Agenda

Airborne Ocean Science Conference

May 24-25 2006

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Moss Landing, CA

Advanced registration is required. (Meeting has passed/Link to registration form removed)

Wednesday Evening, May 24

5:30 - 6:00 Poster Set-Up - MLML Conference Room

6:00 - 8:00 Dinner and Poster Viewing

Dinner: Salmon and Chicken Barbecue dinner for all participants. Informal outdoor and indoor seating and visiting at MLML.

Posters, in the MLML Conference Room:
Chlorophyll and Water-Leaving Radiance from an Airborne Spectral Radiometer in Monterey Bay. Todd Anderson, Steve Ramp (Naval Postgraduate School)

Airborne Oceanographic Capabilities of NOAA Aircraft. James McFadden, Michael Silah, Jon Neuhaus, Peter Siegel and Doug MacIntyre (NOAA NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, MacDill AFB, FL)

The UND/NASA DC-8 Airborne Laboratory. Rick Shetter and George Seielstad (National Suborbital Education and Research Center, Univ. of North Dakota)

The Determination of Water Clarity in Southern New England Estuaries using Multi Spectral in situ and Aircraft Remote Sensing with USEPA National Coastal Assessment (NCA) Program Guidelines. D.J. Keith, J.A. Kiddon, B. Bergen, L. Coiro, W. Nelson, M. Charpentier, and B.J. Keith (USEPA Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett RI, ComputerSciences Corporation, Narragansett RI, College of William and Mary, VA)

Measurements of Near-Surface Air Turbulence Fluxes in the Coastal Zone During AOSN-II. John Kalogiros, Qing Wang, Steve Ramp, Gintas Buzorius, and Haf Jonsson

Interagency Working Group for Airborne Data and Telemetry Systems. L. C. Freudinger (NASA DFRC) and Chris Webster (NOAA)

Slow Flight in Ultralight Aircraft -- Land Anywhere. Dan White (Illusion Aircraft)

8:00 - 8:30 Keynote Address: Research Aircraft and Oceanography. Prof. Carl A. Friehe, University of California at Irvine, will give an overview of aircraft use in oceanography and air-sea interaction studies throughout the last several decades.

8:30 - 9:30 Continued Visiting and Poster Discussions

Thursday Morning, May 25

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:20 Welcome, Introductions and Meeting Overview

Welcome to the First AOSC - Mike Prince, UNOLS Executive Secretary and John Bane, SCOAR Chair

Welcome to MLML - Kenneth Coale, MLML Director

Introduction of participants - aircraft operators, agency program managers, scientists and SCOAR and ICCAGRA committee members

Overview of SCOAR, its mission, and why we care about aircraft - John Bane

Brief overview of aircraft operators, available aircraft and capabilities - John Bane

Overview of ICCAGRA and federal aircraft enterprise - Cheryl Yuhas

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

9:20 - 9:40 VXS-1: The Naval Research Laboratory's Science and Technology Aircraft Facility. Jack Jones (Naval Research Lab, Patuxent River NAS)

9:40 - 10:00 The Development of Airborne Optical Remote Sensing for Coastal Ocean Observatories. Paul Bissett (Florida Environmental Research Institute)

10:00 - 10:20 The NASA AMS System - A New Ocean Color Sensor for Aircraft and UAVs. Jeffrey Myers and Edward Hildum (U.C. Santa Cruz)

10:20 - 10:40 - BREAK

10:40 - 11:00 The Stabilized Radiometer Platform (STRAP) - A New Tool for High Accuracy Aircraft Radiometry. Anthony Bucholtz (Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA), Robert T. Bluth (CIRPAS, Naval Postgraduate School), Ben Kelly, Scott Taylor, Keir Batson & Anthony W. Sarto (L-3 Communications Sonoma EO, Santa Rosa, CA), Tim P. Tooman and Robert F. McCoy, Jr. (Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA)

11:00 - 11:20 Interagency Working Group for Airborne Data and Telemetry Systems. L. C. Freudinger (NASA DFRC) and Chris Webster (NOAA)

11:20 - 11:40 DMS Surface and Entrainment Fluxes and Scales of Variability in the Marine Boundary Layer. Ian Faloona (U.C. Davis), Don Lenschow (NCAR), Bjorn Stevens (UCLA), Alan Bandy & Don Thornton (Drexel Univ.) and Byron Blomquist (Drexel University)

11:40 - 12:00 Blimps, Aerostats, and Experimental Aircraft for Ocean Science and Monitoring. Jim Hain (Associated Scientists at Woods Hole)

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH at MLML

Thursday Afternoon, May 25

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1:00 - 1:20 Applying Airborne Remote Sensing for Interdisciplinary Oceanography in Monterey Bay. John Ryan, Andrew Fischer, Francisco Chavez (MBARI), Raphael Kudela (U.C. Santa Cruz), Paul Bissett (Florida Environmental Research Institute) and James Gower (Institute for Ocean Sciences)

1:20 - 1:40 Observing the Ocean and Atmosphere Around the Monterey Bay from the CIRPAS Twin Otter Aircraft. Steve Ramp (Naval Postgraduate School)

1:40 - 2:00 3-D Views of the Ocean and Atmosphere During Active Coastal Upwelling off Oregon. John Bane (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2:00 - 2:20 Aircraft-Based Ocean Profiling During Weak and Strong Winds. Lynn K. Shay (MPO, RSMAS, Univ. of Miami)

2:20 - 2:40 BREAK

2:40 - 3:00 Evaluation of Measurements of Coarse Mode Aerosol Particle and Cloud Droplet Size Spectra from Aircraft: Setting Fundamental Uncertainties. Jeffrey S. Reid (Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA)

3:00 - 3:20 Remote Sensing Assessment of Kelp Forest and Seagrass Meadow Productivity. Dick Zimmerman (Old Dominion Univ.)

3:20 - 3:40 Using Fixed-Wing Aircraft to Survey the At-Sea Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Associations of Seabirds off California. Josh Adams (USGS and MLML)

3:40 - 4:20 Wrap-Up Discussion. What Does the Future Hold for Airborne Oceanography? Discussion Leaders TBA

4:20 Trip to CIRPAS for Interested Participants

Cars will leave from MLML, or participants can drive individually. Maps and directions to CIRPAS are available from Kate Sawyers and Bob Bluth.