OD31A:
Integrating Biological and Physicochemical Observations into the Ocean Observing Framework to Inform Understanding of Ecosystem Function and Ecosystem-Based Decision Making I


Session ID#: 11437

Session Description:
The rapidly expanding efforts to integrate biological, physical, and chemical measurements into a “whole ecosystem” understanding of coastal and oceanic regimes will play an increasing role in informing conservation and management needs.  Sustained, interdisciplinary observing now spans spatial, temporal, and trophic scales, utilizing a wide variety of platforms (e.g., moored observatories, gliders, profiling floats, satellites) and  technologies, including rapidly advancing biological observing capability, such as eDNA tools for assessing biodiversity, in-situ bio-optical instrumentation for measuring planktonic assemblages, acoustic telemetry for tracking tagged animals, and passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammal vocalizations.  Expanding national and international networks contribute to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON), Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), and other programs collecting long-term biological observations.  Incorporation of living marine resources into the ocean observing framework is a high priority as we strive toward a long-term understanding of ecosystem trends to inform policy in a world faced by multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors to our coastal and marine environments.  This session will address both advances in sensors and in systems necessary to achieve this long-term understanding.
Primary Chair:  Rebecca E Green, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, New Orleans, LA, United States
Chairs:  Hassan Moustahfid, NOAA US IOOS, US DOC, Silver Spring, VA, United States, Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Barbara A Kirkpatrick, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System, Sarasota, FL, United States, Molly McCammon, Alaska Ocean Observing System, Anchorage, AK, United States, Heidi M Sosik, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Michael Joseph Weise, Office of Naval Research, US NAVY, Arlington, VA, United States
Moderators:  Rebecca E Green, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States and Hassan Moustahfid, NOAA US IOOS, US DOC, Silver Spring, VA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Rebecca E Green, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States and Hassan Moustahfid, NOAA US IOOS, US DOC, Silver Spring, VA, United States
Index Terms:

4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • HI - Human Use and Impacts
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OD31A-01
Advancing “Bio” Sensor Integration with Ocean Observing Systems to Support Ecosystem Based Approaches (87484)
Hassan Moustahfid, NOAA US IOOS, US DOC, Silver Spring, VA, United States and William Michaels, NOAA. Fisheries, US DOC, Silver Spring, MD, United States
OD31A-02
OceanCubes: An Affordable Cabled Observatory System for Integrated Long-Term, High Frequency Biological, Chemical, and Physical Measurements for Understanding Coastal Ecosystems (93046)
Scott m Gallager, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States
OD31A-03
Expanding OBIS beyond species occurrence data, with an extension for environmental data (89563)
Ward Appeltans1, Pieter Provoost1, Daphnis De Pooter2, Klaas Deneudt2, Philip Goldstein3, Gwenaelle Moncoiffe4, Shannon Rauch5, Stamatina Nikolopoulou6, Anton Van de Putte7, Leen Vandepitte2, Nina Wambiji8, Nicolas Bailly6, Alessandra Giorgetti9, Mirtha Lewis10, Marina Lipizer9, Kevin Mackay11, Andres Roubicek12, Carlos Torres13, Taco De Bruin14 and Francisco Javier Hernandez2, (1)UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Oostende, Belgium, (2)Flanders Marine Institute, Oostende, Belgium, (3)Univ of Colorado, Broomfield, CO, United States, (4)British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion, Greece, (7)Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, (8)Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa, Kenya, (9)Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale Trieste, Trieste, Italy, (10)Centro Nacional Patagónico-CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, (11)National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (12)CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, Hobart, Australia, (13)Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas, Ensenada, Mexico, (14)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, National Marine Facilities (NMF), Den Burg, Netherlands
OD31A-04
High Resolution Time Series of Plankton Communities: From Early Warning of Harmful Blooms to Sentinels of Climate Change (90323)
Heidi M Sosik1, Lisa Campbell2 and Robert J. Olson1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Texas A & M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States
OD31A-05
Enhanced Data Throughput from Animal-Borne Tags via Land Based Argos-Style Receivers (92586)
Kim Holland, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, HI, United States
OD31A-06
Real-time passive acoustic detection of marine mammals from a variety of autonomous platforms (90313)
Mark Baumgartner1, Sofie M. Van Parijs2, Cara F. Hotchkin3, Julianne Gurnee2, Kathleen Stafford4, Peter Winsor5, Kimberley Teresa Ann Davies6 and Christopher T. Taggart7, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)NAVFAC Atlantic, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Victoria, Dept. of Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada, (7)Dalhousie University, Oceanography Department, Halifax, NS, Canada
OD31A-07
The Ocean Tracking Network and its contribution to ocean biological observation (90154)
Frederick Gilbert Whoriskey, Dalhousie University, Ocean Tracking Network, Halifax, NS, Canada
OD31A-08
The U.S. Animal Telemetry Network: A Plan for Implementation (93471)
Michael Joseph Weise, Office of Naval Research, US NAVY, Arlington, VA, United States and Samantha Elisabeth Simmons, US Marine Mammal Commission, Science Program, Bethesda, MD, United States
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