Tag: ships of opportunity

Scientists at AOML measure ocean’s crucial buffering against rising global carbon emissions 

Every year, scientists at AOML participate in the international effort led by the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute in developing the annual Global Carbon Budget Report, an assessment of global carbon emissions and the progress towards achieving the climate goals set by the 2016 Paris Agreement. The 2024 Global Carbon Budget Report now indicates […]

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Ships of Opportunity: Crossing the Arctic to investigate the ocean’s uptake of carbon and increasing Ocean Acidification

The air and surface temperature tip just above freezing.  Cruiseliner Ponant’s 492-ft vessel Le Commandant Charcot floats idle at marked coordinates in the Arctic tundra between Alaska and Norway. On the aft deck, a team of scientists deploys Niskin bottles using a handcrank to the depths, collecting water samples 900 meters below an ocean blanketed […]

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Voyage of collaboration: The XBT Network and the Ship Of Opportunity Program

Scientists and engineers at NOAA/AOML frequently participate in cruises in support of the NOAA/AOML eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) Network. Recently, Dr. Marlos Goes, a University of Miami CIMAS scientist, gave a short talk to the officers of the Vienna Express, a vessel from the Hapag-LLoyd company, about the importance of the Ship Of Opportunity Program (SOOP) […]

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OCC SOOP

Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) <!-- Quantifying Sea-Air CO2 Fluxes on Seasonal and Regional Timescales --> SCROLL TO LEARN MORE What We Do The AOML-led Ships of Opportunity - Carbon Dioxide (SOOP-CO2) consortium has collected ocean carbon data from automated instruments on ships since 2005 and is funded by NOAA’s Ocean Observation and Monitoring Division of [...]
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