Good morning, Madam Chairwoman, and members of the Subcommittee. My name is Tracy Collier, I am the Director of the Environmental Conservation Division, in the Northwest Fisheries Science Center of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. Research conducted within my Division focuses on the effe...

The Simultaneous Nadir Overpass (SNO) method developed at NOAA/NESDIS has been used for the intersatellite calibration in the last few years with excellent results. The objective of this project is to establish and apply an accurate intersatellite calibration procedure to develop inter-satellite calibration data sets and characterize inter-satellite calibration bias, which will be useful for da...

The long-standing uncertainty about the importance of asteroid-generated tsunami was addressed at a workshop in August 2016, co-sponsored by NASA and NOAA. Experts from NASA (Ames, JPL), NOAA, DoE (LLNL, SNL, LANL), DHS, FEMA, and academia addressed the hazard of tsunami created by asteroid impacts, focusing primarily on impacting NEAs with diameter <250m. Participants jointly identified key is...

Comparisons of aircraft measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) to the retrievals of CO using observations from the Measurements of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument onboard the Terra satellite are presented. Observations made as part of the NASA INTEXB and NSF MIRAGE field campaigns during March–May 2006 are used to validate the MOPITT CO retrievals, along with routine samples from...

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | 1423 AFFILIATIONS: GUTZLER AND RITCHIE—University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; KIM, HIGGINS, MO, SCHEMM, AND SONG—Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Camp Springs, Maryland; KANAMITSU—Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; JUANG, MITCHELL, AND YANG—Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP/NWS/...

Shorelines are critical information in a Coastal Geographic Information System (CGIS). Shorelines have a dynamic nature. Hence, their definition, mapping, and subsequent utilization are a more complicated issue than people usually think. Different approaches to shoreline mapping are described and analyzed in this paper. In particular, a new method is presented in which tide-coordinated shorelin...

Information on land surface temperature (LST) is important for understanding climate change, modeling the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and is a prime candidate parameter for Numerical Weather Prediction assimilation models. In particular, the LST data derived from geostationary operational environmental satellite (GOES) provides unique opportunity for studying LST diurnal variation. ...

The Suomi-NPP VIIRS Land Team# with contributions from: Simon Hook (JPL); Mark Friedl (BU); Damien Sulla-Menashe (BU); Josh Gray (BU); Crystal Schaaf (UMB); Zhuosen Wang (UMB); Tomoaki Miura (U. Hawaii); Alfredo Huete (UA/UTS); James Maslanik (U. Colorado); Mark Tschudi (U. Colorado); Dan Baldwin (U. Colorado); Jeffrey R. Key (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR); Xuanji Wang (U. Wisconsin); Yinghui Liu (U. Wisco...

a Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada b Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA c BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Cambridge CB30NA, UK d Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, WC1E 6BT, UK e...

Experimental fishing is a powerful tool to support adaptive management by exploring innovative fisheries practices, scientific approaches, and actions. In the United States, capacity interest exist use on-the-water experimentation test alternative ideas meet national standards of Magnuson-Stevens Act promote sustainable fisheries. One program, U.S. exempted permit (EFP) administered National Oc...