| Opportunities in the Region
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Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Ocean Observing Systems
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The Department of Commerce and NOAA announced $101.5 million in funding across 12 awards to expand equitable service delivery and support the modernization of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Regional Associations. U.S. IOOS supports ongoing data collection in U.S. ocean, coastal and Great Lakes waters and develops infrastructure and tools to make these data accessible.
In the southern California region, SCCOOS will support resilience and expanded capacity for monitoring and predicting ecosystem change (includes hypoxia and harmful algal bloom detection along the California coast); improve beach-level water inundation forecasting; modernize the California Underwater Glider Network with biogeochemical sensors; increase engagement, training, and workforce development with underserved and frontline communities, including strengthened Indigenous partnerships; and provide multi-linguistic resources for community engagement and K-12 ocean literacy.
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New Seabird Survey Posted
SCCOOS supports scientists at the Farallon Institute to investigate changes of seabirds in the California Current. Biologists count seabirds from fishery research vessels.
Summer 2024 Seabird & Ocean Conditions Report
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San Diego Union Tribune Features Piers Through Stories From Some That Love Them Most
By Emily Alvarenga, Maura Fox, Tammy Murga, and Gary Robbins
Article get perspective from Melissa Carter, Staff Researcher at UCSD and SCCOOS Shore Station Program Manager
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Marine Technology Society Elects a New President
Join us in congratulating Gerhard Kuska, Executive Director of MARACOOS (Mid Atlantic OOS). We can expect great things with Gerhard at the helm!
Learn more about the President Elect, set to start Jan. 2025
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Collaboration Spotlight: Harmful Algal Blooms
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California Ocean Observing Systems (CeNCOOS & SCCOOS) host the California Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring and Alert Program (HABMAP), a consortium of concerned scientists, federal and state managers, and stakeholders.The California HAB Early Warning and Event Response Program includes HABMAP and a network of automated microscopes calledImaging FlowCytobots, which record the entire phytoplankton community in real-time in order to issue warnings for a suite of potential Harmful Algal Blooms to enable rapid response and better decision-making.
July/August Stranding Event
There was an uptick of marine mammal strandings starting in late July. This triggered the California Harmful Algal Bloom Early Warning and Event Response Network, to implement emergency response communications to marine mammal rescue organizations. Wildlife rehab centers collect and treated animals showing signs of illness and collect samples for further investigation. California Department of Public Health consults CalOOS data to guide their own phytoplankton and biotoxin monitoring in order to determine if any shellfish advisories are necessary to prevent food-borne illness.
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Media
Important update
Wildlife rehabiliatation centers are currently reporting another major uptick in marine mammal strandings along Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Monterey coasts.
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Postdoctoral Scholar Opportunity
The Ocean-Time-Series Group at Scripps Instititon of Oceanography collects mooring-based observational data of the ocean.
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IOOS Marine Life Data Network
IOOS Marine Life team has developed recommendations of best practices for managing marine life data, and have published these recommendations to the Marine Life Data Network website.
This is an open, collaborative effort with the entire IOOS community, that includes a GitHub repository where the content is managed.
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Request for Public Comment - NOAA Commercial Data Buys Guidance
The Chief Data Officer within NOAA OCIO seeks information from interested parties regarding NOAA Observing System Council (NOSC) 2024 Guidance for NOAA Commercial Data Buys, a framework document that describes considerations for NOAA's engagements with the commercial sector on commercial data buy opportunities from all sources that contribute to environmental intelligence.
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California Sea Grant Fellowship
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4th Annual SoCaL BOOM
Saturday, Oct 26, 2024 at UC Santa Barbara
This one-day symposium is designed to highlight the work of early-career researchers, with both the symposium and the poster session featuring presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers (with faculty encouraged to attend).
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Proposals due October 4
Provides funding for coastal communities to develop consistent SLR adaptation plans and projects to build resilience to SLR along the entire coast of California and San Francisco Bay.
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Each of these activities involve SCCOOS participation. Are you going to the same meeting or event? Attending the same webinar? Please say hi!
Sept 18: National Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Network Webinar 3 pm ET/12 pm PT - The Role of Satellite Observations in NHABON and Exciting Advances in Space-Based HAB Detection
Sept 23-25: US CLIVAR Workshop on Optimizing Ocean Observing Networks for Detecting the Coastal Climate Signal, Boulder, CO
Sept 24-25: GlobalHAB Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, Clarissa Anderson (chair) is hosting on Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus
Oct 2: San Diego Marine Protected Area Collaborative Meeting, Solana Beach, CA
Oct 6-11: Ocean Optics XXVI - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Oct 9-11: WebCOOS workshop, Charleston, SC
Oct 17-18: CSU COAST Mentoring Workshop, Long Beach, CA
Oct 21-25: GlobalHAB workshop, Qingdao, China
Oct 25: In-Person Deep Ocean DDT Research Community Meeting, on the University of Southern California campus - registration coming soon!
Nov 19-20: Offshore Wind Meeting, Washington, D.C.
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