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NOAA Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Nov 17-20, 2020

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Program are conducting targeted stakeholder outreach efforts to better understand the jobs of the end users and identify how remote sensing data can best support the decisions and operations of the entire user community. As part of our ongoing efforts, we are engaging users in workshops, interviews, and surveys as a way of gathering data to inform the next generation of geostationary observations, due to launch in 2030. We welcome your contributions to these efforts as they will help us to better understand your needs and ensure the next generation of satellites can support your roles in society.

We are hosting our virtual workshop focusing on Oceans from November 17 – 20, 2020. Please RSVP for this workshop by filling out the registration form available here to help us understand more about you and your role within the oceans community. We will post details about this event on the event website.

Oceans Event Logistics

All topical workshops will be conducted virtually using Microsoft Teams. After your RSVP is received, you will receive a calendar invitation to the event with the following details providing session access information and all associated logistics:

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 11 AM – 12 PM EST

Plenary Opening Session

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 1 – 4 PM EST

Discussion Session #1: Ocean Life

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 12 – 3 PM EST

Discussion Session #2: Water Quality

Thursday, November 19, 2020, 12 – 3 PM EST

Discussion Session #3: Monitoring Physical Ocean Properties

Friday, November 20, 2020, 11:30 AM – 2 PM EST

Discussion Session #4: Climate Impacts to Oceans

Friday, November 20, 2020, 3 – 4:30 PM EST

Plenary Closing Session

What We Are Asking

This workshop is the fifth of a series of User Needs Workshops examining user needs and perspectives across a broad array of application areas. Results from these workshops will help NOAA better understand how decisions are made in topical areas and the information that best supports the user’s decisions, roles and responsibilities in society.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to Vanessa Escobar directly or to the User Engagement Team with any questions. You can reach us either by replying to this email or by sending a message to GEOXOUserNeeds@cadmusgroup.com. We thank you in advance for your time and participation and look forward to working with you on this and future efforts.

Sincerely,

Vanessa Escobar Lead Scientist, NOAA/NASA GEO-XO User Engagement

and the GEO-XO User Engagement Team

IGARSS 2021 Call for Papers

On behalf of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the IGARSS 2021 Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to Brussels, Belgium, for the 41th annual IGARSS symposium, starting Sunday the 11th of July till Friday the 16th of July 2021.

Hybrid format

The IGARSS 2021 Local Organising Committee is pleased to announce that the 41st edition of the world’s premier symposium on geoscience & remote sensing will take place this summer in a hybrid format. Participants can join IGARSS 2021 virtually through a dedicated online event platform but we also hope to welcome participants physically in Brussels, Belgium (The Square).

Call for papers

The submission deadline for papers and the student paper competition is extended till January 25 2021

IGARSS 2021 paper submission: https://igarss2021.com/papers.php

IGARSS 2021 student paper competition: https://www.igarss2021.com/StudentPaperCompetition.asp

Abstracts due Oct 15th: GASP Statistics Workshop

A one-day workshop  –  GASP, which stands for Government Advances in Statistical Programming, will be held on Friday November 6th from 9am to 5pm EDT.  This year it’s online and government programmers from all over will attend and make presentations.

Here’s the call for presenters:  https://sites.google.com/view/gasp2020/call-for-speakers

The scope includes: Using R to Streamline analysis, Using statistical software for model selection/validation, Using Python libraries for text analysis and to streamline production, Using R to automate and increase office efficiency, Using Dashboards for data analysis and production, Open source software to increase speed to get more information, Applications of Python and other software for production, Using R shiny and other open source software for analysis of survey data-public use files, Data science, Big data, Official statistics, Version controls and reproducibility, Process automation, DataOps/ DevOps, Presentation involving Data visualization, Natural language processing, Julia language applications for open-government, and Neural networks

Presentations are to be 10 or 20 minutes long.  Submissions are due on Oct 15 and the organizers will respond within a week.  You can register to attend at the same site.

This is the third annual GASP workshop.  Here are the programs from past years:http://www.washstat.org/presentations/20181024/20181024_GASP_Program.pdf

http://www.washstat.org/presentations/20190923/20190923_GASP_Program.pdf

Job Announcement! NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch Operations Manager, Hawai’i

The Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) is currently recruiting an Analyst to work with NOAA’s CoastWatch/OceanWatch Program (https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/index.html) who will be based at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Ecosystem Sciences Division in Honolulu, HI.  The Analyst will manage the OceanWatch satellite remote sensing node operations (https://oceanwatch.pifsc.noaa.gov/) and will also have the opportunity to conduct original research for the creation of new and value-added oceanographic and climate products derived from satellite remotely sensed data and from atmosphere-ocean general circulation models.  Developing, managing, and conducting OceanWatch outreach and education activities is also an important aspect of the position.


Primary qualifications include a Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Oceanography, Marine Biology, Climate Science, or Mathematics and three to five (3-5) years of professional experience working with satellite remotely sensed oceanographic data or climate products to quantitatively derive information about biological physical or oceanographic phenomena.  Desired (secondary) qualifications include a PhD from an accredited college or university in the fields noted above and knowledge of NOAA programs in remote sensing applied to oceanography, particularly the CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch program.

DEADLINE: Please note the deadline to apply has been extended to October 15, 2020.

More information about applying to this position can be found by navigating to www.rcuh.com and clicking on “Job Postings” and Project Name “JIMAR” (position 220426). Please note applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.

More information about the Ecosystem Science Division can be found at: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/surveying-vast-pacific-ocean.

Feel free to distribute to anyone you think may be interested.

AquaWatch Go Fund Me – Donate Today!

Please help us!  AquaWatch’s goal is to construct a global scale water quality information service (somewhat analogous to the weather service) based on satellite Earth Observations that will provide timely water quality monitoring information around the world. We would like to raise funds to gain Tax Deductible status in the US ( 501(c)(3)). This is necessary to apply for many of the Foundation grant opportunities in the US and will cost about $1800USD.  Donate here today!

More background

Water quality is essential for human, ecosystem and economic health. Degradation of water quality can result in human exposure to disease and harmful chemicals, reduction in productivity and diversity of ecosystems and damage to aquaculture, agriculture and other water-related industries. This new, transformative approach to water quality monitoring will elucidate inland and coastal conditions in near-real time as recent advances in satellite remote sensing now provide the opportunity to monitor essential surface water quality conditions from space.

Our organization has been around since 2007 and is a broad community of satellite and remote sensing experts, water resource managers, industry and citizens.  We have always operated with a fiscal sponsor, but now would like to elevate our organization by pursuing recognition as a charity in the United States, estimated to require about $1800USD for an attorney’s review of the forms and application filing fees.   We are also open to pursuing this status in other global funding bodies, such as the European Commission, etc.