by dana | Apr 21, 2021 | News
Researchers aboard the RV Thomas G. Thompson preparing to deploy a Global Ocean Biogeochemistry (GO-BGC) float. Photo Credit: Andreas Thurnerr Reuters reporter Nathan Frandino visited the MBARI campus earlier this year to talk with scientists about the Global Ocean...
by dana | Apr 9, 2021 | News
Researchers aboard the RV Thomas G. Thompson preparing to deploy a Global Ocean Biogeochemistry (GO-BGC) float. Photo Credit: Andreas Thurnerr The GO-BGC Global Array is featured in a robotics article posted on the NSF Science Matters page for National Robotics Week....
by dana | Mar 31, 2021 | News
Europa (adopted by Fauquier County Public Schools) and Lewisburg Eel Express (adopted by Lewisburg High School) were two of the first floats deployed in the western North Atlantic. Photo by Andreas Thurnherr As the researchers and crew aboard the R/V Thomas G....
by Mariah Salisbury | Mar 25, 2021 | News
GO-BGC’s first float has been deployed! You can check out float status in this table or get a first look at the brand new data on our visualization tool, GOBGCViz (select Float ua19142). The first GO-BGC deployments are being carried out in the western North...
by dana | Mar 24, 2021 | News
The winning sticker design from Kaylee at McDougal School in Chapel Hill, NC. During the 2021-21 academic year, SOCCOM and GO-BGC held a sticker contest to help bring attention to the Adopt-A-Float program. With almost 20 entries from five different schools, the...
by Jennifer Patterson | Oct 28, 2020 | News
Ocean-going monitoring floats like this one are deployed from “ships of opportunity” as they transit the ocean. Image courtesy of SOCCOM (NSF Award PLR-1425989) On October 29, 2020 the National Science Foundation (NSF) approved a $53 million grant to a consortium of...
