Great South Bay Project
The goal of the Great South Bay program is to gain a thorough understanding of the biogeochemistry of the Bay and its effect on pelagic and benthic communities. Currently this effort is supported by the NY Department of State in which observations and models are combined in support of the development of an ecosystem based management approach to address the ecological problems besetting the Bay.
SoMAS Ocean Glider Project
The glider project at Stony Brook University grew out of the New York Department of Conservation’s need to understand and monitor the New York Bight and its long-term health and productivity. As a result, the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University developed a ten year program to measure the hydrography, chemistry and fishery biomass from seasonal cruises on the RV Seawolf and ~30 day ocean glider cruises covering the New York Bight area.
Oleander Project
The Oleander Project started in 1992 with the installation of a narrow-band 150kHz RD Instruments ADCP on Bermuda Container Line’s container RO/RO ship, the MV Oleander. The current Oleander, built in Holland in 1990, is the second vessel of the same name and makes weekly round-trips between Elisabeth, New Jersey and Hamilton, Bermuda. The vessel is 388′ long with a beam of 65′, a loaded draft of about 18′ and cruises at about 18kts. The interesting thing from an oceanographic point of view is the ship’s frequent repeat transits through ecologically and climatically important northwest Atlantic regions including the continental shelf and slope, the slope sea, the Gulf Stream and the Sargasso.
The Norrona Project
The Norrona Project is a joint effort by Stony Brook University and the University of Rhode Island, funded by the National Science Foundation, to equip the Norrona with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to begin a long-term monitoring of the northward flow of the warm North Atlantic waters through the Faroes-Shetland Channel and over the Faroes-Iceland ridge into the Greenland and Norwegian Seas.
GLOBEC Shipboard ADCP
This web-page contains the results of the shipboard ADCP data collection effort for GLOBEC’s Georges Bank Project. The ADCP data has been acquired onboard the RV Endeavor, the RV Oceanus, the Edwin Link, and the Albatross IV for each GLOBEC cruise. At the end of each cruise the pingdata files are sent to us for processing. The vast majority of the data has been collected using 150 kHz narrow-band ADCPs although there have been a number of cruises on the RV Albatross which is equipped with a broad-band unit. Recently, we have completed the modification and development of the routines required to deal with the broad-band data and those cruises are now being gradually included in the ADCP archive.
JGOFS
This is the home-page with results of the ADCP data collection effort in the JGOFS Arabian Sea Project. The data acquisition system on the R/V T.G. Thompson automatically collects the ADCP data on each cruise. Automatically, that is, with the help of the Thompson’s technicians. The pingdata files are shipped to Brookhaven at the end of each cruise.
Shelf Basin Interaction
The motivation for the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Program is to increase our understanding of the physical and biological processes affecting the Arctic Ocean in an effort to predict the regions response to global climate change. The interdisciplinary program employs field studies focusing on the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
Japan – East Sea Project
Shipboard ADCP data is collected for each cruise onboard the: R/V Roger Revelle
JGOFS / Synthesis and Modeling Ocean Margins Program
