February 20-24, 2012 - Sgmeet.com

TOS/AGU/ASLO 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting
has begun for a multi-national, multi-icebreaker, GEOTRACES field
effort to the Arctic likely in 2015. The US will be an active participant in
this endeavor. The purpose of this meeting is to provide an update on the
status of the planning process and to solicit input from the community.
For more information visit: http://www.geotraces.org/news/news/1news-/308-us-geotraces-arctic-planning-and-information-events
EVW10: New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: NOAA’s Program
of Telepresence-enabled Systematic Exploration (Town Hall)
Wednesday, February 22, 18:00 – 19:30, Room 250 A, B, D, E
Organizers: Craig Russell, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration & Research,
craig.russell@noaa.gov; Katherine Croff Bell, Ocean Exploration
Trust, kcroff@gso.uri.edu
The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) was
created to increase the nation’s understanding of unknown and poorly
known ocean areas and phenomena, generate new lines of scientific
inquiry and research, increase the pace and efficiency of ocean exploration
through the use of advanced techniques and technologies, and
disseminate discoveries and findings to a broad spectrum of users.
The NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and the Ocean Exploration Trust’s
(OET) Exploration Vessel Nautilus are currently conducting telepresence-enabled
exploration. Equipped with sonar equipment and remotely
operated vehicles, the ships transmit information to shore-based
Exploration Command Centers (ECC) and over the Internet to broadly
distributed teams of explorers. The systematic exploration paradigm
involves surveying large areas to provide high-resolution maps of the
seafloor. These maps are used to define areas to be explored in greater
detail using advanced remotely operated vehicles outfitted with highdefinition
video cameras and an array of oceanographic sensors. Using
the OER and OET vessels, explorers investigate new ocean areas and
phenomena from shore-based ECCs equipped to receive video, data
and information in real-time. Systematic exploration is also designed to
engage the public and stimulate the imagination by engaging them in
the excitement of real-time exploration and discovery.
EVW11: Communicating the Broader Impacts of your
Research using Visual Tools - A Workshop for Graduate
Students (Workshop)
Wednesday, February 22, 18:00 – 21:00 (Light snacks will be provided.),
Room 251 A, B, D, E
Organizer: Coral Gehrke, COSEE – Pacific Partnerships,
cgehrke@uoregon.edu
One of the keys to communicating your work with any audience is
making your science relevant and interesting. Whether you are trying
to communicate to policy and decision makers, school groups, undergraduates,
or public audiences, concept maps and other visual tools
can help you organize your work into themes for communicating. This
workshop, designed for graduate students, will introduce techniques
and online tools for identifying and communicating the big ideas
behind your work in ways that make it relevant and interesting without
over simplifying it. Participants will identify important audiences, map
out key components of their work, and develop strategies for communicating
with their maps. Participants in previous workshops have created
presentations for their graduate committees, developed tools for
communicating to K12 teachers, developed communication strategies
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with policy makers, and come to better understand how their work fits
in to their colleagues work.
For more information visit: http://www.coseepacificpartnerships.org
EVTH03: Ladder of Scientific Success-Broaden (Workshop)
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 – 14:00, Room 250 A, B, D, E
Organizers: Bob Chen, University of Massachusetts - Boston, bob.
chen@umb.edu; Adrienne Sponberg, ASLO, sponberg@aslo.org
Broaden Your Impacts Through Effective Networking. Your research
is important. It can be used to connect with a diversity of potential
collaborators to impact a wide variety of audiences. This workshop will
focus on broadening the impacts of your research by enhancing your
professional networks in purposeful ways. Learn effective techniques
and increase your capacity to effectively engage a broader audience
in your science to increase its impact. This session will be presented
by Karen Stephenson, Network International and Bob Chen, COSEE
OCEAN. Lunch will be provided to the first 175 participants.
For more information visit: http://www.coseeocean.net
EVTH06: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO): A
Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region (Town Hall)
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 – 14:00, Room 251 A, B, D, E
Organizer: Jackie Grebmeier, University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, jgrebmei@umces.edu
To more systematically track the broad biological response to sea ice retreat
and associated environmental change, an international consortium of
scientists are developing a coordinated “Distributed Biological Observatory”
(DBO) that includes selected biological measurements at multiple
trophic levels in the Pacific Arctic. These measurements are being made
simultaneously with hydrographic surveys and satellite observations. The
DBO currently focuses on five regional biological “hotspot” locations along
a latitudinal gradient. Hydrographic transects were occupied from spring
to fall in 2010 and 2011 during a pilot program at two sites in the southern
Chukchi Sea and Barrow Canyon, and provide repeat collections of water
parameters and multiple biological trophic level parameters seasonally. This
sampling indicates freshening and warming as Pacific seawater transits
northward over the spring to fall season as sea ice retreats, with impacts on
both plankton and benthic prey bases for larger marine mammals and seabirds.
As the DBO moves to an implementation phase, the intent is to serve
as a change detection array for the identification and consistent monitoring
of biophysical responses to climate change. Multiple participates in the
DBO effort will provide updates on the field program, results and future
plans during this open Town Hall session. Further information on the DBO
can be found at the DBO website http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/dbo/ and at
the Pacific Arctic Group website http://pag.arcticportal.org/.
EVTH07: Ocean Observatories Initiative: Information and
Community Opportunities (Informational Talk)
Thursday, February 23, 12:30 – 14:00, Ballroom D
Organizer: Kerry Beck, kbeck@oceanleadership.org
The National Science Foundation-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative
(OOI) will deliver high quality data and data products that will address
critical science-driven questions and lead to a better understanding and