Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) Planning and Management

Skidaway Institute Of Oceanography, Savannah GA

Investigators

Abstract

The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will continue the scientific planning and management activities of the Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) research initiative by maintaining a CoOP planning office. The CoOP program seeks to promote interdisciplinary research in the coastal ocean. Its goal is to obtain a new level of quantitative understanding of the transports, transformations and fates of biologically, chemically, and geologically important matter over the continental margins. CoOP planning is being undertaken by a group of scientists dedicated to organizing large-scale efforts in interdisciplinary coastal ocean basic research. Through a series of workshops and the deliberations of a scientific planning committee, activities are undertaken to define the actual process studies and long-term measurements to be made. The office will communicate information about the CoOP program and the scientific results from CoOP projects by maintaining a CoOP web site and by regularly publishing a newsletter.