The OOI Facility Board (OOIFB) and Data Systems Committee (DSC) hosted their 2025 Spring Meetings on Tuesday, May 6, and Wednesday, May 7, 2025. A site visit day with other activities (and/or, discussion carry-over if need be) was planned for Thursday, May 8, 2025 (“Field Trip Thursday”). The meetings were held in person, however, virtual participation was also available. As always, this in-person meeting was open to the public (except during closed-door sessions as indicated on the agenda); space is limited, however, and a RSVP was required to attend.
The meetings were held at the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Oregon. The planned schedule was follows:
- Tuesday, May 6th- OOIFB-DSC meeting, DSC-focus
- Wednesday, May 7th – OOIFB-DSC meeting, OOIFB-focus
- Thursday, May 8th – cont’d discussions (if needed); OSU-OOI site visits and field activities (all are encouraged to stay for this day)
Please RSVP for the meeting here. Meeting RSVPs were requested no later than April 25, 2025.
A final meeting agenda can be found here.
A final attendance list can be found here.
Minutes Summary: A meeting summary will be available soon.
PRESENTATIONS (available presentations are linked below):
Day 1: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 (DSC Focus)
- Overall Meeting Welcome – Dax Soule, OOIFB Chair
- DSC Introductions & Agenda Overview – Jim Potemra, DSC Chair
- Revision/Discuss activities outlined in the 2024 DSC Annual Report (review recommendations, master timeline of activities, updates) – Jim Potemra
- DSC External Presentations
- Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) updates (machine learning/AI and acoustics; QA/QC efforts and user comms) – Meghan Paulson (ONC, Executive Director, Observatory Operations)
- NEON dashboard/QC– Teresa Burlingame (NEON/Batelle)
- National Ocean Service (NOS) Observations in Operational Modeling- Lucila Houttuijn Bloemendaal (NOAA)
- The Harmful Algal Bloom Data Assembly Center: A National Cyberinfrastructure Framework for Plankton Imagery – Clarissa Anderson (Scripps; Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, SCOOS)
- Nitrate Response to Coastal Upwelling on the Oregon Shelf: Insights from OOI Endurance Array Profilers– Andrew Scherer (Oregon State University)
- OOI Data Delivery System Presentations (including CI and Data Delivery Updates)
- OOI Data Delivery Manager Report – Jeff Glatstein
- OOI Cyberinfrastructure/Data storage – Craig Risien
- OOI Data Working Session: QA/QC Discussion
- Using DOIs to find and cite data – Jim Edson and Amber Coogan
- Data Product Specification update – Jim Edson and Matt Palanza
- Automated QC Phased Implementation – Al Plueddemann
- Forward thinking for QA/QC (and platforms for communicating details) – Jeff Glatstein
- OOI Data Working Session: Jupyter Hub (Jeff Glatstein and Joffrey Peters)
- JH Intro and follow up topics (Jeff)
- Short demo on JH (Joffrey)
- DSC Other Business – Holly Morin
- Around the Table and Closing Remarks – Jim Potemra
Day 2: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (OOIFB-DSC)
- Welcome, Introductions & Review agenda – Dax Soule, OOIFB Chair
- Upcoming events (full engagement overview later)
- Updates from NSF – George Voulgaris, NSF Program Director
- Updates from the OOI Program Office and MIOs
- OOI 2.5 Program Update
- OOI PMO Report – Jim Edson
- Community Engagement activities – Amber Coogan
- MIO- Array presentations
- CGSN Arrays: Operational status, technical developments, and community science – Al Plueddemann (WHOI)
- Endurance Array: Operational status, improvements in marine carbonate systems, and community science – Ed Dever (OSU)
- Regional Cabled Array: Operational highlights, technological and science advancements, QA/QC status dashboard – Deb Kelley (UW)
- OOI 2.5 Program Update
- NSF Education Program Updates
- MTS microcredentials overview and OOI connections (Liesl Hoataling/Mike Muglia)
- Using Ocean Observatory Initiative Data to Improve Undergraduate Students’ Scientific Reasoning (Kathy Browne, Andrea Drewes and Gabi Smalley, Rider University; Sage Lichtenwalner, Rutgers University)
- OOIFB and the Community, Engagement Discussions – Dax Soule/Holly Morin
- IFCB Community Focus Group, June 2025 (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
- Summer School on Acoustics, July 2025 (University of Washington)
- Town Hall, American Geophysical Union Meeting, December 2025 (New Orleans, LA)
- Early Career Scientist (ECS) engagement (starting with AGU 2025?)
- Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2026 (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Broad Discussion: other engagement opportunities (scientific and engineering communities)?
- Decadal Survey Discussion I [to help set the stage for tomorrow’s working groups]
- OOI and OOIFB perspectives (Jim Edson and Mike Muglia)
- Optimizing the OOI for the short-term and long-term
- Other Business- Holly Morin
- Around the Table and closing remarks – Dax Soule
A hotel room block was set up through the Hilton Garden Inn, 2400 SW Western Blvd., Corvallis, OR 97333. Room block details:
- Group Name: OOIFB Spring Meeting
- Group Dates: May 5-9, 2025 (please note: you can edit these booking dates to accommodate your travel days)
- Group Rate: $179 plus tax per night
- Deadline to book: March 21, 2025
- Book Online: through the Hilton Website to receive the OOIFB Spring Meeting group rate
- Call to book: 541-752-5000 and ask for a room under the “OOIFB Spring Meeting” Block
- Book via the Hilton App: Group Code 90S
