A NOAA Cooperative Institute

David R. Shaw, Directordshaw@gri.msstate.edu

Northern Gulf Institute

Research Needs/Opportunities

Optimization/linkage of watershed, ocean, and atmospheric models

Spatial technology applications in coastal assessment, management

Watershed management – impacts on coastal/marine water quality

Impacts of Best Management Practices on coastal/marine water quality and ecology

Spatial data coordination, data mining

Critical needs in northern Gulf; currently underserved by NOAA

Opportunity for pilot effort to closely link divisions within NOAA

Member institutions: MSU, USM, LSU, FSU, DISL

Integrated Education, Extension, Workforce Development

Concept Northern Gulf Institute

ConceptNorthern Gulf Institute

Anchored at Stennis Space Center Collaborative with other cooperative

institutes and NOAA labs Integrated across divisions of NOAA Strong linkages with state, local partner

agencies Needs-based research, education/ outreach

as goals

Concept Northern Gulf Institute

Fills major research void Provides opportunity for federal,

state, local collaborations Leverage significant in-state expertise Seeks to apply findings and

capabilities from other Joint Institutes, Labs, Data Centers, Science Centers…..

Examples of Relevant Plans – Hypoxia

Applications

Watershed Modeling Improvements to Enhance

Coastal EcosystemsGoal: Improved watershed-wide decision support for resource management

Tombigbee-Mobile Demo Site

Better Data

Improved Models

System-wide Evaluations

Spatial Technology and High Performance Computing Improving Water Quality

PredictionGoal: Develop and demonstrate advanced technologies to predict water quality impacts.

3-D Models

HPC

GIS

GIS

HPC

3-D Models

Integrated Solutions

Goal: Growing Stewards of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Assessing Needs – Inventory, survey and workshop with federal state & academic partners

Transitioning Research – build on the Extension Service Experience

Building Collaborations – across entire focus area for synergy benefits, complete ecosystem coverage

Reaching out to all sectors – capture the captive audiences, team with proven programs

Northern Gulf Institute Outreach Program