I'm Cara Wilson, the node manager of the West Coast node of CoastWatch, as well as the PolarWatch node.  I started the NOAA CoastWatch Satellite Course in 2004 and have been teaching it annually every since. I work at the SWFSC and am based in Monterey, CA. 

Hi,  this is the NOAA CoastWatch HelpDesk.  We're here to answer any questions about the CoastWatch Program,  people, services, or data products.  For support,  please send an email to coastwatch.info@noaa.gov.  Also,  consider subscribing to our announcements by clicking the 'subscribe' button near the footer of https://coastwatch.noaa.gov.

I am the operations manager for the CoastWatch West Coast Node (WCN). I can help you with questions about satellite products, using ERDDAP, and Python. You can get some idea of the projects we are working on at WCN by visiting the projects page. https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/projects/. The WCN ERDAP is located here: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap

Hey Everyone,

    I’m Tom Oliver, research ecologist at NOAA PIFSC. My speciality for this course is accessing remote data from within R, spatially integrating it, and applying it within correlative frameworks!  Happy to help!

Tom

Hello, Don Kobayashi here, I'm a research fishery biologist at PIFSC in the (new) Pelagic Research Program of the Ecosystem Sciences Division. I have fairly broad interests, dabble in quite a few different projects, and totally related to the "jack of all trades master of none" introduction that Michael did on day 1! One of my most recent activities is helping with the Mariana archipelago large marine ecosystem (LME) formal designation that is being pursued by a team of us at PIFSC.  I hope to bolster the characterization and delineation of the LME with help of satellite remotely sensed data. I routinely use large datasets in R but still consider myself a copy/paste novice at this and I tend to blindly trust the code of others way too much. Through this class I strive to become more independent! Other areas of interest to me are fishery oceanography, plankton ecology, biological oceanography, connectivity, climate change, and field approaches to pelagic surveys/sampling.

Hi Bernardo Vargas-Angel at NOAA, PIFSC, Ecosystem Sciences Division. Interested in using satellite derived Chla and SST metrics as potential drivers of coral reef benthic structure across the different US Pacific States and affiliated Territories.

I'm Brett Cooper with the Stock Assessment Program at PIFSC. I often work on bycatch data for the longline fleets. I'm hoping to sync up some AIS data I found for longline fishing vessels with satellite data for surface wind and current. I would like to feed the results into a CNN to see if the data is helpful in predicting when a vessel is fishing. Eventually, I'd like to get the VMS data for the longline fleet to try to determine when a ship is setting or hauling gear, but I currently don't have that data.

Hi, I'm Morgan Winston and I work in the Ecosystems Sciences Division as a Coral Bleaching Analyst. I'm currently working on an analysis of the 2019 coral bleaching event that occurred throughout the Hawaiian archipelago. This course presents a great opportunity for me to learn how to pull relevant satellite data, such as SST and Chl-a, for use  in determining potential drivers of bleaching observed last fall. 

Hi, I'm Morgan Winston and I work in the Ecosystems Sciences Division as a Coral Bleaching Analyst. I'm currently working on an analysis of the 2019 coral bleaching event that occurred throughout the Hawaiian archipelago. This course presents a great opportunity for me to learn how to pull relevant satellite data, such as SST and Chl-a, for use  in determining potential drivers of bleaching observed last fall. 

Aloha! This is Jenny Stahl. I work with the Electronic Monitoring and the Shark projects in FRMD International Fisheries Program. I am working with Melanie Hutchinson & Molly Scott to create habitat maps for shark & billfish from climate data paired with tracks from tagged animals. 

Aloha y'all - Amanda Bradford here from the Cetacean Research Program in the Protected Species Division. The focus of my position is on quantitative population assessment (mostly estimating cetacean abundance), but I am interested in being able to integrate satellite and other environmental data into analyses. For my course project, I'll be overlaying satellite data onto locations of satellite-tagged pelagic false killer whales.

Hi everyone, I'm Kurt Ingeman and I work in the Archipelagic Research Program of the Ecosystems Sciences Division at PIFSC. I'm analyzing benthic data from the Mariana Archipelago to characterize temporal trends and responses to warming events. This course is my first introduction to gathering and analyzing satellite data and a great chance for me to work with SST, SS anomaly data, DHW, and other bleaching relevant environmental variables.  

Aloha, I'm Jennifer McCullough :) I am a bioacoustician in the Cetacean Research Program at PIFSC. My research focus is on detection and classification of cetaceans using acoustic signals. During resent surveys we have deployed drifting recorders (DASBRs) throughout the Pacific. In the HICEAS 2017 dataset I have extracted all of the beaked whale and Kogia acoustic detections during each DASBR drift. My goal is to apply environmental variables to detection locations of the species to help understand their use of habitat in the Hawaiian Islands. 

Aloha friends. I am trying to learn how to pull environmental data and to match it to telemetry data to build habitat use and movement models. I am using my oceanic whitetip shark tracks, tagged in the Central Pacific in three different fisheries for the course. 

Hi there, I'm Brittany Huntington with the Ecosystem Sciences Division at PIFSC.  When not wearing a manager hat, I like to play with coral reef monitoring data and grow my novice R skills.  For this course, I will be buddies with Bernardo Vargas-Angel to explore extracting satellite derived Chla and SST metrics as potential correlates to observed spatial differences in island-scale benthic cover estimates (from 2016-2019) across the different US Pacific States and affiliated Territories. 

Aloha, I'm Frances and I work at PIFSC in the Fisheries and Research Monitoring Division.  I manage the JIMAR data group and am also a part of WPacFIN helping with project coordination for the Hawaii database redesign.  I like growing my ArcGIS skills and satellite data is an area of GIS that I've been wanting to learn more about and apply to projects.

Hi everyone! I work on the Ocean and Climate Change team with the Ecosystem Sciences Division at PIFSC. I've been going on ESD research cruises for over 5 years and just started full time with ESD this past January. I would like to focus my project on associating site specific fish, benthic, and coral composition with Chlorophyll-a data among the Pacific Remote Island Areas. I'm really looking forward to learning so much more about ERDDAP and spatial analysis with R!