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PMEL's Laboratory Review will be held at the NOAA Western Regional Center in Seattle, WA March 3-5, 2020. Most of the sessions are at PMEL Building 3, Oceanographer Room #2104.

Directions to PMEL can be found here: https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/seattle-visitor-information. All visitors must bring valid form of government issued ID to access the Western Regional Center.

Day 1: March 3, 2020

Breakfast / Registration

6:30 am to 9:30 am Complimentary Breakfast Hours at Silver Cloud
7:00 am to 7:40 am Review Panel Breakfast with OAR Leadership
7:45 am Review Panel meets OAR staff in Silver Cloud lobby to transit to PMEL
8:00 am to 8:30 am Registration and coffee

Session 1: Welcome, Scope of Work, and Overviews

8:30 am to 8:40 am Welcome and Introductions
Michelle McClure, PMEL Director
8:40 am to 8:45 am Logistics, Safety Briefing Updates
Jim Guyton, PMEL Deputy Director
8:45 am to 9:00 am Overview of NOAA Research and Charge to Reviewers
Gary Matlock, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science
9:00 am to 9:10 am OAR Portfolio Stewards Overview
Wayne Higgins, Climate Portfolio Steward
9:10 am to 9:35 am PMEL Overview
Michelle McClure, PMEL Director

Session 2: Theme 1 - Climate-Weather Research

9:35 am to 9:50 am Overview of Climate-Weather Research in last 6 years (Chidong Zhang)
9:55 am to 10:15 am

Climate-Weather Research Lightning Talks - part 1

  • Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (Mike McPhaden)

  • Rethinking observing networks in an age of multiple platforms: the TPOS 2020 project (Billy Kessler)

  • PMEL's contribution to the global network of OceanSITES reference time series (Meghan Cronin)

  • S2S Predictability Sources in the Deep Tropics (Andy Chiodi)
10:15 am to 10:30 am Break
10:30 am to 10:55 am

Climate-Weather Research Lightning Talks - part 2
10:55 am to 11:30 am Climate-Weather Laboratory Tours
Ocean Climate Stations (Patrick Berk) → Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (Ken Connell) → Argo (Greg Johnson and Elizabeth Steffen) → Carbon (Adrienne Sutton) → Atmospheric Chemistry (Trish Quinn and Lucia Upchurch)
11:30 am to 12:30 pm Climate-Weather Research Clarifying Questions and Discussion

Cooperative Institute Overview and Lunch

12:30 pm to 12:50 pm

Cooperative Institutes Overview

JISAO - John Horne, Director
CIMRS - Michael Banks, Director
JIMAR - Doug Luther, Director
12:50 pm to 2:00 pm

Parallel Lunch: Review Panelists and CI staff (closed session)

Parallel Lunch: All others in library

Session 3: Theme 2 - Ocean and Coastal Processes Research

2:00 pm to 2:15 pm Overview of Ocean and Coastal Processes Research in the last 6 years (David Butterfield)
2:20 pm to 2:35 pm

Ocean and Coastal Processes Research Lightning Talks

  • How much of the ocean communicates with the atmosphere, and how quickly? (Rolf Sonnerup)

  • 10-fold Increase in Known Methane Seep Sites Discovered in 5 Years: What is the Ecological Significance? (Tamara Baumberger)

  • Recent Solutions to the near-field tsunami forecast problem via GPU and GPS (Diego Arcas)
2:35 pm to 3:05 pm Ocean and Coastal Processes Laboratory Tours
Ocean Tracer (Bonnie Chang) → Earth-Ocean Interactions (David Butterfield) → Tsunami (Diego Arcas)
3:05 pm to 3:20 pm Break
3:20 pm to 4:10 pm Ocean and Coastal Processes Research Clarifying Questions and Discussion

Session 4: Review Panel Closed Session

4.a Review Panel Closed Session

4:10 pm to 4:40 pm Review Panel closed session (Discoverer Room)

4.b All Others

4:10 pm to 4:40 pm Break/Follow up opportunities and discussions with PMEL

Evening Activities

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm No-host reception (Ravenna Brewing Company)
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Dinner for reviewers, NOAA line office guests, OAR, PMEL and CI leadership (Piatti)

Day 2: March 4, 2020

Breakfast / Pre-session Activities

6:30 am to 9:30 am Complimentary Breakfast Hours at Silver Cloud
7:35 am Review Panel meet OAR staff in lobby to transit to PMEL
7:35 am to 8:00 am Review Panelists are transported to PMEL
8:00 am to 8:30 am Coffee and breakfast bites
8:00 am to 8:30 am Review Panel meet with CI Leadership (Discoverer Room)
8:30 am to 8:40 am Day 1 Recap and Day 2 agenda/logistics review
Jim Guyton, PMEL Deputy Director

Session 5: Theme 3 - Marine Ecosystems Research

8:40 am to 8:55 am Overview of Marine Ecosystems Research in last 6 years (Carol Stepien)
9:00 am to 9:25 am

Marine Ecosystems Research Lightning Talks

  • Living with ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest: working with partners to understand regional vulnerability and adaptation opportunities (Simone Alin)

  • Dramatic shifts in the Bering Sea ecosystem and its impact on the fisheries (Phyllis Stabeno)

  • The US Arctic: An ecosystem defined by seasonal sea ice. What happens when the summer sea ice is gone? (Carol Ladd)

  • Metagenomic studies for understanding biological community responses to physical and chemical oceanic conditions (Carol Stepien)

  • Quantifying natural and anthropogenic ocean sounds to assess impacts on marine ecosystems or ocean soundscapes (Joe Haxel)
9:25 am to 9:55 am Marine Ecosystems Theme Laboratory Tours
Acoustics (Bob Dziak and Haru Matsumoto) → Genetics and Genomics (Matt Galaska) → Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (Geoff Lebon, Janet Duffy-Anderson and Phyllis Stabeno)
9:55 am to 10:45 am Marine Ecosystems Research Clarifying Questions and Discussion
10:45 am to 11:00 am Break

Session 6: Theme 4 - Research Innovation and Development

11:00 am to 11:15 am Overview of Research Innovation and Development in the last 6 Years (Chris Meinig)
11:20 am to 11:35 am

Research Innovation and Development Lightning Talks

  • Saildrone: development of a pole-to-pole scientific platform (Calvin Mordy)

  • From observing platform to science paper: PMEL scientific data management (Eugene Burger)

  • Engineering developments for scientific observing from the Arctic to the Tropics (Chris Meinig)
11:35 am to 12:45 pm Research Innovation and Development Tour (Engineering Development Division)

Lunch

12:45 pm to 1:55 pm

Parallel Lunch: Review Panelists and early career professionals (closed session)

Parallel Lunch: All others in library
1:55 pm to 2:45 pm Research Innovation and Development Clarifying Questions and Discussion
2:45 pm to 3:00 pm Break

Session 7: Stakeholder Feedback

7.a Stakeholder Feedback (Closed Session for Review Panelists)

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Review Panel with Stakeholders (closed session)

7.b All Others

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Follow up opportunities and discussions with PMEL

Session 8: Review Panel Closed Session

8.a Review Panel Closed Session

4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Review Panel closed session

8.b All Other Review Attendees

4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Break/Follow up opportunities and discussions with PMEL

Session 9: Poster Session

5:15 pm to 6:30 pm Poster session (Magnuson Park Hangar 30)
7:30 pm Closed reviewers executive dinner (Ivar's Salmon House)
All other attendees, optional dinner

Day 3: March 5, 2020

Breakfast / Pre-session Activities

6:30 am to 9:30 am Complimentary Breakfast Hours at Silver Cloud
7:00 am Review Panel Breakfast with PMEL Director and OAR DAA (TBD)
7:45 am Reviewers meet OAR staff in hotel lobby to transit to PMEL
7:45 am to 8:05 am Reviewers are transported to PMEL
8:00 am to 8:30 am Coffee and breakfast bites

Session 10: Conclusion and Feedback

8:30 am to 8:40 am Day 2 Recap and Day 3 agenda/logistics review
Jim Guyton, PMEL Deputy Director
8:40 am to 9:15 am Review Summary and Draft PMEL Strategic Plan
Michelle McClure, PMEL Director
9:15 am to 9:45 am Opportunity for final questions, clarifying points, etc.
9:45 am to 10:15 am Panel members and NOAA OAR representatives (closed session)
10:15 am to 10:45 am Panel members and NOAA Line Office Representatives (closed session)

10.a Review Team Session (Closed Session for Review Panelists)

10:45 am to 12:45 pm Review panel members formulates recommendations and drafts comments (Discoverer Room)

10.b OAR leadership, Line Office reps, and PMEL leadership

10:45 am to 12:15 pm OAR leadership and Line Office Representatives provide informal feedback to PMEL leadership
12:15 to 12:45 pm OAR DAA and PMEL leadership

Lunch

12:45 to 1:45 pm Open Lunch
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Review Panel Preliminary Feedback to OAR and PMEL leadership
3:00 pm Adjourn

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Lab review 3-day agenda in PDF format​

Poster Session Titles

Background literature