Research Highlights
Research Interests
Acquire and distribute reliable oceanographic and meteorological observations data to scientists working in climate research, weather forecasts, and modeling.
Caridad (Ibis) Gonzalez
Research Associate III (University of Miami/CIMAS), Physical Oceanography Division
305.361.4322
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149
“AMVERSEAS is a comprehensive computer application system used in research and commercial vessels worldwide to acquire and distribute oceanographic and meteorological observations in real-time. The system was created to assist the Ship Of Opportunity Program (SOOP) and the Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program in their effort to provide data to scientists working in climate research, weather forecasting, and modeling. The system also generates reports for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Automated Mutual-assistance Vessel Rescue system (AMVER) to aid in rescue missions at sea.”
Caridad Ibis Gonzalez is a Research Associate III with the Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) at the University of Miami. Caridad works in the Physical Oceanography Division at AOML developing operational applications systems to acquire, quality control and distribute oceanographic and meteorological observations. This is done in an effort to provide data to scientists working in climate research, weather forecasting, and modeling. She developed AMVERSEAS which is an applications system used for oceanographic and meteorological data acquisition, processing, recording, and transmission in real-time.
Current Work
Development and maintenance of AMVERSEAS , an applications system used for oceanographic and meteorological data acquisition, processing, recording, and transmission in real-time. This system operates on vessels worldwide.
Quality control (QC) in delay mode (DM) data recorded by XBTs to generate a reliable data set using self developed tools by the NOAA/AOML/PhOD division.
Create and maintain divisional NOAA/AOML High Density XBT Transects web pages to provide easy access to the XBT data generated from fixed predetermined transects.
Development and maintenance of a visual scientific QC application for Hurricane Glider data in DM.
Application of the QC in DM of around 1,300 drifting buoys generated data of the Global Drifter Program. Through the QC update (conducted quarterly), data of new deployed buoys, dead or grounded buoys, and all currently active buoys are processed.
1985, B.S. Computer Science/Mathematics, University of Havana, Cuba
2009, Accounting, The English Center, M-DCPS, Miami, Florida
NOAA Employee & Team Member of the Month April 2016
For developing software for a project that has improved how ocean temperature data from expendable bathythermographs are transmitted by shifting to the Iridium satellite network.
NOAA Administrator’s Award 2016
For developing and implementing an Iridium-based, real-time transmission system for oceanographic and meteorological observations from ships.