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Coastal Margin Collaboratories

Coastal Margin CollaboratoriesThe center seeks to explore and advance (a) what constitutes, (b) how to build, sustain and evolve, and (c) how to create the conditions for the effective use of collaboratories, using Science and Technology Research Network (SATURN) as a testbed collaboratory for the Columbia River.

collaboratory map SATURN is an ambitious, configurable integration of heterogeneous modeling systems, observation networks and cyber-infrastructure, offering transformative opportunities to understand processes, variability and change in the Columbia River coastal margin.

Programs & Projects
Under the Coastal Margin Collaboratories theme, four research programs with multiple projects contribute to the implementation of SATURN.

PROGRAM I.1 PROJECTS
SATURN Modeling System
Objective: Create a virtual Columbia River, a semi-operational modeling environment that comprehensively describes the circulation in the coastal margin, and selectively describes its function as an ecosystem.

 

 I.1.1 Daily forecasts
I.1.2 Simulation databases
I.1.3 Scenario simulations
I.1.4 Open benchmark

PROGRAM I.2 PROJECTS
SATURN Endurance Stations
Objective: Create long-term integrated time series of physical and biogeochemical observations.		 I.2.1 In-situ physical stations
I.2.2 In-situ interdisciplinary stations
a. SATURN-01
b. SATURN-02
c. SATURN-03
d. SATURN-04
e. SATURN-05
f. SATURN-06
I.2.3 Surface radar
a. Plume radar
b. RiverRad

PROGRAM I.3 PROJECTS
SATURN Pioneer Array
Objective: Strategically refine or extend the information from the endurance stations.
I.3.1 AUV's
I.3.2 Gliders
I.3.3 Re-locatable underwater stations
a. Sigma profilers
b. Acoustic nodes

PROGRAM I.4 PROJECTS
SATURN Cyber-infrastructure
Objective: To allow effective access of stakeholders to quality controlled sensor and modeling products.
I.4.1 Data repository
I.4.2 Data services and interfaces
I.4.3 Model services and interfaces
I.4.4 Information analysis and integration