2023

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2023 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 13:02

CoastWatch Node

Hawaii

Dates

May 22-25

Location

Manoa, HI

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

Summary & Highlights

Members of the NOAA CoastWatch program were joined by scientists and collaborators with particular interests in applications of remote sensing techniques in the Pacific Islands region for the 2023 Annual Science Meeting. Guest participants included representatives for the NOAA Geo-XO program, NMFS and NESDIS colleagues both based in the region and from the mainland US, Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), academic partners from the University of Hawai’i, and Arizona State University. More than 50 people attended the meeting in person, and about 20 people attended remotely. Two topics that received particular attention at this year’s meeting were the use of satellite data in monitoring coral reef communities, and in dynamic ocean management of commercial fisheries, particularly in the Pacific. Participants also engaged in discussions concerning the use of hyperspectral ocean color products offered by NOAA’s future geostationary satellites (OCX sensor aboard GeoXO). The OWCP hosts organized two excursions for meeting participants, and these were universally viewed as highlights of the meeting.

The Pacific Islands region ecompasses an expansive area with resource management issues that range from fine spatial scales (e.g., resolving water quality in nearshore coral reef habitats) to variability on basin scales (e.g., providing information about the location of major frontal features that can help commercial longliners avoid interactions with protected species), and the Annual Meeting allowed discussion of the challenges facing the region on both of these scales. The influence of urban development on coral reefs, strategies for retrieving satellite data from nearshore regions, and the ecological and socioeconomic implications of using satellite data to provide information to the fishing industry are issues of particular importance which received attention. The regional emphasis that was allowed by hosting the meeting in Honolulu will help to advance Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management in the Pacific Islands region.

Thanks to NOAA/NMFS/PIFSC for support and to CIMAR at the University of Hawai’i for the meeting venue and logistics.

Key Takeaways

The Pacific Region is expansive and diverse. Satellite observations
are a necessary tool for understanding, monitoring and managing
these marine resources.
Product needs include: eddies, currents, mixed layer depth,
marine heatwave, ocean heat content, satellite assimilative
products (model results), shallow-water masked products,
consistently-processed, sensor-agnostic time series for trends and
anomalies.
The CoastWatch Applications Team was introduced.
Collaborations across Nodes and Applications Team
members are already occurring.
Bridging the gap between users and satellite data remains
challenging. CoastWatch people remain essential for this
mission.

Monday, May 22

Opening remarks
Ryan Rykaczewski | OWCP Node Manager;
Tia Brown | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Director
Using satellites for supporting hurricane, Sargassum, and marine biodiversity research
Joaquin Trinanes, Gustavo Goni | Atlantic OceanWatch Node Managers
Establishing time-series products, tools, and stakeholder engagement to support fisheries and estuarine management
Shelly Tomlinson, Ron Vogel | East Coast Node Managers
Transition of a historical surface temperature product to the Great Lakes
Andrea VanderWoude, Songzhi Liu | Great Lakes Node Managers
Water Node introduction
Dylan Lee | Water Node Operations Manager
Primary productivity: an epic story in the tradition of CoastWatch heroic legends
Cara Wilson, Dale Robinson | West Coast Node Managers
When stars aligned on the Poles
Sunny Bak-Hospital | PolarWatch Node Operations Manager
Carrying the torch and new horizons
Ryan Rykaczewski, Daisy Shi | OWCP Node Managers
Water quality/quantity & climate
Seunghyun Son | CoastWatch Applications Research Scientist

Tuesday, May 23

Visit to Honolulu Fish Auction
Skimming the surface
Michael Soracco, Peter Hollemans | CoastWatch Central
An essential list of ingredients for making the perfect Fisheries management cupcakes
Ryan Vandermeulen | NMFS Satellite Coordinator
Satellite data applications for ecologists end-users: A case study of what drives coral reef calcifier abundance in US tropical Pacific reefs
Brittany Huntington | PIFSC
Dynamic oceans and dynamic ecosystems
Elliott Hazen | Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)
A brief history of the NMFS TurtleWatch product
Evan Howell | NMFS Office of Science and Technology Director
Using earth observations to understand protected species interaction in the Pacific Islands region
Robert Ahrens | PIFSC
Environmental Data Summary (EDS): A tool to enhance in situ data with temporally summarized environmental variables
Juliette Verstaen | PIFSC
Long-term trends in marine heat across the Pacific Islands region revealed by reconstructed SST; Satellite data highlights the importance of mesoscale oceanography to pelagic communities
Jessica Perelman | PIFSC

Wednesday, May 24

Data use in the Pacific Islands region and efforts to support harmonization of product development
John Marra | NESDIS; Jim Potemra | PacIOOS
Opportunities for collaboration: Sanctuary condition reports
Danielle Schwarzmann | Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS)
NOAA’s Next-Gen GEO Satellite System and its Ocean Color Instrument
Pam Sullivan | NESDIS

Thursday, May 25

Global coral reef monitoring using the Allen Coral Atlas
Greg Asner | Arizona State University (ASU)
A new approach to monitor global shallow coastal water turbidity through satellite imagery
Jiwei Li | ASU
International user feedback and requests
Emily Smail | GEO Blue Planet
Three decades of providing decision support tools for coral reef management in a warming world
Derek Manzello | Coral Reef Watch
PacIOOS data services and potential synergies with CoastWatch and NMFS
Jordan Watson | PacIOOS
Environmental Drivers of Shark-Human Interactions in Hawai’i
Juliana Zolopa | University of Hawai’i
Closing remarks
Veronica Lance | CoastWatch Program Manager

2017

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2017 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:59

CoastWatch Node

West Coast

Location

Santa Cruz, CA

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

2017 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

2012

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2012 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:57

CoastWatch Node

Hawai’i

Location

Kona, HI

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

2012 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

2010

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2010 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:57

CoastWatch Node

Gulf of America

Location

New Orleans, LA

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

2010 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

2005

jebidiah.jeffery — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:54:18 +0000

2005 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:54

CoastWatch Node

West Coast

Location

PFEL Pacific Grove, CA

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

2005 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

2002

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2002 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:50

CoastWatch Node

Hawaii

Location

Turtle Bay, HI

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

2002 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

1999

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1999 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:48

CoastWatch Node

Southeast

Location

Beaufort, NC

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

1999 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

1998

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1998 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:46

CoastWatch Node

West Coast

Location

La Jolla, CA

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

1998 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

1997

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1997 jebidiah.jeffery Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:42

CoastWatch Node

Northeast

Location

Narragansett, RI

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

1997 CoastWatch Annual Meeting

1995

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1995 jebidiah.jeffery Tue, 12/10/2024 - 14:43

CoastWatch Node

Gulf of America

Location

Stennis SFC, MS

NOAA Line Office

NMFS

1995 CoastWatch Annual Meeting