ME51A:
Frontiers in Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Science and Challenges I


Session ID#: 11305

Session Description:
The advent of satellite oceanography in late 1970's has given rise to a realization that our ocean plays a critical role in weather, climate and sustaining life on Earth.  Satellites have revolutionized our understanding of linkages among the ocean and other components of the Earth system and have revealed a diversity and complexity in ocean ecosystems not previously appreciated.  Further, the explosive growth of human populations along coastal margins places increasing pressure on these ecosystems, modifying natural processes and putting life, health, and property at risk from hazards inherent to the ocean. Scientific observations from the vantage point of space help solve important problems. Advanced technologies and frequent, repeated, multi-scale satellite observations, in combination with field measurements, are essential for observing and predicting changes.

Without global ocean color satellite data, humanity loses its capacity to take Earth’s pulse, explore its unseen world, and monitor our living marine resources. This session explores the next generation of ocean science questions from satellites and challenges to those observations from science, technology, and modeling perspectives.  Our goal is not only to understand and monitor the Earth’s changing climate and ecosystems, but also to enable the next generation of students to make new discoveries.

Primary Chair:  Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States and Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Moderators:  Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Paula S Bontempi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4855 Phytoplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ME51A-01
Advanced ocean color sensor observations for retrieval of cloud, aerosol and water vapor properties (89928)
Lorraine A Remer, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
ME51A-02
Using multispectral, multiangle polarimetric remote sensing observation for ocean color retrievals: Studies performed for the Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. (90077)
Jacek Chowdhary, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Brian Cairns, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
ME51A-03
Ocean Color Hyperspectral Satellite Observations of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence, Phytoplankton Functional Types and Light Penetration Depth with SCIAMACHY (88029)
Aleksandra Wolanin1,2, Tilman Dinter1,2, Vladimir V. Rozanov1, Mariana Soppa2, John Philip Burrows1 and Astrid Bracher1,2, (1)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
ME51A-04
Evaluation of Bio-optical Models for Discriminating Phytoplankton Functional Types and Size Classes in Eastern U.S. Coastal Waters with Approaches to Remote Sensing Applications (92798)
Aimee Renee Neeley, University of Maryland College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Joaquim I Goes, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Christy Alex Jenkins, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States and Lora Harris, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States
ME51A-05
An Accurate Absorption-Based Net Primary Production Model for the Global Ocean (91899)
Greg Silsbe1, Toby Kolohe Westberry2, Michael J Behrenfeld2, Kimberly Halsey3 and Allen Milligan1, (1)Oregon State University, Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States
ME51A-06
Using satellite derived size-fractionated primary production estimates to estimate fisheries production potential in the Northeast US Continental Shelf (88226)
Kimberly Hyde, NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, RI, United States and Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
ME51A-07
Phytoplankton Physiology from Satellite Chlorophyll Fluorescence (93698)
Toby Kolohe Westberry and Michael Behrenfeld, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
ME51A-08
Optical Signatures of Climate Change Impacts on Phytoplankton (89818)
Stephanie Dutkiewicz1, Anna E Hickman2, Oliver Jahn3 and Erwan Moneir3, (1)MIT, Earth Atmosphere and Planetary Science, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
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