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11:40– 12:05
Smart Ocean / Smart Industries: An International Program for Scaling up Ocean and Climate Observations by the Private Sector
Paul Holthus, Executive Director, World Ocean Council The International Ocean Industry and Science Platform is being developed by the World Ocean Council - the international, cross-sectoral industry leadership alliance on ocean sustainability – as a global portal for coordinating scientific community collaboration with ocean industries. This will provide the structure and process for facilitating scientific collaboration with industry in collecting oceanic and atmospheric data to: a) describe the status, trends and variability of ocean and atmosphere conditions and b) improve the understanding, modeling and forecasting of ocean ecosystems, resources, weather, climate variability/change – in support of safe, responsible use of ocean space and resources. The portal will ensure that scientific community interaction with ocean industries is coordinated, efficient, cost effective and is integrated into national and international science programs. Shipping, offshore oil/gas and other ocean industries, e.g. ferries, fisheries, offshore wind, operate thousands of vessels and platforms. Efforts to instrument these ‘ships and platforms of opportunity’ have been important, but are limited due to the lack of an overall system to foster, plan and coordinate the strategic use of industry platforms. A comprehensive structure and process is needed to organize industry partnerships with science to scale up the level of data collecting from ships and platforms and expand the spatial and temporal coverage. The program will be developed in collaboration with national and international science programs and existing programs for ships and platforms of opportunity. The Platform vision: Leadership companies from a range of ocean industries are collaborating with the scientific community in the systematic, regular, sustained and integrated collection and reporting of standardized oceanographic and atmospheric data for input to scientific programs that improve the safety and sustainability of commercial activities at sea and contribute to maintaining and improving ocean health.
12:05– 12:25
Education and Outreach Applications of Ocean Observing Data
Liesl Hotaling, Senior Research Engineer, University of South Florida Global ocean observing systems collect and disseminate data on coastal, regional and global scales. These data sets and new knowledge aids our understanding of physical, biological, chemical and geological processes in the ocean. Greater knowledge of the ocean’s interrelated systems is vital for increased understanding of their effects of biodiversity, climate change, ocean and coastal ecosystems, environmental health and climate.
The integration of real world data from ocean observatories into educational opportunities is a proven mechanism to increase student interest and understanding of these concepts. Data-enhanced learning experiences can prepare and empower students to address real- world complex problems; develop learners’ abilities to use scientific methods, including consideration of the values and ethics of working with data; teach students how to critically evaluate the integrity and robustness of data or evidence and of their consequent interpretations or conclusions; and provide training in scientific, technical, quantitative, and communication skills.
Successful data-enhanced learning experiences are critically dependent on the sources of reliable data being accessible by non-expert audiences. Teacher professional development opportunities have been shown to expand the use of these educational materials and data in classrooms. However, more research and development is needed to analyze the effectiveness of data display and visualization in facilitating the understanding by non-expert audiences in education settings.
This presentation will address broad view applications of ocean observing data in education and outreach settings and key considerations in making data accessible to non-expert audiences. Examples presented will describe data use in graduate, undergraduate and K-12 classrooms, informal education settings such as aquaria, science centers and citizen science programs, and coastal management applications.
12:30– 14:00
14:00– 14:30
14:30– 14:55
Lunch & Exhibition PM SESSION Chair: Gwyn Griffiths, National Marine Facilities Division
Keynote address Sam Walker, BP
Cabled Ocean Observatories: the NEPTUNE Experience
Kate Moran, Director, NEPTUNE Canada NEPTUNE (North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments), supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council, and the Government of British Columbia, completed installation of its 800 km long subsea cable, infrastructure, and over 130 instruments in 2009. Located in the northeastern Pacific, freely accessible data began to flow over the Internet in December of that year, launching the first regional cabled ocean observatory. Implementation of the NEPTUNE concept, which was originally conceived by scientists at the University of Washington, will continue to expand with U.S. construction of its Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) south of NEPTUNE Canada as part of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI). The strength of the NEPTUNE concept is based on abundant power and high bandwidth 24/7 communications, which transforms the way ocean environments are studied. This approach will enable discrimination between short and long-term events, real-time interactive experiments, high bandwidth data including optical and image data, and the ability for multidisciplinary teams to work together from disparate locations, and continue to interrogate the growing database over the next 25 plus years.
The NEPTUNE Canada infrastructure supports a wide range of scientific areas including: plate tectonic processes and earthquake dynamics; dynamic processes of seabed fluid fluxes and gas hydrates; regional ocean/climate dynamics and effects on marine biota; deep-sea ecosystem dynamics; and engineering and computational research. Results will contribute to our understanding of climate change, ocean acidification, the impacts of natural hazards, and the potential for renewable natural resource development.
Cabled ocean observatories are just beginning to transform the ways in which we understand our ocean sciences. Coupled with mobile assets, cabled observatories will expand their reach to address both basic and applied research needs.
16:10– 16:35
14:55– 15:20
Latest Advances in Operational Oceanography in Spain Regarding Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting
Enrique Alvarez Fanjul, Head of Oceanography Area, Puertos del Estado, Spain The expansion of ocean observing networks worldwide together with increasing capabilities of ocean model forecasting and related services are resulting in a qualitative improvement in fields like safe navigation, fight against marine pollution, coastal engineering and fisheries management, search and rescue: This paper gives firstly a general outlook about operational oceanography in Spain and about the Public Organism Puertos del Estado’s recent activities in this field. Secondly, attention will be paid to present the TRADE – Transregional HF RADar network for Environmental Applications which is being implemented by the Portuguese Instituto Hidrografico and the Spanish Puertos del Estado with the scientific participation of the University of Cadiz. TRADE is monitoring, as part of it, the Gibraltar Strait (with one of the heaviest concentration of shipping traffic worldwide) providing operational 2D surface currents mapping and wave monitoring. In this same area, Puertos del Estado is developing new high- resolution models for forecasting improvement and early warning systems. These developments together with the above mentioned HF radar network being deployed in the area, will provide more reliable metocean forecasts and observations and though an improvement in physical ocean processes knowledge, harbour operations, safe navigation and other marine related activities. Finally, recent developments around ‘Marine Information System PORTUS’ are discussed. PORTUS integrates ocean data from different observing technologies and sources and provides added value information for multiple purposes in Spanish Coastal Waters. This system has been implemented at the Spanish Public Organism Puertos del Estado in collaboration with the engineering company QUALITAS. All this information is freely accessible through Puertos del Estado’s website to serve Spanish Harbor Authorities and society at large.
15:20– 15:45
15:45– 16:10
Break & Exhibition An African Network of Offshore Real-Time Metocean Stations
Valerie Quiniou-Ramus, Metocean Specialist, TOTAL S.A Monitoring of meteorological or/and oceanographic conditions is done on many Oil & Gas platforms offshore West and Central Africa (from Nigeria to Angola), but it is mainly used in real-time and not necessarily archived, or it is protected by each company thus making it difficult to send the information to the “outer world”. Public access to these meteorological/ oceanographic data real-time (wind, current, wave, etc) will generally: • Improve weather and ocean hindcasts and forecasts, which will be beneficial to Oil & Gas operations in Africa as well as to scientific issues • Help feed a database for future O&G developments; • Enable design checks after ~1 year of operation; • Serve as a “black box recorder” in case of an incident which could be due to environment; • Help feed or validate ocean and oil spill drift forecast in case of emergency; • Contribute to the international effort of monitoring the oceans in the long term (operational oceanography, climate change, etc.);
• Encourage capacity building in Africa by supporting development and maintenance of technical solutions to reach objectives
TOTAL S.A. have decided to collect the real-time metocean data recorded on their platforms offshore Angola, Congo, Gabon and Nigeria, and develop a sustainable website to host, share and give out the data in order to improve weather and ocean hindcasts and forecasts over Africa. To achieve this project, TOTAL S.A. are collaborating with: • ICEMASA (International Centre for Education, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences over Africa, South Africa), a joint initiative between French scientific laboratories (IRD, INSU, IFREMER, University of Western Brittany stakeholders) and ACCESS (African Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science);
• METEO FRANCE, the French Meteorological Office, who would QC and relay the information to the World Meteorological Organisation network.
The present paper will describe the project’s objectives, organisation, progress and future applications.
Deep underwater compatible WiFi antenna
Hector Guarnizo Mendez, Ifremer Large file transfers or real time video underwater transmission at a low cost are becoming more necessary in the context of underwater observatories. Hence there is a need for increasing the current data rate capabilities both in shallow and deep underwater. Existing solutions (acoustic, mechanical or laser) suffer from different specific limitations: reduced data rate, insufficient positioning accuracy, high cost, etc. In this work supported by the French Europôle Mer organization, a high data rate underwater wireless radio system is being developed. We have chosen to modify some parts of the standard Wi-Fi architectures to keep costs low while obtaining performance that is currently unavailable under water. However, it is very well known that radio waves are strongly attenuated when they propagate in water. For this reason only wireless short range applications are expected to benefit from such innovations. Because modelling is necessary for electromagnetic (EM) design, we have first compared and selected an appropriate EM model of the sea. The most important parameters are the frequency, the salinity and temperature which varies with the geographic location, and sea weather variations. The attenuation computed in the band around 2.4 GHz differed, depending on the specific EM model that was used. A new underwater radio antenna is now under development. We have considered further specific constraints: easy integration into both remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles, insensitivity to variations of sea water electrical characteristics, resistance to very high hydrostatic pressures compatible with oceanic trench exploration, bio-pollution resistance, and low sensitivity to relative positioning of the transmitter and receiver. Polarization properties have been carefully chosen to improve the latter while simplifying the design. We are currently performing additional design optimizations and manufacturing an advanced antenna prototype in order to confirm the different simulation results and performance.
16:35– 17:00
A New Approach to Surface Currents Monitoring Marc Lucas, Oceanographer, CLS There is growing recognition in the offshore industry of the need to put in place adequate contingency plans in order to respond efficiently to oil leakage events and for the management of operations. To this end, CLS has developed a state of the art current prediction system massively based on satellite (such as altimetry, Sea surface temperature, ocean color) and in-situ observations (ADCP, surface drifters). This systems provide daily near real time maps of the surface currents at high resolution (4 km, hourly data) and has a 48h forecast ability. The currents can be used for day to day operations (direct use, through a web interface or a bulletin) or as inputs to existing oil drift models. Additionally,the system can also be used in a hindcast mode to provide accurate data for the analysis of past events and the development of contingency scenarios. Finally, the system can provide surface currents for design and development purposes
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