Ocean Innovation 2008
Conference Chair
Dr. Philip Bogden
World Summit on Ocean Observation Systems - Conference Chair
Ocean Innovation 2008
CEO, Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)
Acting Director, SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program
Dr. Bogden is CEO of GoMOOS, the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System. GoMOOS, Inc. is a nonprofit membership organization, and a regional component of a national program designed to bring hourly oceanographic data to all those who need it. He leads several projects that will augment GoMOOS by establishing new levels of interoperability and integration between other regional systems like GoMOOS, as well as state and federal agencies that collect their own information about the coastal ocean.
The goal is an integrated set of interoperable and distributed observing systems producing top quality data and information products for both research and practical applications. For data integration and product services, GoMOOS is implementing and helping to advance open standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, the Open Geospatial Consortium.
Dr. Bogden also serves as Acting Director of a major coastal science initiative at the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) called the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program. The SCOOP vision is a shared and open-access IT infrastructure that will advance the science of environmental prediction and hazard planning for our nation’s coasts.
SURA partners are creating a modular, real-time prediction system that involves a network of distributed and shared resources of all kinds, including ocean observations, computer models, supercomputers and digital libraries. The goal is a virtual organization of research universities working with public and private sector partners on a robust, distributed and integrated IT infrastructure.
Previously, Dr. Bogden held faculty positions at Yale University and The University of Connecticut. He obtained his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and his research specialties include coastal oceanography, inverse modeling and high performance computing.