Decadal prediction of the ocean: Where are we? Nicole S Lovenduski, University of Colorado, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Andrew Shao, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, Sarah Berthet, Meteo-France - CNRS, CNRM, CEN, Toulouse, France, Noel S Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Tatiana Ilyina, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Michio Watanabe, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Center for Environmental Modeling and Application, Kanagawa, Japan and Xiaosong Yang, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Developing a coordinated vision for transdisciplinary deep ocean research Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Portland State University, Environmental Biology, Portland, OR, United States, Samuel A Soule, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Alice Doyle, UNOLS, Deputy Executive Secretary, Washington, United States
The Future of Argo Town Hall Emily A. Smith1, Susan Wjiffels2, Dean H Roemmich3, Stephen Riser4 and Nathalie V Zilberman3, (1)NOAA Washington DC, OAR, Washington, DC, United States(2)CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia(3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States(4)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
Ocean Partnerships for Sustained Observing: Moving Beyond the Frameworks Nicholas Rome1, Jon White1, Clarissa Anderson2, Toste S Tanhua3, Brian K Arbic4, Chelle L Gentemann5 and Susan Roberts6, (1)Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States(2)SCCOOS, La Jolla, CA, United States(3)Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany(4)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States(5)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States(6)The National Academies, Director, Ocean Studies Board, Washington, United States
Observing Ocean Surface Currents From Local to Global Scales Fabrice Ardhuin, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), UMR6523 CNRS/IFREMER/IRD/UBO, Paris Cedex 16, France, Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Sophie E Cravatte, LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States and Matthew Carrier, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Dynamics and Prediction, Stennis Space Center, United States
The Ocean Climate Action Plan - A Blue New Deal for our coasts and public seas Eleanor Kerlow, Blue Frontier Campaign, Washington, DC, United States, David Helvarg, Blue Front Campaign, Washington, DC, United States and Jason Scorse, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, International Environmental Policy Program, Monterey, CA, United States
The Planet Microbe Data Discovery Porta Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Bonnie L Hurwitz, University of Arizona, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States
The Ocean Observatories Initiative: a catalyst for early-career, interdisciplinary research Sophie Clayton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Justin E Stopa, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ocean and Resources Engineering, Honolulu, United States and Lisa M Clough, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Washington, DC, United States
The Contributions of Early Career Ocean Professionals to the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development Alfredo Giron, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Erin V Satterthwaite, California Sea Grant, CalCOFI, & Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego), United States, Guillermo Ortuno Crespo, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Harriet Harden-Davies, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
All Hands on Deck: Results of the 2018 National Ocean Exploration Forum Katherine Lynn Croff Bell, Ocean Discovery League, United States, David McKinnie, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Carlie Wiener, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Palo alto, CA, United States and Adrienne Copeland, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, United States
PO.DAAC Today and Tomorrow: Current and Future Data Tools and Services Jessica Hausman1, Catalina M Oaida Taglialatela1 and Michelle M Gierach2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States(2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Dynamic ocean management in support of climate-resilient fisheries Rebecca L Lewison, San Diego State University, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, Camrin Braun, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Kylie Scales, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia, Mark R Payne, Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Copenhagen, Denmark, James Roger Watson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Jason R Hartog, CSIRO Environment, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Data FAIR: Planning to publish? Where is your data? Can you cite it? What about your software? Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Randy Townsend, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States, Megan Carter, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, United States and Rebecca Koskela, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States
Advancing Public-Private Partnerships in Ocean Science and Technology Molly E Grear, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, Tim Gallaudet, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Tom Drake, Office Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States, Margaret Leinen, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Terrence M Quinn, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Alexandria, VA, United States, Jennifer Garson, Department of Energy Washington DC, Water Power Technologies Office, Washington, United States, Richard W Spinrad, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Ruth Perry, Shell Exploration & Production Company, Upstream Americas, Houston, United States
NSF Office of Polar Programs Arctic Sciences - Open Meeting Xujing Jia Davis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Roberto Antonio Delgado Jr, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Alexandria, VA, United States and Cynthia L Suchman, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, United States
Connect with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Andrew Allegra, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Mary Stanford Wohlgemuth, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States and Arthur Rost Parsons, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI-MS, Stennis Center, MS, United States
A Global Database of Diazotrophs and N2 Fixation in the World’s Ocean Weiyi Tang, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States; Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, United States, Julie Granger, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, Margaret R Mullholland, Old Dominion University, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States and Pia Moisander, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Department of Biology, North Dartmouth, MA, United States
Teaching Marine Sciences to non-majors at Community Colleges Rus D Higley, Highline College, Des Moines, WA, United States, Dana Vukajlovich, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA, United States and Jennifer Johns, Chemeketa Community College, Mcminnville, United States
TOS Strategy 2030 Jenny Ramarui, The Oceanography Society, Rockville, MD, United States
Ocean Science Applications at the European Space Agency Marie-Helene Rio, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, Giorgio Dall'Olmo, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom; Plymouth marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Nicolas Gruber, ETH Zurich, Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland and Fabrice Collard, OceanDataLab, Locmaria-Plouzané, France
Southern Ocean Air-Sea Flux (SOFLUX) Town Hall Sebastiaan Swart, University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, Veronica Tamsitt, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Luke Gregor, ETH Zurich, Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States and Dr. Yanzhou Wei, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Hangzhou, China
NOAA Ocean Satellite Data Products for Science and Applications Veronica P Lance, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Paul M DiGiacomo, NOAA, NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
National Science Foundation division of Ocean Sciences Town Hall Kevin Michael Butler, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Annandale, VA, United States and Terrence M Quinn, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Alexandria, VA, United States
Students for Ocean Solutions Mark Haver, NOAA, Lakeland, FL, United States, Madison Pickett, NOAA, Boston, MA, United States, Carina Burroughs, NOAA, Miami, FL, United States, Jennifer Magi, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, Mia Silverberg, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Berkeley, CA, United States and Eli Myron, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Data FAIR: Ocean Data Integration – Challenges, Successes, Tools, and Platforms Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States, Megan Carter, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, United States and Rebecca Koskela, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States
Making your Science Matter: Lessons for the Future from Twenty Years of Science Communication and Engagement Lori Arguelles, COMPASS, Washington, D.C., DC, United States, Heather Mannix, COMPASS, Washington D.C., United States, Francis Chan, Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States, Sarah R Cooley, Ocean Conservancy Inc., Washington, DC, United States, Natalya Gallo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, Dawn J Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, United States, Lauren B Linsmayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Washington, United States and Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System: The Power of Partnership over 20 years and beyond Clarissa Anderson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Krisa M Arzayus, Ph.D., NOAA National Ocean Service, US IOOS Office, Silver Spring, United States, Carl C Gouldman, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Director of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), Silver Spring, United States, Mark A Merrifield, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Sarah N Giddings, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Jason Giffen, Port of San Diego, San Diego, United States and Mark Gold, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Observations for the Present and Future – A Panel of Vendors’ Views on Technology Paula S Bontempi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Richard W Spinrad, Marine Technology Society, Washington, DC, United States, Andrew Barnard, Sea-Bird Scientific, Bellevue, WA, United States, Sebastien de Halleux, Saildrone Inc, Alameda, CA, United States, Peer Fietzek, Kongsberg Maritime Contros GmbH, Kiel, Germany, Drew J. Lucas, Del Mar Oceanographic, LLC, San Diego, CA, United States, Harry Nelson, Fluid Imaging Technologies, Engineering, Scarborough, ME, United States, Wayne Homer Slade, Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Bellevue, WA, United States, Timothy Shanahan, McLane Research Laboratories, Inc, E Falmouth, MA, United States, Paul Devine, Teledyne RD Instruments, Poway, CA, United States and Stephen Schiller, Raytheon, Cambridge, MA, United States
Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board Town Hall Annette M DeSilva, Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board - Administrative Support Office, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Timothy J Crone, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Lisa M Clough, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Washington, DC, United States and Bauke H Houtman, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
The Next Decade of NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Science Jennifer Mintz, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Leticia Barbero, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Miami, United States, Jessica N Cross, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Richard A Feely, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, United States, Derek Manzello, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, FL, United States, Darren Pilcher, University of Washington, CICOES, Seattle, United States and Elizabeth J Turner, NOAA Durham, Durham, NH, United States
The Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network (JETZON) Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Philip W Boyd, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Stephanie Henson, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Iris Kriest, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, Grace Saba, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, David Siegel, Univ of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Maria Villa-Alfageme, Universidad de Sevilla, Applied Physics II, Sevilla, Spain, Laurent Memery, Institut Universitaire Europeén de la Mer (IUEM), Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Environnement Marin (LEMAR), Brest, France and Richard Sanders, Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Climate Change Centre, Climate, Bergen, Norway
Scientific Response to an Ever Faster Changing Arctic: Making the Most of Our Collective Research Efforts Molly McCammon, Alaska Ocean Observing System, Anchorage, AK, United States, Seth L Danielson, Univ Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, United States, Amy Holman, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Cheryl Rosa, United States Arctic Research Commission, Anchorage, AK, United States
SOCCOM and the future of BGC-Argo in the U.S. Roberta M Hotinski1, Jorge L Sarmiento2, Kenneth S Johnson3, Lynne D Talley4, Stephen Riser5, Joellen L Russell6, Matthew R Mazloff4 and Heidi M Cullen7, (1)Princeton University, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States(3)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States(4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States(5)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States(6)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States(7)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
When Your Students Want To Change The World: Resources, Tools And Techniques To Support You And Your Students/Mentees In Growing Capacity At The Science-Policy Interface Lida Teneva, California Ocean Science Trust, Oakland, CA, United States, Anna Milena Zivian, Ocean Conservancy Inc., Washington, United States, Laura H Good, California State University, Monterey Bay, College of Science, Seaside, CA, United States, Lauren B Linsmayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Washington, United States, Serge Dedina, City of Imperial Beach, Imperial Beach, CA, United States, Tessa M Hill, University California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Bodega Marine Laboratory, Davis, CA, United States and Corey Gabriel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Data FAIR: Ocean Data Viz – Beautiful Data, Understandable Visualizations Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States, Megan Carter, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, United States and Rebecca Koskela, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States
Excellence in Partnering Award Guillermo Auad, U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Sterling, United States and Reginald Beach, National Oceanographic Partnership Program, Arlington, United States
All-Atlantic Ocean Observing System (AtlantOS program) Town Hall Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Sandra Ketelhake, German Marine Research Consortium, Berlin, Germany, Brad DeYoung, Memorial University, Physics and Physical Oceanography, St John's, NF, Canada, Tarron Lamont, Oceans & Coasts Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; University of Cape Town; Bayworld Centre for Research and Education, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Cape Town 8012, South Africa and Emily Smail, University of Maryland and NOAA, College Park, MD, United States
