HR: 11:45h
AN: OS32A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: An Update on the Status of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System
AU: * Seim, H E
EM: hseim@email.unc.edu
AF: Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB#3300, 12-7 Venable Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 United States
AB: As a consortium of largely academic institutions in the Southeast US, SEACOOS has been developing and implementing a pilot regional coastal ocean observing system. The four major components of SEACOOS, the observing subsystem, the modeling subsystem, the data management subsystem, and the extension and education subsystem, will be reviewed. In particular, the focus will be on identifying facets of the components that have worked well, those that have proved challenging, and current notions of best practices. Progress towards a near real-time depiction of coastal ocean circulation, and its application in support of search and rescue, spill response and fisheries recruitment studies, continues. The implications of the existing capabilities on needed areas of research and investment will be discussed.
UR: http://www.seacoos.org
DE: 4219 Continental shelf processes
DE: 4223 Descriptive and regional oceanography
DE: 4255 Numerical modeling
DE: 4263 Ocean prediction
DE: 4594 Instruments and techniques
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly