Journal Club: Coastal Margin Observatories

Meetings dates: specific Fridays (see Fall 2006 schedule), 1:00-2:30
Meeting duration: 1.5 hours
Location: TBA
Coordinator: Antonio Baptista (baptista@stccmop.org)

Objectives
To introduce or keep participants update on existing and emerging coastal margin observatories, and to the science that they are enabling or are designed to enable. Observatories are defined as integrations of observation networks, modeling systems, and information systems, designed to collect and broadly disseminate data and simulations, both in real-time and as long-term aggregates.

Participation
Year-round, not-for-credit, participation is open to all CMOP students, staff and faculty. Once a year, the journal club will be offered as a formal 2-credit reading group for OHSU students (next offering: Spring 2007). To inquire on remote participation via video conferencing, contact hadfielt@ohsu.edu.

Structure
A typical meeting will focus on one observatory, and will consist of two sequential elements, each focused respectively on:
• the physical and ecological context, and the set-up, operation and capabilities of the observatory; and
• a specific technology or science outcome of the observatory.

Each element will last approximately 45 minutes, and will consist of
• a prepared 15 minute presentation, enabled by a reference publication and (where appropriate) a web site;
• a 15 minute panel discussion, with a moderator and a 3-member panel; and
• a 15 minute open Q&A period to the members of the panel.

Participants will alternate in the roles of presenters and panel members, according to a pre-defined schedule. All participants are expected to read the enabling publications prior to the meeting. The coordinating faculty (or an invited guest) will serve as panel moderator.

Fall 2006 topics (tentative)
Oct. 13: Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory
Oct. 27: Partnership for Insterdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
Nov. 3: Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory in Elkhorn Slough (LOBO)
Nov. 10: Oceanic Remote Chemical-optical Analyzer (ORCA)
Dec. 1: TBA
Dec. 8: TBA

Readings and presenter/panel assignments
Oct 13: Coastal Observatory, Liverpool Bay
Paper 1: two related papers - Howarth et al 2006 and Proctor et al. 2005
- Presenter: Charles Seaton
- Panel: Charles Seaton, Michela Burla, Bill Howe
Paper 2: Andreu-Burillo et al.
- Presenter: Sergey Frolov
- Panel: Sergey Frolov, Joseph Zhang, Nate Hyde
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Oct 27: PISCO, U.S. West Coast
Paper 1: Coastal Connections 2006
- Presenter: Michela Burla
- Panel: Michela Burla, Bill Howe, Darin Toy
Paper 2: Grantham et al 2004
- Presenter: Nate Hyde
- Panel: Nate Hyde, Sergey Folov, Joseph Zhang,
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Nov 3: LOBO, Elkhorn Slough
"Paper 1": The Salinas Californian article and LOBO web site
- Presenter: Darin Toy
- Panel: Darin Toy, Nate Hyde, Joseph Zhang
"Paper 2": CIRRONET, The Industrial Wireless Book, and
AGU Ocean Sciences short documents
- Presenter: Bill Howe
- Panel: Bill Howe, Ethan VanMatre, Sergey Frolov
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Nov 10: ORCA, Puget Sound
Paper 1: TBA
- Presenter: TBA
- Panel: TBA
Paper 2: TBA
- Presenter: TBA
- Panel: TBA
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