1. Our Planet is Changing We need advanced tools to understand and monitor our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes Zdenka Willis Director, US IOOS Program Office NOAA US IOOS®: A Partnership for Lives and Livelihoods

2. U.S. IOOS: Program Overview 12 WHO 2 Enhances science and improves decision making Weather and climate change Maritime operations Natural hazards Homeland security Public health risks Healthy coastal ecosystems Sustain Living Marine Resources WHAT Observations Data Management Modeling and Analysis WHY: 7 Goals, 1 System

3. Unmanned Vehicles Provide Decision Support Ocean State Data for: Sub-surface Tracking Model Refinement Critical Mission Support Instrument Testing/Validation Extreme Environment Surveys HABs and Water Quality Ocean Acidification Other Uses: Map/Quantify Coastal Dynamics Education and Outreach Monitoring of Global Events Biological Monitoring Craig Lee, University of Washington 3

4. 4 9 Federal/Non-Federal gliders provided critical ocean state data Sentinels to evaluate cross-shelf transport of hydrocarbons Over 41,000 casts MARACOOS (Rutgers, U. Delaware); SECOORA (USF, Mote Marine Lab); GCOOS (USM/iRobot/U. Washington); SCCOOS; US Navy) Slocum Glider – Teledyne Webb Research SeaGlider- IRobot ® Spray Glider - Scripps Sub-Surface Monitoring for DWH Spill

5. 5 Other Specialized Glider Configurations MBARI Gulper: Hybrid AUV-Glider Deployed for DWH Capable of Sample Capture Carries Sensor Payload MBARI Gulper being deployed from NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in support of Deepwater Horizon response

6. Spray glider operations off California Supports Fisheries management 3 CalCOFI Lines occupied continuously Temperature, salinity, currents, chlorophyll fluorescence, acoustic backscatter, and phytoplankton (above) A Spray glider on the surface. Photo by Robert Todd, SIO. 6

7. Glider tracking Humboldt squid 7

8. 2009-2010 El Niño in California’s Ocean Gliders allowed us to observe the onset, development, and demise of the 2009-2010 El Nino. Unusually warm upper ocean temperatures off California. Temperature Time Series 8

9. 2012 IOOS ® Demos Deployments selected to capture seasonal temperature shift and if sensors available, fish migration NERACOOS: Wave glider and 2 fetch nodes in Spring NOAA - DART Buoy comparison: 1 tsunami fetch node will be deployed near the DART buoy for up to 1 year MARACOOS: Wave glider and 2 fetch nodes from fall along Hudson Canyon shelf Wave Glider - Liquid Robotics ® Sonardyne Fetch Node 9

10. Calibration of new Salinity Satellite 10

11. 2010/2011 UAF Arctic Glider Missions AOOS glider broke records by continuously sampling in the Chukchi Sea for over 9 weeks, collecting over 11,000 vertical profiles, covering 1,000 km. 11 Operates in extreme environments Enhanced safety of personnel Supports critical research missions. Eugene Bodfish, Olgoonik Oilfield Services; Peter Winsor, UAF, Andrew Mullen, intern from Notre Dame University, prepare to launch a glider from C/V Tukpuk o" Wainwright, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Hank Statscewich, UAF

12. What can a physiology approach tell us about the Palmer deep populations? Palmer Long Term Ecological Reserach Photo: Rutgers University 12

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14. Beach Water Quality Predictive Modeling actually, these are yesterday's results. Check back tomorrow to see if the surf was ok today. Good Luck! 14

15. Water Quality Oxygen Concentration NJDEP, EPA, Rutgers, MACOORA 15

16. amplifyget cells get target collect sample detect relay results back to shore i n-situ, automated marine sensing Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) http://www.mbari.org/ESP/default.htm 16

17. amplifyget cells get target collect sample detect ESP adaptation to qPCR detection to increase sensitivity for water quality applications Microfludic Block (MFB) qPCR The working group: 17

18. Tracking Hurricane Irene Dissolved Oxygen 9494 Minus 1 Wing 18

19. Dynamic Glider Asset Map 19 Coming soon www.ioos.gov

20. Rutgers’ Scarlet Knight Crosses Ocean Basin 221 Days 7,409 km 11,000 Dives 11,000 Climbs Energy equivalent of 8 minutes power the Rockefeller Center Tree 20 Tuckerton, New Jersey, USA Baiona, Galicia, Spain

21. Web Portal Interactive Data Interface Google Earth, Glider GUI Briefing Blog Social networking tools developed to enable collaboration between scientists and students in the U.S., Canada, Spain and Portugal. Trans-Atlantic Education 21

22. Rutgers Plan for the Challenger Mission: International Education Program for Sustained at-Sea Robotic Global Omni-Presence HMS Challenger Mission 100 days at sea Rutgers University/IOOS Partner 22

23. GLIDER MEASUREMNETS OF PHYTOPLANKTON PHYSIOLOGY IN PALMER DEEP GLIDER MEASUREMNETS OF PHYTOPLANKTON PHYSIOLOGY IN PALMER DEEP Questions www.ioos.noaa.gov Photo: Rutgers University 23