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Workshop 1: Technology for Change Workshop 1: Technology for Change Moderated By Al Ramadan, Play Bigger Evolution of Technology for Ocean / Land Interface 1872 1922-39 1961 1992 2004 Wireline Acoustic Scripps TOPEX / Google acquires Sounding Echo Deep Poseidon Google Earth Machine Sounders Tow 1914 1941-45 1982 1995 Fessenden WWII NOAA Declassification 2010 Oscillator Shoran Pacific Of Geosat satellite Census of Marine Array radar altimetry data Life Driving an explosion in the availability of data Sometimes leading to unexpected results Researchers decided to tap the vast amount of data generated by anti-collision beacons on ships —some 22 billion messages from 2012 to 2016. In 2016 alone, these ships traveled more than 460 million kilometers—about five times the distance from Earth to the sun. Our Panel Matt Mulrennan Director, Ocean Initiative, XPRIZE Technology for Change Matthew Mulrennan Director, Ocean Initiative, XPRIZE Co-Founder, CEO, KOLOSSAL @kolossaloceans [email protected] “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.” -John F. Kennedy SOME OF OUR MOST SIGNIFICANT GRAND CHALLENGES INVOLVE OCEANS XPRIZE Ocean Initiative A ten-year commitment to conduct five ocean XPRIZE competitions by 2020, and engage in thought leadership, outreach and impact. The vision is to make the ocean Healthy, Valued, and Understood. Inspires solutions to ocean Grand Challenges. Funding provided by Wendy Schmidt starting in 2013. The $2 Million Global Competition to Improve Our Understanding of Ocean Acidification PUBLIC RELATIONS WORKSHOP SUMMARIES • Challenges and opportunities for accomplishing the shared vision: • culture, interoperability, valley of death, improving access to data and data quality, better ‘So much models and forecasting tools. • Lots of interesting ocean datasets, ocean ocean data, community recognizes need, and many big so little industries/public users of ocean resources. • Great potential for growth of ocean data being used.’ products and services. • Strong desire for an ocean service incubator and accelerator of ocean data products. • Need for new thinking, competition and breakthroughs! $100,000 for mobile apps to turn ocean data into the products and services we need. “7 Award-Winning Apps Launch a Mobile Age for the Ocean Economy.” OCEAN EXPLORATION AND CONSERVATION NON-PROFIT BASED IN VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA. HIGH-PROFILE AND CHALLENGING OCEAN EXPEDITIONS TO FIND AND FILM EXOTIC MARINE LIFE WHILE CAMPAIGNING TO PROTECT THEIR HABITATS. WE GO BIG TO EXPLORE AND PROTECT THE OCEAN. WE GO BIG – TO EXPLORE AND PROTECT OUR OCEAN Go big, or go home OCEAN EXPLORATION KOLOSSAL EXPEDITIONS BIG, challenging, high-profile. See we go big. Clear, specific targets and goals. Easy to explain. Focuses on exotic marine life. Supports an ocean conservation campaign. Tells a larger story. Inspiring. #GETKRAKEN – MISSION TO FIND THE COLOSSAL SQUID OCEAN CONSERVATION KOLOSSAL CONSERVATION CAMPAIGNS BIG, challenging campaigns Public facing and engaging Optimistic Use pop culture and humor Simple asks Clear victories First campaign promoting local, sustainable seafood and community supported fishing (CSF) in Los Angeles and Southern California. Maximizing the local seafood movement’s benefit for the global ocean. Technology for Change Matthew Mulrennan Director, Ocean Initiative, XPRIZE Co-Founder, CEO, KOLOSSAL @kolossaloceans [email protected] Matthew Morey MJD Interactive INNOVATIONABOUTINNOVATION WORKSHOP US D&DD&D WORKSHOP WORKSHOP We go from ideation to scale. Uncover known and unknown Exercises that unlock Get our ideas into user’s hands in Look through the lenses of Build validated digital products and Successfully launch enterprise Uncover known and Exercises that unlock Get our ideas into user’s hands Look through the lenses of Build validated digital products Successfully launch challenges while identifying collaborative creativity, leading a matter of days, at a fraction of customer desirability, technical experiences though UX, design and rollout of your new product at unknown challenges while collaborative creativity, in a matter of days, at a customer desirability, and experiences though UX, enterprise rollout of your opportunities to remarkably original ideas. cost. feasibility, and business goals. software engineering. scale. identifying opportunities leading to remarkably fraction of cost. technical feasibility, and design and software engineering. new product at scale. original ideas. business goals. CopyrightCopyright @208 MJD @208 Interactive MJD Interactive — Proprietary — Proprietary and Confidential. and Confidential. 34 Shannon Waters Smartfin / Surfrider Global Wave Conference 2018 Santa Cruz, CA Presented by Shannon Waters Image Credit: Kat Hammond/Smartfin Image Credit: caribbeanclimateblog.com Image Credit: asbmag.com Image Credit: Kat Hammond/Smartfin Image Credit: Kat Hammond/Smartfin Image Credits: CenCOOS - retrieved from http://www.cencoos.org/data/shore; Magicseaweed – retrieved from https://magicseaweed.com/California-North-Surf-Forecast/16/ Scripps Pier, La Jolla, CA Image Credit: Tyler Cyronak/Smartfin Image Credits: (Graph) Tyler Cyronak, (pictures) Kat Hammond Plymouth, UK Brewin et al. (2017) Evaluating operational AVHRR sea surface temperature data at the coastline using surfers. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences, 196, 276-289, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.07.011 Ocean Warming -------- Coral Bleaching -------- Sand Replenishment Project Impacts -------- Ocean Acidification -------- Hypoxia -------- Sea Level Rise -------- Living Shorelines as Buffers -------- Coastal Erosion -------- Sea Wall Impacts THANK YOU! Shannon Waters Smartfin Program Manager, Surfrider Foundation [email protected] Jose Borrero Director and Senior Consultant, eCoast Using the Rip Curl ‘Search GPS’ watch for the analysis, mapping and monitoring of surfbreaks 0-10 km/hr 10-20 km/hr 20-30 km/hr 30-40 km/hr FIRSTLY: Big thanks to Rip Curl, especially Shane Helm for supporting this project, giving us access to the data and supplying watches for the New Zealand Surfbreak Study. Acknowledgment: Lots of work done on this by eCoast interns Chris O’Day (BS Mech. Eng. Cal Poly SLO) and Jadd Riffai (MSc Data Science, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France). How it works: • GPS on watch tracks position at 1-Hz • Synchronized to web with app on device or desktop • Rip Curl API collects wave, wind, tide and other information from Magic Seaweed Data set description : • Recorded sessions from 01/01/2014 to 12/31/2017 • 948,299 ‘sessions’ • 24,772 individual users • 56 features : user characteristics, weather conditions, ocean conditions, date, time… Data Problems and How to Fix Missing values: Correct Surf Spot Name/ID • Location : 30% • Use lat/long and calculate distance to master spot list/look up table • tide level : 45% • This took a long time! • wind direction : 45% Correct Time • demographic info: ~50% • Sessions recorded in local time Bad data: • Use date and lat/long to determine time zone and DST • Several names for 1 location : • Correct to UTC “El Porto”, “El Port”, etc. Correct Environmental Info • Chinese/Japanese characters • With correct UTC time stamp, could • Missing tide, wind, swell data now link to global databases THIS WAS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT • TMD for tide SEEMS FORM THIS SLIDE! • ECMWF and NOAA-WW3 for waves Cleaning Individual Wave Data • Sessions written to .kml files for viewing in Google Earth • Individual wave tracks inspected • If it does not look like a surf ride, it is deleted • kiting, boating, running, driving in cars… • this data could be useful for other purposes • Surfbreak analysis done on ‘cleaned’ data All ‘WAVES’ These are NOT surfing rides! Cleaned Data Global Data Global Breakdown OK, now for some analysis… We First looked at El Porto, Los Angeles, Ca • Urban area • Heavily used and surfed • Best in winter (Nov- March) 5877 Sessions 284 Users 62% Male 2% female 36% no response Basic Data Plots: When are people surfing the most at El Porto? Weekly sessions over a calendar year Weekly sessions over watch availability Tide Level Swell Height Swell Direction Ride Length as a Function of Wind/Wave Conditions 1.4 22 Swell Height Swell Period Wind 350 Direction 0.8 14 200 50 0.2 8 0 50 100 150 200m200 0 50 100 150 200m200 0 50 100 150 200m200 320 7 Tide Level Swell Direction Wind Speed +1.0 280 0.0 240 3.5 200 -1.0 160 0 0 50 100 150 200m 0 50 100 150 200m 0 50 100 150 200m Which Factor Has Strongest Influence on the Ride? Ride Length • Swell Direction • Swell Height • Tide Direction • Tide Level Surfer Speed • Swell Direction • Swell Height • Tide Level • Tide Direction Spatial Analysis – Very Powerful! User #1: One Season (Winter 2015) Top 5 Users User 1 One Session One Wave User 2 0-10 km/hr 10-20 km/hr 20-30 km/hr 30-40 km/hr User 3 User 4 User 5 Mapping Take-off Spots Trestles El Porto Can be used to map morphological changes and highlight differences in Take Off Spots swell conditions El Porto: Winter Swell vs. Summer Swell Trestles: Winter Swell vs Summer Swell Surfing locations change due to morphological changes. Surfing locations change due to different swell direction October March January July 2015 2016 2015 2015 October March January July 2016 2017 2016 2016 January July 2017 2017 OK, So what about New Zealand? Whangamata Piha Manu Bay Piha Whangamata Bar Wainui/Pines Wainui / Pines Lyall Bay Whareakeake Raglan, Manu Bay Lyall Bay Whareakeake Aramoana Aramoana What
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