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Early Career Highlight – Dax Soule – Using the OOI to Build Paths for Success in His Students and His Research
The OOI is like a fire hose with data pouring out,” says Soule. “It’s just there, regardless of whether anyone is using it. If you are brave enough to lean in and just take a sip, just grab a tiny fraction of that data, well that’s enough for a research project right there.”
Read MoreEarly Career Highlight – Veronica Tamsitt – Taking hold of opportunities in the Southern Ocean
To Tamsitt, the OOI is a game changer in the Southern Ocean. “In the air-sea flux community, there are almost no measurements in the Southern Ocean except from ships,” says Tamsitt. “The OOI Surface Mooring is the southernmost mooring ever deployed.
Read MoreSuccessful Science Platform and Gear Recovery
Re-post from the Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Committee –
On July 7th the RV Bold Horizon, using a small Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV), successfully recovered fishing gear and the sub-surface platform the gear was fouled on. The science platform, part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, was struck by trawl gear on September 16, 2017, disabling the platform and the shallow-water profiler that was onboard. Pelagic Research Services, which was contracted to recover the platform and gear, found the platform and a trawl door about 38 fms off the bottom in 304 fms of water. OFCC Board member and fisherman Gary Wintersteen assisted with the recovery. Photos courtesy of Gary Wintersteen. More photos and video are available on the OFCC Facebook page.
Early Career Highlight – Wu-Jung Lee’s journey into ocean sound from dolphins to bats and back to the sea
“One of the reasons I first got interested in the OOI data was because it is free and available to the public,” says Lee. “Once I started working with the data, I realized just how special it was. I spent all of my time for several months on the OOI echosounder data.”
Read MoreFrom the OOIFB – DDCI Membership Applications NOW OPEN
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.
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