Posts Tagged ‘2020’
OOI Early Career Workshops create opportunities for scientists to engage with the OOI and collaborate with peers
In the spring and summer of 2018, the OOI hosted five workshops for early-career scientists interested in learning more about the infrastructure and how to use data from the program in their work. The week-long data-oriented workshops were designed to inspire participants to pursue projects with OOI available resources.
Read MoreCommunity Tools available on the OOI website to examine the Axial Volcano
A suite of community generated tools are now available to explore the Axial Seamount. These include a new Inflation Threshold Forecast web page created by Dr. Chadwick (Oregon State University and NOAA/PMEL) and Andy Lau (Oregon State University/CIMRS) and the Axial Seamount Earthquake Catalog created by Dr. William Wilcock (University of Washington).
Read MoreNew OOI Video – Access the Ocean
Learn more about using OOI data for free in your research and engaging with the OOI.
Read MoreEarly Career Highlight – Haley Cabaniss – Studying Oceans and Volcanos in America’s Breadbasket
“The thing that makes oceanography accessible in Illinois and any place inland,” says Cabaniss, “is that we have these awesome datasets like the OOI. Anyone anywhere in the world can go online, grab these datasets and start playing with them.”
Read MoreWHOI’s “Life at the Edge” video captures the Pioneer Array
What makes the shelf break front such a productive and diverse part of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean? To find out, a group of scientists on the research vessel Neil Armstrong spent two weeks at sea in 2018 as part of a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation. During this cruise researchers were able to utilize the near-real-time data from the OOI Pioneer Array to help direct their sampling efforts.
Read MoreEarly 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 MoreEarly 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.”
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