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.
GO-BGC utilizes autonomous robotic floats to collect temperature, salinity, pH, conductivity, nitrate, pressure, chlorophyll and optical backscatter for biological activity between 2000m depth and the surface of the ocean. Autonomous floats are well suited to this work because they capture scientific-quality measurements continuously all day for years without refueling or cancelations due to unfavorable weather conditions. GO-BGC, part of the One Argo array, will deploy 500 autonomous floats in the world ocean between 2001 and 2006.
Data
Data from floats and ships, and tutorials on using the data
Array Status
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 featured in IIOE-2 Newsletter
GO-BGC featured in the 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) Newsletter The Indian Ocean has been one of the least sampled ocean basins in the BGC-Argo Array. Over the past year 25 biogeochemical (BGC) profiling floats have been deployed in the Indian...
GO-BGC/BGC Argo Float Data Workshop
Accelerate your data analysis skills and launch new collaborations through this hands-on multi-day workshop focused on data from the Biogeochemical Argo global float array. Attendees will generate research ideas utilizing GO-BGC/BGC Argo float data and start working...
GO-BGC-affiliated students become PhDs
Drs. Paul Chamberlain, Rosalind Echols, and Channing Prend have recently graduated after defending their PhD theses.
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 NSF’s Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 program
