ME52A:
Frontiers in Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Science and Challenges II


Session ID#: 11306

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 and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States
Moderators:  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
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, 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:

ME52A-01
Advancing Ocean Remote Sensing with Spaceborne Lidar (88884)
Chris A Hostetler1, Michael Behrenfeld2, Johnathan W Hair1, Yongxiang Hu1, Kathleen A Powell1, Amy Jo Scarino3, Carolyn F Butler4, Emmanuel Boss5, David Siegel6 and Ivona Cetinic7, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute and Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
ME52A-02
Merging Ocean Color and physical Argo data to extend bio-optical properties to depth using neural networks: A global 3D view of phytoplankton biomass and phytoplankton communities composition (89548)
Raphaëlle Sauzède1,2, Herve Claustre1,2, Cedric Jamet3, Julia Uitz2,4, Giorgio Dall'Olmo5,6, Fabrizio D'Ortenzio2,7, Bernard Gentili1,2, Antoine Poteau2,4 and Catherine Schmechtig1,8, (1)CNRS, Laboratory of Oceanography of Villefranche, Villefranche/Mer, France, (2)Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSU-CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer (LOV), Villefranche-sur-mer, France, (3)Laboratoire d'Oceanologie et de Geosciences, Universite du Littoral-Côte d'Opale, Wimereux, France, (4)Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSU-CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche sur mer, France, (5)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (6)Plymouth marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (7)CNRS, Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory, Villefranche/Mer, France, (8)Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSU-CNRS, OSU Ecce Terra, Paris, France
ME54C-0940
Community composition, biomass and photosynthetic competency of phytoplankton associated with microscale features and frontal zones of the Gulf Stream (87495)
Christy Alex Jenkins1, Joaquim I Goes2, Helga R Gomes2, Alexander M Chekalyuk2, Robert Arnone3 and Nicholas B Tufillaro4, (1)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
ME52A-04
Surface Waves as Major Controls on Particle Backscattering in Southern California Coastal Waters (90650)
Fernanda Henderikx Freitas, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Erik Fields, University of California, Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Stephane Maritorena, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute and Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
ME52A-05
A Novel Scoring Metrics for Quality Assurance of Ocean Color Observations (92077)
Jianwei Wei and Zhongping Lee, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
ME54B-0924
Uncertainties in the Water-leaving Spectral Radiance Derived from Extrapolation of Near-surface Underwater Measurements (88997)
Linhai Li, Dariusz Stramski and Rick A Reynolds, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
ME54C-0945
Assessing the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Phytoplankton Functional Types from Space – A Case Study for the Amazon River Plume (91169)
Joaquim I Goes1, Helga R Gomes1, Kali McKee1, Tegan Galina2, Therese Li Chen1,3, Marisol Diaz Turkowsky4 and Patricia L Yager5, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)New York University, New York, United States, (3)Barnard College, Department of Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, (4)Lund University, Dept. Human Geography and Biology, Lund, Sweden, (5)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
ME52A-08
Improving methods for assessing reflectance due to whitecaps and foam from ocean color imagery (92351)
Heidi M Dierssen, University of Connecticut Avery Point, Groton, CT, United States, Kaylan L Randolph, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States and Shungudzemwoyo Pascal Garaba, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
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