Environmental Observation and Prediction, responsible for NOAAs integrated mapping, water, and ocean of observations and forecasts. One of the reasons that we chose Washington D.C. for this panel meeting was to have the ability and the opportunity to meet with NOAA leadership. NOAA leadership has responded by being available and meeting with us, to this end, we look forward to hearing from NOAA administrator Dr. Sullivan, and acting assistant administrator, Dr. Callender this morning. On Thursday morning, well be meeting with Dr. Bamford, NOAA acting assistant secretary for conservation and management. And during our lunch on Thursday, we will hear from Rear Admiral Anita Lopez, Deputy Director of Operations for NOAAs Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. We have a full three days of meetings on this agenda, including many interesting speakers and
Louisiana, and these are out near the entrance from the Gulf. And Morgan City has been doing a lot of investment to establish itself as a foreign trade destination as this is part of their planning to become that type of destination. Port Fourchon is at the single water level gauge, but they have put in for funding to fairly dramatically expand this to a number of other centers, well see if they get that funding. Port Fourchon is a very critical port in the gulf in terms of a major -- most of the energy supplies for the nation really come in through Port Fourchon. And theres a whole other kind of coastal resilience story on the backside of Port Fourchon, which I dont have time to get into in terms of where NGS and colleagues have helped them address highway elevation, theres only one highway that comes down there and they were looking to get that highway elevated.
new version, weve upgraded the frontend, if you will, the web interface. Theyve added a variety of new data layers. Theres key technology now implemented so that users can actually grab the data streams that theyre seeing and connect their applications to those data streams. So nowCOAST is a terrific way to not only see all the different environmental intelligence that NOAA offers, but also to capture it, and bring it into your decision support tools. A couple of new data layers, near real-time, lightning strike density data for both land and overwater areas. There is a mariners tab, which is basically a customized tab so that mariners can click on that, and view those things that are of interest to them, like marine forecasts. We have our second industry day planned for the end of this month, September 29th and October 1st. So the NOAA Navigation
we had been hoping for, instead of just holding on and waiting until the cows come home. Please do work with us and help make sure were being as agile and wise as possible there, but we could certainly also use your voices on the broader picture that you are authoritative voices that say is it a legitimate truth that this is a distinct mission. Furthermore, the scope of which is so huge that the notion of accomplishing it in a timeframe thats reasonable for the United States economy by timesharing with X other missions is an implausible notion. We say that lots of but our voices are discounted in many quarters. VICE-CHAIR HANSON: Dr. Sullivan, again, thanks for coming here today. Weve noticed -- Lawson and I were talking, your 2012 appearance in Anchorage. I dont know if you recall, but next door to us in the big conference room was a huge gathering of over
that has come out of this. I originally started working with the pilots on this, and the Ports Authority but has blossomed up since then. Its my understanding that those did start up as partnerships, though. That as part of the agreement, that PORTS would pick up the O&M and that was long ago, and thats since changed, but that was the initial agreement. And so we do hear from other folks about how the value of public-private partnerships, though, and if the federal funds cant come in, where can we leverage other public-private partnerships, and that is one area -- Im not saying that thats going to stand or stay because obviously, theres folks who -- especially on the authorizing side that have granted that. But it comes -- that whole cycle of changing this to make it a full NOAA 100 percent responsibility, it doesnt necessarily it may end with us but doesnt necessarily
study subsidence and plate tectonics and explain that sort of thing going on in our state, a place that most geologists avoided because it was too complex. I was the surveyor and was trying to tell him how valuable the real-time data would be, as well. So, we ended up building what's now called C4Gnet. It's the largest real-time network, university-owned real-time network. It covers Louisiana and some parts of the gulf coast, in conjunction with a consortium of states from Florida to Texas, where we're trying to set up core stations and make studies of primarily, the control for surveying along the Gulf Coast. But you invited me here as a representative of the NSPS. We have 17,000 surveyors as members, many of them in hydrography, a great a majority of them I'm sure not, but all served by NOAA. In order to speak to you, since it's been a few years since I called myself a
your presentations. MEMBER MAUNE: Thank you. MEMBER BARBOR: Ken Barbor. Bud, you highlighted Galveston as a need for precision navigation over, probably, higher throughput, Miami's or other places that have a risk factor issues. What's driving your Galveston recommendation? MR. DARR: A couple of things. One is the complexity of the navigation entering that port, whether it's Galveston or Houston/Galveston. Also, the weather conditions are much more challenging than we typically see in the higher volume ports on the East Coast of Florida, which rank one, two and three in the world in volume. They're just not as weather adverse and the conditions are more predictable and the navigation conditions and the volume of traffic you see in both directions is not the same. And the other reason why is I do think that Galveston has