Scenario 3A, Assessing Seabird Vulnerability in the Bering Sea Progress

[wckoeppen]

Progress: 3A Seabird Vulnerability

Goals

• Forecasts models of biological and physical data sets going forward 100 years in the Bering sea are in the process of being searched for and discovered.
• Polygons representing critical species habitat will be used to determine how vulnerable each habitat area is to potential changes.

  Easy Challenges: Identified and Fixed

• Model data for the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) was made available through THREDDS, but not fully registered through CSWs like IOOS expected. We ran ncISO to generate a WAF of ISO metadata and then contacted ioos.catalog@noaa.gov to register the WAFs. There were a few bumps to getting this finished, but it was relatively straightforward. This might be an issue for other regional Ocean Observing Systems as well.
• Important Bird Area polygons were available through a WFS service, but not through the WAF.

Longer-term Challenges Identified

• There is currently no CF convention in place for biological variables, like those used in this scenario. This is going to be difficult to tackle because of the diversity of variables in biological data, but probably necessary as more sampling, counts, and species-level data are made available through open web services.

[jkupiec]

Will, Can you present any data summaries, graphs or charts?

[wckoeppen]

Still working on them, and I'm out to Vancouver for a meeting next week, so might be a bit.