1 Institute of Marine Science, University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, CA 2 Department of Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, CA 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz, CA 4 Department of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, CA 5 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 6 Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA 7 National Marine Sanctuary Monterey Bay, Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN), Monterey, CA 8 Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA 9 Southwest Fisheries Science Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, Moss Landing, CA 10 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mission: CIMT’s mission is to create a coastal ocean observing and forecasting system that provides a scientific basis for the management and conservation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and serves as a model for all of California's coastal marine resources. Introduction: The Center for Integrated Marine Technologies' (CIMT) was organized to understand the relationship between the physical dynamics and productivity, from wind to whales, of California's coastal ocean. Activities: Monitoring Program Create an interdisciplinary team to identify the needs and technological solutions to understanding Monterey Bay's upwelling ecosystem Develop New Technologies Develop new sensors to fill important gaps in understanding the coupling between physical and biological processes in the coastal upwelling ecosystem Integration of Data Integrate data across platforms (mooring, ship-based, satellite) and across temporal and spatial scales Data Dissemination Develop a coordinated software system for the acquisition, organization, visualization, archiving and access of physical, biological, and chemical coastal marine data sets Outreach Develop strong linkages between the CIMT researchers and product end-users Integration of existing and new technologies: The CIMT is simultaneously collecting data via moorings, shipboard surveys, apex predator tagging and tracking, and satellite, aircraft, and land-based remote sensing. Data integration provides new insights to the complex interactions among climatic events, riverine input of iron, and wind-driven coastal upwelling of nutrients to phytoplankton production, the distribution and abundance of animals from zooplankton to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles. This approach provides the ability to develop predictive models of how marine resources respond to variability in coastal dynamics. Geographic Scope: The CIMT efforts are focused on the Monterey Bay region of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – from Pt. Año Nuevo to the North to Pt. Lobos to the South out to 122°05’ west longitude. As resources become available, the spatial extent of the project can expand. 1 Rondi Robison, 9 Scott Benson, 2 Ken Bruland, 10 Yi Chao, 5 Francisco Chavez, 3 Dan Costa, 3 Don Croll, 7 Andrew DeVogleare, 2 Chris Edwards, 1 Gary Griggs, 8 Jim Harvey, 2 Raphe Kudela, 7 Steve Lonhart, 3 Baldo Marinovic, 2 Margaret McManus, 6 Jeff Paduan, 6 Leslie Rosenfeld, 2 Mary Silver, 4 John Vesecky Acknowledgements: Funding for CIMT provided by NOAA’s Coastal Observation and Technology Program award # NA16OC2936. Special thanks to Geno Olmi, Becky Smyth, Jerome King, Kelly Newton, Nancy Gong, Mike Weise, Kip Laws, Brian Fulfrost, Atma Roberts, Geoff Smith, Bettina Sohst, Carol Keiper, Sophie Webb, Walter Heady, Lee Bradford, Kurt Brown, Peter Miller, Susan Coale, Robin Weber, Meredith Armstrong, Brian M c Laughlin, Itcheung Chung, Duncan Fry, Asila Ghoul, Moria Decima, Judy Van Leuven CIMT is composed of eight groups: Ship Survey Database Apex Predator Tagging & Bioacoustics Mooring HF Radar Remote Sensing Modeling and Forecasting Outreach Krill Whale Dive Record Bottom Blue whale equipped with a dive recorder as part of the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies program (Upper image). Dive profile of tagged whale (yellow line) in relation to krill swarms (red) near the Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon (green line) (Lower image). Approach: Use the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as a regional model Review current coastal upwelling monitoring programs Determine data gaps Develop new instrumentation to fill gaps Archive and integrate new and old data sets across networks and programs Develop user-friendly data access and visualization interfaces Determine the process underlying coastal dynamics Develop predictive models CIMT Web Site used for Outreach HF Radar systems collect current information Ship surveys aboard the R/V john Martin collect a variety of information including observations of marine mammals and phytoplankton abundance Low Frequency pop-up used in bioacoustics and a tagged sea lion Remote Sensing with satellites Deployment of CIMT-MBARI M0 Mooring Live Access Server used to download CIMT shipboard data Current modeling M0 MBARI-CIMT with Sea Lions by Kim Fullton-Bennett 2004 Zooplankton backscatter with CIMT ship survey track lines by Suzana Djurcilov Elephant seal dive profile with temperature by Suzana Djurcilov Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT) Integrating Advanced Technologies to Understand California’s Upwelling Ecosystems