ypes and units - volumes, counts, weights



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                    2. Levels of precision and accuracy*
                    3. Levels and types of quality control*
                    4. Metadata. and documentation* - collection methods important (gear characteristics)
                    5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange
                    6. Search and retrieval capabilities
                    7. Access - related physical data may be needed in estuaries (tide stage, currents)

                    D. Nekton - fish


                    I -Data types and units - stock assessments (lengths, ages); species
                    2. Levels of precision and accuracy*
                    I  Levels and types of quality control* - spatial location quality not good
                    4. Metadata and docurnentation*
                    5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange
                    6. Search and retrieval capabilities - generic plus species
                    7. Access


                    E. Marine Mammals


                    1. Data types and units - census counts, native harvests, strandings, post-mortems (U
                    ALASKA has Marine Mammal Tissue Bank); image data; genorne data(?)
                    2. Levels of precision and accuracy* - species
                    3. Levels and types of quality control*
                    4. Metadata and documentation*- observing conditions
                    5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange
                    6. Search and retrieval capabilities - generic plus species
                    7. Access


                    F. Birds, Turtles

                    I .Data types and units - census (counts) from platforms, shore; radio track; radar; bands;
                    colony counts; organismal data; habitat, images
                    2. Levels of precision and accuracy* - low
                    3. Levels and types of quality control*
                    4. Metadata and documentation* - collection methods, observing conditions
                    5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange
                    6. Search and retrieval capabilities - generic plus species
                    7. Access


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                      1. Data types and units - Trawl, Grab, Images, Transect counts, Video Quadrant Counts
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy - gear performance assessment; taxonomy; volume is
                      not recorded, but is critical for derived statistics
                      3. Levels and types of quality control*
                      4. Metadata and documentation* - design philosophy is critical
                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities - generic plus species
                      7. Access


                      H. Toxicity

                      1. Data t:ypes and units - Bioassay (e.g. Status & Trends, Mussel Watch)
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy*.
                      3. Levels and types of quality control*
                      4. Metadata and documentation*
                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities
                      7. Access


                      Facilitator's Observations on Biological Coastal Data

                      Robert S. Carney
                      Coastal Studies Institute
                      Louisiana State University

                      Upon determination of the session attendees.' expertise, it was found that there was good
                      representation of experience along ecosystem function and traditional oceanographic
                      lines. Thus we were able to review the discussion topics for primary production,
                      zooplankton, nekton, and benthic consumption. The specifics of this discussion are
                      detailed in the session report. This section is intended as an overview of issues of data
                      type and data usage which may pose new challenges to NODC as it moves into shallow
                      water.


                      1. Inherent Complexity of Ecological Data from Coastal Systems

                      One has only to start with primary production to see that ecological data in coastal
                      systems can be far more complex than in open ocean systems. In addition to ubiquitous
                      phytoplankton, there are benthic diatoms, submerged plants, stands of mangrove trees,
                      coral symbiotes, and a changing species complex of plants across the estuarine gradient.
                      In addition to the offshore production measurements employing carbon isotopes and


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                    pigments, coastal data may include leaf lengths, root biomass, tree girth, and leaf litter
                    fall. Even the nature of the traditional oceanographic stations may change. Continuous
                    transects will be more common than discrete stations, and navigation data increasingly
                    suspect.


                    2. Content-Based Data Retrieval


                    For many ecological processes the major questions are not "what is happening at point X
                    in"the ocean". Rather, it is far more likely that the question will be "where are 0 the
                    places in the ocean where a specific phenomena is occurring or where a certain species is
                    found. A simple example would be a plot of all locations reporting the presence of the
                    commercial crab Callinectes sapidus? The current geographic system employed by
                    NODC does not allow for such a question to be asked.

                    3. 'The Unresolved Species Problem

                    Since the participants in all ecological processes are members of some species,
                    categorization of data under some species identifier will be'an inherent aspect of any
                    ecological data set. As unavoidable as this is, it poses very serious questions which will
                    only become worse in shallow water. As presently collected and archived species data
                    must be considered to be highly suspect and subject to errors that are potentially large and
                    beyond correction. This is due to two serious mismatches between how systematics and
                    identification progress and the needs of categorical data. First, there are no agreed upon
                    international standards for what attributes are necessary for the recognition of a particular
                    species, and all species are subject to redefinition in response to additional study. Each
                    species category is, in reality, a tentative classification subject to change. Second, there
                    are no agreed upon standards of quality assurance for species identification even if the
                    species have been careftilly defined by a competent taxonomist

                    It should be noted that replacement of the NODC species codes with a new system is an
                    improvement. The old system's attempt to reproduce the Latin hierarchy of kingdom,
                    phylum, order, class, family, genus, species with a numerical equivalence was plagued
                    with hierarchical inconsistencies across taxa (i.e. subspecies, tribes, suborder,
                    superfamily, etc.). And, tracking changes in hierarchical assignment required a historical
                    synonymy. However, the new system still makes the serious error of assuming that
                    species is a well defined category, and that there is no error in assignment to category.

                    Possible Courses for NODC


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                    design and statistical analysis. They are not, however, well versed in the rapidly
                    progressing world of large scale data management, database structure, and data retrieval.
                    I would venture to guess that few data experts are well versed in the questions and data
                    problems of biologists either. Perhaps then NODC might take the lead in matching
                    minds and finding innovative solutions. Can the fuzziness of systematics be overcome?
                    Can flexible hierarchies be adopted which accommodate changing methodologies? Can
                    the data be made more useful? Answering these questions prior to a wholesale collection
                    of data sets may be the most productive course.











































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                    REPORT FROM THE CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP


                 PARTICIPANTS:


                 Facilitator: A. Andren
                 Rapporteurs: M. Conkright and P. Caldwell

                 Dennis Leonard, David Edgington, Ken Hinga, Eric Crecelius, Kent Price, Jan Newton,
                 Don Boesch, Christopher D'Elia, Ernie Mitson.

                 1. DATASETS RELEVANT TO CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY


                 MAJOR DATA TYPES


                 a. Routine measurements: salinity, pH, eH, oxygen, alkalinity, oxygen, nutrients
                 (phosphate, nitrogen species, chlorophyll a, CTD casts, silicate
                 b. metals
                 c. organics
                 d. Sediments
                 e. DOC, POC, sulphides
                 f organic contaminants

                 National status and trends - NOAA
                 EMAP - EPA
                 STORET-EPA
                       NOAA should make available on NOAA server in friendly-user way

                 COE EIS statements - manuscript data
                 Monitoring programs
                 ORCA NOAA eutrophication datasets
                 Alaska deposition datasets
                 Permit discharge data
                 International joint commission USGS
                 NAQUA-USGS
                 National atmospheric deposition network
                 COE sediment data
                 Navy coastal data

                 Synthesis reports - sometimes better than original datasets
                 Who are the users who would use these datasets



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            WATER COLUMN:


            1. SALINITYICONDUCTIVITY

            a. identify conductivity, salinity, depth, pressure in.database and instrument type
            b. Data sources
                STORET
                NODC
                Navy - classified data
            c. Precision
                accuracy is not a big issue in coastal data
                user should determine what is useful
                method/technique important
                be able to retrieve data based on precision and instrument
                    assign a code to data to identify precision
            d. Quality control ,
                source of the data must be identified
                data should be kept together for projects
            e. Metadata
                metadata. needs to be a part of the data set
                link data to metadata
            f. Format
            g. Search and retrieval
                spatial resolution in retrieving data
                user online: browse and search
            h. Access
                make EPA data more accessible
                make data access user ffiendly - STORET
                fi-ee and open access
                central vs. distributed data
                    "shoe box" data better served by distributed server then turned over for
                    "deep" archive - large project data should be at central server
                online retrieval
                links to other agencies who serve data
                provide data manipulation tools to facilitate people putting the data online
                be able to examine historical data before downloading or ordering and to look at
                    level of precision, quality control

            2. NUTRIENTS - chemically determined
                raw measurements and not synthetic


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                          nitrogen, nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, TOC, DOC

                   Quality control
                   a. Nutrient quality in state monitoring studies a problem (storage of data, filtering) -
                   sarne for permit data. This problem applicable to metals, organics. Original report
                   critical to understanding the quality of the data - documentation critical particularly for
                   historical data.
                   b. Link between documentation and data - methods section only
                   c. storage is major problem in QC of data


                   Data sources:
                          EMAP - modem, well-documented, broad aerial coverage
                          Great Lakes monitoring by EPA - QA/QC - good quality
                          STORET


                   Units
                          it is difficult to return to original units -
                          filter type/size information important

                   Metadata/Documentation
                          reference to original source - either original report or information about methods
                                 and precision
                          preference for keeping datasets separate and merged by PI's

                   Will NODC become the central archive for coastal data? Will it raid other agencies?
                   How aggressive will they be in pursuing data-links to other agencies? Will NODC be the
                   sole archive for the data?


                   Precision/Accuracy
                          report precision/accuracy

                   NationaMntemational standards/formats


                   C. METALS AND TRACE METALS


                   Data Types
                          Trace metal studies in Puget Sound - PMEL
                          Great Lakes Program -
                          Chesapeake Bay




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                   Units
                         ug vs. nmoles - important to identify units
                         ppb in US different than ppb in Europe
                         oxidation states - need to keep information, specially for Iron
                               allow for entries that speciate metals

                   Quality control
                         filter type/filter size
                         sampling, storing, analysis - identify whether "clean" techniques
                               "clean" techniques goes beyond EPA methods - need some knowledge
                               about this?
                               no standard/accepted clean techniques - only guidelines
                         want to keep all datasets despite techniques used - data can be used for different
                         purposes


                   Documentation
                         intercalibration important for low-level metals - need to have this information
                         techniques important
                         detection level - limit of detection needs to be documented.trace - less than
                         detection limit and greater than blank

                   Question -Can NODC hold meetings about quality control, precision, documentation
                   issues?


                   Format
                         none for trace metals


                   ORGANICS (HC's, pesticides, herbicides, organo-metallics)


                   Units
                         should be reported as moles
                         many PCB's, PAH's - reported as mg
                         identify in documentation - explicit how it is reported
                   Data types

                         National Status Trends
                         National TVT program - EPA
                   Documentation


                         levels of precision, accuracy


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                          identify whether colloidal
                          Particulate/dissolved -- filtered or not - type of filter


                   Format
                          IUPAC system for identifying compounds

                   RADIONUCLIDES

                   Accuracy/Precision
                          same consideration as metals - precision for every measurement
                          less than should not be reported - precision accurately reported

                   Units
                          dprn or becherels

                   STABLE ISOTOPES

                          NODC should be encouraged to acquired stable isotope data

                   PIGMENTS (phaeopigments, chlorophyll a)

                   Data types
                          routine measurement of chlorophyll in Puget Sound
                          Chesapeake Bay -

                   Quality control
                          filtering techniques - state data prior to 1994 questionable due to techniques

                   Documentation
                          techniques used
                          sample preservation


                   Units
                          ninoles Chlorophyll

                   ELECTRONIC DATA (probe data, CTD)

                          information on calibration of instruments -


                   SEDIMENTS


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                          include interstitial waters


                   NUTRIENTS


                   Data types
                          National Status and Trends
                          EMAP
                          COE EIS reports - major data source

                   Units
                          state whether wet or dry weight
                          moles/g
                          stated explicitly

                   Metadata
                          cores vs. surface grabs -
                          coring device - grabbing device
                          ancillary data - grain size/porosity
                          fraction analyzed
                          acid extracted fraction


                   Documentation
                          extraction methods documented


                   Format
                          recommend using international standards
                          total numbers should not be part of the data

                   METALS AND TRACE METALS


                   Data types
                          NS&T
                          COE
                          Great Lakes National Program Office
                          Puget Sound
                          USGS - coring attempts around the US Gulf of Maine, Puget Sound, Mass.
                          State Geological Survey data
                          Navy remediational studies


                   Units



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                           metric/weight or molar/weight


                    Metadata
                           depth in the water, depth in the sediment

                    Documentation
                           type of digestion


                    RECOMMENDATION:


                    Include as part of documentation, volume extracted - particularly for metals and organics
                    Units should be reported as moles for organics and metals
                    "clean" techniques need to be observed for organics and metals
                    NODC should acquire stable isotope data
                    Report as many ancillary data as possible for sediment data
































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                        REPORT FROM THE GEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP


                      PARTICIPANTS:


                      Facilitator: A. Miglarese
                      Rapporteurs: R. Abram and G. Heimerdinger

                      Gustavo Antonini, Doug Sherman, Troy Holcombe, George Sharman, Anne Ball,
                      William Schroeder, Kurt Grove, Allen Hittelman, Norman Froomer, Brad Butman.

                      Data Requirements: EUTROPHICATION

                      1. Data types and units: Sediment load/sediment flux (standard gravimetric - wt/unit
                      Vol/time)
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy*: estimates of loads (low-average-high); ideal daily
                      average flux; data from USGS gauging stations
                      3. Levels and types of quality control*
                      4. Metadata and documentation*: Standard protocols

                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                      None
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities: Ideal - online access to retrospective data
                      7. Access
                                      special cases only

                      1. Data types and units: Remote sensing - suspended loads: (1) reflectancd, (2) ocean
                      color
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy*: Predetermined by satellite system
                      3. Levels and types of quality control*
                      4. Metadata and documentation*:
                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                      Science needs raw data (quantitative); managers needs products (qualitative)
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities: Needs for (1) in situ ground truth (may have regional
                      algorithms) and (2) link to discharge data. Good to be able to view/dissect image
                      7. Access
                       special cases only


                      Data Requirements: SHORELINE EROSION & COASTAL HAZARDS




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                     1. Data types and units: Shoreline geomorphology (change over time)

                     2. Levels of precision and accuracy*: Problem of different reference systems; frequency
                     of resurvey
                     3. Levels and types of quality control*: Problem of pulling together data from numerous
                     smaller surveys; questions of GPS accuracy (need to reference to benchmarks)
                     4. Metadata and documentation*: Need for directional wind/wave climatology
                     5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                     6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                     7. Access
                      special cases only

                     I .Data types and units: EarthQuakes (magnitude, location, and depth)
                     2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                     3. Levels and types of quality control*:
                     4. Metadata and documentation*: Link to geology for risk assessment and hazard maps
                     5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                     6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                     7. Access
                      special cases only


                     1. Data types and units: Tsunamis (also storm surgo)
                     2. Levels of precision and accuracy*: Need higher resolution bathyrnetry near shore
                     (meters to tenths)
                     3. Levels and types of quality control*:
                     4. Metadata and documentation*: Need for post-event data (requires contingency plans
                     for deploying survey teams); need bathymetry and topography for run-up models (similar
                     for storm surges); travel time curves and marigrams.
                     5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                     6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                     7. Access
                      special cases only

                     Data Requirements: HABITAT MODIFICATION

                     1. Data types and units: Geophysical data - bathymetry (profiles or swaths; gridded
                     products. Special needs for shallow water in-shore profiles.)
                     2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                     3. Levels and types of quality control*: Need for QC when integrating data from


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                      different sources (e.g., COE, MMS); also need mechanism to account for seasonal
                      variation.
                      4. Metadata and documentation*: "Time stamp data"; problem of assembling data
                      collected at different times.
                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities: Recognize that science and management needs differ
                      7. Access
                        special cases only

                      1. Data types and units: Side scan son (mosaic of back scatter; product - drape geo-
                      referenced back scatter over bathymetry)
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                      3. Levels and types of quality control*: Problem of pulling together data from numerous
                      smaller surveys; questions of GPS accuracy (need to reference to benchmarks). Ground
                      truth, if possible and link to sediment map)
                      4. Metadata and documentation*: Standard metadata (e.g.,, instrument, processing
                      method)
                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities: Geo-browse
                      7. Access
                        special cases only

                      1. Data types and units: Seismic data (high resolution profiles - horizon data, need raw
                      data)
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                      3. Levels and types of quality control*:
                      4. Metadata and documentation*: Standard metadata (accepted protocols)
                      5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                      6. Search and retrieval capabilities: Need product to preview to determine usefulness of
                      data
                      7. Access
                        special cases only

                      1. Data types and units: Sediment characteristics (surface and subsurface): grain size (phi
                      class), composition (including toxics), description
                      2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                      3. Levels and types of qu@lity control*:
                      4. Metadata and documentation*: Methodology (may be region dependent); grain size
                      method




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                   5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                   6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                   7. Access: Long term goal: complete mapping of the EEZ. Problem of access to
                   historical hard copy data (logistical problem; raster scan if good navigation available).
                   * special cases only

                   1. Data types and units: Bottom modification data - COE permit data (dredge records),
                   borehole data, and NMFS trawl surveys (where-and for what time period)
                   2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                   3. Levels and types of quality control*:
                   4. Metadata. and documentation*:
                   5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                   6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                   7. Access
                    special cases only


                   1. Data types and units: Shoreline structures, etc. (via municipal, county records or
                   state/local permits)
                   2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                   3. Levels and types of quality control*:
                   4. Metadata and documentation*: Need to know materials
                   5. Use of national and international standards for content, format, and data exchange:
                   6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                   7. Access
                    special cases only

                   Data Requirements: HYDROLOGIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC DISRUPTIONS

                   1. Data types and units: Hydrolog iAydrodynamic data (important for tmnsport of
                   sediment)
                   2. Levels of precision and accuracy*:
                   3. Levels and types of quality control*:
                   4. Metadata and documentation*: Important to know if data represent natural conditions
                   or reflect man-made changes (e.g., construction of dam). Human impact versus natural
                   variability
                   5. Use of national and international standards for content, forMat, and data exchange:

                   6. Search and retrieval capabilities:
                   7. Access











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                               REPORT FROM THE MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP


                   PARTICIPANTS:


                   Facilitator: M. Davidson
                   Rapporteurs: D. Grimes and M. Crane

                   Steve Gittings, David Remsen, John Collins, John Towle, Eric Gilman, Larry Goldman,
                   Stuart Stevens, Michael Crane, Carmen Gonzalez, Michael Crosby, Evangeline Lujan, J.
                   J. Waterreus, Ken Dzinbal, Norman Froomer, Jennet Alterman, Phillip Hinesley, Lelei
                   Peau, Marion Clarke, Robert Shephard, Randy Dana, Dave Reid, Reed Bohne, Zsolt
                   Nagy, Rex Herron, David Stage, John Rupert, Charles Sun, Jason Yap, Robert Reeves,
                   Dwayne Porter.

                   Part 1: Taking nine issues from yesterday, what data sets that you would like/wish as
                               . a manager?
                   Part 2: What tools/formats/assistance from technical experts? How do we share it?

                   Part I -WISH LIST


                   EUTROPHICATION


                          1) Synoptic ocean color data - processed image/ digital pxl
                          2) Historical and current biological data sets - on fauna; spacial and temporal
                   distribution
                          3) Database on nutrient applications, i.e., Ag. Extension Service, nutrients on golf
                   courses
                          4) Signature from the sediment plums; turbidity for Caribbean Island Basin
                   rendering data in different ways
                          5) Land use data
                          6) NPDES permit location

                          Customized/ tie into coastal and land use data sets; work out regional
                   requirements; focus on direct targets; more focused like the islands

                   Discussion - repeating yesterday; desire planning tools for the future
                   Discussion - synthesis; how are we going to do; application to politicals; pull it together
                   Discussion - have to know what data you have/ before building systems
                          Land data sets are critical to understanding the ocean problem.
                   Suggestion - Listing of data sets; need time to prioritize; provide a mail out ballot to rank











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                     order.
                     Comment - three groups here - scientists, managers, educators

                     HABITAT

                            1) Land use and habitat - trends over time/ temporal/spatial trends/ species,
                     vegetation, water quality
                                   Ability to make projections
                            2). Change detection maps
                            3) Can data provide info on functional capacity?
                            4) Human patterns of use; demographic info. overlay
                            5) The Nature Conservancy and other special area information


                            Integrated into capacity models; sustainable


                     HYDROLOGIC


                            1) Ground water capacity; stream flow/ allocations
                            2) Shoreline protection devices; locations; riverine/ ocean front
                            3) Catalog of modeling tools
                            4) Reservoir capacity issues
                            5) Wetlands/ NWI and recharge areas/ relationship to storage capacity
                            6) Soil types

                     EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES


                            1) Ditto the HABITAT list
                            2) Catch/effect data for reef, pelagics and bottoms - All classes of fish
                            3) Marine Management Service (MMS) surveys: also state mineral surveys
                            4) Shallow bathy in area ofjurisdiction

                     TOXICS


                            1) Ditto the HABITAT list
                            2) Toxic Release Inventory - SARA (EPA database and law)
                            3) Historical records of industrial uses of near shore
                            4) Groundwater movement and air movement patterns - downstream - U.S.G.S.
                            5) EMAP
                            6) Spill information - HAZMAT/Damage Assessinent Center - online


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                             7) FDA action level guidelines


                             Permit, monitoring
                             Storm water volumes
                             Spill trajectory models regionally

                     EXOTICS - NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES


                             1) Emerging issues
                             2) Invasive Species Act of 1996 - $
                             3) Historical and contemporary aerial photos - plants
                             4) Catalog of eradication methodologies - successful and unsuccessful
                             5) Habitat maps for marine species
                             6) catalog of invasive species - current, potential distrib - What are pathways
                             7)Ballast H20 exchange sites
                             8) Disease distribution

                             How long before exotics become endemic?
                             Epidemiological maps of the environment

                     COASTAL HAZARDS


                             1) Shoreline maps - FEMA
                             2) Demographic change/use
                             3) Risk assessment models
                             4) Impacts of sea level rise - wetlands/groundwater    Local scale (especially
                     islands)
                             5) CCAP type maps
                             6) Catalog of shore line protection devices - success measurements
                             7) Elevation - U.S.G.S. topo maps not helpful at 5 ft. contours

                     PATHOGENS + TOXINS - HUMAN


                             1) ISC - fecal coliform data
                             2) Beach closure data - NRDC + state health
                             3) Records of incidence associated with waterborne staff. CDC/state health
                             4) Sediment/water quality characteristics; EPA
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                          GIS
                          Suitability of siting industrial septic tanks, package plants
                          Support regulatory

                  Part 2 HOW DO YOU WANT THE DATA AVAILABLE TO YOU?


                  Comment - NOAA is establishing one stop capability for data
                          Need critical environmental factors/ driving factors in the military
                          Need to seek and retrieve
                          Customer base - customer driven


                  From customer surveys - there is a greater commonality between users than expected -
                  ArcView for GIS. CSC did a customer user survey - 60% return rate; moving towards
                  commonality in hardware/software. Delivery system is here with Internet. Tied to the
                  software available in the market.


                  Data Centers moving toward more transparent service feature. NODC has not been large
                  on radar screen. Little connection with other agencies. Avoid duplication with other
                  agencies.

                  Saipan - multiple formats - GIS - need maps now
                          product in hard copy/digital
                          U.K./coral reef data
                          Islands perspective - need technical assistance for photo interpretation; need
                  training
                  Flower Banks
                          use hard copy from NMS
                          hard copy bibliographies of research/data
                          GIS
                  California
                          major effort to develop data integration system
                          regionally based, issue driven
                  Georgia
                          Everything digital, INTERNET
                          want tools over INTERNET - ex.- descriptive statistics to GIS
                  Apalachicola   14400 baud rate
                          same as GA
                          want display tools - maps
                  Puerto Rico - Jobos Bay
                          Internet access



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                      take hardcopy maps to GIS
                California
                      VVEB utilities - catalog/access points
                      Metadata/keywords
                Guam
                      have T I line
                      want data digital and hardcopy/ access on INTERNET or CD-ROM
                      with state's coordinate system - which is not utm
                      smaller scale 1:4800; not in ArcInfo-ArcView
                Washington
                      on-line GIS; a la U.S.G.S.
                      data available on CD-ROM form
                      Web search tools - standard for keywords
                      post-processed remote sensing images
                      greater use of hot links on web
                      meta data standards - assurance for data quality
                Alabama
                      grant management; starting from beginning; more technical assistance to use new
                                  technology
                American Samoa
                      same as Guam
                      digital, hardcopy
                      need easy to use web browser
                      need analysis/ modeling tools
                      regional NODC center - for the islands
                Oregon
                      same as previously stated
                Grays Reef
                      digitizing is a problem
                      two-way street on data flow
                      synthesis of trends information
                North Carolina
                      packaged databases - plug & play
                      derivative data bases; synthesized, trends analysis
                            with functionality, visualization
                Gulf of Mexico
                      everything has been previously said
                Ohio
                      digitally with Metadata
                      INTERNET, CD-ROM


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                           regionalization of data - Great Lakes
                           catalog of data, types, scales, format

                    WHAT IS A CATALOG THAT WOULD REALLY BE USEFUL - 1AMSLIC included


                           Involve library community
                           Can we do an issue driven data base/catalog? California is doing this.
                           Develop catalog of web access points/ keywords

                    NEED TECH ASSISTANCEfTRAINING


                           Photo interpretation
                           GIS usage
                           Electronic reporting to OCRM
                           office automation
                           find and use V@EB utilities



































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                         IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WORKING
                                              GROUP SESSION NOTES


                     REPORT FROM THE SEA GRANT, UNIVERSITIES, AND "SHOEBOX" DATA
                                   SET CREATORS/CUSTODIANS WORKING GROUP


                    PARTICIPANTS:


                    Facilitator: A. Andren
                    Rapporteurs: R. Abram, P. Caldwell, D. Hamilton, S Stillwaugh

                    Margaret Leinen, Kurt Grove, Ray Watlington, Mark Luther, Ken Hinga, Edward
                    Monahan, Andy Shepard, Dennis Leonard, Judith Pederson, Douglas Sherman, Kent
                    Price, Marion Clarke, David Edgington, Steve Brandt.

                    The facilitator opened the session by posing the following question - and sub-questions -
                    for discussion:


                    Q: How can NODC acquire university (or other) generated data sets?
                           - What is the "carrot" or motivation for researchers to submit data?
                           - What types of data sets are best suited for submission to NODC?
                           - How should these data sets be made available to NODC?


                    Participants in the session addressed these question with the following comments and
                    observations:


                    Because of the large number of such data sets, the NODC could perhaps serve as a node
                    to help people find them.

                    One motivator would be provision of a software tool to help enable information about
                    data sets to be more easily captured.

                    Data collection efforts fimded by NSF and Navy include the requirement that data be
                    submitted to the appropriate national data center. Perhaps other extramural funding
                    agencies need to include this requirement.

                    Many institution are protective of their data (there is typically a two-year delay in data
                    release to allow for publication). It was later pointed out that for students using data in
                    their theses, data release may often exceed two years. Perhaps there needs to be a change
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                     publication of data. And indeed data availability may need to be a pre-condition for
                     publication of results.

                     There are practi cal problems in implementing a program to ensure submission of
                     appropriate data sets. There may need to be a change in culture to recognize data
                     publication as a legitimate activity. Some j ournals are already taking steps in this
                     direction.


                     Problem of rescuing data that may be lost when a PI retires. Perhaps small grants could
                     be awarded in these cases to enable individuals to prepare their data at the ends of their
                     careers.


                     NGDC provides one of their Paleoclimate data sets in exchange for contributors who
                     submit additional data. This incentive of getting a "credit" for submission of data needs to
                     be fostered and advertised.


                     Grey literature is a subset of the shoebox problem. Efforts need to be made (e.g, OCR
                     scanning of publications) to capture these reports and ensure their availability through
                     facilities such as the NOAA Library or Sea Grant Depository.

                     Sea Grant can make a valuable contribution to the effort to locate and preserve shoebox
                     data sets. Sea Grant serves as a two-way link between Federal data resources and data
                     resources at the state and local levels. Marine Advisory Service personnel have the
                     particular talents needed to provide this link.

                     Summary:

                     Promote the "soft option" of requiring submission of standard data types for which
                     formats or systems exist. Catalog or index other data sets to be available on local servers.

                     Use both carrots and sticks to promote data submission to NODC or data availability
                     through a distributed system. Carrots include incentives to submit data (e.g., data@
                     exchange credit, "sunsef 'grants to'pre-retirees). Sticks are the data submission
                     requirements built into grant such as those from ONR and NSF.

                     Provide incentives to the library/information science community to promote input of grey
                     literature.


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                  Encourage NODC to actively--but selectively--seek out university and private data sets.
                  An advisory body might help in this selection process.












































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                      REPORT FROM THE MILITARY, CLASSIFIED OR PROPRIETARY, AND
                                   INDUSTRIAL DATA BASES WORKING GROUP


                   PARTICIPANTS:


                   Facilitator: D. Schwartz
                   Rapporteurs: M. Conkright and M. Crane

                   Cdr. J. J. Waterreus U.S.N., Troy Holcombe, George Sharman, Reed Bohne, Steve
                   Haeger, Bill Venezia, Celso Barrientos, George Bohlert, Evangeline Lujan, Ernie Matson,
                   William Wiseman, Edie Widder, Michael P. Crosby.

                   PURPOSE: JOINT PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS


                         navy is working to declassify much of its data
                         critical environmental parameters being distributed

                   BACKGROUND


                         Navy uses many sources of data to gather information
                                - satellites
                                - Data collected by deployed fleet (e.g. AXBT) - continuous data
                   assimilation, aircraft sampling, helicopter sampling, buoys
                                - low frequency radar examining back scatter - analyze wind speed,
                   current measurements
                                 navy working on releasing many products associated with data such as:
                                       a. program Whales 94 - examined historical archive to identify
                                       whale species and individuals
                                       b. SST data in North Atlantic
                                       c. Sonar range prediction products of use for geophysical
                                       community
                                       d. Aircraft study (AXBT) of currents in warm/cold core rings

                   Data being made available as part of the Gore and Congressional initiatives - dual use of
                   data


                   Naval Meteorology and Oceanog=hy Command:
                   approx 90% of the data held by Navy is unclassified -

                   NODDS developed from FNMOC - This is a pc based system where you dial into


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                   FNMOC and retrieve 3-D and 4-D grids of atmospheric and ocean model output.
                   Working with NOAA for linkage between NOAA and NAVY - access for users through
                   NOAA to directly access FNMOC model with 12 hour data update. NOS office
                   responsible was "riffed" (reduction-in-force) and contracted out. Rich source of navy
                   upper atmospheric data (NOGAPS) - T, S, wind fields, atmos. temp., grid point data for
                   36 levels, can ingest NECEP data, can overlay NICEP fields with FNMOC fields - these
                   are all model gridded data. NODDS does have the capability to download certain
                   observational data.


                   Prediction models:


                   Navoceano (operational) vs. R&D sections - data not shared among the groups

                   Navoceano examining large data sets to determine what to declassify - not yet examining
                   the smaller datasets


                   EEZ problems - sometimes Navy allowed to sample other coasts and can't release the
                   data.


                   Navy does not have much coastal data - they receive--and are seeking--data from outside
                   sources.


                   PDC - Pacific Disaster Center - initiatives for National and International Disaster Centers
                   - wide area network ( PREMIS) to link Hawaiian chains and insular islands for disaster
                   issues. Navy wishes to support and populate the data base for Tsunami before and after
                   pictures, bathymetry information, hazardous spill support

                   RELATED DATA SETS:


                   1. ADCP - JEDA
                   2. JPL/NASA data
                   3. APL data
                   4. Oil companies - major source of data, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico - very
                   difficult for DOD and other individuals to get data
                   5. MMS archives information - 20 year proprietary hold on data - oil industry fighting to
                   keep these data proprietary
                   6. Commercial airlines send atmospheric data to FNOC
                   7. Data from state agencies

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                     1. Raw data used to develop the models -
                           XBT classified for 90 days - then goes to MOODS database
                     2. Coastal bathyrnetry - global and U.S.
                           5 minute global bathymetric data
                     3. Deep water bathymetric data under review
                             not all data needs to be released - for instance in Saipan seamount data is of
                     great concern
                           - Provide location of seamounts;
                           - can provide lower level of resolution
                     4. Archived, information
                           satellite imagery and aerial to examine changes over time
                           can be provided at lower level of resolution
                     5. Light measurements correlated to vertical migration patterns
                     6. Inventory of observational data available
                     7. Q route surveys (side scans for mine-warfare community) in approaches to ports -
                     NAVOCEANO did baseline study (no methodology and training) but data are in
                     manuscript form, and in some cases still restricted.

                     PARTNERSHIPS


                           NOPP - NSWC/NOAA/IJ.Miami/FAU/HBOI
                           Defense Hydrographic, Initiative
                                  NOAA and NAVOCEANO and DMA
                                  Share databases and expertise
                                  Contract for a distributed ocean floor database
                                  Contract to look at high resolution bathymetry
                           Universities and oil companies
                           NCDC - NAVOCEANO - DBDBV - enhanced coastal bathymetry
                           NAVY-NOAA - POM model
                           NOAA-DOD - coupled ocean/ atmospheric model
                           Wave Action Model - NAVY and Max Planck Institute
                           LJNOLS - Navy and university partnerships

                     REQUIREMENTS BY NAVY


                     1. Visualization tools - develop a database of analysis and visualization tools - NAVY
                     needs partners in developing these areas:
                     2. Bathymetry data at all levels
                     3. Bioluminescence data
                     4. Shorelines - need by NAVOCEANO, - need low and high tide shorelines


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                          1-80,000 - NOAA has digitized shorelines and are online - 100 m spacing
                   between Lat and Lon. - digitization of NOAA charts
                          Side scans, cores and grabs, XBT - ETF reports (part of MEDEA) which update
                   reports of unclassified data available, status, and current data being examined.


                   RECOMMENDATIONS


                   1. NODC should archive FNOC model output data once models have been standardized
                   so they can be used as proxy for the data. FN0C currently keeps 3 months of selected
                   model output which are then sent to NCDC for archival - atmospheric and selected fields
                   only. Major amounts of data involved.

                   2. Need to examine data products available from the Navy and select what is most
                   appropriate to archive.

                   3. Fishing fleets in the Pacific - instrument these with environmental sensors for real-
                   time or near real time telemetry,of data to shore databases.

                   4. NOAA should make available a bibliography of what data are available from the Navy
                   and a contact point for each data type.

                   5. NODC (or NOAA) should prepare a list of data the Navy has submitted to NODC
























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                       REPORT FROM THE STATE, TERRITORY, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
                                                     WORKING GROUP


                     PARTICIPANTS:


                     Facilitator: M. Davidson
                     Rapporteur: D. Grimes and G. Heimerdinger

                     Robert Van Dolah, John Rupert, Philip Hinesley, George Henderson, Lelei Peau, Barbara
                     Kojis, Jason Yap, Eric Crecelius, Ken Dzinbal, Jan Newton, Stuart Stevens, Eric Gilman,
                     Susan Burr, Carmen Gonzalez, Lee Edmiston.


                     DATA IS A 2-WAY STREET


                     How govt. can be more assessable, responsive to you?
                     A reciprocal relationship; move towards reciprocity
                     Doing more with less as federal government reduces funding

                     GA - important that feds know added cost to states
                     CNMI - We have great coral reefs out there; invitation
                            Nationwide standards for monitoring; join the international community

                     Puerto Rico (Gonzalez)- no problem in sharing; committed
                           need technical training and some type of proper quipment.
                           (Lee Edmiston) - Need guidelines. Did survey to locate what type of data P.R.

                     Do not know what data sets NOAA has that apply to P.R.

                     A bibliography does not list the data sets.

                     South Carolina - Bob Van Dolah - more sharing could occur; interactions; feds can help
                     in processing of data; data maintenance; data archive

                     WA - Eric Crecelius - Battelle - How to get a hold of the data; for data users-sponsors
                     Ohio. - John Rupert - policy issue to remind to share data; barriers breaking down; more
                     visionary

                     American Samoa - focus more on Pacific; partnership; need federal team to do
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                    AL- Phil Hinesley - recently got online; technical assistance needed to access data; level
                    funded next year; no one is connected in the state; to standardize the data

                    WA - Ken Dzinbal - data catalogs tremendously helpful; want access to more data
                    products; continuation of this dialogue

                    WA will provide uploading fresh water data to EPA from all water quality
                    stations in the state; respond to 300 data inquiries per year; also online on web page -
                    ge o-referenced; would like to be a hot link site to NOAA's home page

                    WA - Jan Newton - excited with liaison with NODC; partnership

                    FL - George Henderson - need staffing and hardware;

                    Complaint with NODC - getting data out - have to ask correctly

                    V.I. - important that data is put together in manner available to V.I.
                          there are guidelines as to what kind of data that feds want
                          No free e-mail system; makes it difficult for states to access

                    POINTS


                    Problem is to better use NODC's information on web;

                          - NOAA has to create better ways to group the data by keywords
                          - How to access NODC/NOAA -
                          - need easier ways to query data
                          - hot links
                          - expanded keywords

                    WA - Problem is heightened expectations; beyond capability; technological barrier

                          Distance between have and have not's will be greater

                    - Can access data by geographic regions?
                          Yes, but need to identify instrument

                    - More ability to search/sort for islands

                    - Need Issue driven web bibliographies; expand use of "ProCite" software for


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                    bibliographies

                    - Need bibliography of CD-ROM's of data

                    - Expand mailing list

                    - FGDC guidelines - need to be scanned; guidelines are available on-line
                           NODC needs to provide hot links to FGDC home page

                    - Coastal Data Management Office - NERRS- could be better
                           need more consistency re templates, data formats,
                           metadata guidelines and standard products
                           What happens to the support function?
                           Apprehension re moving too quickly into monitoring databases

                    - Have forms to fill out


                    - National standards - monitoring: coral reefs
                                                - water quality
                                                - like to have it available via NODC home page

                    - Processing of data NOAA-wide (Carmen Gonzalez)

                    - Data Centers and rest of NOAA - list products/available on-line

                    Major Issues: Costs to States to acquire and limited modes for payment

                    COST OF SHARING


                    - Need $/person to manage "data" to send it to DC
                    - Burden of metadata. format requirements
                    - Long term commitment
                    - Cost of technology

                    INCENTIVES


                    - Besides $'s
                    "tit f
                    -    or tat": states put in data;
                                N[C]DC (NOAA) gives back products and training and technical assistance
                    - regional perspectives series


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                    - transferability of information. to resulting models
                    - regional data can strengthen the accuracy of NOAA products
                    - Regional/Pacific Data Center should encompass the islands
                    - Atlantic/Gulf Regional Data Center should include the islands
                    - NODC Regional Liaisons - excellent idea

                    The following improvements are suggested:
                    - need to travel the regions
                    - network with those who have the data - beyond the universities
                    - network with those who need data
                    - familiar with how data is reached
                    - priority should be those who have a.partnership with NOAA, e.g., CZ, NEERS, SRD,
                    SG
                    - regional basis of url's; addresses for useful web pages + data centers - hardcopy
                    - training/demonstrations of how to access

                    As NOAA looks to regional distributed presence, it should be seamless to the states and
                    synchronized internally to provide more efficient interaction with customers

                     more familial partnerships internally & externally

                    Next time:


                          Have more folks (i.e. librarians) to understand how to catalog and inventory data.























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                      REPORT FROM THE DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS WORKING
                                                       GROUP


                  PARTICIPANTS:


                  Facilitator: A. Miglarese
                  Rapporteurs: R. Fauquet and N. Hall

                  David Stage, Norman Froomer, David Remsen, John Collins, Bernard Megrey, Rich
                  Signell, Allen Hittelman, Tony Frank, John Helly, Rob Quayle, Peter Comillon, Eric
                  Anderson, Van Waddell, Bob Stone, Deanne DiPietro, Brad Butman, Ed Bowlby, Robert
                  Reeves, Scott Thierne, Randy Dana, Charles Sun, Chris Miller, Jane Small, Livingston S.
                  Marshall Jr., Anne Ball, Wendell Brown, David Reid, Zsolt Nagy.

                  DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS with representatives present

                        OSIMS John Collins, Data distribution over multiple servers (Funded by NOAA.
                  Et al)
                        Gulf of Main info system -- Rich S. Of USGS
                        CERES California, 26 related projects (http://ceres.ca.gov)
                        Olympic Marine Program Washington State .
                        North Carolina Information Highway 70 data layers "EYESIGHT"' search engine
                        Peter Comillon. -- DODS


                  BRAINSTORMING SESSION for ideas/ initiatives/ proposals
                        METADATA


                               Metadata definition, acceptance, training, toolkits
                               Two kinds - extractable from data set, and non-extractable
                                      eg, geographic range, versus instruments used
                               Full documentation unlikely, split into two subset; desc. of what, where,
                                      how to get it, quick description with locator
                               Full documentation
                               Three categories
                                      "None" for knowledgeable colleague
                                      catalog search information
                                      full documentation


                        DISTRIBUTED data/ Regional systems



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                             Institutional issues -- how do different sources (libraries, fed, state, local,
                                            non-profit)
                                            Work together -- what is motivation?

                             LIBRARIES


                             DATA ANOMALY detection and reporting systems
                                     Feedback to data centers and community

                             CATALOGUES


                             METADATA


                             ONLINE APPLICATIONS


                             NAMING CONVENTIONS to uniquely identify any data or set
                                     controlled vocabulary
                                     accession number, history of changes, audit trail, lineage
                                     licensing

                             DATA MODEL


                             R and D., between pure research and application, - Internet access

                             DERIVED DATA SETS to be served out
                                     (Peter C. has built one for Atlas station data)

                             ACCESS METHODS
                                     By application or user request
                                     Ability to subset

                             INTERFACE ISSUES
                                     Search technology
                                     Flexibility for different data representation, formatting methods

                             RELIABILITY
                                     Peer review


                             MULTIPLE STRATEGIES FOR OPEN ENDED PRODUCT DEVELOPM
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                                  Expect increased use by educational institutions for education
                                  as opposed to research, or management

                           ONE STOP SHOPPING
                                  Virtual center for data (NOT "Virtual Data Center," which makes it
                                  sound like model output -- the Center, not the Data, is virtual.)
                                  degree of distribution
                                  standardization of formats (eg, NETCDF, others)
                                  Units -- can some variation be allowed
                                  Value-added -- analysis and synthesis, visualization, interpretation

                           INTEGRATE with what's already being done, awareness of such things
                                  as national / international geospace standards

                           ARCHIVING
                                  saving for long-term: a library of Congress for data
                                  (Other people have other definitions of "archiving" -- short term)

                    END OF BRAINSTORM SESSION - Lumping issues

                           A) ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION
                                  Distributed data/ regional system nodes
                                  institutional coordination
                                  Federally funded data collection and archiving
                                  archiving data - meaning of term
                                  non-federally fimded data served out by NODC
                                  Multiple strategies for open ended product design

                           B) DATA QUALITY
                                  audit trail, data lineage
                                  Data anomaly detection and reporting back to community/ data centers
                                  Peer review


                           C) OUTREACH & TRAINING
                                  Training, coordination, communication
                                  Meetings or BBS among developers of systems
                                  Metadata training and guidelines
                                  E-mail list
                                  NSF (Digital) Library
                                  Awareness of national geospace activities


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                         D) DATA DISCOVERY AND DESCRIPTION
                                Catalogues
                                Libraries
                                Search technologies
                                Data Lineage

                         E) ACCESS AND DELIVERY METHODS
                                Access methods
                                Interface technology
                                On demand custom CD-ROMS
                                On line subsetting
                                On line applications
                                R&D Internet access


                         F) DATA MODEL (ENV. COASTAL OCEAN)

                  A) ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION

                         NOAA establish notion that NOAA data archiving YOUR data is a good thing but
                                maintain intellectual property protection
                         Carrot-type incentives are needed
                         Continuing sponsorship of forums like this for continued momentum for marine
                                information coordination at a technical level
                         Deep archive approach
                         Regional NOAA funded hubs to carry NOAA/ and other data
                         Can stimulate more local interest to contribute to the archive
                         Increased coordination between BRD (Biological Resource Div, USGS) and
                                Coastal data Reps
                         Breakout group high pribifity data sets be pilot project
                         Outreach to other institutions and organizations that are stakeholders

                  B) DATA QUALITY

                         NODC develop peer review process to evaluate data
                                (for highest quality assurance level)
                                develop common quality control methods
                         Discipline specific
                         Develop methods to describe data so that quality can be assessed by user
                         Methods to assess quality and publish (versus assurance of quality
                                Hold a workshop to establish these methods


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                              Audit trail and lineage functions for derived products
                                      Be able to discover dependencies

                      C) OUTREACH & TRAINING
                              NOAA, in cooperation with FGDC and state partners, take a metadata training
                                      session on the road to the regions
                              Tool used online for training in metadata
                              Involve librarians, use regional NOAA libraries as tool
                              Develop metadata SWAT team
                              Annual national and regional meetings
                              IEEE Digital library community, or in conjunction with national meetings

                      D) DATA DISCOVERY AND DESCRIPTION

                              Coordinate Tier I data documentation
                              GILS for Data Locator, or Tier I data
                              Controlled vocabulary be developed in coordination with library community

                      E) ACCESS AND DELIVERY METHODS

                              Get high level data (derived products) should be readily subsetted
                              Support distributed'data systems -- Explore options, such as:
                                     NOAA server concept - distributed access system within NOAA

                      F) DATA MODEL (ENV. COASTAL OCEAN)

                      Acronyms

                      BBS - Electronic Bulletin Boards Server
                      FGDC - Federal Geographic Data Committee
                      NETCDF - Network Common Data Format
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