NOAA & CSO Addressing Coastal Challenges

1. NOAA & CSO Addressing Coastal Challenges Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Coastal States Organization Executive Committee January 31, 2007

2. Overview • NOAA’s Vision • NOAA Budget and Legislative Priorities for 2007 • NOAA/CSO Coastal Visioning Process • Improving Delivery of NOAA Products and Services • Regional Collaboration • Ocean and Coastal Observations NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

3. NOAA’s Vision NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

4. NOAA Priorities • Sustaining Critical Operations • Supporting the U.S. Ocean Action Plan • Ocean Science and Research • Protecting and Restoring Marine and Coastal Areas • Ensuring Sustainable Use of Ocean Resources • Improving Weather Warnings & Forecasts • Climate Monitoring and Research • Critical Facilities Investment Phased Array Radar (CMDL) South Pole Ozone Balloon Launch NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

5. Key Legislative Priorities • Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) • Coral Reef Conservation Act (CRCA) • National Marine Sanctuaries Act (NMSA) • National Offshore Aquaculture Act • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Organic Act • Hydrographic Services Improvement Act (HSIA) • Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) • Cooperative Conservation of Marine, Estuarine, Coastal, and Riverine Habitat Act Aquaculture Florida Keys Sanctuary West Indian manatees NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

6. The Future of Coastal Management • Coastal Visioning: Important partnership to examine coastal management and identify options for improving the Coastal Zone Management Act • Visioning results will guide: • Improving coordination within NOAA and with other federal agencies. • How NOAA improves delivery of products and services to Coastal States • Expand partnerships with Coastal States • Reauthorization of CZMA • Non-legislative approaches • Status: NOAA is reviewing responses from Phase II + NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

7. State Responses to Phase II of Visioning • Issues of common concern: Current Resource Pressures: Issues around growth and land use in the coastal zone; and management of habitat issues. Emerging Issues: Climate change, inundation and coastal hazards; growth and land use; and the need to for better partnerships with local governments to address these issues NOAA Action: Increase efficiency in partner’s ability to access NOAA resources; Improve coordination within NOAA and with Federal partners. Increased Coastal Development Harmful Algal Blooms (Red Tide) NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

8. Delivering NOAA Products & Services • NOAA is continuing to develop more efficient approaches to accessing and using NOAA products and services • Examples: • Coastal Change Analysis Program • Coastal Inundation Visualization Tool • NOAA is working to improve delivery through its Regional Collaboration effort • NOAA’s initial operating capability for the Integrated Ocean Observing System is a specific example of making NOAA and scientific community gathered data more accessible NOAA Coastal Change Analysis ProgramC-CAP Analysis Tool NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

9. Initial Regional Framework NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

10. Regional CollaborationFocuses NOAA Efforts All three service categories are execution priorities for Fiscal Years 2007-2008. Hazard Resilient Coastal Communities These programmatic priorities are at the intersection of: Integrated Ecosystem Assessments Required Geographic Specificity Integrated Water Resource Services Stake- holder Demand, Visibility Corp- orate, Strategic Priorities NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

11. Coastal Community Resilience • How does NOAA help coastal communities become resilient? • Provide communities with data, models, tools, and training to understand vulnerability to coastal hazards and how to reduce it. • Provide communities with data to minimize development in high hazard risk areas—floodplains/tsunami inundation zones. • Help communities translate information to the public and decision makers about coastal hazards and how to avoid impacts TsunamiReady SLOSH Model NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

12. Integrated Ocean Observing SystemInitial Operating Capability Hurricane Intensity Model Temperature Salinity Sea Level Currents Color Coastal Inundation Model Harmful Algal Bloom Model Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Temperature Salinity Sea Level Currents Color Months 0-12 Month 18 Month 24 Month 36 Integration of 5 Core Variables Integrated variable ingest for following products Test & Evaluation Benchmarked product improvements for operational use NOAA 5 Core Variables • Integrated information services for NOAA programs • Identify observation gaps • Validated enhanced data products • NOAA’s Data Integration Framework Enhanced decision support through: Hurricane Intensity Model Systems Engineering: • Product Enhancement • Test & Evaluation • Verification & Validation Coastal Inundation Model Systems Engineer Standards Harmful Algal Bloom Model Integrated Ecosystem Assessment External sources of 5 Core Variables (consistent with NOAA standards) NOAA MISSION OBJECTIVES NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges

13. NOAA & CSO Moving Forward • NOAA is looking forward to working with the Coastal States to: • Continue the Coastal Management Visioning Dialog • Engage CZ managers on regional scale to effectively deliver NOAA products and services • Need to know your priorities on a regional level • Help us be creative in applying NOAA products and services to address CZM challenges. • Tell us how NOAA can work together better to serve you • Reauthorize the CZMA NOAA & CSO: Addressing Coastal Challenges