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07/15/2013 - 07/30/2013
South American visitors enhance current divisional observational partnerships
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06/30/2013 - 07/15/2013
New AMVERSEAS 9.1 tested in the NOAA vessel Gordon Gunter
Two meteorological components of the new AMVERSEAS 9.1 were installed and sucessfully tested on the NOAA fleet vessel Gordon Gunter. This was the first AMVERSEAS 9.1 test in a shipboard environment performed by volunteer observers.
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05/30/2013 - 06/15/2013
Two Summer Interns at PhOD
Mr. Dillon Amaya and Ms. Alexandra Ramos have recently started a two-month summer internship at PhOD. During this period, they will be advised by scientists at PhOD in Ocean-Climate studies.
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05/15/2013 - 05/30/2013
PhOD Employees at the South Florida Federal Executive Board's Employee of the Year
Two PhOD employees have been recognized by the South Florida Federal Executive Board Employee of the Year Award. Mr. Andrew Stefanick has been nominated in the Professional and Technology/IT categories, and Dr. Chunzai Wang has been nominated and won the Scientific Category.
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04/01/2012 - 05/31/2012
Adopt a Drifter Program on the Weather Channel
In celebration of Earth Day, three students from the Key Biscayne K-8 Center, Key Biscayne, FL deployed a NOAA drifter on April 27 as part of the Adopt-A-Drifter Program, in partnership with students from the International Preparatory School in Santiago, Chile. The three Florida students were top winners in a competition to describe the significance of the ocean in their lives. As part of this event, Rick Lumpkin was interviewed on the Weather Channel where he described NOAA's Global Drifter Program and the Adopt-A-Drifter outreach effort.
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02/01/2012 - 03/31/2012
AOML Tests New Technology for The Collection of Underway Oceanographic Data
Researchers at the Physical Oceanography Division at AOML are testing a new observational platform for measuring the upper ocean thermal and salinity structure. This new observational platform named UCT Depth (UCTD) will enable researchers to collect temperature and salinity profiles of the upper ocean at underway speeds, to depths of up to 500 m.
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05/15/2010 - 06/15/2010
Moored Acoustic Array Deployed between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas in March 2010
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04/15/2010 - 05/31/2010
Sucessful Testing of Deep Ocean Monitoring System
A classic conundrum of physical oceanographic and climatic research has been how to measure the deep ocean and record data with instruments on the bottom of the ocean while also getting the data back to land quickly enough to be used in climate analysis and prediction. A deep ocean data retrieval system developed at the Physical Oceanography Division of AOML has been recently tested and once fully operational will allow scientific instruments anchored on the ocean bottom to send their data back via expendable data pods that will release from the ocean floor on a programmable schedule.
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