# Presentation: 076279

## Town Hall

- VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., USN (Ret.)
- Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere  |  NOAA Administrator
- January 25, 2004

- La Jolla

## Current Environment

- Update to Strategic Plan
- Employee Information
- Research Review Team Outcomes
- New Leadership, Congress
- NOAA Business Model
- Budget Outlook
- NOAA Organizational Structure

- SES Summit
- Ocean Commission Report
- Global Earth Observing System of Systems—GEOSS
- NOAA In The Media
- NOAA Accomplishments

**Notes:**
This is the context we are working in, and some challenges and opportunities that we face.
The 2004 election has brought the need to create new relationships on the Hill.
Administration priorities include the war on terror, homeland defense, and the economy.

## Update to NOAA’s Strategic Plan

- An informed society that uses a comprehensive understanding of the role of the oceans, coasts and atmosphere in the global ecosystem to make the best social and economic decisions
- NOAA’s 5-Year Research Plan—new in January 2005
- NOAA’s 20-Year Research Vision—new in January 2005

## NOAA’s Mission & Goals

- To understand and predict changes in the Earth’s environment and manage coastal and marine resources to meet the Nation’s economic, social and environmental needs
- Mission Goals:
- Protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management
- Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond
- Serve society’s needs for weather and water information
- Support the Nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation
- Provide critical support for NOAA’s mission

**Notes:**

 In our effort to fully integrate everything we do into a cohesive “One NOAA” we created these four mission goals to help guide us.  In our proposed Strategic Plan, we have added one additional goal to highlight organizational excellence and mission support.

## Employee Information

- Effects of the NOAA Research Review on NOAA’s Fisheries Science Centers
- Status of NOAA’s SWFSC La Jolla redevelopment project
- Status of Fisheries Research Vessels

## Employee Information

- Workforce Management
- Out: Zane Schauer, WMO Director		COOL
- In: Eddie Ribas, WMO Director	QuickHire

- New QuickHire Login Screen

- https://jobs1.quickhire.com/scripts/doc.exe

- In

- Out

## Current Environment Impressions

- In: Secretary Designate Carlos Gutierrez
- Out: Ernest Hollings
- Committee highlights:
- Out: Ted Stevens- Senate Appropriations Chair
- In: Thad Cochran- Senate Appropriations Chair
- In: Jerry Lewis- House Appropriations Chair
- In: Ted Stevens- Commerce Chair
- In: Inouye, Ranking member: Appropriations and Commerce

## LEADERSHIP

## Thinking Corporate NOAAClimate—Existing Program Aligning to Model

- Thinking Corporate NOAAClimate—Existing Program Aligning to Model

## Thinking Corporate NOAACoasts, Estuaries & Oceans—New in FY07

- Thinking Corporate NOAACoasts, Estuaries & Oceans—New in FY07

## Budget UpdateTrends

- $ Billions

- Budget UpdateTrends

**Notes:**
Business model enable us to obtain more money$$

## Budget Update Where We Rank For 2005*

| Agency | Increases |
| --- | --- |
| Veterans Affairs | $1.2B |
| Army Corps of Engineers | $585M |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $567M |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | $336M |

| Agency | Cuts |
| --- | --- |
| Education/local education | $500M |
| Federal Aviation Administration | $335M |
| Energy Department’s Yucca Mountain Project | $303M |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $275M |
| National Science Foundation | $105M |
| Energy Department’s Biological & Environmental Research Program  | $69.5M |

- Agencies with the biggest increases over the President’s 2005 budget request...

- ...and those with the biggest cuts:

- *Federal Times, November 29, 2004

**Notes:**
How we rank against other science/gov agencies

## NOAA Organizational Structure

## NOAA Organizational Structure

**Notes:**
How long will VADM stay on board?

## SES Summit IIHighlights

- Transparency of Mission
- Improved Internal Practices
- NOAA Management actively listens to employees, incorporates feedback into practices
- Employees understand & endorse the mission – ensures long-term care & feeding of NOAA
- Improved External Practices
- External partners have stake in the outcome and drive internal administrative requirements
- Enhance connections to constituents to ensure we are giving our “customers” what they want
- Buy-in from community/stakeholders puts Average Joe in NOAA’s Corner

## SES Summit IIIntegration: Moving Forward Under Fiscal Restraint

- Re-purpose existing systems and capitalize on new developments, technologies, external partners
- Linkages between programs facilitate economic & scientific efficiencies
- NOAA products and services integrate and meet society’s increasingly complex needs
- Partnering with other federal, state, local agencies advance domestic and international agendas–key opportunities on the horizon to work closely with DoE, DHS

## SES Summit II Communication

- SES Summit II Communication

- How well we talk to each other is a key barometer of how well NOAA is functioning.
- Effective Managers know what to put into the hands of employees so there can then be clarity at all levels

## Ocean Commission ReportAdministration’s Response to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy

## Ocean Commission Report Executive Order: Establishment of Committee on Ocean Policy

- Chaired by chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
- Cabinet level membership
- Will advise President and heads of agencies on policies concerning ocean-related matters
- Responsibilities:
- Ocean science and technology
- Ocean literacy and education
- Ocean resource management

## Ocean Commission ReportLand/sea interface implications within U.S. Ocean Action Plan 

- Integrated Mapping
- Seamless topographic bathymetric charting
- GIS Capabilities
- Management of Coastal Zone
- Storm Surge Products
- River Flow Climatology
- Multi-modal Transportation
- Optimizing various NOAA Products for one customer
- Weather Forecasting
- Observing Network commended in Ocean Commission Report

**Notes:**
BMW Shipping, port workers, truckers – one stop shopping?

To answer the last bullet we needed to develop a set of guidelines so NOAA employees could venture into many unknown territories. 

## What is GEOSS?Global Earth Observing System of Systems

- GEOSS is a distributed system of systems built on current international cooperation efforts among existing Earth observing and processing systems
- GEOSS is
- Comprehensive—observations and products from all components
- Coordinated—leverages contributing members resources
- Sustained—by will and capacity of all members
- GEOSS enables the collection and distribution of accurate, reliable Earth Observation data, information, products, and services to both suppliers and consumers worldwide—an end-to-end process

## Why GEOSS?Global Earth Observing System of Systems

- GEOSS—Global System To Meet Societal Needs
- Interdisciplinary focus
- Identifies gaps in our global capacity
- An integrated international system using remote sensing & in situ systems
- Facilitates exchange of data and information
- Foundation for sound decision-making: global, regional, & local level

- Social, Economic, & Science Concerns
- More than half the world’s population lives within 60 km of the shoreline
- Could rise to 3/4 by the year 2020
- More than 90% of natural disaster-related deaths occur in developing countries
- 25% of Earth’s biological productivity & an estimated 80-90% of global commercial fish catch is concentrated in coastal zones
- Worldwide agricultural benefits of better El Niño forecasts are conservatively estimated at $450-$550M/year

**Notes:**
Recognized by others at the national and international level.  Domestically by congress and OMB our work is recognized. 

Earth Obs-
54 Countries + EC & 34 International Organizations currently represented
66% increase in country participation

FYO5 was a good year budget wise.  This year congress assigned the Lansat mission to NOAA and provided additional funds for Earth observations.

FY06 – given the tight budget year, NOAA is up 3%

## GEOSS Benefits Focus

- GEOSS Benefits Focus

**Notes:**

Societal Benefit Focus Areas for U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System (note: GEO benefits differ slightly on Oceans and Ecological Forecasting – GEO benefit areas are Coastal, Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity instead.)

Weather Forecasting   
Reduce Loss of Life and Property from Disasters
Protect and Monitor Our Ocean Resources 
Understand, Assess, Predict, Mitigate, and Adapt to  Climate Variability and Change
Support Sustainable Agriculture and Combat Land Degradation
Understand the Effect of Environmental Factors on Human Health and Well-Being
Develop the Capacity to Make Ecological Forecasts Protect and Monitor Water Resources
Monitor and Manage Energy Resources

[As an example of the interaction with our stakeholder communities, the weather and energy benefits areas were added as a result of the June public workshop held at USGS]

## NOAA’s Role in GEOSS

- NOAA:  Where Science Creates Value
- Earth observations...
- Are at the core of NOAA’s mission
- Support virtually every activity we perform
- NOAA has...
- Observing capabilities being advanced through scientific and technological research
- A broad scope of domestic and international partnerships
- Commitment to transform research into useful, operational information

**Notes:**
[walk through slide]

## Pacific Tsunami Warning System

- Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU) was established in 1968 and presently has 26 member states.

**Notes:**
Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU) was
established in 1968. An international cooperative effort involving
many Member States of the Pacific Region, ICG/ITSU meets
every two years to review progress and coordinate activities
resulting in improvements of the service. Present membership
of ICG/ITSU is comprised of the following Member States:
Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands,
Costa Rica, Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Guatemala, Indonesia,
Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Peru, Republic
of the Philipines, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation,
Samoa, Singapore, Thailand, and the U.S.A.

NOAA is active in post Asian tsunami-related efforts.  
Assistant Administrator for NOAA’s Weather Service, General D.L. Johnson, will led a Thursday, December 30, 2004 coordination call of the NOAA International Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Team.  
Hundreds of recent television and print interviews/reports have discussed the importance of thrust of NOAA’s ongoing efforts to establish a Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).  One of the nine focus areas of GEOSS is Reducing Loss of Life and Property from Disasters.  The unfortunate Asian tsunami tragedy does highlight the importance and shear necessity of NOAA’s long established focus on GEOSS.
This month, NOAA participated in a United States delegation to Kobe, Japan, to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, sponsored by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.  

## U.S. Plan For An Improved Tsunami Monitoring System 

- $37.5M over next 2 years
- Enable enhanced monitoring, detection, warning & communications throughout
- 32 advanced technology DART buoys
- Nearly 100% coverage for U.S. coastal tsunami
- Expanded monitoring capability throughout Pacific & Caribbean basins
- Part of future global observation & global tsunami warning systems

## NOAA in the Media

- Director Of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center Presented With Emmy Award
- Max Mayfield, director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center

**Notes:**
Director Of Noaa’s National Hurricane Center Presented With Emmy Award
Max Mayfield, director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, has been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as this year’s recipient of the Governor’s Award for his devotion to television audiences during the record-setting 2004 hurricane season.

## NOAA in the Media Tsunami Coverage/NOAA in the News

- Chip McCrery | Dateline

- Eddie Bernard | Larry King Live

- VADM Lautenbacher | Fox News

## NOAA in the MediaLa Jolla

- A New Approach to Monitoring Rockfish Populations: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
- SWFSC scientists: Dave Demer and John Butler
- San Diego Union-Tribune
- Pacific Coast Sportfishing
- Humpback whale cruise
- SWFSC chief scientist: Jay Barlow
- Many journals, newspapers  (NY Times, Science, Nature, etc.)
- Training the next generation—Scripps Institution of Oceanography and SWFSC:
- Grant Award: National Science Foundation’s “Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship” ($3.4M)
- SWFSC scientists: Sarah Mesnick, Dale Squires, and Mike Tillman,
- SIO press release

**Notes:**
NOAA’s work is making an impression at the very highest levels.  The President has made several visits to NOAA sites and facilities over the past few months and as you can see here we even put him to work doing some habitat restoration at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Florida.  

Many of the President’s top environmental priorities, such as climate change and wetlands restoration rely heavily on NOAA’s expertise.

## NOAA in the MediaLa Jolla

- Antarctica – new species of killer whales?
- 2 articles relevant to our work in Antarctica—Killer Whale Research and Tasmacetus (beaked whale)
- SWFSC scientist: Bob Pitman
- The Antarctic Sun
- The world’s smallest fish! A newly discovered species of Goby
- SWFSC’s Bill Watson
- New York Times

**Notes:**
NOAA’s work is making an impression at the very highest levels.  The President has made several visits to NOAA sites and facilities over the past few months and as you can see here we even put him to work doing some habitat restoration at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Florida.  

Many of the President’s top environmental priorities, such as climate change and wetlands restoration rely heavily on NOAA’s expertise.

## NOAA’s AccomplishmentsMission and Process

- Mission Successes
- National and international leadership in Earth observations
- Hurricane support wins Senate commendation, supplemental appropriation
- Rebuilding the Nation’s fisheries
- Development of the Integrated Ocean Observing System
- Fisheries regulatory process improvements
- NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards improves and expands
- Coral reef initiative
- NOAA fleet modernization and growth

- Organizational Successes
- Program review conducted
- NEC and NEP established
- Program structure comprehensively covering all NOAA resources established with 14 matrix programs
- Goal Leads appointed
- Full Council structure established
- PA&E established
- Annual update of the Strategic Plan

## NOAA’s AccomplishmentsMission and Process

- Mission Successes
- 777 U.S. COSPAS-SARSAT saves since 2001
- Sea turtle conservation
- Operational air quality forecasts in Northeast United States
- Early Warning System for Florida Harmful Algal Blooms
- Homeland security support
- Reducing national uncertainty about climate change
- Teacher at Sea Program expands into air
- Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Level II Radar Data Available in Real Time

- Organizational Successes
- Line Office Strategic Plans in alignment with NOAA Strategic Plan
- Councils produce multi-year strategic plans
- Full PPBES cycle for FY06-11
- Annual Operating Plans for all matrix programs
- Monthly and quarterly execution reporting
- Comprehensive review of administrative functions – business process re-engineering initiated
- Grants on-line implementation

## What You Should Take Away

- The Future.......is Bright!!!
- NOAA is:
- An Effective, Successful Organization With World-wide Recognition
- Composed of Talented, Experienced & Dedicated People
- Critical to Meeting the Nation’s & the World’s Economic & Environmental Challenges
- Organizationally Positioned to Provide Leadership
- Where Science Gains Value
- NOAA is All of Us Working Together With a Unified Vision & Consistent Message

- Thank you for your service!

## Backup Material

## SES Summit IIEmpower Creativity From All Levels

## Earth Observation Summit Success

- Earth Observation Summit I & II
- 53 Countries + EC & 33 International Organizations represented
- Assigned the LandSat Mission in FY05
- Ocean Observations
- Earth Observation Summit III
- 55 Countries + EC & 33 International Organizations currently represented
- Agreement on Implementation Plan & Resolution
- Set up new GEO Structure & Secretariat
- GEO-6
- Complete Implementation Plan

**Notes:**
Brussels, Belgium
Agreement on Implementation Plan and Resolution
Ministers to receive Reference Document as Basis of Plan
Set up new GEO Structure and Secretariat
WMO offer to host

## NOAA in the MediaTeacher at Sea Program

- NOAA Teacher at Sea Children’s Book
- To be published early in 2005
- Authors
- NOAA Teacher at Sea Mary Cook
- 8th grade Earth Science teacher at Southside Middle School in Batesville, Arkansas
- Dr. Diane Stanitski
- TAS alumni now working for the NOAA Office of Climate Observation
- Chief Boatswain Bruce Cowden

**Notes:**
NOAA Teacher at Sea Mary Cook (8th grade Earth Science teacher at Southside Middle School in Batesville, Arkansas), Dr. Diane Stanitski (TAS alumni now working for the NOAA Office of Climate Observation), and Chief Boatswain Bruce Cowden created a children's book about being a NOAA Teacher at Sea - to be published early in 2005.

## Thinking Corporate NOAANOAA “Business” Model

- LEADERSHIP

**Notes:**
Revise to take program through business model

## Mission Excellence...

- Real Time Operational Surface Transportation Conditions Reporting System
- Reduce the Aqua-/Mari-culture Trade Deficit by 50%
- Operational Bio-detection Network in place
- Plankton to Whales
- Operational Phased Array NOAA/FAA Wx/ATC System
- Operational Next Generation Trawling Gear Replacement

## Mission Excellence...

- Completed Operational Ocean Observing System
- Three Regional Ecosystem Management Pilots in place
- First Ecosystem Based Fishery Management Plan
- Operational Climate Monitoring System
- Carbon, Climate Reference Network
- Reduce Charting Backlog by 50%
- One Hour Lead Time for Tornado Forecasts

## Mission Excellence...

- Real Hurricane Intensity Forecasting Improvement
- Nationwide Operational Air Quality Network
- Operational National Drought Monitoring System
- Operational UAV, UUV Support Fleet
- Assimilation of NASA & NSF Research into Operational Satellites
- GOES-R First Operational Integrated Environmental Monitoring Satellite System

## Mission Excellence...

- NOAA Ownership and Operation of the U.S. Earth Observing Satellites
- Including LANDSAT
- Operational National Water Quality Network
- Non-Point Source Reduction
- Recognized Leadership in Earth Systems Modeling
- Fishery Capacity Equal to Sustainable Wild Harvest Levels

## Combined Federal Campaign (La Jolla)

- Campaign Ended Friday, 1/14/2005
- As of Jan 21: Coming

**Notes:**
Pic is of Zane Schauer, Andy Parks, Fred Grandy, and Nancy Majower.