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Applications for membership on the OOIFB Data Dissemination and Cyber Infrastructure Committee are being accepted until August 30, 2018.
Read MoreEarly Career Highlight – Cassandra Alexander – Oceanographic research experiences at a landlocked undergraduate teaching university
“The Ocean Observatories Initiative really opens it up for students to be able to do a lot of different things with the ocean data,” says Alexander. “As long as you can think of it, you can explore it.”
Read MoreEarly Career Highlight – Kanieka Neal – From Maryland to Massachusetts, pushing her chemistry comfort zone
“The OOI is a great resource for students,” says Neal. “It’s not too time consuming, comes right to your inbox, and is very organized so I could pick it up really quickly. It’s amazing that the data are right at your fingertips; you can just go in and get it.”
Read MoreEarly Career Highlight – Brendan Philip – From a life on the sea surface to exploration of the seafloor
“It’s a 25-year program and you have committed to sailing every year to service your arrays,” says Philip, “that is a tremendous opportunity for students and researchers on board to do research that leverages the OOI instrumentation. The OOI is more than just data streaming to shore, it is also about the additional science you can do while you are out there.”
Read MoreEarly Career Highlight – Hilary Palevsky and the Irminger Sea Biological Pump
“I wanted to study the ocean’s role in climate and how it takes carbon out of the atmosphere,” says Palevsky. “My goal was to look at the balance between biological, physical, and chemical processes and how they allow the ocean to take up carbon.”
Read MoreVisions 18 Cruise Underway
On June 19th, the R/V Roger Revelle departed Newport, OR to begin VISIONS’18, a 47-day expedition to replace and maintain elements of the Cabled Array off the coasts of Oregon and Washington as well as to add some novel sensors.
Read MoreJoin Us at the OOI Deep Ocean Observing Workshop
On August 27-29, 2018, an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Deep Ocean Observing Workshop will be held in Seattle, WA.
This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to develop deep ocean science questions and identify societal needs that could be addressed using the existing OOI infrastructure. The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to gather detailed information about OOI infrastructure, data availability, and discuss existing and prospective Essential Ocean Variables that deep-water observatories can address. Particular attention will be paid to the capabilities and utility of the OOI Regional Cabled Array. Two days of presentations and breakout groups will be followed by one day for drafting concepts and project outlines.
Expected workshop outcomes may include identification of new cabled and stand-alone instrumentation and platforms needed to address Deep Ocean Observing Strategy goals and opportunities to leverage other regional ocean observing assets (e.g., the US Integrated Ocean Observing System – Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems, Oceans Network Canada). Lessons learned from the experience of developing these assets could be discussed. This workshop will help build and expand the deep-ocean user community interested in the NE Pacific.
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More information is available on the OOI website.
Some travel support may be available.
Read MoreRegional Cabled Array Hack Week: a Collaborative Setting to Explore Big Ocean Data
“The size and complexity of ocean data is growing beyond the capacity of what one person and one computer can handle. We need to be thinking of collaborative, cloud-based tools to really explore the capacity of these data.” Friedrich Knuth, Cabled Array Hackweek organizer
Read MoreCollaborations across the North Atlantic – Reflections on the 2017 Irminger Sea Regional Science Workshop
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.
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The Irminger Sea region, west of Greenland, is a region of high wind and large surface waves, strong atmosphere-ocean exchanges of energy and gases, CO2 sequestration, high biological productivity, an important fishery, and the location of one of the OOI Global Arrays.
“Many of the participants were already using OOI data, and those that weren’t were eager to learn more about the data and improve the time series going forward,” says Mike Vardaro, OOI Data Manager. “I returned with many recommendations to improve data collection, processing, and distribution as well as requests for data, including inquiries about cruise opportunities and how to add to OOI infrastructure or deploy in the OOI area.”
Some of the key recommendations noted were easier bulk download, expansion of ERDDAP, and improved quality control of DO, NUTNR, and PCO2A sensor data.
The overarching objective of the workshop was to coordinate international efforts to observe, study, and better understand the Irminger Sea region.
“The second Irminger Sea workshop saw the fruit being borne of the collaboration between OOI and OSNAP,” says Bob Weller, OOI Global Array PI. “At the first workshop that collaboration resulted in siting the OOI moorings in line with the OSNAP array and adding instrumentation to achieve common sampling. This proved to be very successful. Further, the sampling of the air-sea fluxes and the biology and biogeochemistry at OOI Irminger drew high level of interest and provided the data for a number of papers and joint analyses now underway.”
Check out the O-SNAP blog post written by workshop steering committee member Penny Holliday from the National Oceanography Centre.
Workshop foci were:
- Summaries of present and planned observational, empirical, theoretical, and model-based efforts focused on the physics and biogeochemistry of the Irminger Sea region;
- Presentation of results from recent observational campaigns;
- Identification of key questions and hypotheses related to the physics and biogeochemistry of the region; discussion of sampling strategies to address those questions, including coordination of present, planned and new observational efforts;
- Plans for collaborative analyses and publications;
- Data sharing in support of coordination and collaboration.
Day one of the workshop featured presentations to share results of existing studies and plans for future studies and analysis. A full list of presentations can be found in the workshop report.
On the second day, participants worked in small groups to tackle specific discussion questions with the aim of catalyzing collaborative research, analyses, and publications.
Some questions included:
- Does convection in the Labrador Sea and Irminger Sea have different behavior?
- What are the drivers of extreme convection events?
- What are the controls on productivity, the spring bloom, and ecosystems?
- How do freshwater anomalies (from Arctic) propagate around the subpolar gyre?
- What is the impact of the freshwater on oceanic and atmospheric variability?
Key outcomes of the workshop included:
- Strong support for multi-disciplinary observations made by OOI platforms including the gliders
- Strong support for continued efforts to collect surface meteorology and air-sea fluxes through challenging winter conditions, thus support for OOI to improve surface buoy
- Reliance on OOI Irminger Sea Array continuing allowing Dutch LOCO mooring and German CIS mooring time series to now be collected by OOI going forward.
Join us in the OceanHackWeek 2018 to explore Data Science in Oceanography!
Please 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 Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Comparisons to other large-scale ocean observing assets, such as Argo, IOOS, etc. are welcome and encouraged.
Different from conventional conferences and workshops, the OceanHackWeek is constructed based on three core components: tutorials in data science methodologies such as data visualization and cloud computing, peer-learning, and on-site project work in a collaborative environment. We welcome all self-identified oceanographers at all career stages to apply, and hope you will join us in this exciting endeavor!
Travel and lodging grants are available for non-local accepted participants. Participants are expected to attend the entire workshop.
More information is available on: https://oceanhackweek.github.io/
To apply, please fill out the application by May 7, 2018. Accepted applicants will be notified no later than May 21, 2018.
For questions, feel free to email oceanhkw@uw.edu.
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