Seatrec’s successful sea trial of it’s energy harvesting system makes it possible to extend life of oceanographic profiling floats, add additional sensors, and sample more frequently.
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Sea-Bird Scientific is sponsoring a live webinar July 18th at 1 P.M. E.T./10 A.M. P.T. entitled “Ocean Acidification: High-Frequency Long-Term Measurements of pH and Deployment Best Practices.” Ocean acidification is happening. We can predict it through climate models, see it in pitted calcium carbonate shells, and feel it through aquaculture collapse. However, pH sensors are in dire need of an
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Argo is an array of more than 3,800 floats that are freely drifting around the globe to measure the temperature, salinity and turbidity of the upper ocean, at depths down to 2,000 m. But this is less than half the full depth of the ocean, and deeper measurements are needed to fully understand ocean energy and health. Deep Argo is
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Sea-Bird Scientific, September 2017–The center of Hurricane Irma may have missed Florida’s eastern shore, but its effects did not. Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch operates a network of Sea-Bird Scientific Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatories (LOBOs) in the Indian River Lagoon that captured the edge of Irma’s wrath in real time. The peak of the storm occurred just before midnight on September
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