| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Operational Modeling |
| Discussion leader: Eric Chassignet |
| Opening Remarks/Logistics - Dan Lynch |
| John Harding
"The Role of Ocean Modeling in Naval Operational Oceanography" |
| Ruth Preller
"The Development and Transition of Ocean Models into Navy Operations" |
| 9:30 pm | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Operational Modeling |
| Discussion leader: Keith Bedford |
| Frank Aikman
"Estuarine Forecast Systems for Marine Operations Ecosystem Applications and Tidal Modeling for Geospatial Applications" |
| Carlos Lozano
"Some issues in ocean short term forecasting" |
| Coffee Break and Group Photo |
| Harvey Seim
"Development of operational coastal ocean observing system for the South Atlantic Bight" |
| Francois Saucier
"Predicting ice-ocean cycles in the Canadian Inland Seas from hours to seasons" |
| Chris Edwards
"The FRONT Coastal Ocean Observing System" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Data Assimilation |
| Discussion leader: Rick Luettich |
| Dong Ping Wang
"The impact of data assimilation: A case study of the coastal circulation near Pt. Conception during the 1997-1998 El Nino" |
| Gary Egbert
"Towards weak constraint variational data assimilation for coastal flows" |
| 9:30 pm | Social Hour; continuation of Poster Session 1 |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Data Assimilation |
| Discussion leader: Keith Thompson |
| Pierre Brasseur
"Reduced-order methods for oceanic data assimilation: variants of the SEEK filter and operational implementations" |
| Peter Jan van Leeuwen
"Ensemble filters, theory and practical applications" |
| Pierre Lermusiaux
"Ecosystem dynamics in Massachusetts Bay: Interdisciplinary data assimilation via ESSE" |
| Art Mariano
"Application of Auto-Regressive models to Lagrangian prediction, data assimilation, and stochastic boundary conditions" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Lagrangian Descriptions |
| Discussion leader: Bruce Parker |
| Ralph Cheng
"Physics, Measurements, and Numerical Methods in a Lagrangian Reference Frame." |
| Denny Kirwan
"Oceanic Stirring for the Lagrangian Challenged" |
| 9:30 pm | Social Hour; continuation of Poster Session 2 |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Physical-Biological Coupling |
| Discussion leader: Cisco Werner |
| Meng Zhou
"Population dynamics of zooplankton: observations, theories and models" |
| Al Hermann
"Nesting, nudging, and coupling of physical and biological models: the quest for simple robust methods in a complex world" |
| Patrick Gentien
"Exploitation of physical structures by two phytoplankton species: turbulence and inertial gyres" |
| John Kindle
"On the road toward real-time, coupled bio-physical nowcast/forecast systems: A coupled bio-physical model of the U.S. west coast" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Business Meeting (all conferees) |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 3 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Turbulence/Small Scales |
| Discussion leader: Dave Brooks |
| Miles Sundermeyer
"Lateral Dispersion, Modeled and Observed."
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| Hans Burchard
"Applied statistical turbulence modelling in marine waters" |
| 9:30 pm | Social Hour; continuation of Poster Session 3 |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Turbulence/Small Scales |
| Discussion leader: Tom Gross |
| Kraig Winters
"Internal-wave driven mixing in the coastal ocean" |
| Tamay Ozgokmen
"Turbulent Mixing in the Red Sea Outflow Plume from a High-Resolution Nonhydrostatic Model" |
| Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am 12:30 pm | Shelf-Ocean Interaction |
| Discussion leader: Charles Hannah |
| Gregg Jacobs
"Examinations and Plans of shelf-slope exchange in the Gulf of Mexico" |
| Eric Chassignet
"GODAE (Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiments) a provider of boundary conditions for coastal ocean modeling" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 4 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Shelf-Ocean Interaction |
| Discussion leader: Charles Hannah |
| John Klinck
"Effect of submarine canyon geometry on coastal circulation and shelf-ocean exchange" |
| Dale Haidvogel
"Scaling Laws for Residual Circulation and Cross-Shelf Exchange at Submarine Canyons" |
| Closing Remarks - Dan Lynch |
| 9:30 pm | Social Hour; continuation of Poster Session 4 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |