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Scientists at AOML lead workshop for international Surface Ocean CO2 Reference Observing Network (SOCONET)

Chris Malanuk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:37:50 +0000

Last week, scientists with AOML’s Ocean Carbon Cycle team led a workshop under the international Surface Ocean CO2 Reference Observing Network (SOCONET) on best practices for maintaining an underway pCO2 system and quality-controlling data to standardize crucial measurements of the surface ocean’s uptake of carbon. The global ocean takes up carbon from the atmosphere on […]

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NOAA research cruise supports key tropical Atlantic observing system

AOML Communications — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:10:17 +0000

There and back again: NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter journeyed away from Pascagoula, Mississippi for 90+ days and 12,700+ nautical miles to conduct the PIRATA Northeast Extension cruise. A NOAA ship that traditionally sails in the Gulf of America embarked on a 90+ day journey into international waters and successfully completed its mission in support of […]

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Fifty-Five Days at Sea: Collecting Oceanographic Data from Brazil to Iceland

AOML Communications — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:27:17 +0000

On May 9, a team of scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown arrived at their final destination in Reykjavik, Iceland following 55 days at sea. The team of 50 scientists and 28 crew members followed a track through the North Atlantic, from Brazil to Iceland, referred to as the A16N transect, and successfully completed 150 stations, collecting over 3,000 samples from the Atlantic’s surface to the seafloor, giving scientists a holistic snapshot of the Atlantic Ocean basin.

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First South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Project Cruise in Three Years

AOML Communications — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:45:49 +0000

After two weeks at sea, the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAM) project team completed its first cruise since June 2019!

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