Antarctic Enthusiasts:
What a fantastic Antarctic (early) morning.
Glider recoveries before the storm, mile-wide icebergs bearing down on
the mooring, an early morning mooring recovery, two hour-long phone calls between the
ship and the college classroom, and RU06 flying between the icebergs in a race to find the
edge of the phytoplankton bloom before the next storm on friday.
Will RU06 make it? Or will Josh have to recover RU06 tomorrow
before we know the extent of the Pennell Bank phytoplankton bloom?
Check out the blog at
http://coseenow.net/ross-sea/2011/02/zodiac-blizzard-iceberg/
The 8th image shows the iceberg.
But for us MARCOOS PI's, its back to the Mid Atlantic.
We planned our next call for this coming friday at 9:30.
We have 2 tasks before us.
1) The success stories for IOOS. Judy has sent stuff around on this.
Lets make sure we have all of our success stories listed.
2) The talk for the ALSO meeting in the Marine Spatial Planning session.
I leave early sunday morning, so we it would be great to get any power
point slides
in time for Mike Crowley and I to put them together.
The general outline of the talk is as follows:
1) Intro Slides - MARACOOS defined, new observing & modeling
technologies, applied to make these products.
2) (likely a few) - the many uses of the MAB (most people, many ports,
fishing, recreation economy, offshore energy).
3) (again, likely a few) - the many threats to the MAB (climate change,
increasing storms, anthropogenic impacts, superfunds, water quality).
4) our present approach to Marine Spatial Planning - individual state
efforts. - RI SAMP, MA, NJ examples (so far).
5) MARCO - what it proposes for the region.
6) examples of how MARACOOS supports MARCO.
7) Conclusions - a) needs, b) challenges, c) solutions.
I think one of the main things I will be lacking are some powerpoints
describing MARCO.
Tony passed on some powerpoints on MSP from COL.
And I think a info booklet on MARCO.
Ok,
thanks to all.
Scott