# Presentation: 869407

## NASAVision for Ocean Biology & BiogeochemistryAdvance Planning Team2005-2006

**Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Roadmap**

**T**

**2002**

**2010**

**2012**

**2014**

**2015**

**2004**

- Reduced flux uncertainties;   global carbon dynamics

- Funded

- Unfunded

- Global Ocean Carbon /     Particle Abundance

- N. America’s carbon budget quantified

-   Global Atmospheric CO2 (OCO)

**2006**

**2008**

** **Reduced flux uncertainties; coastal  carbon dynamics

**NA Carbon**

**NA Carbon**

**Global C Cycle **

**T** = Technology development

- Regional carbon sources/sinks quantified for planet

**IPCC**

**IPCC**

- Effects of tropical deforestation quantified; uncertainties
- in tropical carbon source reduced

- = Field Campaign

-       Physiology & Functional Types

**Goals: Global productivity and land cover change at fine resolution; biomass and carbon fluxes quantified; useful ecological forecasts and improved climate change projections**

- Vegetation 3-D Structure, Biomass, & Disturbance

**     ****T**

- Terrestrial carbon stocks & species habitat characterized

- Models w/improved ecosystem functions

- High-Resolution Atmospheric CO2

** **Sub-regional sources/sinks

- Integrated global analyses

- CH4 sources characterized and quantified

**P**

- Vegetation (AVHRR, MODIS)

- Ocean Color (SeaWiFS, MODIS)

- Land Cover (Landsat)

-     Bridge (LDCM)

- Land Cover (OLI)

- Vegetation, Fire  (AVHRR, MODIS)

-    Ocean/Land (VIIRS/NPP)

-    Ocean/Land (VIIRS/NPOESS)

- Models & Computing Capacity

- Case Studies

- Process Understanding

- Improvements:

- Human-Ecosystems-Climate Interactions (Model-Data Fusion, Assimilation); Air-Sea Flux

**T**

- Partnership

- N.  American Carbon Program

**           **Land Use Change in Amazonia

- Global CH4;** **Wetlands, Flooding & Permafrost

**Global C Cycle **

**                ****Knowledge Base**

**2002:  Global productivity and land cover resolution coarse; Large uncertainties in biomass, fluxes, disturbance, and  coastal events**

- Systematic Observations

-  Process controls; errors in sink reduced

- Coastal Carbon

- Southern Ocean Carbon Program, Air-Sea CO2 Flux

**Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Roadmap**

**T**

**2002**

**2010**

**2012**

**2014**

**2015**

**2004**

- Reduced flux uncertainties;   global carbon dynamics

- Funded

- Unfunded

- Global Ocean Carbon /     Particle Abundance

- N. America’s carbon budget quantified

-   Global Atmospheric CO2 (OCO)

**2006**

**2008**

** **Reduced flux uncertainties; coastal  carbon dynamics

**NA Carbon**

**NA Carbon**

**Global C Cycle **

**T** = Technology development

- Regional carbon sources/sinks quantified for planet

**IPCC**

**IPCC**

- Effects of tropical deforestation quantified; uncertainties
- in tropical carbon source reduced

- = Field Campaign

**Goals: Global productivity and land cover change at fine resolution; biomass and carbon fluxes quantified; useful ecological forecasts and improved climate change projections**

- Vegetation 3-D Structure, Biomass, & Disturbance

**     ****T**

- Terrestrial carbon stocks & species habitat characterized

- Models w/improved ecosystem functions

- High-Resolution Atmospheric CO2

** **Sub-regional sources/sinks

- Integrated global analyses

- CH4 sources characterized and quantified

**P**

- Vegetation (AVHRR, MODIS)

- Ocean Color (SeaWiFS, MODIS)

- Land Cover (Landsat)

-     Bridge (LDCM)

- Land Cover (OLI)

- Vegetation, Fire  (AVHRR, MODIS)

-    Ocean/Land (VIIRS/NPP)

-    Ocean/Land (VIIRS/NPOESS)

- Models & Computing Capacity

- Case Studies

- Process Understanding

- Improvements:

- Human-Ecosystems-Climate Interactions (Model-Data Fusion, Assimilation); Air-Sea Flux

**T**

- Partnership

- N.  American Carbon Program

**           **Land Use Change in Amazonia

- Global CH4;** **Wetlands, Flooding & Permafrost

**Global C Cycle **

**                ****Knowledge Base**

**2002:  Global productivity and land cover resolution coarse; Large uncertainties in biomass, fluxes, disturbance, and  coastal events**

- Systematic Observations

-  Process controls; errors in sink reduced

- Coastal Carbon

- Southern Ocean Carbon Program, Air-Sea CO2 Flux

-      Physiology & Functional Types

## CC&E Roadmap - Oceans 

-  Global Ocean Carbon/Particle Abundance
-  Coastal Carbon
-  Physiology and Functional Types
-  Southern Ocean Carbon Program (Partnership)
-  Challenges – update technology roadmaps, slide time line forward....

- CC&E Roadmap - Oceans

## Ocean Biology and BiogeochemistryWhere do we go from here?

-  Agency – advance planning, reorg
-  SMD reorg + Earth science advance planning
-  Focus Area advance planning
-  Programmatic advance planning – the next 20-30 	years of ocean biology and biogeochemistry 	research

## NASA Current and Approved Oceans and Ice Missions

***NPOESS OPS***

- TOPEX/P.

- JASON

- OSTM

- AQUARIUS

**Directed**

**Competed**

- QuikSCAT

- GRACE

***Beyond OSTM (2008) and Aquarius (2009), there are no approved NASA oceanographic satellite missions***

- Today

- Primary Mission

- Approved Extended Mission

- Conditionally Approved Extended Mission

- AQUA/MODIS

- ICESAT

- SEAWIFS

**Comm**

## Contributors:

	Michael Behrenfeld – Oregon State University
	Paula Bontempi – NASA HQ
	Heidi Dierssen – University of Connecticut
	Charles McClain – NASA GSFC
	Paul DiGiacomo – NASA JPL
	Steve Lohrenz – University of Southern Mississippi
	Frank Muller-Karger – University of South Florida
	David Siegel – University of California - Santa Barbara
	James Yoder – URI/WHOI

- Contributors:
- 	Michael Behrenfeld – Oregon State University
- 	Paula Bontempi – NASA HQ
- 	Heidi Dierssen – University of Connecticut
- 	Charles McClain – NASA GSFC
- 	Paul DiGiacomo – NASA JPL
- 	Steve Lohrenz – University of Southern Mississippi
- 	Frank Muller-Karger – University of South Florida
- 	David Siegel – University of California - Santa Barbara
- 	*James Yoder – URI/WHOI*

**Notes:**
How are ocean ecosystems structured, functioning and changing over time?
	Category - Ecosystems
What - Assessment of structure, functioning, distribution, and connectivity of ocean ecosystems and their changes in time. Land-ocean interactions fit in here.  Assessment of the interaction between physical, chemical and geological properties of the environment and biota, including humans.
Benefit to society – Marine resources (fisheries, natural products, etc.), ecosystem services (nutrient cycling, eutrophication pollutant degradation, sediment budgets and land-ocean interaction [be explicit about this last one]), non-use existence value for healthy ecosystems.  
Observational strategy – Accurate global time series of ocean color, coupled models (driven by other RS quantities), assessments of functional groups of phytoplankton via hyperspectral imagery, phytoplankton primary production via modeling & direct determinations via pulsed lidar.  RS observations of river discharge to get at eutrophication.  Maybe think about other vantage points like GEO or the Lagrange points (L1 though L4 and L5 may be MUCH easier). 

## Science Questions to address the next 30 years of Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Research – benefit to society
Science Measurements (from space)
Observational Strategy - In situ and remote technology options
Technological readiness
Science prioritization

- Science Questions to address the next 30 years of Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Research – benefit to society
- Science Measurements (from space)
- Observational Strategy - In situ and remote technology options
- Technological readiness
- Science prioritization

**Notes:**
How are ocean ecosystems structured, functioning and changing over time?
	Category - Ecosystems
What - Assessment of structure, functioning, distribution, and connectivity of ocean ecosystems and their changes in time. Land-ocean interactions fit in here.  Assessment of the interaction between physical, chemical and geological properties of the environment and biota, including humans.
Benefit to society – Marine resources (fisheries, natural products, etc.), ecosystem services (nutrient cycling, eutrophication pollutant degradation, sediment budgets and land-ocean interaction [be explicit about this last one]), non-use existence value for healthy ecosystems.  
Observational strategy – Accurate global time series of ocean color, coupled models (driven by other RS quantities), assessments of functional groups of phytoplankton via hyperspectral imagery, phytoplankton primary production via modeling & direct determinations via pulsed lidar.  RS observations of river discharge to get at eutrophication.  Maybe think about other vantage points like GEO or the Lagrange points (L1 though L4 and L5 may be MUCH easier). 

## Introduction – P. Bontempi/NASA HQ

- Science Questions – D. Siegel/UCSB
- Observational Strategies – M. Behrenfeld/OSU & P. DiGiacomo/NASA JPL
- Systematic Observations, Partnerships, Modeling, In situ planning, Summary – P. Bontempi/NASA HQ** **
**Community Feedback and Discussion – P. Bontempi & P. DiGiacomo**
- Science Questions
- Prioritization

**Role of the Community**

## Earth’s Living Ocean:

- NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry Program

**Earth’s Living Ocean:**
**The Undiscovered World**
**(The Unseen World)**