ships of opportunity - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/ships-of-opportunity/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:58:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png ships of opportunity - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/ships-of-opportunity/ 32 32 Scientists at AOML measure ocean’s crucial buffering against rising global carbon emissions  /scientists-at-aoml-measure-oceans-crucial-buffering-against-rising-global-carbon-emissions/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:03:07 +0000 /?p=95769 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 /ships-of-opportunity-arctic/ Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:15:11 +0000 /?p=95527 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 /voyage-of-collaboration-the-xbt-network-and-the-ship-of-opportunity-program/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:12:47 +0000 /?p=93770 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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