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
Taking the vital signs of the global ocean with biogeochemical floats
March 31, 2021 – With the first floats of the GO-BGC array deployed in the western North Atlantic, researchers now look forward to a new influx of data.
First GO-BGC floats deployed
The first GO-BGC deployments are being carried out in the western North Atlantic through a partnership with the International Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigation Program (GO-SHIP).
Adopt-A-Float Sticker Contest Winner
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...
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
Social Media
Any undergraduates out there looking for research opportunities? Come join us at UW AOS this summer! More info here: http://bit.ly/aossrp2022
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We're happy to announce the inaugural AOS Summer Research Program, geared towards helping and guiding undergraduate research. Applications are open now!
Details can be found here: https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/aos-srp/
Very timely given the #TongaVolcano eruption (we don’t know SO₂ content yet, but plume top is clearly in the stratosphere): recent paper from Valentina Aquila et al. on changes in seasonal forecast after Pinatubo-level eruptions https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021JD034830
Earth's climate went off the rails in 2021, reports show
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