Congratulations Dr. Susan Wijffels for receiving the 2023 Henry Stommel Research Medal! She is being recognized “For exceptional contributions to understanding oceanic and freshwater storage and transport of heat and monitoring changes in the global hydrological cycle“. She will be presented with her award at the 103rd Annual AMS meeting in January 2023.
AOML to host ADMT-23 on 5 – 9 December 2022
The 23rd ADMT meeting will be a hybrid meeting taking place in Miami, FL the week of 5 – 9 December 2022. There will be BGC-ADMT sessions on the 5th and 6th and ADMT plenary sessions on the 7th – 9th of December. Meeting details and registration coming soon.
RBR data may be distributed with improved quality control flags
Data from rbrargo3 CTDs calibrated after April 2021 will now be distributed with improved qc flags. TEMP, PRES and PSAL may all receive a qc flag of ‘1’ if they pass the real time quality control tests. The data can be distributed on the GTS. Data from rbrargo3 CTDs calibrated prior to April 2021 will continue to receive PSAL_QC flags … Read More
Russ Davis: 1941 – 2022
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego remember Russ Davis and his scientific and engineering accomplishments. There will be a memorial service at Scripps in 2023. Members of the research community are invited to add tributes to Russ Davis. Please submit them to scrippsnews@ucsd.edu.
Register now for the 7th Argo Science Workshop
Registrations for the 7th Argo Science Workshop are now open, until September 4th, 2022. The 3-day workshop will take place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) in Brussels, Belgium, on October 11th-13th, 2022. It is organised as a hybrid event, with in-person and virtual attendance options. Please find more information on the workshop objectives and a draft programme … Read More
Argo thesis list updated
Students continue using Argo data in their dissertations. There are now 435 thesis citations!
Argo receives the ‘Excellence in partnering’ award
In 2003, the National Oceanographic Partnership Program gave Argo their ‘Excellence in partnering‘ award. Here is their description of Argo and why it won the award: “Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the … Read More
Argo wins IEEE Corporate Innovation Award
Argo was awarded the IEEE Corporate Innovation Award in the spring of 2022. The award was “For innovation in large-scale autonomous observations in oceanography with global impacts in marine and climate science and technology.” The Argo Program would like to thank both IEEE for this award and all the many, many people who have contributed to Argo over the years … Read More
Remembering Russ Davis
We are saddened to announce the passing of Russ Davis on June 9, 2022. He was 81 years old and a retired professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he was a distinguished research oceanographer. Among his accomplishments was the development of both the SOLO float which was one of the original Argo floats and Spray gliders at the Instrument … Read More