OT010
Innovating Ocean Observing for Earth System Prediction and Societal Benefit

Session ID#: 254592

Session Description:
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and operational centers are elevating the role of oceans within Earth System prediction with the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) at the heart of this effort. In situ ocean data, especially subsurface observations are essential to forecast skill across weather and climate timescales. Yet, vast areas of the ocean, particularly coastal and shelf seas, where most human activity occurs, remain critically under-observed.
Recent advances in ocean observing platforms, such as fishing vessels, gliders, and SMART cables, drifting buoys and Argo floats offer adaptive cost-effective solutions. However, challenges remain in integrating these data into global systems, ensuring quality, and securing sustainable funding. WMO and GOOS advocate for national ocean observing infrastructure and greater collaboration
with industry to bridge funding gaps and align observing efforts with societal benefits, exemplified by the CoastPredict program.
This session invites abstracts showcasing innovations in ocean observing technologies, integration into forecasting systems, and applications that deliver societal benefit. We welcome submissions that explore high-density data assimilation, the impacts of ocean observations on weather forecasts, co-design approaches, and new public-private models for sustained ocean observing.
From improving predictions to supporting sustainable development, your insights will help shape the next frontier of ocean observing.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • Climate and Ocean Change -
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture -
  • Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller -
Index Terms:

4260 Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4294 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Student/Early Career Chair:  Audrey Miniere, Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique – IPSL, Paris, France
Primary Chair:  Joao Marcos Souza, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Co-chairs:  Dr. A Miguel Piecho Santos, PhD, DSc, IPMA-Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere/CCMAR-Center of Marine Sciences Univ. Algarve, Lisboa, Portugal, Hassan Moustahfid, NOAA/NOS/US Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, United States and Mr. Patrick Gorringe, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
 
IPMA’s Ocean Observing System: Current Capabilities and Activities (2011024)
Dr. A Miguel Piecho Santos, PhD, DSc, IPMA-Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere/CCMAR-Center of Marine Sciences Univ. Algarve, Lisboa, Portugal and Mr. Paulo Barata, Ms. Anabela J. Carvalho, Ms. Elisabete Dias, Ms. Rita Esteves, Ms. Teresa Rosa, Dr. Carlos Sousa, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Lisboa, Portugal
 
Fishing Industry Shared Bottom Oceanographic Timeseries (FIShBOT): A data product to aggregate regional in situ oceanographic data (2025861)
Linus Stoltz, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, Kingstown, United States, George Maynard, NOAA, North East Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, Sarah Salois, Independent Researcher, Connecticut, United States, Michael Morin, NOAA, North East Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, United States and N.David Bethoney, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, Saunderstown, United States
 
Divers for Ocean Temperature (BlueDOT) - Coastal temperature database for monitoring ocean surface water past and present (2033790)
Christophe Galerne, University of Bremen, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Science, AG Petrology of the Ocean Crust, Bremen, Germany, Rainer Mohr, Divelogs, Aschau i. Ch., Germany, Achim Kopf, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Rebecca Zitoun, IMOS Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Arne Schwab, SchwaRTech, Achim, Germany
 
Third party data fusion - a pathway from data to knowledge (2033862)
Carles Castro Munian, Ocean Data Network, Valencia, Spain and Peter McComb, Oceanum, New Plymouth, New Zealand
 
Empowering Marine Citizen Science: the CS-MACH1 Data Network (2034171)
Viviana Piermattei1, Mr. Patrick Gorringe2, Emilie Breviere2, Peter Thijsse3, Antonio Novellino4, Aianna Liconti5, Kate Larkin6, Joseph A Nolan, Jaume Piera8, Alexandra Kokkinaki9, Sigmund Kluckner10, Ivan Federico11, Garabet Kazanjian12, Giovanni Coppini13, Franziska Stressman14, Nancy Fockedey15, Jan Seys15, Adam Gauci16, Alan Deidun16, Camilla Campanati11, Lucie Cocquempot17 and V.Piermattei, P. Gorringe, E. Breviere, P. Thijsse, A. Novellino, A. Liconti, L. Cocquempot, K. Larkin, J. Nolan, J. Piera, A. Kokkinaki, K. Garabet, F. Stressman, N. Fockedey, J. Seys, S. Kluckner, A. Gauci, A. Deidun, C. Campanati,I. Federico,G.Coppin, (1)CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, IESP institute, Lecce, Italy, (2)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (3)MARIS, Nootdorp, Netherlands, (4)ETT SpA, Genova, Italy, (5)Outbe, Genova, Italy, (6)Seascape Belgium, EMODnet Secretariat, Oostende, Belgium, (7)Institut de Ciències del Mar - Spanish National Research Council, Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography - EMBIMOS, Barcelona, Spain, (8)National Oceanography Centre, BODC, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (9)IEEE, Vienna, Austria, (10)CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Lecce, Italy, (11)American University of Armenia (AUA), Erevan, Armenia, (12)CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy, (13)European Citizen Science Association - ECSA, Berlin, Germany, (14)Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Oostende, Belgium, (15)University of Malta, Msida, Malta, (16)Ifremer, EuroGOOS, Plouzané, France
 
Innovating Coastal Ocean Observing with Cost-Effective Technologies (2034408)
Marco Marcelli, Laboratory of Experimental Oceanology and Marine Ecology University of Tuscia, DEB, Civitavecchia (RM), Italy; CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Lecce, Italy and Viviana Piermattei, CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, IESP institute, Lecce, Italy
 
TSG Gaillard : Co-development of cost-efficient solution to continuously collect high-quality in-situ temperature and salinity measurements from surface oceans by creating citizen oceanographic fleet (2035037)
Lucie Cocquempot1, Thierry Reynaud2, Celine Drouet3, Maxime Lasso3, Laurent Marchal4, Antoine Cousot3, Didier Clec'h5 and Jean-Baptiste Marchand6, (1)Ifremer, EuroGOOS, Plouzané, France, (2)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (3)OCEANO VOX, Nantes, France, (4)University of Western Brittany, Brest, France, (5)RBR, Quimper, France, (6)Mabé Surfboard, Crozon, France
 
FROM FISHERIES TO OCEAN SCIENCE, AND BEYOND.... (2039983)
Sander Zweers, Satlink, Ocean Data, Madrid, Spain and Kathryn Gavira O´Neill
 
Optimizing Pteropod Shell Quality Bio-indicator Measurements for Monitoring (2040224)
Jonathan Nash, Arizona State University, School of Ocean Futures, Tempe, United States, Jessica Godfrey, Arizona State University (ASU)-Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), St.George's, Bermuda, Jihad Muhammad, ASU/BIOS, St. George's, Bermuda and Dr. Amy E Maas, PhD, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences - Arizona State University, School of Ocean Futures, St. George's, Bermuda
 
Informing Great Lakes Observing System Design with Convolutional Gaussian Neural Processes (2040451)
Dani Jones1, Noah Bernot2, Erin Redding3, Russ Miller1, Shelby Brunner4, Joeseph Smith4 and Steven Ruberg5, (1)Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (4)Great Lakes Observing System, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)NOAA GLERL, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Improving Coastal Community Resilience through Fisher-Collected in situ Data (2041376)
Christopher Cusack1, Emilie Breviere2, Mr. Patrick Gorringe2, Naoki Hirose3, Julie Jakoboski4, Shinichiro Kida5, Dr. Michela Martinelli, PhD6, George Maynard7, Hassan Moustahfid8, Moninya Roughan9, João de Souza10, Dr. A Miguel Piecho Santos, PhD, DSc11 and Aubrey Taylor12, (1)Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, United States, (2)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (3)Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, (4)MetService, Wellington, New Zealand, (5)Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (6)CNR Institute for Marine Science, Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), Ancona, Italy, (7)NOAA, North East Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (8)NOAA/NOS/US Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, United States, (9)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (10)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (11)IPMA-Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere/CCMAR-Center of Marine Sciences Univ. Algarve, Lisboa, Portugal, (12)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States
 
Expanding Hypoxia Monitoring in the Ocean through Community Science (2041856)
Haley Hudson, Oregon State University, Integrative Biology, Corvallis, United States, Francis Chan, Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States, Linus Stoltz, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, Kingstown, United States, Lucas Rabins, Coastal Sensing and Survey, Seattle, United States and Katelyn Bosley, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Port Townsend, United States
 
SMART Sensor data in Oceans 3.0 (2042864)
Emily Price1, Benoit Pirenne1, Nadia Kreimer2, Omid Aghaei2, Tim Lavallee1, Angela Schlesinger3, Ulrike Drahne1, Martin Heesemann4, Matthew J Fouch5 and Stephen Lentz6, (1)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, Canada, (3)University Of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)Samara Data, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Subsea Data Systems, Washington, DC, United States
 
Evaluating the Impact of Ocean Observations on a Coupled Earth System Model (2044629)
Joao Marcos Souza, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Adam Schneider, NOAA Physical Sciences Lab, Modeling and Data Assimilation Division, Boulder, United States, Sergey Frolov, NOAA/PSL, Boulder, United States and Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA PSL, Boulder, United States
 
Design and Operational Considerations for USV-based Autonomous Launch and Recovery System (ALARS) for Glider UUVs and Floats (2047436)
Donglai Gong, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Nicolai von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Rockland Scientific Inc, Victoria, NF, Canada, Justin Shapiro, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Doug Wilson, University of the Virgin Islands, St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, Jack Oliver Slater, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Coastal & Ocean Processes, Gloucester Point, United States, Dr. Laur Ferris, PhD, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States, Wieter Boone, Flanders Marine Institute, Ostend, Belgium, Peter J Brickley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States and Clark Richards, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Halifax, NS, Canada