1. NEW GCOOS Proposals RA Support Data Portal/Regional Operation Center Meteorological Instrumentation HF Radar Future: Gap Analysis, Satellite products, HABs, Hypoxia, Other

2. RA Support Submitted 15 August 2007 ~$400,000/year for 3-years Regional Coordinator 50% time Data Management Coordinator 25% time Research Associate 100% time Co-PI Nowlin 5% time

3. RA Support Meetings component –Board meetings –Parties meetings –Council and Committee meetings –One observing system design workshop –One stakeholders workshop –Coordinators’ travel support

4. RA Support E/O component –E/O Coordinator 6.5 months/year

6. Data Portal/Regional Operation Center 3 years to follow-on Year 1 of Data Portal development $500,000-$600,000 per year Jochens as Lead PI Howard as Co-PI for DP and ROC Walker as Co-PI for E/O Component Support for E/O Coordinator Support for development and maintenance of GCOOS wiki for observing systems inputs

7. Data Portal/Regional Operation Center Components: –Data Portal Year 1: Internal testing & review/roll-out Year 2: Roll-out and evaluation Year 3: Maintain and enhance –Regional Operation Center Year 1: Initiate planning Year 2: Planning and develop proto-type Year 3: Develop & test proto-type –Education and Outreach Year 1: TBD Year 2: TBD Year 3: TBD

8. HF Radar ~2 year project to –Develop interoperability of WERA, CODAR, and in situ systems –Develop Gulf-wide surface current observing system plan Stephan Howden, USM, as Lead PI Other participants: UM, USF, FSU, LSU, TAMU Sharon Walker as E/O PI Ann Jochens as GCOOS-RA representative

9. HF Radar Components –CODAR/WERA integration/interoperability: Florida Straits West Florida shelf Mississippi shelf –Develop Gulf-wide HF radar observing system –Education and outreach activities: TBD

10. Meteorological Instrumentation 2 (3??) year project ~$250K/year Cort Cooper as Lead PI Others as Co-PI? Ann Jochens as GCOOS Rep Co-PI? E/O co-PI??? Who submits proposal? TAMRF?

11. Meteorological Instrumentation Components –Year 1: Sensor Integration and Testing –Year 2: Installation of 10 packages –Year 3: Build-out to XX packages and maintain???? Education and outreach component??

12. Future: Gap Analysis Proposed by Russ Beard

13. Future: Other HABs Observing System

14. Future: Other Hypoxia Observing System –NOAA Monitoring Implementation Plan Satellite products –Plan development task? –GOMRC project linkages?