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NACP West Coast Synthesis telecon #1 (7/28/11)

Attending: Simone Alin, Burke Hales, Laurie Juranek, Uwe Send, Heather Benway, Samantha Siedlecki, Raphe Kudela, Todd Martz, Ann Russell, Peter Griffith, Mati Kahru

Simone: Background on coastal synthesis activities to date... (see PDF if you missed the telecon)

sub-region breakdowns:

1. GOA - Vancouver Island -> north

2. N. CA current -- Cape Mendocino to N. Vancouver Island

3. S. CA current

4. Central American Isthmus

process groups:

water column metabolism

sediment diagenisis/burial

cross-shelf transport

terrestrial input

air-sea exchange

Volunteers for region/process lead?

Timeline?

meet in subgroups prior to 2012 OCB (late 2011, early 2012)

2012 OCB -- assembled products presented

written products -- special journal issue (6 months after 2012 OCB)?

Data support (Griffith): funding secured for data manager position, position description -- should have someone by October

Do we need leaders for process groups? Or self-organizining? Focus on region leads.

Martz: 1.Coherent methods across subregions? 2.What to do about data gaps?

1. Depends on region and data availability, what is most appropriate; 2) Not proposing new data collection, but identifying what is needed to complete budget could be a good outcome

Send: Manpower? Who has what expertise? Region leaders will have to seek out additional help, likely. Identify who could contribute to processes within each region?

Moorings could contribute to metabolism, cross-shelf transport, air-sea exchange, but not terrestrial/sediment

Next step: subregion telecons? Others to include?

Push to define the regional sub-groups, and then they will self-organize more effectively.

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NACP West coast telecon #2 (8/2/11)

Attending: Jeremy Mathis, Wiley Evans, Ruben Lara Lara, Martin Hernandez, Gilberto Gaxiola, Laurie Juranek, Anita Leinweber, Burke Hales, Craig Carlson, SungHyun Nam, Richard Feely, Mark Ohman, Andrew Dickson, Brian Bergamaschi, John Largier, Simone Alin

<Simone' summary of OCB coastal synthesis to date>

Mathis: timeline for publications?

Alin: 3-6 months after OCB, set by region leaders...Papers by region/subregion, potentially overarching regional process-level papers

Ohman: people with process level expertise need to work across subregions for intercomparisons

Alin: subregional telecon, then process level cross-region telecons? Self-assemble subregions, then see what process-level expertise is within/across regions.

Hales: Goal not necessarily to resolve everything, but also to identify gaps in knowledge

Feely: overview summary paper for west coast?

Alin: Likely. Can also have sub-sub regional papers, depending on initiative of members...

Mathis: GOA should be it's own sub-region - not combined with N CA, Mathis and Evans can co-lead this effort.

Alin: N. CA- Siedlecki and Alin can co-lead.

Who to be involved in different sub-groups? Alin to distibute list of participants/potential participants

Ohman: can contribute to water column metabolism (no regional affiliation)

Carlson: can contribute to S. CA, need people in the CCE group for this effort

Hales: Martz, Send were on last call

Largier: where do boxes begin and end?

Hales: 400 km offshore to head of tide - areas that are not generally included in open ocean/global and terrestrial budgets

Ohman: 300 km - length scale where new production balances export production (Plattner et al. GRL paper 2005)

Bergamaschi: to lead the estuarine/terrestrial inputs component (volunteered by Burke)

Largier: coastal transport for central region

Bergamschi: what is the role of the "leader"

Alin: lead of manuscript, senior cat herder, stay in touch with other regional leaders for intercomparisons

Hales: should have ~4 regional papers, potentially process-level cross-region papers

Gaxiola and Hernandez: Baja, Central American Isthmus, but don't have data to cover all desired processes (NCP)

Ohman: who associates with process level topics? Alin will assemble and distribute

Next steps: subregional telecons, flesh out expertise, where are cross-subregion discussions needed.

Feely: overview of whole west coast region for certain processes (air-sea flux) - strategy for publishing all papers in a coherent way (e.g., JGR?)

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Notes from Heather Benway on 07/28/11 telecon:

West coast coastal synthesis teleconference

7/28/11

Present: Alin, Benway, Griffith, Hales, Juranek, Kahru, Kudella, Martz, Russell, Send, Siedlecki

p. 6 of pdf – sub-regions based on NACM

Northern sub-regions: Gulf of AK to Vancouver (?), Vancouver (?) to Cape Mendocino

MX colleagues next Tues. – Southern CA and Central American Isthmus

p. 7 of pdf – what progress have we made on quantifying these fluxes since NACM?

People lead by process or region?

Alin/Hales joining all subgroups to provide continuity
Sub-regional leader responsibilities: identifying and recruiting missing expertise, leader setting deadlines, coordinating other group members, final written product (compiling material from other members), etc.
Consistent methods across regions – need to make sure the regional budgets are somewhat comparable (similarly constrained)
What if data unavailable to constrain? This information is of equal use, providing justification for further investment by agencies

Timeline and products

Present draft product (regional budget) at 2012 OCB workshop
Publications following OCB workshop, perhaps special journal volume (3-6 mos)
Science plan – summary of current knowledge as well as missing information needed to complete coastal budgets (= justification for future investment by agencies)

Data technician