From: David Schwab <schwab@zeus.glerl.noaa.gov>
Subject: CoOP News and ECSS paper
To: eegle-pi@wings.glerl.noaa.gov
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 9:53:03 EST
Status: RO

Hi all!

First some news from the CoOP Steering Committee.  The Announcement
of Opportunity for the wind-driven transport processes study in the
NE Pacific has been released by NSF. You can get a copy at:
http://www.hpl.umces.edu/coop/ao.htm.  The deadline for proposal
submission in March 15, 1999.

The draft outline of CoOP's Buoyancy-Driven Transport Processes Workshop
Report (AKA Buoyancy-Influenced Margins Workshop) is also available at:
http://www.hpl.umces.edu/coop/buoyancy%20report.htm
This is the workshop that was recently held in Salt Lake City to plan
for the 3rd part of CoOP's 'big science' programs. This draft outline
is open to public review and comments should be addressed to
Dr. Susan Henrichs, Chair of the Workshop Committee.

Dmitry Beletsky, Jing Lou, and I just finished a paper on "Modeling a
Coastal Turbidity Plume in Lake Michigan" which we submitted to a
special issue of Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science.  The special
issue will focus on visualization in coastal marine science and will
have provisions for computer graphics including animations.  Our paper
is about our first attempt to model the 1998 plume and includes two
animations, one of the modeled circulation patterns and one of Jing Lou's
sediment concentration model output.  If you are intersted, I put a copy
of the paper (in WordPerfect and Postscript formats) and the figures
and animations on our anonymous ftp server at:
ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/schwab/ecss.  We'd appreciate any comments.

As a result of suggestions at the all-hands meeting, we have purchased
equipment to establish three more metorological stations.  In addition
to the CCIW stations at Michigan City and St. Joe, and the GLERL
ststion at Muskegon, we hope to set up stations at Milwaukee,
Waukegan, and Holland.  There's a good chance that we'll be able to
get at least the Milwaukee station set up before the end of the year.

That's all for now.  Happy Thanksgiving!

... Dave Schwab