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2013 CIMRS Executive Board Meeting

OSU President’s Conference Room, 6th floor Kerr, Corvallis

10am - 12 pm Thursday June 20th

Proposed Agenda:

I Chair Welcome (Rick Spinrad, VP for research, OSU)

II Update on current CIMRS and CI Directors collective activities (Michael Banks)

III Success highlight – review of CIMRS post docs/junior faculty performance (Banks)

IV NOAA mission challenges for which HMSC/OSU has relevant expertise?

NWFSC (Mark Strom for John Stein)

PMEL (Chris Sabine)

AFSC (John Bengtson/Pat Livingston)

V Strategies for FY14 survival (sequester) and for the five-year CIMRS review (Oct. 2014) (Strom/Sabine/Bengtson/Livingston/Spinrad/Banks)

VI An idea for Education & Outreach development: UNR/NSF STEM program (Banks)

VII Vents/Marine Bioacoustics leadership changes given pending retirements (Chris Sabine)

VIII Authorship affiliation for partnership manuscript: NOAA credit assignment (Chris Sabine)

VIII Other Items and Needs of the Board (Rick Spinrad)

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Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS)

Principal Investigator: Michael A. Banks, Director CIMRS, Hatfield Marine Science Center Oregon State University (OSU)

Award period October 1st 2011 – September 30th 2016

Federal Funds requested $33,760,688

Now in its twenty-eight year, the OSU/NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) develops and offers opportunities for joint research and outreach to a growing community of University and NOAA scientists dedicated to marine science, graduate education, and learning partnerships with regional industries and communities that are dependent on marine resources. The Institute’s main mission is to bring together research partners from Oregon State University’s full variety of colleges and departments to assist their NOAA colleagues address complex multidisciplinary issues relating to sustainable use and management of the marine environment. We thrive because of sustained vision and commitment of leaders from within the laboratories of our NOAA associates and the OSU Research Office. Increasing synergies realized over the past few years include a marked expansion in the distribution of research findings nationally and globally, tripling of external research grant funding, diversification of post doctoral and graduate student opportunities, and pooling of minds and resources from a broad range of disciplines to address marine-related research problems of climate, environmental, economic and social importance. We present here a range of 34 research projects coordinated as sub-themes within four primary themes: Marine Ecosystems and Habitat, Protection and Restoration of Marine Resources, Seafloor Processes and Marine Bioacoustics. Diverse activities range from studies in physical oceanography, ecosystem, fisheries stock and habitat assessment, longer term prediction of physical and biological inter-relationships and climate, modeling, economics, spatial planning, genomics, ecology through to geology, marine chemistry, and sound. The eclectic collaborative structure of CIMRS strives to facilitate new and nimble ways to apply hard science, basic research in a quest to understand factors and fluxes impacting marine resources and better their management. Within this proposal are numerous examples of research, education and outreach excellence. These results arise from investment of our leaders in unique resources poised in the Pacific Northwest where three states host sincere hard work and tremendous good will.

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FY 2013 Executive Board

Rick Spinrad (Chair)

Vice-President for Research,

Oregon State University

Janet Webster

Director,

Hatfield Marine Science Center, OSU

Mark Abbott

Dean, College of Earth, Ocean, &

Atmospheric Sciences, OSU

Stella Coakley/ Larry Curtis

Associate Dean,

College of Agricultural Sciences, OSU

John Bengtson

Director, National Marine Mammal

Laboratory, AFSC, NOAA

Patricia Livingston

Director, REFM,

Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA

Rich Holdren

Acting Director,

Oregon Sea Grant, OSU

Chris Sabine

Director, Pacific Marine Environmental

Laboratory, NOAA

Vincent Remcho

Interim-Dean,

College of Sciences, OSU

John Stein

Science Director,

Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA

Michael Banks (Ex Officio)

Director, CIMRS, OSU

CIMRS is administered jointly through the OSU Research Office with oversight from an Executive Board made up of members from participating organizations under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between OSU and NOAA/NMFS. The Executive Board will provide “One-NOAA” oversight and direction to CIMRS, and communicate NOAA policies, priorities, coordination opportunities and performance matters. They will review and comment of the CIMRS annual report and approve appointments of the Science Advisory Council (SAC). In exercising its review and evaluation capacities the Executive board shall include the CIMRS Director in its deliberations and may invite representatives from the SAC or any other relevant participants. The Executive Board will be chaired by the Vice President for Research at OSU and shall be made up of representatives from NOAA line offices and programs that have research interests in the Northeast Pacific and leadership from relevant colleges at OSU. The NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Cooperative Institute Program Director will be a special advisor to the Board in a non-voting ex-officio status. The Director of CIMRS or his designee shall also serve as a non-voting member of the Executive Board.

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FY 2012 Science Advisory Council

David Noakes (Chair) Professor, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, OSU

William Pearcy Professor Emeritus, College of Earth, Ocean, &

Atmospheric Sciences, OSU

Jerri Bartholomew Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, OSU

Clare Reimers Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, & Atmospheric

Sciences, OSU

Michael Blouin (retired) Professor, Dept. of Zoology, OSU

Suggestion: George Waldbusser (CEOAS) http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/waldbusser/

Clifford Ryer Fisheries Biologist, FBE, RACE Division, AFSC, NOAA

William Chadwick Professor, CIMRS, OSU

Paul Wade Research Biologist, National Marine Mammal Laboratory,

AFSC, NOAA

Kurt Fresh Estuarine and Ocean Ecology Program Manager, FE

Division, NWFSC, NOAA

Laurie Weitkamp Research Fisheries Biologist, Con Bio Division, NWFSC,

NOAA

Michelle McClure Director, FRAM Division, NWFSC, NOAA

Dawn Wright (retired) suggestion: Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, OSU

Suggestion: Rob Suryan (FW/HMSC) http://fw.oregonstate.edu/About%20Us/personnel/faculty/suryan.htm

Michael Banks (Ex Officio) Director, CIMRS, OSU

The Science Advisory Council (SAC) provides input on research directions, progress, and policy to the Director. Proposal review is a critical function of the SAC. This council, comprising members of collaborating academic departments and NOAA line offices, meets on an ad hoc basis to review scientific proposals directed to the Institute, at the call of the Chairperson. Appointment to the council shall be recommended by the Director of CIMRS and approved by the Executive Board. The Director also serves Ex Officio on the CIMRS Science Advisory Board. Current members of the Council represent the academic units of Zoology, Fisheries and Wildlife, College of Earth, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology, and Geosciences, as well as three major divisions of NWFSC.

http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/waldbusser/http://fw.oregonstate.edu/About%20Us/personnel/faculty/suryan.htm

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FY 2013 CIMRS Publications (total n = 31)

THEME: MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND HABITAT

Bi, H, W.T. Peterson, J.O. Peterson, and J.L. Fisher (2012) A comparative analysis of coastal and shelf-slope copepod communities in the northern California Current system: Synchronized response to large scale forcing? Limnol. Oceanogr., 57(5): 1467-1478. doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.5.1467

Burke, B.J., Peterson, W.T., Beckman, B.R., Morgan, C., Daly, E.A., Litz, M. (2013) Multivariate models of adult Pacific salmon returns. PLoS ONE, 8(1): e54134 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054134

Daly, E.A., Auth, T.D., Brodeur, R.D., and Peterson, W.T. 2013. Winter ichthyoplankton biomass as a predictor of early summer prey fields and survival of juvenile salmon in the northern California Current. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 484: 203-217. doi: 10.3354/meps10320

Francis, T.B., M.D. Scheuerell, R.D. Brodeur, P.S. Levin, J.J. Ruzicka, N. Tolimieri and W.T. Peterson. 2012. Climate shifts the interaction web of a marine plankton community. Global Change Biology, 18(8): 2498-2508.doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02702.x.

Roegner, G.C., E.A. Daly, and R.D. Brodeur. 2013. Surface distribution of brachyuran megalopae and ichthyoplankton in the Columbia River plume during transition from downwelling to upwelling conditions. Continental Shelf Research 60:70-86.

Ruzicka, J.J., Brodeur, R. D., Emmett, R. L., J.H. Steele, J.E. Zamon, C.A. Morgan, A.C. Thomas, and T.C. Wainwright. 2012. Interannual variability in the Northern California Current food web structure: changes in energy flow pathways and the role of forage fish, euphausiids, and jellyfish. Progress in Oceanography, 102: 19-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2012.02.002

Stoner, A., L.A. Copeman, M.L. Ottmar. 2013. Molting, growth, and energetics of newly-settled blue king crab: Effects of temperature and comparisons with red king crab. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 442: 10-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2013.02.002.

Suchman C.L., R.D. Brodeur, E.A. Daly and R.L. Emmett. (2012) Distribution and abundance of large medusae in surface waters off the coasts of Washington and Oregon, USA: seasonal and interannual variability in relation to environmental conditions. Hydrobiologia, 690:113-125. DOI 10.1007/s10750-012-1055-7

Takahashi, M. D.M. Checkley Jr., M.N.C. Litz, R.D. Brodeur, and W.T. Peterson. (2012) Responses in growth rate of larval northern anchovy to anomalous upwelling in the northern California Current. Fish. Oceanogr., 21(6): 393-404. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2012.00633.x NOV 2012

Weitkamp, L.A., Bentley, P., and Litz, M.N.C. In press. Seasonal and interannual variation in juvenile salmon and associated fish assemblage in open waters of the lower Columbia River estuary. Fishery Bulletin. 110(4): 426-450. Fall 2012

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Yu, H., Bi, H., Burke, B., Lamb, J., Peterson, W. (2012) Spatial variations in the distribution of yearling spring Chinook salmon off Washington and Oregon using COZIGAM analysis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 465: 253-265. doi: 10.3354/meps09909 SEPT 2012

THEME: PROTECTION & RESTORATION OF MARINE RESOURCES

Johansson, M.L., A.L. Sremba, L.R.Feinberg, M.A. Banks and W. T. Peterson. 2012. The mitochondrial genomes of Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa raschi sequenced using 454 next-generation sequencing with a phylogenetic analysis of their position in the Malacostracan family tree. Molecular Biology Reports, 39(9): 9009-9021. DOI 10.1007/s11033-012-1772-z

Laurel, B.J., L.A. Copeman, and C.C. Parrish. 2012. Role of temperature on lipid/fatty acid composition in Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) eggs and unfed larvae. Marine Biology, 159(9): 2025-2034. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-1989-3

Miller J.A., D.J. Teel, A. Baptista, C.A. Morgan. 2013. Disentangling bottom-up and top-down effects on survival during early ocean residence in a population of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Can J Fish Aquat Sci 70(4):617-629

THEME: SEAFLOOR PROCESSES

Bohnenstiehl, D. R., R. P. Dziak, H. Matsumoto, T-K Lau. 2013. Underwater acoustic records from the March 2009 eruption of Hunga Ha’apai – Hunga Tonga volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga,” J. Vol & Geoth. Res. 249(1): 12-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.08.014 JAN 2013

Bohnenstiehl, D.R., R.P. Dziak, H Matsumoto, J. Condor. 2013. Acoustic response of submarine volcanoes in the Tofua Arc and northern Lau Basin to two great earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., in review

Caress, D.W., D.A. Clague, J.B. Paduan, J.F. Martin, B.M. Dreyer, W.W. Chadwick Jr, A. Denny, and D.S. Kelley. 2012. Repeat bathymetric surveys at 1-metre resolution of lava flows erupted at Axial Seamount in April 2011. Nature Geoscience 5:483-488. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1496

Chadwick, W.W., Jr., S.L. Nooner, D.A. Butterfield, and M.D. Lilley. 2012. Seafloor deformation and forecasts of the April 2011 eruption at Axial Seamount. Nature Geoscience 5:474-477.DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1464

Dziak, R.P., E.T. Baker, A.M. Shaw, W.W. Chadwick Jr., J.H. Haxel, H. Matsumoto, and S.L. Walker. 2012. Flux measurements of explosive degassing using a yearlong hydroacoustic record at an erupting submarine volcano. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 13, Q0AF07, doi:10.1029/2012GC004211.

Dziak, R.P., J.H. Haxel, D.R. Bohnenstiehl, W.W. Chadwick Jr, S.L. Nooner, M.J.Fowler, H. Matsumoto and D.A. Butterfield. 2012. Seismic precursors and magma ascent before the April 2011 eruption at Axial Seamount. Nature Geoscience, 5:478-483. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1490

Dziak, R.P., M. Fowler, H. Matsumoto, D.R. Bohnenstiehl, M. Park. K. Warren, W-S Lee. 2013. Life and death sounds of iceberg A53a, Oceanography, in press.

Dziak, R.P., H. Matsumoto, M. Park , D. R. Bohnenstiehl, M. Fowler,T-K Lau, K. M. Stafford. 2103. Contribution to the ambient ocean sound field from breakup of sea-ice, icebergs

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.08.014%20JAN%202013

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and cetacean vocalizations near the Antarctic Peninsula, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, submitted.

Embley, R.W., C.E.J. deRonde, S.G. Merle, B. Davy, and F. Caratori Tontini (2012): Detailed morphology and structure of an active submarine arc caldera: Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc. Econ. Geol., 107, doi: 10.2113/econgeo.107.8.1557, 1557–1570.

Haxel, J.H., R.P. Dziak, T.K. Lau, W.W. Chadwick, S.L. Nooner, Seismic cycles, seafloor deformation and volcanic eruptions at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. 2013. Geology, submitted.

Haxel, J.H., R.P. Dziak, and Haru Matsumoto. 2013. Observations of shallow water marine ambient sound: The low frequency underwater soundscape of the central Oregon Coast. J. Acoust.Soc.Amer. 133(5): 2586-2596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4796132

Leybourne, M. I., U. Schwartz-Schampera, C. E. J. De Ronde, E. T. Baker, K. Faure, S. L. Walker, D. A. Butterfield, J. A. Resing, J. E. Lupton, M. D. Hannington, H. L. Gibson, G. J. Massoth, R. W. Embley, W. W. Chadwick, Jr., M. R. Clark, C. Timm, I. J. Graham, and I. C. Wright. 2012.. Submarine magmatic-hydrothermal systems at the Monowai Volcanic Center, Kermadec Arc. Economic Geology, 107(8): 1669–1694. doi:10.2113/econgeo.107.8.1669.

Ver Eecke, H.C., D.A. Butterfield, J.A. Huber, M.D. Lilley, E.J. Olson, K.K. Roe, L.J. Evans, A.Y. Merkel, H.V. Cantin, and J.F. Holden. 2012. Hydrogen-limited growth of hyperthermophilic methanogens at deep-sea hydrothermal vents!. PNAS, 109(34):13674-13679. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1206632109

THEME: MARINE BIOACOUTICS

Klinck, H., S. Nieukirk, D. K. Mellinger, K. Klinck, H. Matsumoto, and R.P. Dziak. 2012. Seasonal presence of cetaceans and ambient noise levels in polar waters of the North Atlantic. J. of Acoust. Soc. Am., EL181, 132(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4740226

Klinck, H., M. Horning, M., D.K. Mellinger, D.P Costa, S. Fregosi, D.A. Mann, K. Sexton, and L. Huckstadt. 2012. Animal-borne active acoustic tags: A new paradigm to conduct minimally invasive behavioral response studies? J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 132(3): 2009-.

Matsumoto, H., C. Jones, H. Klinck, D. K. Mellinger, R. P. Dziak, and C. Meinig, 2012. “Tracking beaked whales with a passive acoustic profiler float,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Accepted on July 30, 2012. In press.

Samaran, F., K.M. Stafford, T.A. Branch, J. Gedamke, J-Y Royer, R.P. Dziak and C. Guinet. 2013. Seasonal and geographic variation of southern blue whale subspecies in the Indian Ocean. Plos One, in review.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4796132http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4740226

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CIMRS Success: Seeding Post docs into Academia & at NOAA

A Guide to Online Research Tony Schreiner (USA) - Bioinformatics Program at Boston College

Post-Doc with Chris Fox (1992-95)

Dawn Wright (USA) Professor in Geosci at OSU and NOAA SAB member Post-Doc with Chris Fox (1995)

2007 US Professor of the Year! (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)

Hongsheg Bi (China) Assist. Professor in Environ. Sci., Univ. of Maryland

Post-Doc with Bill Peterson (2005-09)

Ocean-climate variability and ecosystem response; Zooplankton community and population dynamics; Application of satellite techniques in marine fisheries.

Linda O’Higgins (Ireland) Researcher, BioMara (Scottish Marine Institute)

Post-Doc with Bill Peterson (2006-09)

Making fuel from marine algae in Scotland

Hui Liu (China) Assist. Professor in Zooplankton Processes, Texas A&M Univ.

Post-Doc with Bill Peterson (2008-2011) Zooplankton processes in the ocean, population dynamics and interactions of marine fishes, quantitative fisheries research, statistical and numerical ecosystem modeling.

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Vladlena Gertseva (Russia) – Research Fishery Biologist, FRAM NOAA NWFSC

Post-Doc with Tom Wainwright & Liz Clark (2003-5) Key member of FRAM's stock assessment team

Ron Suryan (USA) – Associate Professor OSU FW&HMSC Post-Doc with George Boehlert and Daniel Roby (2004-06)

Interviewed for HMSC Director in 2012

Mattias Johansson (USA) – Post-Doc Univ. of WI – Milwaukee

Post-Doc with Bill Peterson and Michael Banks (2010-2011)

Pioneer research in krill genomics

Holger Klink (Germany) – Assistant Professor OSU FW&HMSC

Post-Doc with David Mellinger (2008-12)

Initiated class offering in Animal Bioacoustics at OSU

Louise Copeman (Canada) – Assistant Professor OSU FW & HMSC

Post Doc with Cliff Ryer (2011-13)

Founded a lipid lab at HMSC for indicator research on the physiological effects of climate change

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Five-year Budget Overview

Totals OSU $ 1,197,474

NOAA $14,559,240 EXTERNAL $10,617,807 GRAND $26,374,521

140 publications (≈30 per year): CIMRS co-authorship: 251 NOAA & other co-authorships: 758 1009

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CIMRS RESEARCH STAFF

POSITION TERMINATED

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Geology and Geophysics Andra Bobbitt – Sr. Research Assistant Bill Chadwick - Professor, Sr. Research Susan Merle – Sr. Research Assistant

Acoustic Monitoring/Seismology/Whale Acoustics

Bob Dziak –Professor, Sr. Research Matt Fowler – Faculty Research Assistant Joe Haxel – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Andy (Tai-Kwan) Lau - Faculty, Unranked

Haru Matsumoto – Assist. Prof, Sr. Research

Hydrothermal Emissions Leigh Evans – Faculty Research Assistant Ron Greene – Faculty Research Assistant

Marine Mammal Acoustics

Sara Heimlich – Faculty Research Assistant Holger Klinck – Asst. Prof., Sr. Research Yang Lu – Research Associate, Post-Doc

Dave Mellinger - Associate Professor, Sr. Research Sharon Nieukirk – Sr. Research Assistant

National Marine Fisheries Service

NW Fisheries Science Center Fish Ecology Division

Ocean Ecology Toby Auth – Faculty Research Assistant

Tristan Britt – Faculty Research Assistant Climate Change and Ocean Productivity

Leah Feinberg – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Jennifer Fisher – Faculty Research Assistant

Jennifer Menkel – Faculty Research Assistant Jay Peterson – Research Associate Jim Ruzicka – Research Associate

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Tracy Shaw – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Columbia River Plume Project

Andrew Claxton – Faculty Research Assistant Elizabeth Daly – Faculty Research Assistant

Jesse Lamb – Faculty Research Assistant Marisa Litz – Grad. Research Assistant

Cheryl Morgan – Sr. Faculty Research Assistant Mary Beth Rew – Fac. Research Assistant

Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Fish Behavioral Ecology Program Louise Copeman – Res. Associate. Post-Doc

Eric Hanneman – Biol. Sci. Tech.

CIMRS ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Michael Banks – Director (.4 FTE) Jessica Waddell – Administrator (1.0 FTE)

Debi Furay – Purchasing (.5 FTE) Melody Pfister – Travel Coordinator (.25 FTE)(was .5FTE)

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January 25th, 2013 Mr. Jeffrey Zients Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Eisenhower Executive Office Building 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20503 Dear Mr. Zients: We write to you as Directors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Cooperative Institutes (CIs) to ask for your support for NOAA-university collaborative research in the FY 2014 budget. NOAA CIs are critical components of the Agency’s research portfolio. All competitively awarded programs, CIs are essential for NOAA to execute its core mission and allow the Agency direct access to the nation’s most nimble and cost-effective intellectual resources. These 18 CIs are strategically comprised of 48 leading research universities located in 21 states and Puerto Rico. Established through an open solicitation, competitive CI partnerships provide NOAA with efficient access to key innovations at the nation’s primary houses of science, social-learning, and research development. The first CI was created in 1967 – predating formalization of NOAA, securely rooting significant and critical aspects of NOAA’s long-term record of research in marine ecosystems, atmospheric science, climate, and weather through research conducted at universities. Based on recent year budgets, 28% of the total NOAA research budget is invested though CIs, and those funds constitute almost half of the research expenditures of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Without the cooperative/collaborative research conducted at CIs, NOAA would be unable to fulfill its core mission: to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts; to share that knowledge and information with others; and to conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources. CIs provide excellent value for the American taxpayer by leveraging the strengths of universities through a broad array of expert scientists whose ability to amplify a variety of external funding maximizes high-quality research in support of NOAA’s mission. Key examples of recent research innovation provided through this NOAA-CI collaboration include: (1) assessment of a variety of impacts associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including the human health hazard of air quality and evaluation of the effects of oil and dispersant on commercially important ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico; (2) assessment of the role of black carbon in the current and future global climate; (3) advancement in accuracy of warning capability for tornadoes, hurricanes and other severe weather; (4) improved models of tsunami propagation and warning; climate prediction and decision support within the US and internationally; (5) improvement of satellite products for optimized use in NOAA weather and climate prediction operations; (6) drought monitoring and prediction and forecast centers to avoid risks posed by

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flood events; (7) global ocean observing systems; (8) annual economic assessments for fishing, hydropower and other marine related industries. University experts across the nation remain motivated to enable NOAA to achieve its evolving mission goals through providing access to their best in research, education and social sciences. We are sensitive to the fiscal challenges that the nation is facing, however. Considering that CIs provide cost-effective access to the nation’s leading research expertise, we ask that you prioritize NOAA CIs in the FY 2014 budget as an economical and effective mechanism to leverage federal investment. Thank you for considering this request. A delegation of CI directors will be in Washington DC in late February and will follow-up directly with your staff. Sincerely, NOAA CI Directors:

Thomas Ackerman Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean University of Washington Steve Ackerman Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Don Anderson Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Phillip Arkin Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (MA) University of Maryland, College Park Daniel Baden Cooperative Institute for Ocean Expl. Res. and Technology University of North Carolina-Wilmington Michael Banks Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies Oregon State University Hugo Berbery Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (MD) University of Maryland, College Park Otis Brown Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (NC) North Carolina State University Allen Burton Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research University of Michigan David Checkley Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate University of California, San Diego Christian Kummerow Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Colorado State University Yochanan Kushnir Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research Columbia University Peter Lamb Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies University of Oklahoma Larry Langebrake Cooperative Institute for Ocean Expl. Res. and Technology SRI International William Lewis Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado at Boulder Mark Merifield Joint Institute for Marine Atmospheric and Research University of Hawaii Robert Moorhead Northern Gulf Institute Mississippi State University Peter Ortner Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies University of Miami Shirley Pomponi Cooperative Institute for Ocean Expl. Res. and Technology Florida Atlantic University Ted Strub Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies Oregon State University John Walsh Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research University of Alaska Fairbanks

Cc: Dana Hyde

FY 2013 Executive BoardFY 2012 Science Advisory CouncilOceanic and Atmospheric ResearchPacific Marine Environmental LaboratoryNational Marine Fisheries ServiceNW Fisheries Science Center