1. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Current and Future Research at the Institute for Marine Remote Sensing Abbie Rae Harris Institute for Marine Remote Sensing http://imars.usf.edu/

2. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Outline IMaRS products and results –Sea Surface temperature –MODIS –SeaWiFS –CARIACO –Millenium Global Coral Reef Mapping Project Future research Antenna at USF College of Marine Science

3. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Remote Sensing Advantages –Synoptic images –Global coverage –High temporal resolution Role of oceanographic satellites –Applications in many disciplines

4. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Images Sea surface temperature and ocean color data from 2001 to present Spatial resolution ~1km 2 High resolution MODIS image for Cayman Islands

5. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Sea surface temperature (SST) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Derived from infrared observations from AVHRR aboard NOAA satellites Data for SST are available on a daily basis ~1km 2 spatial resolution 3 day SST composite February 19-21, 2005

6. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Degree Heating Week (DHW) Sea surface temperature AVHRR MODIS Degree Heating Week September, 2007

7. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) http://imars.usf.edu/seawifs/index.html Ocean color Aboard SeaStar satellite Data for South East Caribbean Basin, West Florida Shelf, and Intra-Americas Sea August 1997-present

8. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Carbon Retention In A Colored Ocean (CARIACO) Collaborative program between many institutions that focuses on understanding the link between ocean surface and sinking flux of particulate carbon in the Cariaco Basin 12 year monthly time series of oceanic parameters such as pH and TA http://www.imars.usf.edu/CAR/index.html

9. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Millennium Global Coral Reef Mapping Project http://www.imars.usf.edu/MC/index.html Funded by NASA Oceanography Program Goal: characterize and map coral reef systems in Caribbean-Atlantic, Pacific, Indo-Pacific, and Red Sea Landsat 7 archive complemented by Landsat 5, ASTER and IKONOS images –Database currently contains over 1700 Landsat 7 images

10. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Millennium Global Coral Reef Mapping Project Applications –Comparative geochemical, biological, and geological studies –Modeling –Monitoring and planning http://www.imars.usf.edu/MC/index.html

11. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Millennium Global Coral Reef Mapping Project Northern Caribbean selection map, raw Keys image, and classification mask

12. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Google Earth Millenium Corals image of Florida Keys opened with Google Earth

13. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Web Retrieval http://imars.usf.edu/

14. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Education and Outreach Resources for students, teachers, researchers Information about ocean science, research methods, careers SCUBAnauts

15. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Future Research Continued development of Millennium applications Development, refinement, and application of remote sensing techniques –Circulation patterns –Ocean color –SST –River plume dispersal patterns –Upwelling –Changes in reef environments

16. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5 Future Research Ocean acidification and CaCO 3 production on reefs – In situ ICON Field samples – Remote sensing Scaling up in situ measurements

17. Abbie Harris - NOAA Ocean Acidification Think Tank #5

18. NOAA - Think Tank #5 1. Determine research goals and set priorities. Calcification rates on a more community vs. organism-based scale (organisms other than corals) 2. Are the existing stations providing the information that we need to answer the questions that we’re asking? Should we focus efforts on augmenting the data collected at existing sites and good quality control, versus putting up new sites? Coupling ICON with satellite data to enhance spatial resolution. 3. Where should we focus our efforts (location(s))? 4. How do we standardize protocols? Methods book? Central Sample Analysis Center? 5. Where would be ideal for this sample analysis center – who has the interest and manpower/$/technology to provide these services?