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Collaborations across the North Atlantic – Reflections on the 2017 Irminger Sea Regional Science Workshop
April 12, 2018
Late last year, more than 30 researchers from countries spanning the Atlantic met in Southampton, UK at the National Oceanography Centre to foster coordination of research efforts focused on the Irminger Sea region. Of central importance to the workshop was to bring in young investigators.
“The Irminger Sea workshop provided me with an incredibly valuable opportunity ...

Join us in the Oceanhackweek 2018 to explore Data Science in Oceanography!
April 6, 2018Please join us at the Oceanhackweek 2018, August 20-24, 2018, at the University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the UW eScience Institute. This 5-day hands-on workshop is aimed at exploring, creating and promoting effective computation and analysis workflows for large and complex oceanographic data. The focus will be on data provided by the National ...

[OOI in the News] The Economist – Gliders on the storm
March 21, 2018(From The Economist / Technology Quarterly)
From sharks to ice shelves, monsoons to volcanoes, the scope of ocean monitoring is widening.
IN NOVEMBER 2016 a large crack appeared in the Larsen C ice shelf off Antarctica (pictured). By July 2017 a chunk a quarter of the size of Wales, weighing one trillion tonnes, broke off from the ...

[Science Highlight] Nature Climate Change Article Highlights OOI Irminger Sea Data
March 15, 2018Check out the recently published paper in Nature Climate Change focusing on the Irminger Sea:
Increased risk of a shutdown of ocean convection posed by warm North Atlantic summers
Marilena Oltmanns*, Johannes Karstensen and Jürgen Fischer
Abstract: A shutdown of ocean convection in the subpolar North Atlantic, triggered by enhanced melting over Greenland, is regarded as a potential ...

OOI FB Ocean Sciences Meeting Town Hall
March 15, 2018(Repost from OOIFB.org) The National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative Facility Board (OOIFB) hosted a Town Hall on February 13th at the recent 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, OR. The room was overflowing with more than 80 members of the community attending the session as well as those joining via web conference.
The OOIFB ...

Oceanography Magazine OOI Special Issue Now Available
March 5, 2018The March 2018 Special Issue of Oceanography Magazine (Volume 31, Issue 1) focusing on the Ocean Observatories Initiative is now available online!