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Agenda

Agenda

PMEL's Laboratory Review will be held at the NOAA Western Regional Center in Seattle, WA March 3-5, 2020. Most of the sessions are at PMEL Building 3, Oceanographer Room #2104.

Directions to PMEL can be found here: https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/seattle-visitor-information. All visitors must bring valid form of government issued ID to access the Western Regional Center.

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  • Day 1: March 3, 2020

    • Breakfast / Registration

      • 6:30 am to 9:30 am Complimentary Breakfast Hours at Silver Cloud
        7:00 am to 7:40 am Review Panel Breakfast with OAR Leadership
        7:45 am Review Panel meets OAR staff in Silver Cloud lobby to transit to PMEL
        8:00 am to 8:30 am Registration and coffee

    • Session 1: Welcome, Scope of Work, and Overviews

      • 8:30 am to 8:40 am Welcome and Introductions
        Michelle McClure, PMEL Director
        8:40 am to 8:45 am Logistics, Safety Briefing Updates
        Jim Guyton, PMEL Deputy Director
        8:45 am to 9:00 am Overview of NOAA Research and Charge to Reviewers
        Gary Matlock, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science
        9:00 am to 9:10 am OAR Portfolio Stewards Overview
        Wayne Higgins, Climate Portfolio Steward
        9:10 am to 9:35 am PMEL Overview
        Michelle McClure, PMEL Director

    • Session 2: Theme 1 - Climate-Weather Research

      • 9:35 am to 9:50 am Overview of Climate-Weather Research in last 6 years (Chidong Zhang)
        9:55 am to 10:15 am

        Climate-Weather Research Lightning Talks - part 1

        • Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (Mike McPhaden)
        • Rethinking observing networks in an age of multiple platforms: the TPOS 2020 project (Billy Kessler)
        • PMEL's contribution to the global network of OceanSITES reference time series (Meghan Cronin)
        • S2S Predictability Sources in the Deep Tropics (Andy Chiodi)
        10:15 am to 10:30 am Break
        10:30 am to 10:55 am

        Climate-Weather Research Lightning Talks - part 2
        10:55 am to 11:30 am Climate-Weather Laboratory Tours
        Ocean Climate Stations (Patrick Berk) → Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (Ken Connell) → Argo (Greg Johnson and Elizabeth Steffen) → Carbon (Adrienne Sutton) → Atmospheric Chemistry (Trish Quinn and Lucia Upchurch)
        11:30 am to 12:30 pm Climate-Weather Research Clarifying Questions and Discussion

    • Cooperative Institute Overview and Lunch

      • 12:30 pm to 12:50 pm

        Cooperative Institutes Overview

        JISAO - John Horne, Director
        CIMRS - Michael Banks, Director
        JIMAR - Doug Luther, Director
        12:50 pm to 2:00 pm

        Parallel Lunch: Review Panelists and CI staff (closed session)

        Parallel Lunch: All others in library

    • Session 3: Theme 2 - Ocean and Coastal Processes Research

      • 2:00 pm to 2:15 pm Overview of Ocean and Coastal Processes Research in the last 6 years (David Butterfield)
        2:20 pm to 2:35 pm

        Ocean and Coastal Processes Research Lightning Talks

        • How much of the ocean communicates with the atmosphere, and how quickly? (Rolf Sonnerup)
        • 10-fold Increase in Known Methane Seep Sites Discovered in 5 Years: What is the Ecological Significance? (Tamara Baumberger)
        • Recent Solutions to the near-field tsunami forecast problem via GPU and GPS (Diego Arcas)
        2:35 pm to 3:05 pm Ocean and Coastal Processes Laboratory Tours
        Ocean Tracer (Bonnie Chang) → Earth-Ocean Interactions (David Butterfield) → Tsunami (Diego Arcas)
        3:05 pm to 3:20 pm Break
        3:20 pm to 4:10 pm Ocean and Coastal Processes Research Clarifying Questions and Discussion

    • Session 4: Review Panel Closed Session

      • 4.a     Review Panel Closed Session

        4:10 pm to 4:40 pm Review Panel closed session (Discoverer Room)

        4.b     All Others

        4:10 pm to 4:40 pm Break/Follow up opportunities and discussions with PMEL

    • Evening Activities

      • 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm No-host reception (Ravenna Brewing Company)
        7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Dinner for reviewers, NOAA line office guests, OAR, PMEL and CI leadership (Piatti)

  • Day 2: March 4, 2020

    • Breakfast / Pre-session Activities

      • 6:30 am to 9:30 am Complimentary Breakfast Hours at Silver Cloud
        7:35 am Review Panel meet OAR staff in lobby to transit to PMEL
        7:35 am to 8:00 am Review Panelists are transported to PMEL
        8:00 am to 8:30 am Coffee and breakfast bites
        8:00 am to 8:30 am Review Panel meet with CI Leadership (Discoverer Room)
        8:30 am to 8:40 am Day 1 Recap and Day 2 agenda/logistics review
        Jim Guyton, PMEL Deputy Director

    • Session 5: Theme 3 - Marine Ecosystems Research

      • 8:40 am to 8:55 am Overview of Marine Ecosystems Research in last 6 years (Carol Stepien)
        9:00 am to 9:25 am

        Marine Ecosystems Research Lightning Talks

        • Living with ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest: working with partners to understand regional vulnerability and adaptation opportunities (Simone Alin)
        • Dramatic shifts in the Bering Sea ecosystem and its impact on the fisheries (Phyllis Stabeno)
        • The US Arctic: An ecosystem defined by seasonal sea ice. What happens when the summer sea ice is gone? (Carol Ladd)
        • Metagenomic studies for understanding biological community responses to physical and chemical oceanic conditions (Carol Stepien)
        • Quantifying natural and anthropogenic ocean sounds to assess impacts on marine ecosystems or ocean soundscapes (Joe Haxel)
        9:25 am to 9:55 am Marine Ecosystems Theme Laboratory Tours
        Acoustics (Bob Dziak and Haru Matsumoto) → Genetics and Genomics (Matt Galaska) → Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (Geoff Lebon, Janet Duffy-Anderson and Phyllis Stabeno)
        9:55 am to 10:45 am Marine Ecosystems Research Clarifying Questions and Discussion
        10:45 am to 11:00 am Break

    • Session 6: Theme 4 - Research Innovation and Development

      • 11:00 am to 11:15 am Overview of Research Innovation and Development in the last 6 Years (Chris Meinig)
        11:20 am to 11:35 am

        Research Innovation and Development Lightning Talks

        • Saildrone: development of a pole-to-pole scientific platform (Calvin Mordy)
        • From observing platform to science paper: PMEL scientific data management (Eugene Burger)
        • Engineering developments for scientific observing from the Arctic to the Tropics (Chris Meinig)
        11:35 am to 12:45 pm Research Innovation and Development Tour (Engineering Development Division)

    • Lunch

      • 12:45 pm to 1:55 pm

        Parallel Lunch: Review Panelists and early career professionals (closed session)

        Parallel Lunch: All others in library
        1:55 pm to 2:45 pm Research Innovation and Development Clarifying Questions and Discussion
        2:45 pm to 3:00 pm Break

    • Session 7: Stakeholder Feedback

      • 7.a     Stakeholder Feedback (Closed Session for Review Panelists)

        3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Review Panel with Stakeholders (closed session)

        7.b     All Others

        3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Follow up opportunities and discussions with PMEL

    • Session 8: Review Panel Closed Session

      • Session 8: Review Panel Closed Session

        8.a     Review Panel Closed Session

        4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Review Panel closed session

        8.b     All Other Review Attendees

        4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Break/Follow up opportunities and discussions with PMEL

    • Session 9: Poster Session

  • Day 3: March 5, 2020

    • Breakfast / Pre-session Activities

      • 6:30 am to 9:30 am Complimentary Breakfast Hours at Silver Cloud
        7:00 am Review Panel Breakfast with PMEL Director and OAR DAA (TBD)
        7:45 am Reviewers meet OAR staff in hotel lobby to transit to PMEL
        7:45 am to 8:05 am Reviewers are transported to PMEL
        8:00 am to 8:30 am Coffee and breakfast bites

    • Session 10: Conclusion and Feedback

      • 8:30 am to 8:40 am Day 2 Recap and Day 3 agenda/logistics review
        Jim Guyton, PMEL Deputy Director
        8:40 am to 9:15 am Review Summary and Draft PMEL Strategic Plan
        Michelle McClure, PMEL Director
        9:15 am to 9:45 am Opportunity for final questions, clarifying points, etc.
        9:45 am to 10:15 am Panel members and NOAA OAR representatives (closed session)
        10:15 am to 10:45 am Panel members and NOAA Line Office Representatives (closed session)

        10.a     Review Team Session (Closed Session for Review Panelists)

        10:45 am to 12:45 pm Review panel members formulates recommendations and drafts comments (Discoverer Room)

        10.b     OAR leadership, Line Office reps, and PMEL leadership

        10:45 am to 12:15 pm OAR leadership and Line Office Representatives provide informal feedback to PMEL leadership
        12:15 to 12:45 pm OAR DAA and PMEL leadership

    • Lunch

      • 12:45 to 1:45 pm Open Lunch
        2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Review Panel Preliminary Feedback to OAR and PMEL leadership
        3:00 pm Adjourn

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Lab review 3-day agenda in PDF format​

Poster Session Titles

Background literature