Challenging the Loop: From Loop Current System impacts to future research in the Gulf of Mexico


Session ID#: 41354

Session Description:
Loop Current Eddies Alliance and Marine Technology Society will host a Town Hall to discuss why the Loop Current and associated eddies continue to challenge monitoring and modeling efforts. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicines Gulf Research Program (GRP) will unveil the recommendations and next steps towards improving the characterization of the Loop Current System (LCS) from its Committee on Advancing Understanding of Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Dynamics. Following the keynote presentation, an expert stakeholder panel will deliberate on current community understanding and knowledge gaps. LCS dynamics are fundamental to understanding the Gulf’s complex oceanographic processes: deep Gulf physics, eddy migration, hurricane interactions, and Gulf ecosystem connectivity. Targeted observations and time-series monitoring, combined with new technologies and improved hydrodynamic models, could improve knowledge of the LCS and overall understanding of Gulf of Mexico oceanographic and climatological processes. Our panel will take a hard look at what is needed to accomplish this.  The Town Hall will commence with a networking reception for those interested in learning about opportunities in the public and private sectors.
Primary Contact:  Ruth Perry, Shell Exploration & Production Company, Upstream Americas, Houston, United States
Presenters:  Ruth Perry1, Pak Leung1 and Andrew T Ziegwied2, (1)Shell Exploration & Production Company, Upstream Americas, Houston, United States(2)ASV Global, Bend, OR, United States
 

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