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National Oceanographic Data Center 

Annual Report Fiscal Year 2008 

Message from the Director.....................................................................................................................2

1. NODC Strategic Goals and Objectives.................................................................................3 

Goal 1: Provide access to the Nation’s coastal and ocean data resources................3

Goal 2: Acquire and archive the Nation’s coastal and ocean data................................3

Goal 3: Build climate data records for key ocean variables............................................3

Goal 4: Provide information technology services..............................................................3

Goal 5: Ensure the delivery of information to users..........................................................3

Goal 6: Enable the realization of NOAA Core Values ........................................................3

2. Accomplishments in Fiscal Year 2008 ..................................................................................4

3. Path Toward Achieving Our Vision - Key Focus Areas for Fiscal Year 2009 .............8

Appendix 1. Celebrating NODC’s Employees........................................................................10

NODC Employee of the Season.............................................................................................10

NODC FY08 Certificates of Appreciation............................................................................10

Appendix 2. NODC Publications in FY 2008...........................................................................13

Appendix 3. NODC FY 2008 Budget .........................................................................................14

Appendix 4. FY 2008 Annual Operating Plan.........................................................................15

Appendix 5. Orders by Customer Class & Information Requests ...................................16

Appendix 6. NODC Organization Table ...................................................................................17

Appendix 7. NODC Workforce ...................................................................................................18

 
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Message from the Director

I am pleased to initiate the first of many annual reports that highlight the strategic direction 

and accomplishments of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). This has been 

an active, productive, and exciting year that saw many changes to the center. I joined 

NODC at the end of calendar year 2007 with a firm desire to communicate NODC’s critical 

mission to all our partners within NESDIS, NOAA, other federal agencies, academia, the 

international community, and the private sector. As NOAA tackles challenging problems 

with our coasts and oceans, our role of maintaining the largest collection of oceanographic 

data and information continues to become more important in our changing environment. 

During Fiscal Year 2008, we initiated a series of activities to enhance communication with 

our customers regarding NODC’s multitude of products and services, and to receive input 

on what ocean data and information are required by the community we serve. We also 

focused on development of tools and services that will facilitate the exchange of ocean 

data and information. This is a critical topic since the issues we are dealing with are global 

and regional, such as the response of marine ecosystems to climate change. 

Understanding the oceans in a changing climate requires historical as well as real-time 

ocean data and information. NODC, in its role as the national stewards for ocean data and 

information, is working with the national and international community to provide the 

essential products needed to address climate change issues, provide the baseline and 

integrated data for Integrated Ecosystem Assessments, and enable end to end coastal 

support. 

During Fiscal Year 2009, we will continue to communicate NODC’s mission and vision, 

which reflect the core capabilities of the data center, and deal with the growing 

requirements for ocean data and information. This report provides a draft of the goals and 

objectives that define how NODC will face these increasing challenges. 

We look forward to your input on how we can best present the service NODC provides 

NOAA, the Nation, and our international partners in "acquiring, processing, preserving, and 

disseminating coastal and ocean data and information." Our success relies on national 

and international partnerships. We judge our accomplishments by the usefulness of our 

data and information products to our current users, and by planning what services our 

customers will need in the future.

Margarita Conkright Gregg, Ph.D. 

Director 

November, 2008 
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1. NODC Strategic Goals and Objectives

NODC supports its ocean stewardship mission through the implementation of the following 

strategic goals and objectives 

Goal 1: Provide access to the Nation’s coastal and ocean data resources

• Provide coordinated data management for coastal data 

• Establish partnerships with coastal communities to meet data requirements 

• Provide a data discovery mechanism for coastal and ocean data 

• Lead the development of a data integration framework to meet Integrated Ecosystem 

Assessment requirements. 

Goal 2: Acquire and archive the Nation’s coastal and ocean data 

• Leverage international data management efforts by using standard protocols 

• Leverage the data management efforts of federal agencies and educational institutes 

that fund ocean projects 

• Automate the ingest of data received on a regular basis 

• Engage with the data providers to ensure appropriate metadata are submitted 

Goal 3: Build climate data records for key ocean variables 

• Develop products based on user requirements 

• Build scientifically, quality-controlled global oceanographic databases 

• Develop improved ocean climatologies for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing 

periods 

Goal 4: Provide information technology services 

• Maintain data and information in a secure, sustainable, permanent and readily 

accessible archive 

• Provide a secure but accessible IT infrastructure for the archive and preservation of 

NODC data and information 

• Provide access and knowledge resources to expand utility of NODC data and 

information holdings 

• Maintain and support network connectivity, email, and Web servers 

Goal 5: Ensure the delivery of information to users 

• Meet the expanding needs for information services 

• Build a NOAA-wide institutional repository of electronic publications

• Provide NOAA-wide desktop access to journals and databases 

Goal 6: Enable the realization of NOAA Core Values 

• Implement processes that challenge and expand the core competencies of all NODC 

personnel 

• Leverage the capabilities of NODC employees across organizational structures within 

NODC, NESDIS, and NOAA 

• Strive for excellence in Science, Service, and Stewardship 

• Increase the efficiency of NODC’s financial, acquisition, and administrative functions 
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2. Accomplishments in Fiscal Year 2008 

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on 

Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Gore. Sydney Levitus of NODC was a Lead Author of 

Chapter 5 (Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level) of the most recent 

IPCC Assessment. Dr. Hernan Garcia, Mr. Tim Boyer and Dr. John Antonov were 

Contributing Authors to this chapter. Levitus, Garcia, and Boyer are federal employees at 

NESDIS/NODC and Antonov is a UCAR visiting scientist at NESDIS/NODC.

The Regional Ecosystem Data Management portal supports the 

Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEA) by integrating 

disparate (physical, biological, economic, etc.) data sets

from current NOAA and Regional Association observing and 

information management systems, increasing access to 

observing system data. National decision makers will have free 

access to operational NOAA and partner products via the 

Internet (Ecosystem Goal). 

NODC rescued California Current Regional Ecosystem data and made it 

available to the public via NODC’s online Ocean Archive. Ecologists 

need historic ecosystem survey data to assess the current health of an 

ecosystem. They may use the images from these surveys to assess 

the health of the California Current Regional Ecosystem (Ecosystem 

Goal). 

The National Oceanographic Data Center coordinated with NOS, NMFS, 

OAR, and other NESDIS personnel to design, develop, implement and 

deploy the Coral Reef regional portal site. The CoRIS Regional Portal 

enables a broad audience of users to discover NOAA-funded coral 

ecosystems data and information products based on the region 

relevant to those data and information products (Ecosystem Goal). 

NODC developed and implemented a strategy to fulfill its response 

to tens of thousands of requests per day for the water temperatures 

off the U.S. coastal areas, including the Great Lakes, in a timely 

and user-friendly manner. The Coastal Water Temperature Guide 

has become the primary gateway for providing useful information 

for planning beach activities such as swimming or fishing 

(Weather and Water Goal). 

Goal 1: Provide Access to the Nation's Coastal and Ocean Data Resources 
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NODC acquired and archived over 11,600 data sets from more than 70 oceanographic 

organizations and offices, including many in NOAA. Among the benefits, scientists will 

use these archival data long after their originally intended use has passed – e.g., to study 

the climate and to create baselines for ecosystem assessments (Ecosystem Goal and 

Climate Goal). 

The GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature product increased the number of 

users by 20% in 2007. This translated to a greater than 300% increase in data distributed. 

Pathfinder data increased over 128%, leading to a 230% user increase. 

The initial data sets from the NCEP Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) Atlantic 

data were ingested into the NODC archives. These model outputs are now directly 

available online via the NODC Ocean Archive System (Mission Support – Environmental 

Modeling) 

Pathfinder data was used in a new study, which shows the extent of 

harmful human influences on global marine ecosystems using 

Pathfinder data. The study was published in Science magazine, of 

which Kenneth Casey was a co-author. NODC provides scientific 

stewardship for these data. (Climate Goal) 

NODC increased the amount of historical as well as modern profile data in the World 

Ocean Database. Data from approximately 200,000 Ocean Station Data casts and 

approximately 200,000 Conductivity-Temperature-Depth casts were processed for 

inclusion into World Ocean Database 2009 (including data from the Argo and Global 

Temperature and Salinity Profile Programs). These data were used to document that the 

world ocean has warmed during the past fifty years. The data are frequently used as 

internal and external boundary conditions in ocean general circulation models and in 

assimilation studies (Climate Goal). 

NODC created an online Sea Surface Temperature 

(SST) intercomparison framework that provides 

standardized access to an international collection of 

satellite, in situ, and blended SST analysis products, 

community-consensus intercomparison diagnostics, 

and interactive online graphics that make all of the 

Goal 2: Acquire and Archive the Nation’s Coastal and Ocean Data 

Goal 3: Build Climate Data Records for Key Ocean Variables 
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intercomparison diagnostic data easily viewable and accessible. These efforts are leading 

to an enhanced understanding of our changing climate, specifically the critically 

important parameter of SST (Climate Goal). 

NODC Archive Doubles Between FY07 and FY08: The size of the NODC archive 

doubled from 31TB in FY07 to 60 TB in FY08. This increase is due to expanding the 

archive to include satellite and model data. In contrast, back in 1968, the size of the 

archive was 1GB. 

NODC IT Security: Worked extensively with NESDIS Chief Information Officer (CIO) and 

with NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (NCIRT) on security & policy issues, risk 

assessments, data calls, and POA&M. Provided active support to the NESDIS Information 

Resources Management Team, CLASS, Ground Systems, and other projects. 

NODC C&A, and COOP/BCP: Continuously worked on NODC’s Certification and 

Accreditation to enhance and document its security posture. NODC completed 80% of its 

Points of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms). 

NODC Archive Management Systems (AMS): NODC implemented major modifications 

to the NODC Archive Management System that significantly improved system performance 

and enhanced the ability of users to discover archived originator data. 

NODC and other NESDIS Employees publish the Earth System 

Monitor, a free quarterly bulletin that reports on NOAA environmental 

data and information programs, projects, and activities. This fiscal year 

focused on the NOAA mission goals “Weather and Water”, 

“Commerce and Transportation” and the “Satellite” subgoal. These 

publications benefit the public by reporting on NOAA environmental 

data and information programs, projects, and activities with more 

than 4,000 subscribers (Cross-Goals). 

The number of accesses into the online Photo Library and the online 

legacy databases surpassed all previous records. From October 2007 through September 

2008, there were over 2,043,610 online visitors and 9,429,638 pages viewed from the 

online Photo Library. During that same period, there were 9,853,670 accesses to the 

Climate Data Modernization web sites and collections. The unique historical foreign climate 

data from 54 countries, the U.S. Daily Weather Maps from 1870 through the present, and 

the full text of the Monthly Weather Review from 1871, for example, are used by 

Goal 4: Provide Information Technology Services 

Goal 5: Ensure the Delivery of Information to Users 
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professors of climatology, students of meteorology, researchers, and the public (Weather 

and Water Goal). 

Library staff, in anticipation of interest in polar 

information from the IPY initiatives, created resources 

such as the online bibliography International Polar 

Year 2007-2008: Resources on Polar Research in the 

NOAA Central Library Network. This accomplishment 

harvested and made available to the public and to the 

research community documents from the NOAA 

Central Library legacy collections. 

NODC updated its entire web presence including the library 

website to allow easier access to NODC's data and 

information. By following the OneNOAA concept, the 

websites include a NOAA-wide search solution that is 

available from every webpage. NODC’s site also contains an 

enhanced customer survey form and enhanced usability. 

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Ms. Mary Glackin, DUS, visited NOAA Activities at the Stennis Space Center on January 

22, 2008. 

NESDIS developed the end-to-end data management process 

necessary to discover (metadata development), and access 

ocean survey data through the Digital Atlas, visualize the data, 

and provide the architecture for transport and archive to the 

appropriate NOAA national data center. 

Dr. Margarita Gregg, Julie Bosch and Bob Gelfeld attended the First Session of the 

IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management and Exchange Standards in 

Oostende, Belgium on January 21-25, 2008. 

NODC had 100% completion of the Safety Awareness Course, and had no safety 

violations and no injuries for Fiscal Year 08. 

NODC celebrated its diverse culture by hosting a potluck luncheon celebrating Asian 

culture. 

NESDIS EEO/Diversity Council Northern Gulf Institute Internship Grant Completed. This 

program provides career exploration opportunities in geospatial metadata 

Goal 6: Enable the Realization of NOAA Core Values 
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management and metadata creation for coastal ecosystem data to undergraduate and 

graduate students from diverse communities. 

NODC Provides Race for the Cure Web Pages for 

NOAA Team (8th year in a row) -- NODC hosted the 

NOAA Race for the Cure web pages again for 2008. 

This site helps organize the NOAA Race Team (named 

Running with the Currents) in registering, setting 

meeting times, and raising awareness for this 

important event. NODC works with NOAA Team 

Captains Mary Glackin and Christine Alex on this project on a yearly basis. 

3. Path Toward Achieving Our Vision

Key Focus Areas for Fiscal Year 2009 

Goal 1: Provide access to the Nation’s coastal and ocean data resources 

• Foster tools that incorporate our technology advances such as the use of ontologies in the 

discovery of data 

• Continue to foster partnerships with the regional NGOs, state, federal, local, and private 

coastal and ocean communities 

• Expand the capabilities of the Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid (MERMAid) 

• Implement the Regional Ecosystem Data Management (REDM) framework 

Measure of Success: 

• Number of tools developed 

• Number of partnerships initiated in Fiscal Year 2009 

Goal 2: Acquire and archive the Nation’s coastal and ocean data and information 

• Improve methods for interactions between data producers and the data center at the 

interagency, institutional, and international levels 

• Enhance the NODC archives with additional ocean data and information 

• Understand and document user requirements for ocean data and information through 

interactions with the scientific and operational communities 

• Ensure support for NOAA programs such as IOOS 

Measure of Success:

• Decrease the time between data receipt and data availability 

• Number of datasets added to the NODC archives 

• Number of agreements between NODC and the user community 

Goal 3: Build climate data records for key ocean variables 

• Publish the World Ocean Database (WOD) 2009 

• Describe changes in the ocean heat content 

• Establish initial in-house AVHRR Pathfinder reprocessing system 
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• Identify gaps in key products required by the ocean community related to climate and 

integrated ecosystem assessments 

Measure of Success:

• Number of datasets added since last official release of WOD 

• Number of new variables since last release of WOD 

• Years of AVHRR data re-processed 

Goal 4: Provide information technology services 

• Develop tools that increase access to NODC’s data and information, such as OPeNDAP, 

THREDDS Data Server, Live Access Server, and ArmorDAP (these must be implemented in a 

secure manner). 

• Develop procedures that formalize and document changes to NODC’s configuration 

management 

Measure of Success:

• Number of tools or data services implemented to improve access to archived historical data 

• Sustained Certification and Accreditation for NODC’s IT security posture 

Goal 5: Ensure the delivery of information to users 

• Engage the ocean data and information user community in the development of an NODC 

strategic plan

• Work within NESDIS and across NOAA to increase the efficiency of the NOAA information 

services 

• Initiate an Institutional Repository pilot project 

Measure of Success:

• Increases utilization of library materials (online searches and downloaded articles) 

• Increase of the use of the photo library and other online library resources 

• Define a concept of operations for the NOAA Central Library and branches 

Goal 6: Enable the realization of NOAA Core Values 

• Develop and prioritize NODC’s strategic directions 

• Engage on key issues with internal and external groups through the NODC Working Group 

• Enhance divisional cooperation in areas such as Metadata, Geospatial Information Services 

(GIS), and IOOS/DMAC 

• Increase the efficiency of NODC’s financial, acquisition, and administrative functions 

Measure of Success:

• Establish performance objectives for each NODC goal 

• Expand the NCDDC Northern Gulf of Mexico Minority Summer Internship 

• Engage with the national and international community on requirements for ocean 

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Appendix 1. Celebrating NODC’s Employees

NODC Employee of the Season 

Winter, 2008 – Thomas Ryan 

Spring, 2008 – Tess Brandon 

Summer, 2008 - Andrew Allegra 

NODC FY08 Certificates of Appreciation 

Albert E. Therberg (Skip) 

For His Contributions to the 200th NOAA Anniversary 

Andrew Allegra 

For His Initiative, Energy, and Leadership of the NODC Communications Team 

Andrew Allegra, Joseph Shirley, Jefferson Ogata, John Relph, and Hajure Fontaine 

For Your Dedicated and Extensive Effort on the New NOAA Central Library Website 

Angela Sallis 

For Outreach Efforts and Dedication in Making NEWIS Available to Key Gulf Coastal 

Communities 

Barbara Ambrose 

For Her BEAUTIFUL Artwork that Clearly Communicates the NCDDC Goals 

Brenda Robinson 

For Her Contributions As Recording Secretary To Blacks in Government 

Chad Webb 

For Timely Completion of the NCDDC System-Wide Upgrade 

Cheryl Ingram 

For Your Contributions as Chair of the NODC Safety Committee and Inter-Divisional 

Support with C-Request Submissions 

Charles Sun 

For Implementing an Automated Procedure for Displaying the Argo Data 

Diane Abney, Tess Brandon, Mary Lou Cumberpatch, Sarah Davis, Hernan Garcia, 

Robert Gelfeld, Mary Hollinger, Brenda Robinson, Beth Kirton-Crane, Gulnar 

Nagashybayeva, Shannon Niou, Steve Quillen, Li Zhang and Cynthia Zeigler 

For Their Contribution to the 2008 NOAA “Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day” 
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Donald Collins, Ken Casey, Robert Gelfeld, Hernan Garcia, Scott Cross, Steve Rutz, 

Peter Grimm, Eric Ogata 

NODC’s New Data Champions 

Francis Mitchell 

Taught the Next Generation of NODC Employees How to Be Data Custodians 

Freud Park 

For Your Active Participation and Engagement in the NESDIS EEO/Diversity Council 

Helen Gibson 

For Her Daily Support Across All NODC Divisions 

Julie Bosch, Rost Parsons and Kenneth Casey 

For Helping NODC Integrate with IOOS 

Kathy Martinolich 

For the Invaluable Work Spearheading the EEO Diversity Internship Program at NCDDC 

Mary Hollinger, Linda Pikula, Angela Sallis, Kenneth Casey, Andrew Allegra and 

Donald Collins 

For their Outreach and Support Services at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008 

Mary O’Chery 

For Her Extraordinary Work Dealing with a Diversity of Contracts and Contracting Issues 

National Coastal Data Development Center 

For TEAMWORK 

National Coastal Data Development Center 

For the Design and Distribution of the NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheets 

(NEWIS) 

Neal Kaske, Mary Cumberpatch, Caroline Woods, Kathy Kelly, Anna Fiolek, Gulnar 

Nagashybayeva, Diane Abney, Sheri Phillips, Phyllis Chui, Li Zhang, and Elizabeth 

Kirton-Crane 

For Your Dedicated and Extensive Effort on the New NOAA Central Library Website 

Parmesh Dwivedi, William Burton, Michael Chepurin, Jefferson Ogata, Cynthia 

Zeigler, and Joseph Shirley 

For Your Outstanding IT Support for the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites 

(CEOS) – Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Workshop 

Ricardo Locarnini 

Gatekeeper of the World Ocean Database 

Russ Beard 

For leading NCDDC in the Development, Implementation, and Budgeting of REDM 
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Russ Beard, Janice Beattie, Parmesh Dwivedi, Helen Gibson, Sydney Levitus, Mary 

O’Chery, Linda Pikula, Steve Quillen, Brian Voss, Wayne Wilmot, Cynthia Ziegler 

For Outstanding Efforts in Reconciling Personal Property 

Scott Mowery 

For leading the FY09-FY11 PPBES Process 

Shannon Niou, Cynthia Zeigler, Cheryl Ingram, Margaret Eggleston, Daphne 

Johnson, Christopher Paver, Mike Chepurin, Hernan Garcia, Eric Ogata, and Vicky 

Lin 

For Their Contributions to the NODC Cultural Diversity Potluck - March 2008 

Sharon Mesick, Susan Gottfried, Scott Hill, Dafina Abernathy, Stacy Ladner, David 

Sallis, and Denise Gordon 

For the Development and Implementation of the Cruise Information Management System 

on the Okeanos Explorer 

Sherry Goynes, Amanda Waltman, Rachel Kard, Steven Blesse, Chad Webb, Matt 

Hode, Lenny Collazo, Susan Starke, and Monty Peffley 

For Dedication to the Computer Systems that are the Lifeline of the Center 

Sheri Phillips 

For Her Contribution to the NODC Spirit of Outreach and Communications 

Sheri Phillips, Hajure Fortaine, William Burton, Cynthia Zeigler, Eileen McVey, 

Daphne Johnson and Barbara Ambrose 

For Designing and Contributing to the National Oceanographic Data Center Posters 

Steve Quillen for 30 Years of Service 

Susan Gottfried, Scott Hill, Stacy Ladnier, Barbara Ambrose and Kathy Martinolich 

For Teamwork with the National Oceanographic Data Center in Receiving the Department 

of Commerce Bronze Award for Support of the Ocean Exploration (OE) Program 

Sydney Levitus, Tim Boyer, Hernan Garcia, John Antonov 

For Key Contributions to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on 

Climate Change 

Tim Boyer and Olga Baranova 

For Your Efforts in Providing More Timely Oceanographic Data to the Public via the World 

Ocean Database (WOD) Select Quarterly Updates 
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Appendix 2. NODC Publications in FY 2008 

Published

Bindoff, N.L., J. Willebrand, V. Artale, A. Cazenave, J. Gregory, S. Gulev, K. Hanawa, C. Le Quéré, 

S. Levitus, Y. Nojiri, C.K. Shum, L. D. Talley, and U. Unnikrishnan, 2007: Observations: Oceanic 

Climate Change and Sea Level. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. 

Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel 

on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Maquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor 

and H. L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. 

Chu, Peter C., Charles Sun, and Chenwu Fan, 2008: "Variability in the Atlantic Meridional 

Overturning Circulation and Heat Transport Detected Remotely From Argo Floats", Proceedings, 

2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, 2008, Boston, MA. 

Halpern, B.S., S. Walbridge, K.A. Selkoe, C.V. Kappel, F. Micheli, C. D’Agrosa, J.F. Bruno, K.S. 

Casey, et al. (2008). A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems, Science, v. 319, pp. 

948-952 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1149345]. 

Kara, A. B., C. N. Barron, A. J. Wallcraft, T. Oguz, and K. S. Casey (2008). Advantages of fine 

resolution SSTs for small ocean basins: Evaluation in the Black Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 113, 

C08013 [DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004569]. 

Karageorgis, A.P., W.D. Gardner, D.Georgopoulos, A.V. Mishonov, E.Krasakopoulou and C. 

Anagnostou, 2008: Particle dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A synthesis based on 

light transmission, PMC, and POC archives (1991-2001), Deep Sea Research I, 55(2):177-202. 

doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2007.11.002. 

Lee, ZhongPing, Brandon Casey, Robert Arnone, Alan Weidemann, Rost Parsons, Marcos J. 

Montes, Bo-Cai Gao, Wesley Goode, Curtiss O. Davis, and Julie Dye, Water and bottom properties 

of a coastal environment derived from Hyperion data measured from the EO-1 spacecraft platform, 

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol 1, 011502 (December 26, 2007) 

Accepted for Publication

Kara, B, R. Helber, C. Barron, T. Boyer, 2008, Mixed layer depth in the Aegean, Marmara, Black, 

and Azov Seas: Part I: General Features, Journal of Marine Science, accepted. 

Helber, R., B. Kara, C. Barron, T. Boyer, 2008, Mixed layer depth in the Aegean, Marmara, Black, 

and Azov Seas: Part II: Relation to the sonic layer depth, Journal of Marine Systems, accepted. 
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Appendix 3. NODC FY2008 Budget 

NESDIS BUDGET LINES 

Archive, Access and Assessment 

Coastal Data Development 

NESDIS Virtual Data Systems 

 

PROGRAM TITLE: % 

FULL TIME PERMANENT 5,412,928 

LEAVE SURCHARGE 1,985,661 

OTHER PERS COMPENSATION 124,900 

SUBTOTAL, LABOR: 7,523,489 48.1 

 

PERSONNEL BENEFITS 

SUBTOTAL, BENEFITS 1,869,676 11.9 

 

DOMESTIC TRAVEL 138,917 

FOREIGN TRAVEL 24,700 

TRANS OF THINGS 4,203 

UTILITIES/TELECOM 9,840 

RENT, COMM & UTILITIES 798,432 

PRINT & REPRODUCTION 24,433 

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES 3,595,828 

SUPPLIES & MATERIAL 104,031 

EQUIPMENT 81,965 

SUBTOTAL, NON-LABOR/BENEFITS: 4,782,349 30.6 

 

SUBTOTAL, INDIRECT COSTS: 1,038,241 6.6 

 

NVDS FUNDING 438,455 2.8 

 

TOTAL OPERATING PLAN 15,652,210 100.0 
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Appendix 4 – FY08 Annual Operating Plan 

NOAA Mission 

Goal 

NODC Mission Goal Milestones NOAA FY08 Priority 

Extend MERMAID Capabilities to include 

additional organizational affiliations, 

vocabularies and profiles; discovery and 

access to EGT/EOP activities 

Expand Regional Ecosystem Data 

Management (REDM) activities for the 

California Current, GOM, include Alaska 

Ecosystem Complex as resource allows. 

Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA) 

Provide access 

Data Management support to EGT programs 

in addition to EOP and NOAA Strategic Goals 

Integrated Ecosystem 

Assessments 

Global Argo Data Repository 

Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program 

GODAE High Resolution SST (GHRSST) 

Publish archival underway ship data from 

NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations 

(NMAO) Scientific Computer System (SCS) 

Ecosystem 

Acquire and archive 

data 

Archive NCEP RTOFS, WAVE, ROFS/COFS 

Integrated Earth 

Observations 

Ocean Heat Content variability 

Develop World Ocean Database 2009 

(WOD09) 

Climate Analyses of data 

Pathfinder V5 Sea Surface Temperature 

Climate Observations 

and Analysis 

Maintain NCDDC Certification and 

Accreditation (C&A) 

NODC CLASS project - Full Operational 

Capability (FOC) 

OPeNDAP, THREDDS, NOMADS, 

Operational Deployment 

Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) 

Enhancement 

Coral Reef Conservation Program 

Publish archival images from three California 

Coastal Marine Ecosystem Surveys 

Integrated Earth 

Observations 

One additional NOAA-wide E-resource 

Institutional Repository software selected and 

beta tested--subject to IT approval 

Mission Support Information Technology 

Services 

Delivery of Information 

Develop and create Climate Change Portal in 

conjunction with NOS 

President’s 

Management Agenda 
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Appendix 5 - Orders by Customer Class FY2008 

With Free & Data Exchanges 

Begin Date: 2007/10/01

End Date: 2008/09/30

Data Center: NODC

Customer Class Number 

Business 11 

Consulting Meteorologist 1 

Department of Defense 2 

Depository Library 2 

Engineer 3 

Individual 4 

NOAA non-NWS 18 

Non-Profit Organization 2 

Non-US: Government 52 

Non-US: Other 18 

Non-US: Research 25 

Non-US: University 67 

Other Federal Government 10 

Research US 8 

US Media 2 

University 45 

Subtotal for Type: Order 270 

Grand Total 270 

Summary of Information Requests by Request Origin FY2008 

Begin Date: 2007/10/01

End Date: 2008/09/30

Data Center: NODC

Request Origin Number

EMAIL 557

FAX 1

LETTER 5

PHONE 89

TOTAL 652
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Appendix 6 – NODC Organization Table 
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Appendix 7 – NODC Workforce 

 

Division # Federal 

Employees 

# 

Contractors 

Front Office 10 0 

Marine Data Stewardship 15 6 

Information Systems and Management 8 3 

Library Information Services 13 14 

Ocean Climate Laboratory 7 6 

National Coastal Data Development Center 14 29 

TOTAL 64 61