CD13A:
Advancing Water Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in Coastal and Inland Waters I


Session ID#: 37756

Session Description:
Water is an increasingly threatened resource, particularly the quality of coastal and inland waters due to population growth, urbanization, and climate change. Further, the interfacial nature of the coastal zone, bridging aquatic, terrestrial, atmospheric, and anthropogenic domains, means they are significantly impacted by dynamic and complex processes. Timely, accurate, and consistent scientific-based assessments, monitoring and forecasting of water quality are crucial across global, regional, and local scales. This session solicits contributions addressing the end-to-end value chain for coastal and inland water quality. This includes new and improved physical, biogeochemical, and ecological observations and data products (remote and in situ), data assimilation and forecasts, and synergistic generation of fit for purpose water quality products and indicators to provide integrated information for water quality managers and other stakeholders. In particular, developmental and operational activities that couple products and indicators (from observations, models etc.) across the land-water interface are solicited, as are information delivery systems and decision making tools to enhance user knowledge. This session advances the goals and objectives of the international AquaWatch Initiative, being developed under the auspices of the Group for Earth Observations, particularly development of water quality monitoring and forecasting service(s) in developed and developing nations.
Primary Chair:  Paul M DiGiacomo, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Steven R Greb, WDNR Science Operations Center, Madison, WI, United States, Benjamin Holt, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Emily Smail, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD, United States
Moderators:  Emily Smail, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD, United States and Steven R Greb, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, WI, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Benjamin Holt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4813 Ecological prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • E - Estuarine Processes
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • RS - Regional Studies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Monitoring water clarity: From close-up measurements to global synoptic observations (302548)
Zhongping Lee, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Shaoling Shang, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Understanding the Effects of the Physical Environment on Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in Pago Bay, Guam (303304)
Christina Mae Comfort1, Gordon Walker1, Margaret Anne McManus1, Atsushi Fujimura2, Chris Ostrander3 and Terry J Donaldson4, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao, Guam, (3)University of Utah, UT, United States, (4)University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, United States
Characterization of particle backscattering and particle size distribution of global highly turbid waters from VIIRS ocean color observations (312034)
Wei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Rockville, MD, United States and Menghua Wang, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Overview of Satellite Observations of Surfacing Wastewater Plumes on Coastal Water Quality in Southern California (312827)
Benjamin Holt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Rebecca C Trinh, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Palisades, NY, United States, Cedric G Fichot, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Michelle M Gierach, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Decadal-Scale Changes in the Delivery of Nutrients and Sediment to Coastal Waters: Results from a National Compilation of Monitoring Data (313609)
Gretchen P Oelsner, U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Edward Stets, U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program, Boulder, CO, United States
Potential impacts of tributary loads on coastal ecosystem services in Lake Michigan (317865)
Lucas Gloege1, Galen A McKinley1, Peter B. McIntyre2, Robert Mooney2 and David J Allan3, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Extending the Reach of Quasi-Operational Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasts to Estuarine Shellfish Harvesting in Coastal California (319228)
Clarissa Anderson1, Raphael Martin Kudela2, Kendra Negrey2, Eric Bjorkstedt3, Brett Stacy4, Roxanne Robertson5 and Melissa Peacock6, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Department of Fisheries Biology, Humboldt State University, CA, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Applied Math and Statistics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate (CIMEC), Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States, (6)Northwest Indian College, Salish Sea Research Center, Bellingham, WA, United States
Molecular Quantification of the Florida Red Tide Dinoflagellate: Measuring rbcL Expression as a Proxy for the Detection of Red Tide (326423)
Dana Nieuwkerk1, Robert Nguyen Ulrich1, Alicia Hoeglund2, Charles L. Tilney2, Katherine Hubbard2 and John H Paul1, (1)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

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