1Institute of Marine Science, University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, CA2Department of Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, CA

3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz, CA4Department of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, CA

5Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA6Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA

7National Marine Sanctuary Monterey Bay, Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN), Monterey, CA

8Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA9Southwest Fisheries Science Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) Fisheries, Moss Landing, CA10Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,

Mission:

CIMT’s mission is to create a coastal ocean observing and forecasting system that provides a scientific basis for the management and conservation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and serves as a model for all of California's coastal marine resources.

Introduction: The Center for Integrated Marine Technologies' (CIMT) was organized to understand the relationship between the physical dynamics and productivity, from wind to whales, of California's coastal ocean.

Activities:Monitoring ProgramCreate an interdisciplinary team to identify the needs and technological solutions to understanding Monterey Bay's upwelling ecosystemDevelop New TechnologiesDevelop new sensors to fill important gaps in understanding the coupling between physical and biological processes in the coastal upwelling ecosystemIntegration of DataIntegrate data across platforms (mooring, ship-based, satellite) and across temporal and spatial scalesData DisseminationDevelop a coordinated software system for the acquisition, organization, visualization, archiving and access of physical, biological, and chemical coastal marine data setsOutreachDevelop strong linkages between the CIMT researchers and product end-users

Integration of existing and new technologies:

The CIMT is simultaneously collecting data via moorings, shipboard surveys, apex predator tagging and tracking, and satellite, aircraft, and land-based remote sensing.

Data integration provides new insights to the complex interactions among climatic events, riverine input of iron, and wind-driven coastal upwelling of nutrients to phytoplankton production, the distribution and abundance of animals from zooplankton to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles.

This approach provides the ability to develop predictive models of how marine resources respond to variability in coastal dynamics.

Geographic Scope:

The CIMT efforts are focused on the Monterey Bay region of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – from Pt. Año Nuevo to the North to Pt. Lobos to the South out to 122°05’ west longitude. As resources become available, the spatial extent of the project can expand.

1Rondi Robison, 9Scott Benson, 2Ken Bruland, 10Yi Chao, 5Francisco Chavez, 3Dan Costa, 3Don Croll,

7Andrew DeVogleare, 2Chris Edwards, 1Gary Griggs, 8Jim Harvey, 2Raphe Kudela, 7Steve Lonhart, 3Baldo Marinovic, 2Margaret McManus, 6Jeff Paduan, 6Leslie

Rosenfeld, 2Mary Silver, 4John Vesecky

Acknowledgements:

Funding for CIMT provided by NOAA’s Coastal Observation and Technology Program award # NA16OC2936. Special thanks to Geno Olmi, Becky Smyth, Jerome King, Kelly Newton, Nancy Gong, Mike Weise, Kip Laws, Brian Fulfrost, Atma Roberts, Geoff Smith, Bettina Sohst, Carol Keiper, Sophie Webb, Walter Heady, Lee Bradford, Kurt Brown, Peter Miller, Susan Coale, Robin Weber, Meredith Armstrong, Brian McLaughlin, Itcheung Chung, Duncan Fry, Asila Ghoul, Moria Decima, Judy Van Leuven

CIMT is composed of eight groups:

•Ship Survey

•Database

•Apex Predator Tagging & Bioacoustics

•Mooring

•HF Radar

•Remote Sensing

•Modeling and Forecasting

•Outreach

Krill

Whale Dive Record

Bottom

Blue whale equipped with a dive recorder as part of the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies program (Upper image). Dive profile of tagged whale (yellow line) in relation to krill swarms (red) near the Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon (green line) (Lower image).

Approach:

•Use the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as a regional model

•Review current coastal upwelling monitoring programs

•Determine data gaps

•Develop new instrumentation to fill gaps

•Archive and integrate new and old data sets across networks and programs

•Develop user-friendly data access and visualization interfaces

•Determine the process underlying coastal dynamics

•Develop predictive models

CIMT Web Site used for Outreach http://cimt.ucsc.edu

HF Radar systems collect current information

Ship surveys aboard the R/V john Martin collect a variety of information including observations of marine mammals and phytoplankton abundance

Low Frequency pop-up used in bioacoustics and a tagged sea lion

Remote Sensing with satellites

Deployment of CIMT-MBARI M0 Mooring

Live Access Server used to download CIMT shipboard data

Current modeling

M0 MBARI-CIMT with Sea Lions by Kim Fullton-Bennett 2004

Zooplankton backscatter with CIMT ship

survey track lines by Suzana Djurcilov

Elephant seal dive profile with temperature by Suzana Djurcilov

Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT) Integrating Advanced Technologies to Understand California’s Upwelling Ecosystems