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The NOAA Ocean Color Coordinating Group (NOCCG) is a NOAA organization founded in 2011 by Dr. Paul DiGiacomo, Chief of SOCD at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and was formally recognized by NESDIS in response to the National Research Council’s 2011 report, “Assessing the Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations.” The purpose of the NOCCG is to keep members up to date about developments for satellite ocean color. With membership that includes representatives from all the NOAA line offices, NOCCG holds monthly business meetings and hosts informational seminars, advertised widely both within and outside of NOAA, especially to the US ocean color community.
Science Seminars
About Science Seminars
NOCCG hosts STAR seminars, typically on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 3pm ET. These seminars feature informational presentations from members of the satellite ocean color community. Upcoming session information is available through the NOAA Science Seminar series online and via email notifications (subscribe by sending an e-mail to OneNOAAscienceseminars-request@list.woc.noaa.gov with the word 'subscribe' in the subject or body). The Google Calendar with all NOAA Science Seminars, including information on how to join the sessions, is available here. Please visit the STAR repository for materials from all past NOCCG seminars.
Monthly Meetings
About NOCCG Business Meetings
NOCCG holds business meetings approximately monthly, usually on the second Wednesday of each month at 2pm ET. These meetings are open to anyone interested in ocean color satellite data.
Running meeting notes can be found here; the list of the working group members and their bios can be found here (documents internal to NOAA).
Join us via Remote Access: https://meet.google.com/umk-rcka-bgy or by phone:
Access Code 898 142 003
United States +1 (414) 436-8597
Typical Agenda:
- Introduction of new members
- Keynote issue for discussion
- Update reports from Line Offices:
- NMFS or IOCCG - Cara Wilson (IOCCG) / Kim Hyde / Ryan Rykaczewski (PIFSC)
- NOS - Rick Stumpf / Shelly Tomlinson (NCCOS)
- OAR - Gary Wick / Andrea VanderWoude (GLERL) / Gustavo Goni (AOML)
- NWS - Avichal Mehra / Xiao Liu
- NESDIS - Paul DiGiacomo and Mike Ford
- User Engagement: Vanessa Escobar / Kat Hawley
- Ocean Color Science team: Menghua Wang
- JPSS: Alisa Young
- OSPO: Sheekela Baker-Yeboah
- CoastWatch: Heng Gu / Veronica Lance / other Node Managers
- GEO XO Oceans and NOAA/NESDIS/STAR User Engagement: Kat Hawley
- International Affairs: Jennifer Clapp
- Blue Planet/GEO: Emily Smail
- GEO AquaWatch: Merrie Beth Neely
- Any Other business or announcements, etc.
Group Members
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
Andrea VanderWoude, Chair
Lisa Fairbanks
Gary Wick
Joaquin Trinanes
Katie Geddes
NOAA Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Cara Wilson
Kim Hyde
Ryan Rykaczewski
Ryan Vandermeulen
Rick Stumpf
Shelly Tomlinson
National Weather Service (NWS)
Avichal Mehra
Xiao Liu
Hae-Chol Kim
Shawn Carter
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
Veronica Lance
Kari St. Laurent
Vanessa Escobar
Menghua Wang
Ingrid Guch
Sheekela Baker-Yeboah
Heng Gu
Kat Hawley
Jennifer Clapp
Emily Smail
Merrie Beth Neely
Alexis Wolfe
Alisa Young
Andrew Heidinger
Bill Sjoberg
Dan Lindsey
Lihang Zhou
Marilyn Yuen-Murphy
Nazmi Chowdhury
Nikelene Mclean
Paul DiGiacomo
Rebecca Trinh
Renata Lana
Sunny Petzinger
Troy Wilds
Yongsheng Zhang
Zhaohui Cheng