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Part III. Appendix 4: User OutreachIt is clear from the presentation above that COASTMAP is an excellent candidate for a regionalsubsystem within the IOOS national backbone. It is reasonably well developed, provides end-toendcapability, is extremely flexible, low cost, includes well developed user interfaces with data andinformation products that meet user needs, and is commercially viable. It is therefore proposed toextend our current NOPP project and apply COASTMAP as a regional subsystem, pilot project forthe southern New England Bight (Long Island Sound, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound,Buzzards Bay, Narragansett Bay and adjacent southern New England Shelf.). This area forms alogical division in regional monitoring systems for the northeast; between a system for the Gulf ofMaine (GoMOOS) and one for the mid Atlantic Bight ( New York/ New Jersey Harbor, DelawareBay). It is a microcosm of these larger systems with many of the same environmental and use issues.TASKSThe following major tasks are proposed:• Provide links in COASTMAP to allow access to national and international databases usingthe Open Source Project for Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) middleware system(Oceans US, 2002b). This will allow direct link to the national backbone system when it becomesavailable and to other regional systems. This linkage will include the ability to use the evolvingmega data structure contemplated for the backbone system.• Access to existing data collection systems is well developed for Narragansett Bay, access to similardata collection systems for the remainder of the study area needs to be implemented. Thisincludes not only coastal ocean monitoring systems but relevant geographic information systemdata sets as well.• Extend the suite of models* and associated products in the current NOPP project to include thefollowing: Note the models selected are based on a comprehensive survey and assessment of theneeds expressed by the regional user community.• Water level, depth, and current forecasting model ( navigation aid for shipping)• Storm surge and directional wave models (hurricane and nor’esters)• Oil and chemical spill models• Models to predict evolution of fecal coliforms discharged from combined sewer overflow models(CSOs) during storm events• Search and rescue model• Dredged material disposal predictions• Model of thermal discharges from power plants.• Extend the NOAA/NOS’s meteorological modeling program to include the entire operationalarea. The output of this model will be used directly and as input to many of the models above.272