ACTION DUE 6/24/2026: Fill Out HFR Community Team Structure & Interest Survey

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Communities,

Bottom line up front (BLUF):  Prior to 6/24/2026, would you please fill out the survey here to assist the U.S. IOOS Office and its Surface Currents Program in forming a HFR Community Team of volunteer technical advisors to provide feedback on scientific and technical challenges in support of maintaining a healthy, functional U.S. IOOS HFR National Network and advancing the evidence-based use cases for its products?

To elaborate...

As I spoke about at the recent 2026 IOOS Spring Meeting in Washington, DC and 14th Radiowave Operators Working Group Meeting (ROWG-14) in Newport, Oregon (and online, as it was a hybrid meeting), the IOOS Surface Currents Program is forming a coastal HFR Community Team to serve as volunteer technical advisors, and we would like your feedback to assist this effort.  Similar to the past National HFR Technical Steering Team (see:  "Meeting Summaries" tab here), this new HFR Community Team aims to address the scientific and technical challenges inherent in maintaining a healthy, functional U.S. IOOS HFR National Network, and to provide evidence-based feedback to IOOS leadership and other groups looking into IOOS's observing efforts.  To be clear, this Team is not a Federal Advisory Committee and won't be asked to provide consensus recommendations; instead we hope for broad participation that invites a variety of perspectives from members including representatives from IOOS Regional Associations (RAs), the IOOS Office, and Principal Investigators (PIs) engaged in HFR-related research, development, and operations.

More information about the forthcoming HFR Community Team, its structure, and key areas of responsibility is given in this Google Form along with questions for you to help get this team started off on the right foot.  Sarina Mann, who is with the U.S. IOOS Office, is Cc'd on this e-mail and is working in support of this survey.  If you have any questions about this Google Form, please reach out to sarin...@noaa.gov.  Thank you all in advance for your feedback and continued support of IOOS and its HFR National Network!

Best regards,
Brian



_______________________________________________
   Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, MD 20910

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Communities,

Thank you to all who've completed the subject poll and, to those of you would haven't and would like to share your feedback, please see the link here for your submission by C.O.B. Wednesday.

Best regards,
Brian



_______________________________________________
   Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, MD 20910

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Communities,

Thank you for all for the input you provided to the subject survey.  That survey is now closed and Sarina and I in the IOOS Office will be reviewing the feedback received so that we may get back to you accordingly in the days following the July 4th U.S. Independence Day holiday with more information and the schedule for our HFR Community Team's inaugural meeting.   Tentatively we're thinking of holding that kick-off meeting (remotely, via Google Meet) sometime during the last week of July 2026, so if you know of any major conflicting events during that time, please feel free to send a heads-up to Sarina at sarin...@noaa.gov.

Best regards,
Brian



_______________________________________________
   Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, MD 20910

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 4:46 PM Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov> wrote:

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Communities,

Thank you to all who've completed the subject poll and, to those of you would haven't and would like to share your feedback, please see the link here for your submission by C.O.B. Wednesday.

Best regards,
Brian

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Communities,

Regarding the e-mail below, I jumped the gun by closing the subject survey early, prior to the "C.O.B. Wednesday" due date I'd written earlier.  So, just to make sure this doesn't short change anyone who was relying on that C.O.B. deadline, the survey here has been reopened and will continue accepting responses until 5:00 PM EDT tomorrow (6/25/2026).  Hope this extra time helps!

Best regards,
Brian



_______________________________________________
   Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, MD 20910

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 12:22 PM Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov> wrote:

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Communities,

Thank you for all for the input you provided to the subject survey.  That survey is now closed and Sarina and I in the IOOS Office will be reviewing the feedback received so that we may get back to you accordingly in the days following the July 4th U.S. Independence Day holiday with more information and the schedule for our HFR Community Team's inaugural meeting.   Tentatively we're thinking of holding that kick-off meeting (remotely, via Google Meet) sometime during the last week of July 2026, so if you know of any major conflicting events during that time, please feel free to send a heads-up to Sarina at sarin...@noaa.gov.

Best regards,
Brian

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Please join us for our inaugural meeting of the HFR Community Team.  (Also, thank you again to everyone who filled out the HFR Community Team Structure & Interest Survey we sent back on June 3, 2026 to help us prepare for this team's formation!)

You will find attached to this e-mail:

• For you to read carefully in advance of this meeting to help with your decision to participate, a PDF of this Team's charter—a collaborative, living document created to establish our shared purpose and mission, define this team's scope and boundaries, and set guiding principles and operational expectations for how we will work together (subject to change; the latest version of the Charter is available as a Google Doc here).
• A PDF of this meeting's agenda (also subject to change; the living version of this agenda is available as a Google Doc here).
• A "*.ics" universal calendar file, containing the subject event's details like title, date, time, connection information, and description.  You can import this event file into your calendar platform of choice like Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook.  Also, please feel free to share this e-mail and calendar invite file with others who may be interested.
• At the time of the meeting, you can join using the video call link here, which is also in that calendar invite.

As a reminder, this team aims to address the operational, scientific, and technical challenges inherent in maintaining a healthy, resilient, and high-functioning national HFR network that is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders.  Invited to join this Team include those who are:

• users and creators of HFR data products;
• representatives from IOOS Regional Associations (RAs);
• staff in the IOOS Office and other collaborating offices of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA);
• and Principal Investigators (PIs), sensor manufacturers, data managers, technicians, and stakeholders engaged in HFR-related research, development, and operations.

Broad voluntary participation is intended, including by both domestic and international collaborators, and Team meetings will be conducted virtually via Google Meet.

Note:  A separate Steering Committee will later be formed to help run meetings and develop agendas.

To ensure equity and accessibility across time zones, we plan to vary future meeting times and rotate the day of the week to better accommodate schedules.

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Thank you—we look forward to connecting,

Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3

   Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

   United States of America

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

Sarina Mann
   Physical Scientist, Project Management Support
   sarin...@noaa.gov

On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov> wrote:

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

I addition to a friendly reminder that the subject meeting will be held tomorrow—as described by the attachments and e-mail thread forwarded below—the following are a few further items of interest:

• ROWG-14 Workshop Report available here.  A report on the proceedings of the 14th Radiowave Operators Working Group Workshop (ROWG-14) that was held May 5–7, 2026 in Newport, Oregon, U.S.A. is available here, and by clicking on the "Meeting Summaries" tab at the website here.
• HFRNet data product generation code available on GitHub here.  With the transition of the NOAA IOOS Surface Currents Program's HFR data assembly center (DAC) known as "HFRNet" into the internal NOAA NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) system complete as of July 2025, the codebase used in the NCCF to create HFRNet's data products has been published on GitHub here.  This is a work-in-progress, with more documentation and guidance on how to provide feedback to come.
• HFRNet website code available on GitHub here.  The website here provides visualizations, documentation, statistics, and diagnostics for HFR stations and the products generated from their data in the NCCF.  The release of that website's code in GitHub here includes all four parts of the web application:  an interactive map client (PHP, JS), a data API (Python), a database (MySQL), and the operational scripts (Python).  Each component comes with its separate README.md file and its own Docker Compose configuration.  A top-level Docker Compose file is also provided to run the client, API, and database together, making it straightforward to launch a complete local instance.
• If you haven't done so already, please review any pages, documentation, or THREDDS server links on your own websites to see if they contain the old HFRNet address (which had cordc.ucsd.edu in its URL) and replace them with links to the new HFRNet website or NOAA-NDCB's HFR THREDDS data server, as appropriate.  Also, note that NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) provides the sister website here, which is another way for you to visualize and access these same HFRNet data products.

Looking forward to speaking with you tomorrow!


Best regards,
Brian



_______________________________________________

   Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
   United States of America

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Friendly reminder... per the e-mail forwarded below, please fill out the Google Form here before your close-of-business today (8/13/2026) if you're interested in helping out the HFR Community Team by additionally volunteering to serve on its Convening Committee.

Best regards,
Brian



_______________________________________________
   Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
   United States of America

   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov> wrote:

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Bottom-line up-front (BLUF):  Fill out the Google Form here before close-of-business 8/13/2026 if you're interested in helping out the HFR Community Team by additionally serving on its Convening Committee.

To elaborate...

Thank you to everyone who has expressed their interest in the HFR Community Team and who joined us on 7/29/2026 for our first meeting!  As we then discussed (and as per the e-mail thread below, and Team Charter here), we're looking for Team members who are additionally interested in serving on the Team's "Convening Committee".

So that the HFR Community Team is self-sustaining, we need a subset of the Team's members to additionally serve on the Team's Convening Committee.  The Convening Committee will perform the work needed to keep the Team running smoothly, such as running meetings, developing agendas, organizing materials, and guiding technical discussion topics.  Convening Committee members will meet in the months in between each bimonthly meeting of the whole HFR Community Team, to help plan and author that meeting’s agenda.

In line with the feedback received from the previous survey of the HFR Community Team, the Convening Committee will be capped at 6 members (excluding the IOOS Surface Currents Program Manager) and will serve 2-year terms, with half rotating out each year to promote continuity and knowledge transfer.  The final selection of the Convening Committee from respondents to this survey will be by the IOOS Surface Currents Program Manager, to balance Geographic/Regional Association perspectives, technical roles, and manufacturer expertise.  Convening Committee members may step down if their bandwidth changes; vacancies will be filled with another volunteer.

I hope you will consider taking on this additional role to help maintain and organize our Team, and if you have any questions please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Brian

On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 1:58 PM Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov> wrote:

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

In addition to a friendly reminder that the subject meeting will be held tomorrow—as described by the attachments and e-mail thread forwarded below—the following are a few further items of interest:

• ROWG-14 Workshop Report available here.  A report on the proceedings of the 14th Radiowave Operators Working Group Workshop (ROWG-14) that was held May 5–7, 2026 in Newport, Oregon, U.S.A. is available here, and by clicking on the "Meeting Summaries" tab at the website here.
• HFRNet data product generation code available on GitHub here.  With the transition of the NOAA IOOS Surface Currents Program's HFR data assembly center (DAC) known as "HFRNet" into the internal NOAA NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) system complete as of July 2025, the codebase used in the NCCF to create HFRNet's data products has been published on GitHub here.  This is a work-in-progress, with more documentation and guidance on how to provide feedback to come.
• HFRNet website code available on GitHub here.  The website here provides visualizations, documentation, statistics, and diagnostics for HFR stations and the products generated from their data in the NCCF.  The release of that website's code in GitHub here includes all four parts of the web application:  an interactive map client (PHP, JS), a data API (Python), a database (MySQL), and the operational scripts (Python).  Each component comes with its separate README.md file and its own Docker Compose configuration.  A top-level Docker Compose file is also provided to run the client, API, and database together, making it straightforward to launch a complete local instance.

• If you haven't done so already, please review any pages, documentation, or THREDDS server links on your own websites to see if they contain the old HFRNet address (which had cordc.ucsd.edu in its URL) and replace them with links to the new HFRNet website or NOAA-NDBC's HFR THREDDS data server, as appropriate.  Also, note that NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) provides the sister website here, which is another way for you to visualize and access these same HFRNet data products.

Looking forward to speaking with you tomorrow!


Best regards,
Brian

---------- Original message ---------
From: Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov>
Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Subject: Invitation: HFR Community Team Meeting @ Wed Jul 29, 2026 2pm - 2:50pm (EDT)
To: Radiowave Operators Working Group (ROWG) <rowg...@email.rutgers.edu>, Radiowave Oceanography Workshop <r...@msi.ucsb.edu>, _NOS IOOS_RA_Contacts <ioos.ra....@noaa.gov>
Cc: Sarina Mann - NOAA Affiliate <sarin...@noaa.gov>

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Please join us for our inaugural meeting of the HFR Community Team.  (Also, thank you again to everyone who filled out the HFR Community Team Structure & Interest Survey we sent back on June 3, 2026 to help us prepare for this team's formation!)

You will find attached to this e-mail:

• For you to read carefully in advance of this meeting to help with your decision to participate, a PDF of this Team's charter—a collaborative, living document created to establish our shared purpose and mission, define this team's scope and boundaries, and set guiding principles and operational expectations for how we will work together (subject to change; the latest version of the Charter is available as a Google Doc here).
• A PDF of this meeting's agenda (also subject to change; the living version of this agenda is available as a Google Doc here).
• A "*.ics" universal calendar file, containing the subject event's details like title, date, time, connection information, and description.  You can import this event file into your calendar platform of choice like Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook.  Also, please feel free to share this e-mail and calendar invite file with others who may be interested.

As a reminder, this team aims to address the operational, scientific, and technical challenges inherent in maintaining a healthy, resilient, and high-functioning national HFR network that is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders.  Invited to join this Team include those who are:

• users and creators of HFR data products;
• representatives from IOOS Regional Associations (RAs);
• staff in the IOOS Office and other collaborating offices of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA);
• and Principal Investigators (PIs), sensor manufacturers, data managers, technicians, and stakeholders engaged in HFR-related research, development, and operations.

Broad voluntary participation is intended, including by both domestic and international collaborators, and Team meetings will be conducted virtually via Google Meet.

Note:  A separate Convening Committee will later be formed to help run meetings and develop agendas.

To ensure equity and accessibility across time zones, we plan to vary future meeting times and rotate the day of the week to better accommodate schedules.

----
Thank you—we look forward to connecting,

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Please join us for our next bi-monthly meeting of the HFR Community Team.

• Attached to this e-mails is a "*.ics" universal calendar file, containing the subject event's details like title, date, time, connection information, and description.  You can import this event file into your calendar platform of choice like Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook.  Also, please feel free to share this e-mail and calendar invite file with others who may be interested.
• The connection information for this meeting (also in that calendar file) is as follows:
  Google Meet joining info
  Video call link: here
  Or dial: ‪(US) +1 984-444-8771‬ PIN: ‪396 033 024‬#
  More phone numbers: here

This iteration of our Team's meeting will be focused on development and implementation of the U.S. IOOS Office Surface Currents Program's quality assurance (QA) continuous certification process for HFR operators, including the QA checklist to be used to document these sensor and data maintenance activities.

For our discussion at this meeting, in advance please see:

• the agenda here;
• a draft manual for the QA certification process for CODAR SeaSondes® is here;
• a draft document containing the questions intended for SeaSonde operators to answer periodically (i.e., semi-annually, via a Google Form) to certify their completion of prescribed QA activities here; and
• the HFR Community Team Charter here—a collaborative, living document created to establish our shared purpose and mission, define this team's scope and boundaries, and set guiding principles and operational expectations for how we will work together.

Also, to help better inform our discussion on HFR QA and its impacts to trajectory modeling applications such as search-and-rescue (SAR), as a read-ahead for this meeting please review the article here.  This new study—led by Uchenna Nwankwo (GCOOS/Texas A&M University) and colleagues Dmitri Nechaev (University of Southern Mississippi), Steven DiMarco (Texas A&M University), Anthony Knap (Texas A&M University), and Cristina Forbes (U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Search and Rescue)—demonstrates the value of HFR to improving our ability to monitor, predict and respond to ocean and coastal events.

As a reminder, this team aims to address the operational, scientific, and technical challenges inherent in maintaining a healthy, resilient, and high-functioning national HFR network that is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders.  Invited to join this Team include those who are:  users and creators of HFR data products; representatives from U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Regional Associations (RAs); staff in the IOOS Office and other collaborating offices of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and Principal Investigators, sensor manufacturers, data managers, technicians, and stakeholders engaged in HFR-related research, development, and operations.  Broad voluntary participation is intended, including by both domestic and international collaborators.

Best regards, on behalf of the HFR Community Team's Convening Committee (Cc'd),

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Friendly reminder... per the e-mail forwarded below, the subject meeting is next Tuesday (and, for all of you returning from this week's OCEANS 2026 Monterey conference, safe travels!).

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal <brian....@noaa.gov>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Subject: Invitation: HFR Community Team Meeting @ Tuesday, September 29, 2026 3pm–4pm (EDT)
To: Radiowave Operators Working Group (ROWG) <rowg...@email.rutgers.edu>, Radiowave Oceanography Workshop <r...@msi.ucsb.edu>, _NOS IOOS_RA_Contacts <ioos.ra....@noaa.gov>

Cc: David Donahue - NOAA Federal <david.r...@noaa.gov>, Jonathan Joyce <jonatha...@tetratech.com>, Marcus Ogle <marcu...@gcoos.org>, Hardik Parikh <har...@codar.com>, Teresa Updyke <tup...@odu.edu>, Libe Washburn <libe.w...@ucsb.edu>

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Please join us for our next bi-monthly meeting of the HFR Community Team.

• Attached to this e-mail is a "*.ics" universal calendar file, containing the subject event's details like title, date, time, connection information, and description.  You can import this event file into your calendar platform of choice like Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook.  Also, please feel free to share this e-mail and calendar invite file with others who may be interested.

• The connection information for this meeting (also in that calendar file) is as follows:
  Google Meet joining info
  Video call link: here
  Or dial: ‪(US) +1 984-444-8771‬ PIN: ‪396 033 024‬#
  More phone numbers: here

This iteration of our Team's meeting will be focused on development and implementation of the U.S. IOOS Office Surface Currents Program's quality assurance (QA) continuous certification process for HFR operators, including the QA checklist to be used to document these sensor and data maintenance activities.

For our discussion at this meeting, in advance please see:

• the agenda here;
• a draft manual for the QA certification process for CODAR SeaSondes® is here;
• a draft document containing the questions intended for SeaSonde operators to answer periodically (i.e., semi-annually, via a Google Form) to certify their completion of prescribed QA activities here; and
• the HFR Community Team Charter here—a collaborative, living document created to establish our shared purpose and mission, define this team's scope and boundaries, and set guiding principles and operational expectations for how we will work together.

Also, to help better inform our discussion on HFR QA and its impacts to trajectory modeling applications such as search-and-rescue (SAR), as a read-ahead for this meeting please review the article here.  This new study—led by Uchenna Nwankwo (Texas A&M University) and colleagues Dmitri Nechaev (University of Southern Mississippi), Steven DiMarco (Texas A&M University), Anthony Knap (Texas A&M University), and Cristina Forbes (U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Search and Rescue)—demonstrates the value of HFR to improving our ability to monitor, predict and respond to ocean and coastal events.

As a reminder, this team aims to address the operational, scientific, and technical challenges inherent in maintaining a healthy, resilient, and high-functioning national HFR network that is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders.  Those invited to join this Team include:  users and creators of HFR data products; representatives from U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Regional Associations (RAs); staff in the IOOS Office and other collaborating offices of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and Principal Investigators, sensor manufacturers, data managers, technicians, and stakeholders engaged in HFR-related research, development, and operations.  Broad voluntary participation is intended, including by both domestic and international collaborators.

Best regards, on behalf of the HFR Community Team's Convening Committee (Cc'd),

[Brian Zelenke - NOAA Federal]

Dear Coastal High-Frequency Radar (HFR) Communities of Practice and Interest,

Thank you all for a great meeting Tuesday and your participation in an engaging discussion!  Based on the feedback received during this meeting and from earlier outreach on the topic, toward the end of this month the U.S. IOOS Surface Currents Program will be in touch with next steps on the rollout of the HFR Quality Control (QC) checklist we discussed.  We'll be reaching out to IOOS Regional Association directors and HFR operators regarding implementation.  I look forward to your continued feedback on this evolving process and opportunities for its continuous improvement.

P.S.—I'll be out of office on travel 10/2–15/2026, back 10/16/2026.

Best regards, on behalf of the HFR Community Team's Convening Committee (Cc'd),
Brian Zelenke
   Surface Currents Program Manager
   U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office
   National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
   Department of Commerce
   1315 East-West Highway, Bldg. SSMC3
   Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
   United States of America
   Telephone:  240-533-9440
   E-mail:  brian....@noaa.gov
   Web:  https://ioos.noaa.gov/