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Preliminary Report on the
Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA, formerly MARA)
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bays and Shelf (MARIBS) Sub-Regional Workshop University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Center - Fall River, MA
March 15, 2005 1. Summary
The first MARIBS workshop was finally convened (after two earlier weather-
induced postponements) at 9am on Tuesday March 15 2005 at the UMass Dartmouth’s
ATMC. About 50 participants (see list; Attachment 1; pg. 8) gathered to be welcomed to
the ATMC facility by Asst. Director John Miller (standing in for Director T. Curry; see
agenda; Attachment 2; pg. 11), we launched right into the business of setting the context
for the workshop. Wendell Brown presented the “Workshop Terms of Reference” (see
below) in which he explained that there had been several suggestions that we extend the
scope of MARIB to include the adjacent shelf hence the name change of our subregional
to Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bays and Shelf (MARIBS). Dave Chapman –the
MACOORA Executive Officer - presented an “Update on IOOS” (PPT1). IOOS is the
national Integrated Ocean Observing System of which MACOORA (Carolyn
Thoroughgood, PI) is a NOAA-funded part. Then Bill Boicourt (one of the 2
MACOORA co-PIs with Scott Glenn) presented “MACOORA: Role of Regional
Associations” (PPT2). Then Evan Rickart – the president of the board of the non-profit
corporation Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)- presented an
instructive talk “GoMOOS: A Neighboring COOS” on the how they were established in
2000 and have evolved since then. The final presentation of the morning was “MARIB
Region Coastal Observation System Assets” (see below) by W. Brown.
After the break we launched into the business of the workshop, which was to
identify user needs. The three workgroups (see participants; Attachment 3; pg. 12) first
discussed the issue of Community Data and Information Needs, which they did under the
able leadership of our group leader and scribe pairs of volunteers.
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One of the major conclusion items to come out of working group sessions #1 was
the need to define specific data and information needs in terms of specialized MARIBS
regional user needs under several major theme areas, including:
(1) Fishing Operations
(2) Fisheries Management
(3) Pollution Management & Mitigation
(4) Industrial Regulatory Compliance
(5) Municipal Regulatory Compliance
(6) Support of Recreational Activities
(7) Support of Research
(8) Search and Rescue
(9) Environmental Disaster & Mitigation
(10) Homeland Security
After the plenary presentation and discussion of working group session #1 results,
we launched into the working group session #2 discussions of Observatory Product
Needs. Again the discussion were general with a focus on defining the different classes of
data, including quality specification and information needed by different users ranging
from industry (e.g. fishers), to researchers, to marine resource managers, to marine
regulators, to pollution mitigators (e.g. oil spill responders).
The final discussion on MARIBS and MACOORA Governance was conducted in
plenary. It was recognized that there will need to be a decision this year on how to govern
ourselves. The options range from a fairly loose Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
among the parties to a much more tightly structured non-profit corporation structure like
GoMOOS. In the meantime, there is a need to represent ourselves appropriately at the
MACOORA meeting in Delaware in May. Dave Chapman invited everyone in attendance
to participate in the latter. Realizing that everyone will not, W. Brown will query the
MARIBS group via email as to individual views on the governance topic. Finally W.
brown will work with the MARIBS regional Sea grant directors to conduct thematic
mini-workshops to begin defining the specifics of a MARIBS pilot COOS that will
address some of the important user needs of the region.
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2. Terms of Reference...........Why Are We Here? During the 1990’s different groups began constructing subregional coastal ocean
observing systems the northeastern U.S. coastal ocean. By 2001, the several major
prototype observatories (see Figure 1) were operating in a research observational mode.
Other groups, including one led by M. Spaulding, were planning others (Figure 2).
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Figure 1. This array of prototype subregional regional coastal ocean observatories were operating through a variety of funding sources, including NOPP, ONR, NSF, Sea Grant and congressional set-asides.
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he South Atlantic Bight. To deal with the complexity of the nine-state
Gulf of Maine and Cape Hatteras and to facilitate the planning
ional domains, including the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bays
), were defined (see Figure 3).
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Figure 3. The five subregional domains of MACOOR
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3. Existing Ocean Observatory Assets for the MARIBS Sub-region The present ocean observing system assets in the MARIBS sub-region consist of a
combination of an array of federal backbone measurements and a variety of other
observation, modeling and information management systems. The federal backbone
measurements listed in Table 1 (see Figures 4-11) are operational, which means they are
designed to be available 24hours/day and 7days/week (usually via the web) for general
applications. The other observational (Table 2; Figures 12-22); model (Table 3; Figures
23-29); and information management (Table 4; Figures 30-32) assets are generally pre-
operational in that they are not presently available with the reliability of the federal
operational measurements. However the latter are candidate components for the future
MARIBS COOS.
Table 1. Operational Federal Backbone Assets Institution Measurement Figure #
NOAA-NDBC Meteorology 4 http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Northeast.shtml
NOAA-NOS PORTS Currents, SL, & Met. 5 http://nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/ports.htm
NOAA-NWS CMAN Meteorology 6 http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Rhode_Island.shtml
NOAA-NERRS Water Quality 7 http://nerrs.noaa.gov/Monitoring/Water.html
NOAA-NMFS Fisheries Surveys 8 http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/femad/fishsamp/fsb/
NOAA Satellite Remote Sensing 9 http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/
US Navy FNMOC Model Meteorology 10 https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/
US Navy Model Surface Waves 11
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Table 2. Pre-Operational REGIONAL OBSERVATION Systems
Institution Program Figure # UMASSD/RUT CODAR Surface Current Array 12 &13
http://www.smast.umassd.edu/OCEANOL/CODAR/index.php UMassD Industry-Supported Scallop Surveys 14
http://www.smast.umassd.edu/Fisheries/Scallops/ WHOI Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory 15
http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi RI DEM Narragansett Bay Estuary Program 16
http://www.state.ri.us/DEM/bart/stations.htm MWRA Massachusetts Bays Program 17
http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/harbor/html/whatsnew.htm UMassD Massachusetts Estuaries Program 18
http://www.smast.umassd.edu/Coastal/research/estuaries/estuaries.html UMassD Buzzards Bay Monitoring Program 19 NMFS Bottom Temperature & Drifter Program 20 NB-TSF Commercial Bottom Fisheries Measurements 21
http://www.smast.umassd.edu/Fisheries/Trawler/index.php Regional AUV Measurements 22
http://www.smast.umassd.edu/Turbulence/ Table 3. Pre-Operational REGIONAL MODEL Systems
Institution Model Model Domain Figure # Dalhousie Storm Surge Northeast Region 23
Harvard HOPS Mass Bay, Georges Bank & GoM 24
http://oceans.deas.harvard.edu/HOPS/ GoMOOS POM GoM region 25
http://www.gomoos.org/buoy/circulation.html UMassD FVCOM GoM & MHB/NB Circulation 26
http://codfish.smast.umassd.edu/research_projects/GB/index.html UMassD QUODDY Storm Response 27
http://www.smast.umassd.edu/OCEANOL/reports.php UMassB Blumberg/Mellor Mass Bay Circulation 28
http://www.eeos.umb.edu/faculty/mzh/files/web-model/team.htm UMassD MM5 Atmospheric Forcing 29
http://codfish.smast.umassd.edu/research_projects/GB/mm5/mm5_eta/
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Table 4. Pre-Operational REGIONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Systems
Institution System Name Figure # US Navy - NITES II 30
http://www.exwar.org/Htm/ConceptDocs/Navy_USMC/MWP4thEd/appendix_j.htm MIT - Poseidon 31
http://czms.mit.edu/poseidon/new1/ ASA Inc. - CoastMAP & HYDROMAP 32
http://www.appsci.com/
Figure 4. NOS /Sea Level, NDBC /Buoy Meteorology & NWS /C-MAN
Meteorology.
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Figure 5. Narragansett Bay PORTS (right) real-time sea level, currents and
meteorology data from Newport (location map on left).
Figure 6. (right) Real-time meteorology data at the (left) Buzzards Bay NOAA C-MAN station.
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Figure 7. NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) sites.
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Figure 8. NOAA/NMFS Annual Fisheries Surveys.
Figure 9. NASA & NOAA satellite remote sensing: sea surface temperature (SST).
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Figure 10. US Navy FNMOC model meteorology; wind field shown.
Figure 11. US Navy model surface wave forecasts.
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Figure 12. Northeastern Coastal Ocean CODAR Surface Current Network
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GGooMMOOOOSS
Figure 13. A representative long-range CODAR hourly surface current field in the MARIBS domain.
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Figure 14. The UMassD/Industry summer 2003 scallop survey.
Figure 15. The WHOI Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory.
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Figure 16. The RI Department of Environmental Management moored water quality monitoring array in Narragansett Bay.
Figure 17. MWRA Massachusetts/Cape Cod Bays Monitoring Program Surveys.
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Figure 18. Massachusetts Estuaries Project water quality monitoring program sites.
Figure 19. UMassD Buzzards Bay Long-Term Monitoring program Sites.
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Figure 20. NOAA/NMFS Drifter & Bottom Temperature monitoring sites.
Figure 21. New Bedford Trawler Survival Fund/UMassD commercial bottom trawl fisheries measurement program location and cod CPUE estimates.
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igure 22. Regional AUV measurement capability. F
Figure 23. Dalhousie operational storm surge modeling system for the northwestern Atlantic coastal ocean.
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Figure 24. Harvard Ocean Prediction System (HOPS) northwestern Atlantic coastal ocean modeling domain, including Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank and Mass Bay sub-domains.
Figure 25. GoMOOS research-operational Princeton Ocean Model (POM) circulation nowcasting and forecasting; surface elevation and current example.
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Figure 26. UMassD FiniteVolume Coastal Ocean Modeling (FVCOM) domain for the Gulf of Maine region.
Figure 27. UMassD finite element QUODDY Storm Response Modeling domain. The bathymetry (in meters) is color-coded.
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Figure 28. UMassB/MWRA Blumberg-Mellor circulation/water quality model application to Massachusetts/Cape Cod Bay.
Figure 29. A UMassD MM5 atmospheric model hindcast of surface pressure and wind fields for the 23 January 2005 storm.
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• Figure 30. US Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental System II (NITES II); includes Command Center and Deployed Platforms, Shared Data and Chart Representation, Web-based Exchange and Lightweight Clients; Environmental Data Access and Update; Processing of Multi-Source Data; Chart Visualization of Multiple Data/Model Products; Analysis Using Integrated Decision Aids; Environment-Based Resource Planning; and Information Distribution.
Figure 31. The MIT Poseidon the system combines a suite of modern legacy physical models, acoustic models and data assimilation schemes with new adaptive modeling and sampling software.
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Figure 32. ASA Inc. COASTMAP and HYDROMAP.
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ATTACHMENT 1 MARIBS-MACOORA March 15, 2005 Workshop Participant List
Arthur Allen U.S. Coast Guard David Chapman Office of Search and Rescue Marine Studies Located at: University of Delaware International Ice Patrol Newark, DE 19716 1082 Shennecossett Road 302- 645-4268
dchapman@UDel.Edu Groton, CT, 06340-6096 (860) 441-2747
aallen@rdc.uscg.mil Changsheng Chen University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Ivar Babb School for Marine Science & Technology Director, National Underwater Research Center 706 South Rodney French Blvd University of Connecticut at Avery Point New Bedford MA 02744-1221 1080 Shennecossett Road Tel: 508-910-6388 Groton Point, CN 06340-6048 Fax: 508-999-8197 babb@uconn.edu c1chen@umassd.edu Veronica Berounsky Barry Costa-Pierce Graduate School of Oceanography Director of Rhode Island Sea Grant University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography South Ferry Road University of Rhode Island Narragansett, RI 02882 South Ferry Road 401-783-8437 vberounsky@gso.uri.edu
Tel: (401) 874-6800 Fax: (401) 789-8340 bcp@gso.uri.edu
Narragansett, RI 02882
Bill Boicourt
University of Maryland Chris DeAcutis Center for Environmental Science RI DEM Horn Point Laboratory Narragansett Bay Estuary Program P.O. Box 775 235 Promenade Street Cambridge, Md. 21613 Providence, RI 02908 410-221-8426
boicourt@hpl.umces.edu Phone: 401-222-3961 X7270 deacutis@etal.uri.edu Frank Bohlen Percy Donaghay Department of Marine Sciences Graduate School of Oceanography University of Connecticut University of Rhode Island 1080 Shennecossett Road South Ferry Road Groton, CN 06340-6048 Narragansett, RI 02882 860-405-9176
bohlen@uconn.edu donaghay@gso.uri.edu Wendell Brown Walter Drag University of Massachusetts Dartmouth DOC/NOAA/NWS School for Marine Science & Technology National Weather Service 706 South Rodney French Blvd Taunton, MA.
Walter.Drag@noaa.gov New Bedford MA 02744-1221 Tel: 508-910-6395 Paul Dragos Fax: 508-999-8197
wbrown@umassd.edu Battelle 781-952-5357
dragosp@battelle.org David Casoni Joshua Fredrickson Massachusetts Lobstermen's Assoc., Inc. NUWC 8 Otis Place 31 Doane Ave. Scituate, MA 02066-1323 Providence, RI 02906 781-545-6984
lobsterteacher@hotmail.com fredricksonjm@npt.nuwc.navy.mil
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Olivia Free Brian Howes Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 2 Blackburn Center School for Marine Science & Technology Gloucester, MA 01930 706 South Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford MA 02744-1221 978-282-4847 www.fishermenspartnership.org Tel: 508-910-6316
bhowes@umassd.edu Avijit Ganopadhyay Sarah Hipple University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Waquoit Bay NEER & Americore School for Marine Science & Technology 38 Hillcrest Drive 706 South Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford MA 02744-1221 Falmouth, MA 02540 Tel: 508-910-6330 Susan Kiernan Fax: 508-999-8197
Emai1: avijit@umassd.edu Deputy Chief, Office of Water Resources R I Department of Environmental Mgt Graham Giese 235 Promenade Street Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Providence, RI 02609 P.O.Box 1036 (401) 222-4700 x7600
Sue.Kiernan@dem.ri.gov Provincetown, MA 02657 Tel: 508-487-3623
Email: ggiese@coastalstudies.org Hyun Sook Kim University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Louis Goodman School for Marine Science & Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 706 South Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford MA 02744-1221 School for Marine Science & Technology 706 South Rodney French Blvd Tel: 508-910-6348 New Bedford MA 02744-1221 Fax: 508-999-8197
hkim@umassd.edu Tel: 508-910-6375 Fax: 508-999-8197
Emai1: lgoodman@umassd.edu Michael Larkin NUWCDIVNPT William Grafton Code 8211 Woods Hole Group Newport R. I., 02841-1708
(401) 832- 81 Technology Park Dr. larkinmj@npt.nuwc.navy.mil East Falmouth, MA 02736 wdgrafton@whgrp.com Janet Lebel Senator Kerry’s Fall River Office Fall River, MA Joachim Gröger 508-677-0523 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth JANET_LEBEL@kerry.senate.gov School for Marine Science & Technology 706 South Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford MA 02744-1221 Virginia Lee Graduate School of Oceanography Tel: 508-910-6357 University of Rhode Island Fax: 508-999-8197
Emai1: jgroeger@umassd.edu South Ferry Road Narragansett, RI 02882
vlee@gso.uri.edu Pat Harcourt Waquoit Bay NEER Wayne Leslie 38 Hillcrest Drive Pierce Hall Falmouth, MA 02540
pat.harcourt@state.ma.us Harvard University Cambridge, MA Richard Horwitz 617-495-4569
leslie@pacific.harvard.edu Coastal Resources Center University of Rhode Island Narragansett, RI 02882
(401) 874-6224 rhorwitz@cox.net
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Edward Levine Evan Richert NUWCDIVNPT Director Gulf of Maine Census of Marine Life Code 8211 University of Southern Maine Newport R. I., 02841-1708 PO Box 9300 - Law 608 (401) 832-4772 Portland, ME 04104-9300 levineer@npt.nuwc.navy.mil (207) 780-4824
erichert@usm.maine.edu Daniel MacDonald Kenneth Sebens University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dean, College of Science & Mathematics School for Marine Science & Technology
706 South Rodney French Blvd University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. New Bedford MA 02744-1221 Boston MA 02125-3393 Tel: 508-910-6334
dmacdonald@umassd.edu 617-287-5000 Kenneth.Sebens@umb.edu Bruce Magnell Theodore Smayda Woods Hole Group Graduate School of Oceanography 81 Technology Park Drive University of Rhode Island East Falmouth, MA 02536
bmagnell@whgrp.com Narragansett, RI 02882 (401) 874-6171 (phone)
tsmayda@gso.uri.edu Jim Manning NOAA-NEFSC Richard A. Tidd NMFS Benthos, Inc 166 Water Street 49 Edgerton Drive Woods Hole MA 02543 North Falmouth, MA 02556 Tel: 508-495-2211
james.manning@noaa.gov rtidd@benthos.com Wade McGillis Doug Wilson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543
NOAA OAR
wmcgillis@whoi.edu EASC Route: R/ARL Annapolis, MD Candace Oviatt (410)267-5648 Graduate School of Oceanography doug.wilson@noaa.gov University of Rhode Island Narragansett, RI 02882 (401) 874-6171 (phone) coviatt@gso.uri.edu
Zhitao Yu University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
School for Marine Science & Technology 706 South Rodney French Blvd Kenneth B. Raposa New Bedford MA 02744-1221 Narragansett Bay NEER
55 South Reserve Drive Tel: 508-910-6308 Prudence Island, RI 02872 zyu@umassd.edu kenny@gso.uri.edu
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ATTACHMENT 2 Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA)
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bays (MARIBS) Workshop University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Center - Fall River, MA
Tuesday 15 March 2005
Agenda Morning
8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-10:00 Welcome - John Miller
• Workshop Terms of Reference - Wendell Brown • Update on IOOS - Dave Chapman • MACOORA: Role of Regional Associations - Bill Boicourt • GoMOOS: A Neighboring COOS - Evan Richert
10:00-10:30 MARIB Region Coastal Observation System Assets - W. Brown 10:30-10:45 BREAK 10:45-11:00 Charge to the Working Groups 11:00-Noon Working Group Session #1: Community Data and Information Needs Noon-1:00 LUNCH Afternoon 1:00-2:00 Working Group Chair Reports: Community Data and Information Needs 2:00-2:45 Working Group Session #2: Observatory Product Needs 3:00-3:30 Working Group Chair Reports: Observatory Product Needs 3:30-4:15 Working Group Session #3: Governance 4:15-4:45 Working Group Chair Reports: Governance 4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks 5:00 Adjourn 5:00-6:00 Reception
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ATTACHMENT 3 MARIBS-MACOORA 15 March 2005 Workshop Working Groups WORKING GROUP – A
• Brian Howes – Leader • Daniel MacDonald – Scribe • Ivar Babb • David Chapman • Barry Costa-Pierce • Walter Drag (morning) • Paul Dragos • Joshua Fredrickson • Avijit Ganopadhyay • Richard Horwitz • Candace Oviatt • Hyun Sook Kim • Theodore Smayda • Richard Tidd
WORKING GROUP – B/E
• Bill Boicourt – Leader (morning) • Arthur Allen –Scribe (morning) • Louis Goodman – Leader (afternoon) • Edward Levine - Scribe (afternoon) • Veronica Berounsky • Olivia Free • William Grafton • Joachim Gröger • Virginia Lee • Bruce Magnell • Evan Richert • Brian Rothschild (afternoon) • Doug Wilson
WORKING GROUP – C/D • Frank Bohlen – Leader • Jim Manning - Scribe • Wayne Leslie • Changsheng Chen (morning) • Percy Donaghay • David Casoni • Chris DeAcutis • Graham Giese • Pat Harcourt • Sarah Hipple • Richard Horwitz • Michael Larkin • Wade McGillis (morning) • Kenneth Raposa • Kenneth Sebens
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ATTACHMENT 4 MACOORA-MARIBS Workshop Institutional Representation
• Battelle, Inc. • Benthos Inc. • GoMOOS • Harvard University • Massachusetts Lobsterman’s Association • Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management • Massachusetts Fisherman’s Partnership • NOAA/OAR • NOAA/NEERS Narragansett Bay, RI • NOAA/NEERS Waquoit Bay, MA • NOAA/NMFS Woods Hole, MA • NOAA National Underwater Research Center • NOAA/NWS • Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies • Rhode Island Sea Grant • Rhode Island DEM Narragansett Bay Estuary Program • University of Connecticut • University of Delaware • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth • University of Massachusetts Boston • University of Maryland • University of Rhode Island • URI Coastal Resource Center • U.S. Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue, Groton, CT • U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI • Woods Hole Group, MA • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution