Customer Applications using Sea-Bird Instruments

Are you willing to share your knowledge with the oceanographic community, to:

• Enhance scientific knowledge?
• Start a lively discussion with your peers on the pros and cons of various methods?
• See your name up in lights on the Sea-Bird website?

Do you have:

• An interesting application for a Sea-Bird instrument?
• An unique deployment method for a Sea-Bird instrument?
• A data processing technique to further enhance the data from your Sea-Bird instrument?
• A great photo of a deployment with a Sea-Bird instrument?
• Something else of interest to share, like the time the cable broke and the Sea-Bird instrument dropped to the bottom of the ocean, and . . . (you get the idea)

No forms to fill out; just contact Debbie Bresko (dbresko@seabird.com) with your contact information (phone number as well as email address), and:

• Your story, and any accompanying photos and data. We may tweak the story (no one expects you to be an Ernest Hemingway), and with your permission (and approval of the final article) we will share the information with the oceanographic community.   OR
• A link to your story or video on another website.

• The Hawaii Ocean Time-series program (HOT) recently completed its 250th expedition to Station ALOHA. For an interesting video on this 24-year long program, which uses Sea-Bird CTDs and water samplers: https://vimeo.com/user12049469/review/63113801/b07b057cb1
• On November 17th, 2011, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave Gliders on a record-breaking journey. The Wave Gliders are traveling together from San Francisco to Hawaii, and then taking separate routes across the Pacific, two to Japan and two to Australia. On their journey, the Wave Gliders will continuously transmit valuable data on salinity and water temperature, waves, weather, fluorescence, and dissolved oxygen, collecting approximately 2.25 million discrete data points. Each Wave Glider is equipped with a Sea-Bird Glider Payload CTD with SBE 43F Dissolved Oxygen Sensor. Follow the Wave Gliders and view the data at http://liquidr.com/pacx/pacific-crossing.html.
• The Ghost Mooring -- WHOI engineers find equipment lost in the Antarctic a decade ago. WHOI was able to recover the MicroCAT data (they had long since stopped recording), and there was enough remaining battery power so that the clocks in the MicroCATs were only off by 1 hour and 30 minutes after 10+ years!
• Northeast Fisheries Science Center blog on an ecosystem monitoring cruise, which used an SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler and CTD.
• Washington State Department of Ecology, Marine Flight Program for Water Quality Monitoring Video, with deployment of specially configured Sea-Bird CTD package.
• WHOI video on the research vessel R/V Oceanus, on a cruise to study health and function of plankton in the western North Atlantic
• NY Times blog on CTD measurements and collecting water samples to example microbial DNA and stable isotope ratios in nitrogen-containing compounds.
• MSNBC report on WHOI Arctic studies using Ice Tethered Buoy with Sea-Bird CTD in the Arctic.

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