ANNUAL SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE MARACOOS SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT:

12/1/2015 – 5/31/2016

NOAA Award Number NA11NOS0120038 (June 2011 – May 2016)

1) TRAINING AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

In addition to MARACOOS’ engagement in various educational venues, MARACOOS continued the Intern Program to support undergraduate students at the beginning of the reporting period, and transitioned to a graduate student initiative in the latter part of the reporting period. The MARACOOS undergraduate interns were: Katie Liming (University of Delaware Junior), and Jessica Jenkins (University of Delaware Freshman). Emily Patrolia(University of Rhode Island Marine Affairs Master’s Student)continued to provide staff support and enhance her knowledge about the Mid-Atlantic IOOS network.Additionally, MARACOOS provides annual Slocum Glider operations training at Rutgers each year.

2) MARKETING, OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

MARACOOS and its partners have engaged with national and international organizations to represent MARACOOS and IOOS capabilities, as well as to proactively search for opportunities to partner and leverage existing funding streams. Examples of these engagements include IOOS Association-related activities, bi-weekly MARACOOS Board meeting conference calls, bi-weekly MARACOOS operational conference calls, and international meetings. Through its Board and sub-groups, and its membership, MARACOOS is continuing to broaden its reach in the region. In regionally-based efforts alone (primarily meetings and events), MARACOOS personally reached several thousand individuals. Electronic outreach added several thousand more. Examples of these activities from this reporting period include:

  • Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative (CBSSC) Meeting Webinar (Dec 2015)
  • Private Sector Collaboration meeting, TruWeather (Jan 2016)
  • Ocean Acidification collaboration Meeting with UDel, Newark, DE (Jan 2016)
  • NERRS/IOOS Collaboration Meeting, St. Augustine, FL (Jan 2016)
  • MARCO regional meeting, Dewey Beach, DE (Jan 2016)
  • MAFMC Ecosystem and Ocean Planning Advisory Panel, Baltimore, MD (Jan 2016)
  • NEFMC Herring Advisory Panel, Danvers, MA (Jan 2016)
  • NEFMC, Herring Committee with Advisors, Danvers, MA (Jan 2016)
  • MAFMC Squid, Mackerel, Butterfish Advisory Panel, Long Branch, NJ (Jan 2016)
  • NECAN Webinar : Lessons for Mid-Atlantic OA Network (Jan 2016)
  • Army Corps of Engineers Collaboration Mtg, Baltimore, MD (Feb 2016)
  • Choptank Water Quality Meeting, Cambridge, MD (Feb 2016)
  • Connecticut Aquaculture meeting, Groton, CT (Feb 2016)
  • COOPS-Stevens/MARACOOS collaborative meeting, Silver Spring, MD (Feb 2016)
  • MAFMC Research Committee Webinar (Feb 2016)
  • Mackerel community initiative team meeting/call (Feb 2016)
  • MATOS Webinar (Feb 2016)
  • Vibrio Working Group Webinar (Feb 2016)
  • Mid-Atlantic OA Network Webinar (Feb 2016)
  • Workshop on Typhoon-Ocean Interaction in the NW Pacific, Seoul, Korea, (Feb 2016)
  • NOAA COCA Office Fish / Climate Dashboard Webinar (Feb 2016)
  • AGU Oceans Meeting, dozens of MARACOOS members (Feb 2016)
  • IOOS Association Collaboration Meetings, Washington, DC (Mar 2016)
  • IOOS Program Office meetings, Silver Spring, MD (Mar 2016
  • Oceanology International, London, UK (Mar 2016)
  • One NOAA Science Seminar Series, NCEP, College Park, MD (Mar 2016)
  • COL collaborative meetings, Washington, DC (Mar 2016)
  • CBSSC management team meeting, Woodford, VA (Mar 2016)
  • Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body meetings, Baltimore, MD (Mar 2016)
  • New Jersey NOS congressional roundtable, Hoboken, NJ (Mar 2016)
  • NEFMC Herring Advisors, Danvers, MA (Mar 2016)
  • MAFMC Ecosystems and ocean Planning Advisors, Baltimore, MD (Mar 2016)
  • University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (March, 2016)
  • Vibrio Working Group Webinar (Mar 2016)
  • NEFMC Herring Advisors and Committee, Portsmouth, NH (Mar 2016)
  • Choptank Water Quality Meeting, Cambridge, MD (Apr 2016)
  • Ecological forecasting meeting, College Park, MD (Apr 2016)
  • Interstate Seafood Symposium, OA seminar, Galloway, NJ (Apr 2016)
  • Mackerel Habitat Modeling project Kick-off meeting, Cape May, NJ (Apr 2016)
  • MAFMC Squid, Mackerel, Butterfish Advisory Panel, Montauk, NY (Apr 2016)
  • MATOS Webinar (Apr 2016)
  • MAFAC Annual meeting, Portland, OR (Apr 2016)
  • Chesapeake water quality meeting webinar (May 2016)
  • Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography & Meteorology (JCOMM), Mallorca, Spain (April 2016)
  • Marine Technology Society Oceans’16, Shanghai, China (April, 2016)
  • Coastal Ocean Radar Network (CORNet), Wuhan, China, (April 2016)
  • Ocean Surface Currents for Asia-Pacific (ORCA), Wuhan, China (April, 2016)
  • MARACOOS Annual Meeting, Annapolis, MD (May 2016)
  • Private Sector TruWeather collaboration meeting (May 2016)
  • MARCO Webinar (May 2016)
  • MAFMC Ecosystem and Ocean Advisors, Baltimore, MD (May 2016)
  • NOAA COCA Climate Program PI meeting, Princeton, NJ (May 2016)
  • NEFMC Herring Management Strategy Evaluation, Portland, ME (May 2016)
  • NEFMC Herring PDT, Gloucester, MA (May 2016)
  • MATOS Webinar White Paper webinar (May 2016)
  • Mid-Atlantic OA Network meeting/call (May 2016)
  • U.S. Committee for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Washington, DC (May 2016)
  • JONSMOD, Oslo, Norway (May, 2016)
  • IOOC Glider Task Team, Washington, DC (May 2016)

3) REGIONAL OCEAN GOVERNANCE ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES

Collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO)

MARACOOS and MARCO have continued to interact in support of the MARCO Ocean Portal, including the potential need for dynamic data and information products in the future. The leadership for MARCO and MARACOOS agreed that enhanced collaboration was needed, and that additional opportunities for collaboration would be sought out commensurate with existing resources. Discussions with the Executive Director, Kate KillerlainMorrison, resulted in partnering during the reporting period for the resilience grants for MARACOOS to coordinate ocean acidification and ocean habitat areas, through which MARACOOS would receive $80,000 in the next period for carrying out its areas under the grant. MARACOOS also participated in the MARCO meetingsthat included discussions relevant to MARACOOS/IOOS capabilities.

4) EFFORTS TO LEVERAGE IOOS FUNDING

A summarized list of current grants that either leverage IOOS funding or that MARACOOS leverages are shown below. Based on this list, the average annual non-IOOS leveraged funding is $19,267,973. MARACOOS therefore supports approximately 13% of the partners’ total leveraged research.

Partner / Grant Title / Agency / Budget
Rutgers Univ. / Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure / NSF / $11,300,000
Rutgers Univ. / Analysis of coastal ocean circulation and coastal altimeter observing systems using variational methods in model-data integration / NASA / $836,222
Rutgers Univ. / Collaborative research: A model-based synthesis of Mid Atlantic Bight Pioneer Array data to infer across-shelf fluxes, frontal variability, and characteristics of the array / NSF / $386,691
Rutgers Univ. / Slocum Glider Deployments / NJDEP / $67,278
Rutgers Univ. / NOAA COCA / NOAA / $529,690
Rutgers Univ. / Atlantic Mackerel habitat model / MAFMC / $105,000
Rutgers Univ. / Coastal Ocean Modeling of nonlinear internal wave physical and acoustic effects / ONR / $750,000
Rutgers Univ. / Climate to humans: A study of urbanized coastal environments / NSF / $3,853,332
Rutgers Univ. / Network for ocean research interaction and application / NSF / $410,998
Rutgers Univ. / Accounting for habitat-dependent observation error in bottom trawl survey / NOAA - S&T HAIP / $86,928
Rutgers Univ. / BIOME- Bio-Robotic Infrastructure of Oceanic Microbial Ecology / NSF / $826,000
Rutgers Univ. / Coastal Ocean Water Quality Monitoring / DEP/EPA / $60,000
Rutgers Univ. / CINAR- Gulf of Maine Research Inst, UMaine, WHOI, Rutgers, UMaryland / NOAA / $994,251
Rutgers Univ. / Sandy Supplemental for MARACOOS Infrastructure / NOAA / $2,400,000
Rutgers Univ. / Joint Project Arrangement (JPA) 2016 Project integrated Coastal Mgmt. / NOAA / $50,000
Rutgers Univ. / Analysis linking study fleet data to habitat and statistical models in the Mid Atlantic Bight / NOAA NMFS / $103,293
Stevens Inst. / The National Ctr. for Secure & Resilient Maritime Commerce & Coastal Env. / US Dept. of Homeland Security / $10,000,000
Stevens Inst. / Develop High-Resolution Storm Surge Forecasts for Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Facilities Vulnerable to Flood Waters / The PANYNJ / $6,700,000
Stevens Inst. / NJ Coastal Protection Technical Assistance Service / NJDEP / $500,000
Stevens Inst. / Validation of LiDAR Based Measurement Platforms for Remote Measurement of Offshore Wind Fields / US Dept. of Energy / $891,093
Stevens Inst. / New York - New Jersey Harbor NAvigation and Vessel SAFEty Support System / NJ Dept. of Transportation / $726,853
Stevens Inst. / Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast: Interactions between Storm Surge / NOAA-RISA / $300,417
Stevens Inst. / Inundation Hazard Assessment for New York City from Hurricane Storm Surge, Rainfall / NASA-GISS / $226,163
Stevens Inst. / Building resilience to storm surges and sea level rise: A comparative study of coastal zones in New York City and Boston / NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) / $60,000
Stevens Inst. / Real-time observations in the Hudson River during extreme events / Hudson River Foundation / $75,000
Stevens Inst. / The Hudson River Flood Hazard Decision Support System – Accurate Modeling of Flood Zones for Combined Sea Level Rise, Storm Surge, and Rain / NY State NYSERDA / $134,000
Stevens Inst. / Analyzing history to project and manage the future: Simulating the effects of climate on Long Island Sound’s physical environment and living marine resources / NY and Connecticut Sea Grant Programs / $380,000
Stevens Inst. / Technical study of the effects of sea level rise on coastal flooding in New York City / NYC Office of Emergency Mgmt / $180,000
Stevens Inst. / Quantifying the value and communicating the protective services of living shorelines using flood risk assessment / NOAA / $134,000
Stevens Inst. / Storm Surge Reduction Alternatives for Barnegat Bay / NYC Dept of Env. Protection / $98,000
Stevens Inst. / SOCRATES 1: Toward Science-based Oceanic Contact Recreation Advisories using Total Event Simulations / NJ Dept of Env. Protection / $100,000
Stevens Inst. / Coastal Storm Surge Emergency Warning System Hoboken Terminal & Yard and the MMC / NJ Transit / $700,000
Univ of Conn / Long Island Sound Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement-Physical Oceanography Study / CT Dept. of Transportation / $1,667,221
Univ of Conn / Water quality monitoring enhancements to support the hypoxia management in Long Island Sound / $472,000
Univ of Conn / Seafloor Mapping of Long Island Sound: Phase 1 : Pilot Project / CT DEEP / $1,300,000
Univ of Conn / Coastal resilience in CT / NOAA / $355,602
Univ of Conn / Collaborative Research:CI-ADDO-NEW: Ocean-TUNE: A Community Ocean Testbed for Underwater Wireless Networks / NSF / $1,200,000
Univ of Conn / MRI: Instrumentation development for sustainable Distributed Cyber-Aquatic Systems / NSF / $499,999
Univ of Delaware / Robertson-Oliver Glider Program / Robertson Fund / $501,000
Univ of Delaware / Sturgeons in the mid-Atlantic region: a collaborative research approach / Nat. Res. & Env. Control (DE) / $160,280
Univ of Delaware / Biodiversity and Functioning of two marine ecosystems (BIOFUME) / Partner University Fund / $119,791
Univ of Delaware / Sediment Sources, Transport Mechanisms and Fuxes in Coastal Plains / NSF / $780,000
Univ of Delaware / Developing actionable spatial models for Atlantic Sturgeon and Sand Tiger Sharks in the Mid-Atlantic / Lenfest Ocean Program / $363,918
Univ Florida / Impact of secondary circulation and mising of estuarine exchange flows / NSF / $1,050,597
Univ. Maryland / CINAR - Hurricane Forecast Improvement / NOAA / $800,000
Univ. Maryland / The Role of Wind in Esturine Dynamics / NSF / $2,000,000
TOTAL: / $55,235,617

5) UPDATE TO RA MEMBERSHIP

Below is a listing of the MARACOOS board members as well as the general MARACOOS membership.

MARACOOS Board 2015 – 2016: The total Board complement is currently at 14 with the potential for up to 4 additional board-appointed members in the future. During this period, Paul Cooper, Michael Bruno, and Jay Odell retired from the Board.

Member Name / Board Position / Professional Affiliation
Dr. Carolyn Thoroughgood / Rep., Delaware Bay; Chair / University of Delaware
Edward Kelly / At-large; Vice Chair / Maritime Association of the Port of NY/NJ
Dr. Scott Glenn / At-large; Vice Chair / Rutgers University
Genevieve Boehm-Clifton / Rep., NY Bight sub-region / NJDOT/Office of Maritime Resources
Dr. William Boicourt / At-large / University of Maryland
Dr. Wendell Brown / Rep., RI and Mass Bays / University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
Hank Lobe / At-large / Severn Marine Technologies LLC
Andrew McGovern / Rep., LIS sub-region / NJ Sandy Hook Pilots Association
Andrew Minkiewicz / At-large / Kelly Drye and Warren LLP
Dr. Fredrika Moser / At-large / Maryland Sea Grant
Ray Toll / At-large / Old Dominion University
Joseph Vietri / At-large / US Army Corps of Engineers
Doug Wilson / Rep., Chesapeake sub-region / Caribbean Wind LLC
Steve Woll / At-large / WeatherflowInc

MARACOOS Members 2015-2016: The distribution of membership among various types of organizations is: Business and Industry (35%), Government (20%), Non-Governmental Organizations (15%), and Academic Institutions (30%).

AML Oceanographic
CARIS USA, Inc.
Center for Innovative Technology
Chesapeake Research Consortium
CODAR Ocean Sensors
College of William and Mary
Delaware River Basin Commission
East Carolina University
Fugro Consultants
Hudson River Environmental Conditions Observing System
Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences
Integrated Systems Solutions
Kelley Drye
Liquid Robotics, Inc.
Maritime Association of the Port of NY & NJ
Maryland Sea Grant
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
Millersville University
Monmouth University
National Aquarium
New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Association
New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium
New York Sea Grant
NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection
NJDOT/Office of Maritime Resources
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
NOAA CREST
Old Dominion University
RPS ASA
Rutgers University
Severn Marine Technologies, LLC
Sonardyne, Inc.
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stony Brook University
Sutron Corporation
Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc.
The Nature Conservancy
Trawler Dianne & Maureen, Inc. TA Seafood Enterprises
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Washington College
Weatherflow, Inc.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Xylem, Inc.

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