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CaRA – CaRICOOS Regional Update

CaRA – CaRICOOS Regional Update. Jorge E. Corredor Professor University of Puerto Rico, Dept. of Marine Sciences Mayaguez, PR http://cara-uprm.edu http://www.caricoos.org. Regional Characteristics and User Needs. Environment: ARCHIPELAGO - Extensive heavily populated coastlines

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CaRA – CaRICOOS Regional Update

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  1. CaRA – CaRICOOS Regional Update Jorge E. Corredor Professor University of Puerto Rico, Dept. of Marine Sciences Mayaguez, PR http://cara-uprm.eduhttp://www.caricoos.org

  2. Regional Characteristics and User Needs • Environment: • ARCHIPELAGO - Extensive heavily populated coastlines • Tropical Islands – Mangroves, Coral Reefs, Seagrasses • Strong social dependence on maritime activities

  3. Regional Characteristics and User Needs • Users and needs (data & forecasts): • Emergency managers – Tsunamis and hurricanes; coastal inundation, ocean and coastal waves & winds, wave setup, coastal bathymetry • Environmental & infrastructure managers • coral bleaching (sea state, solar irradiance, SST, SSS), eutrophication (nutrients, currents, organic load) • beach closures (fecal contamination, possibly HAB’s, coastal currents, ocean color), coastal erosion (sea level rise, sea state, wave setup) • Maritime transportation – sea state (wind & waves), currents, maritime hazards • Tourists/Marine operators – weather (especially hurricanes!), sea state for recreational navigation, underwater visibility, surfing waves, ocean color

  4. Progress Towards Certification • Activities in Agenda: • April 26 – 27, 2007 Extended Steering Committee/Stakeholders Meeting: • Agenda: • Governance structure options • not-for-profit corporation “Articles of Incorporation” drafted by Legal Counsel (Torres & Associates) • Principal Investigator – MOU structure drafted by PI’s • Business Plan – Draft to be presented by Consultant • Updates from the modeling team leader • Report from consultants assessing ICOOS impact on recreation/tourism • June 22, 2007: General Stakeholder’s Meeting • Adoption of governance structure • Adoption of Business plan

  5. Progress Towards Certification - DMAC • Dr. Jorge Capella retained as DMAC coordinator • Prime criterion for selection of observing assets (and provider/partners) for CaRA’s Asset Development Plan is proven success in complying with operational requisites including data management

  6. Regional Successes • NOAA/AOML Integrated Coral Observing Network • PRSN/NOAA sixteen • Tsunami Ready Sea Level Stations • UPRM/NOAA Coastal Hazards Center • Inundation maps • DNRE/NOAA – JOBANERR – CaRA collaboration for climatology development • CaTS – Caribbean Time Series

  7. Regional Challenges • The CaRICOOS system has few operational real-time ocean observing platforms. • Financing, emplacing, operating and maintaining real-time observing assets is the greatest single challenge to CaRA and its partners. • To this end, CaRA is constructing a regional Assets Development Plan based on expressed user needs .

  8. Assets Development PlanBuoys & Spars ICON CREWS Ocean Buoys Coastal buoys

  9. Assets Development PlanHF Radar System

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