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Profiling gliders are rapidly becoming essential instruments for operational observing of the nation’s coastal oceans and Great Lakes.  US IOOS regions and partners are heavily engaged in glider operations and in many instances leading the way on their uses and applications.  As use and mission variety expand, there is an increasing need for a program-level dialog on topics such as how gliders are deployed and operated, community standards for data access and organization, and what the candidate expansion paths might be towards a national capacity for gliders for observing and understanding better our coastal oceans and Great Lakes. 

 

Strategy Development Workshop, Aug.1-3, 2012, CA

An open Spray Glider at the lab where they are built and maintained

An open Spray Glider at the lab where they are built and maintained. View more pictures from the visit to a Glider Lab

The National Glider Strategy Development Workshop was held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA. 

This workshop was organized both to frame priority requirements for broader coordination and collaboration of glider operations and to draft an outline for a national strategy.  At the close of the workshop, authors had been assigned sections of the outline with a goal of assembling a full draft prior to the Fall AGU Meeting. 


Agenda and Presentations

Agenda, (pdf)


August 1, 2012: Invited presentations and general discussion

08:30 Welcome and Introductions (Becky Baltes)

09:00 Scientific and Operational Motivation for Sustained, Glider-Based Coastal Observing, (pdf), (Dan Rudnick)

10:00 Overview of glider technology: Current and near-term capabilities, (pdf), (Chad Lembke)

10:45 Sustained Glider Operations Today, (ppt), (Craig Lee)

11:30 Data Management, (ppt), (Jim Potemra)

13:00 Operational Applications of Glider Data, (ppt), (Mike Crowley)

13:45 CeNCOOS Glider Operations (Francisco Chavez)

14:00 AOOS Gliders, (pdf), (Molly McCammon)

14:15 HI Glider Observations, (pdf), (Brian Powell)

14:45 Pacific Northwest Glider Operations, (ppt), (Jack Barth)

15:00 Glider Technical Specification, (pptx), (Tom Ryan)

15:15 MARACOOS Glider Operations, (ppt), (Scott Glenn)

15:30 Summary of Day 1 (Becky Baltes)

15:45 Visit Glider Lab - Pictures (ppt)

Evening Dinner at Martin Johnson House


August 2, 2012: National Strategy Development

Break-out Focus Areas

Group 1: Data Management
Group 2: Operational Applications and
             Technology
Group 3: Sustained Glider Plan (Network)

0830 Break-out session Assignments and Tasking (Groups 1-3)
0845 Break-out group sessions
1000 BREAK
1030 Group 1 Report/ Discussion
1100 Group 2 Report/ Discussion
1130 Group 3 Report/ Discussion
1200 LUNCH
1300 Parallel Breakouts (2 or 3 Groups)
Synthesize findings of Groups 1-3 to produce an outline for U.S. IOOS National Glider Network Strategy.

  • Operational and scientific objectives
  • Network mission and scope
  • Broad-brush network description
  • Calibration/intercalibration, QC
  • Data processing, dissemination plan.
  • Data products (are there specific things the network should deliver, or is this the responsibility of the RAs)
  • Region-specific needs

1445 BREAK
1500 Breakouts report. Pay attention to commonalities and clear conflicts in the plans. Discuss and synthesize output into
          a unified strategy
1630 Introduce Implementation Pathway Discussion
1700 Finish

 

August 3, 2012: Finalize Assignments

0800 Morning Coffee & Pastries
0830 Review Draft Strategy and Assignments
1000 Review Implementation Pathway
1100 Action items: What comes next?
1200 Finish

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Participants

Participants of the National Glider Strategy Workshop Aug 1-3, 2012

Participants of the National Glider Strategy Development Workshop Aug 1-3, 2012


List of Participants

Becky Baltes, US IOOS

Dan Rudnick, SCCOOS

Craig Lee, NANOOS

Chad Lembke, GCOOS/SECOORA

Mike Crowley, MARACOOS

Jim Potemra, PacIOOS

Brian Powell, PacIOOS

Bruce Cornuelle, SCCOOS

Tom Ryan, NODC

Rob Wahl, NAVO

Dave McCarren, CNMOC

Joe Swakos, NDBC

Chris Beaverson, OAR (NOAA AUV Group)

Diane Stanitski, OAR/CPO

CAPT John Adler, NOAA/OAR

David Demer, NOAA/SWFSC

Rich Arrieta, SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC

Stephen Harrison, San Diego Weather Forecast Office

Jack Barth, NANOOS

Catherine Edwards, SECOORA

Francisco Chavez, CENCOOS

Jorge Corredor, CariCOOS

Matt Howard, GCOOS 

Molly McCammon, AOOS

Jim O'Donnell, NERACOOS

Matthew James, GLOS

Scott Glen, MARACOOS

Wendell Brown, MARACOOS

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Steering Committee Members

Background Information

Documents

White Paper submitted to the IOOS Summit 2012:
A National Glider Network for Sustained Observation of the Coastal Ocean (pdf)

One Pagers:

Development of a U.S. IOOS National Glider Strategy (pdf)

A National Glider Network for Sustained Observation of the Coastal Ocean (pdf)


Presentations

A national glider network for sustained observation of the coastal ocean (pdf), D. Rudnik, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA

IOOS Summit Special Session: MARACOOS Responds to Hurricane Sandy (ppt), Scott Glenn, Rutgers University


 


Contact Information

Becky Baltes, IOOS Program Office Glider Lead

 


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Development of a U.S. IOOS National Glider Strategy, draft (pdf) May, 2012