From CORIE to NANOOS: Scaling Up Coastal-Margin Observing Systems
Abstract
Over the last decade, CORIE was developed as a multi-purpose, cross-scale coastal-margin observatory for the Columbia River. With observation, modeling and information sub-systems, CORIE focuses on physical properties and their ecosystem implications. CORIE products have opened the opportunity for innovative scientific and management thinking. For instance, collaboration among biologists and physical oceanographers led to the development and use of semi-empirical metrics of physical habitat opportunity for juvenile salmon in the estuary and plume environment. These metrics, built from multi-year databases of simulated circulation, have been used to address management and operational issues including salmon survival, navigation improvements, and flow regulation. The CORIE infrastructure is now being used as one of the anchors for a pilot project of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS). The pilot project is being conducted under the umbrella of the Northwest Association of Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS), and is focused on the estuaries and shorelines of Oregon and Washington. Here, we discuss some of the strategies and technical challenges of expanding the observation, modeling and information infrastructure of a powerful but narrowly focused and tightly coordinated observatory (CORIE) to serve a much broader vision and region (NANOOS), with a much more diverse user base, and a very heterogeneous scientific and development team.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AGUFMIN14A..04B
- Keywords:
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- 4546 Nearshore processes