Making a Splash at AGU's Ocean Sciences

CPAESS was delighted to have a booth at AGU’s Ocean Sciences Meeting held in February in New Orleans, Louisiana.. This event brought together around 6,000 attendees specializing in the ocean sciences, including many of our staff members and sponsors. CPAESS staff work across the ocean sciences spectrum including with NOAA’s Global Ocean and Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Office, the National Hurricane Center (NHS), the National Ocean Service (NOS), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the National Environmental Satellite Data and Informationation Service (NESDIS), NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program (OAP), NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration (OE), NOAA’s Fishery Centers, NOAA Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP), and U.S. Geological Survey - Water Mission Area to name some of our partners. Additionally, CPAESS program US CLIVAR is focused on ocean prediction. This conference is of great importance and interest to CPAESS and enables us to connect with so many critical people on our team and those with whom we partner.

As this is such a critical event for us, CPAESS had a booth for staff and sponsors to gather and to share the many educational and employment opportunities that CPAESS offers to this community. “Meeting with our many staff members across the country and our wonderful sponsors is always the highlight for me of any conference,” shared SPS | CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello.

Our staff and our program US CLIVAR had numerous presentations and town halls. US CLIVAR had several town hall meetings including “Tracing Physical, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Signals from the Surface to the Deep Sea: A Joint U.S. CLIVAR-OCB-DOOS Town Hall” and “Ocean Uncertainty Quantification: Best Practices and Communication.” They also celebrated their 25th Anniversary at the aquarium gathering many important researchers who contribute to CLIVAR’s collective research.

CPAESS oral presentations included Cindy Witkowski who works with NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program speaking on “The U.S. Ocean Acidification Action Plan: Leading Internationally and Domestically through Science, Policy, and Capacity Building.” Alyse Larkin who works with NOAA’s GOMO office spoke on “Governance to Promote Open Ocean Data: Developing a Data Strategy for NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program;” and US CLIVAR presented on “Advances in Data Science for Ocean Uncertainty Quantification” and “Advances in Data Science for Ocean Uncertainty Quantification II.”

CPAESS scientists Liza Wright-Fairbanks who works with NOAA OAP and Alyse Larkin who partners with NOAA GOMO gave a workshop on “Biogeochemical Observing and Modeling Workshop: Connecting Observations to Models.” Additionally, poster presentations were given by Inseong Jeong who partners with NOAA’s NOS on the “Development of US West Coast sea surface topography for vertical datum transformation using multi-mission retracked altimetry and NOAA tide gauges” and Jakir Hossen who works with NOAA’s QOSAP on "Ongoing efforts towards an Ocean Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) capability at NOAA." Ashley Maranzino who works with NOAA’s Ocean Exploration (OE) shared “Exploring the Water Column with NOAA Ocean Exploration;” Sarah Groves, another CPAESS staffer at OE presented on “Systematic Recommendations for Increasing Deep Ocean Data Accessibility;” and lastly US CLIVAR had a poster on CC44B - Advances in Data Science for Ocean Uncertainty Quantification III. 

This event was an excellent opportunity for folks to get together to both meet and share their research from diverse aspects of the important ocean sciences community.