The University of Southern Mississippi
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) launched collaboration
in 2003 with federal and state agencies to take an experimental prediction model developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the
next step. The GCRL, through funding provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) and with assistance from the Ocean Optics Section of the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space
Center, now uses sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity data from NASA's Aqua satellite to drive the prediction model that provides real-time monitoring
of
Vp densities in oysters.
Contact Information
D. Jay Grimes, Ph.D.
Professor of Marine Microbiology
Department of Coastal Sciences
The University of Southern Mississippi
Office: (228) 872-4210
jay.grimes@usm.edu
Website Development Acknowledgements
The GCRL is grateful to the NOAA OHHI (Juli Trtanj), NOAA/NMFS National Seafood Inspection Laboratory (John Tennyson and Angela Ruple), NRL Bio-Optical Physical Processes and Remote Sensing Section (Rick Gould and Sherwin Ladner), UCAR (Scot Loehrer), FDA (Andy DePaola and John Bowers), the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) of NCCOS/NOAA, and NASA Applied Sciences Program (partial graduate student support to Andrea Phillips - see Phillips et al. 2007) for their early support for and advice in development of this website.
Andrea Phillips Zimmerman (Phillips et al. 2007) spent long hours working with the above offices and people to get the first prediction maps developed, and she was assisted by Greg Carter, Dan Holiday, Crystal Johnson and Dawn Rebarchik.
Supporting Agencies
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Oceans and Human Health Initiative
National Marine Fisheries Service
NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA)
United States
Food & Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition,
Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory and Division of Mathematics
CDC National Center for Environmental Health
NASA Applied Sciences
Gulf Coast Geospatial Center
