FY2011 Funded Projects

The following is a list of projects (showing the project title and the lead PI and institution) funded under the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) in FY2011. Discussions on the contractual details of each award were initiated at the appropriate funding agency.

For abstracts of each project and the partners involved, click on the project title.

Topic 1. Marine Mammal Detection and Monitoring

Funding for these awards was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), American Petroleum Institute (API), and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).

• DCL System Using Deep Learning Approaches for Land-based or Ship-based Real-time Recognition and Localization of Marine Mammals
  Lead PI: Dr. Christopher Clark & Dr. Peter J. Dugan, Cornell University

• Portable and Persistent Autonomous Real-time Marine Mammal Acoustic Monitoring
  Lead PI: Dr. Christopher Clark, Cornell University

• Expansion of Metadata Management, Visualization, and Data Processing Functionality of OBIS-SEAMAP
  Lead PI: Dr. Patrick Halpin, Duke University

• Instantaneous Passive and Active Detection, Localization and Monitoring of Marine Mammals over Long Ranges
  Lead PI: Dr. Purnima Ratilal, Northeastern University

• Acoustic Metadata Management and Transparent Access to Networked Oceanographic Data Sets
  Lead PI: Dr. Marie Roch, San Diego State University

Topic 2.  Coordinated Regional Efforts That Further the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

Funding for these awards was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

• Towards a Comprehensive Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS)
  Lead PI: Dr. Scott Glenn, Rutgers University

• Developing the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
  Lead PI: Chris Ostrander, University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Continued Development of Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System: Alaska Ocean Observing System
  Lead PI: Ms. Molly McCammon, Alaska Ocean Observing System

• Continued Development of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
  Lead PI: Dr. Barbara Kirkpatrick, Texas A&M University

• Sustaining NANOOS, the Pacific Northwest Component of the US IOOS
  Lead PI: Dr. David Martin & Dr. Jan Newton, University of Washington

• Advancing the Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System
  Lead PI: Mr. Julio Morell, University of Puerto Rico

• The Continued Development of the Northeastern Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
  Lead PI: Dr. J. Ruairidh Morrison, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS)

• Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA): Coordinated Monitoring, Prediction and Assessment to Support Decision-Makers Needs for Coastal and Ocean Data and Tools
  Lead PI: Debra Hernandez, SECOORA

• Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
  Lead PI: Dr. Eric Terrill, University of California San Diego – Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• CeNCOOS: Integrating Marine Observations for Decision Makers and the General Public
  Lead PI: Dr. David Anderson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

• Implementation of the Great Lakes Observing System, 2011-2015
  Lead PI: Kelli Paige, Great Lakes Observing Systems

• The Alliance For Coastal Technologies: National-Scale Efforts Toward Verification and Validation of Observing Technologies
  Lead PI: Dr. Mario Tamburri, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

• Multi-sensor Improved Sea-Surface Temperature (MISST)
  Lead PI: Dr. Chelle Gentemann