A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
GO-BGC
The Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array is a global robotic network of profiling floats carrying chemical and biological sensors that will revolutionize our understanding of ocean biogeochemical cycles, carbon uptake, acidification, deoxygenation, and ecosystem health.
A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
Data
Data from floats and ships, and tutorials on using the data
A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
Array Status
Array map and status table, current and future deployments
A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
Adopt-a-Float
Partnering teachers with scientists to bring research into the classroom
A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
Events
Upcoming events related to the GO-BGC project
A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
GO-BGC
The Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array is a global robotic network of profiling floats carrying chemical and biological sensors that will revolutionize our understanding of ocean biogeochemical cycles, carbon uptake, acidification, deoxygenation, and ecosystem health.
Data
Data from floats and ships, and tutorials on using the data
Deployment maps
Float array map and status table, current and future deployments
Adopt-A-Float
Partnering teachers with scientists to bring research into the classroom
Events
Upcoming events related to the GO-BGC project
Latest News
GO-BGC-affiliated students become PhDs
Dr. Paul Chamberlain recently defended his PhD thesis "Semi-Lagrangian Float Motion and Observing System Design" at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO).ย Paul has studied and predicted where floats will go when they are underwater and the best locations to...
GO-BGC celebrates its first anniversary
Locations of GO-BGC floats deployed to date in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. By 2025, the GO-BGC array will cover all the worldโs major ocean basins. (MBARI) The NSF-funded Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (GO-BGC Array) is one year old!ย On March 25, 2021, a...
Beware the Blob! Ocean heatwaves threaten microbes that help counter global warming
Mariana Bif, a Research Specialist at MBARI, was recently interviewed in article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled:ย Beware the Blob! Ocean heatwaves threaten microbes that help counter global warming.ย Mariana talks about using data from biogeochemical floats to look at anomalous amounts of organic carbon in the ocean during blob years and outlines the connection with climate change.
Revolutionizing our understanding of the ocean
Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the University of Washington, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Princeton University will use this grant to build and deploy 500 robotic ocean-monitoring floats around the globe as part of NSFโs Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 program
Social Media
Next week the #OneArgo Data Management Team meets ๐: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/meetings/admt-23-argo-data-management
An opportunity for @bgc_argo to provide an annual review: 184 floats deployed by 13 nations ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐บ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ณ๐จ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ต๐ง๐ท๐ช๐บ! A great achievement that brings us one step closer to the target of 250 floats.
The team on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer has deployed 3 floats in the Drake passage. They had a stop at Palmer Station in Antarctica and now they are underway again, continuing their work in the Southern Ocean. Follow along on the @GO_BGC blog:
https://www.go-bgc.org/expedition/soccom-southern-ocean-2022/11-14-2022
you might not be able to decorate a @GO_BGC float but you can adopt one! https://www.go-bgc.org/outreach/adopt-a-float https://twitter.com/Deni_ocean/status/1592985382748319744
@bgc_argo floats getting a โmakeoverโ by kiwi kids before starting their journey to the Southern Ocean. These floats were adopted by schools in the US, Canada, Ireland & Malaysia ๐๐ป Images by Mia Blyth from @niwa_nz
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Oceans are warming faster than ever. Hereโs what could come next.
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