The virtual AST-22 meeting will take place during the week of 22 – 26 March 2021. Please register by 15 March 2021. For more meeting information, visit the meeting website.
OneArgo proposal submitted to the UN Ocean Decade
Argo submitted a program proposal to the UN Ocean Decade describing the new global, full depth, interdisciplinary Argo array. Click here to read the answers submitted to the Survey Monkey call.
AST-22 will take place the week of 22 – 26 March 2021
Schedule details and registration for this virtual meeting will be available soon. Please check the website for regular updates.
Register now for the ADMT-21 meeting
The ADMT-21 meeting will be a virtual meeting and will take place 29 Nov – 4 Dec, 2020. Click here to visit the website and to register for the meeting.
NSF funds GO-BGC grant to deploy 500 BGC floats worldwide
NSF awarded a $53 million grant to five US institutions to produce 500 BGC Argo floats to be deployed world wide over the next five years. Congratulations to MBARI, UW, WHOI, Scripps and Princeton on this major award. To learn more, read the article at Science or the UC San Diego press release.
New version of OWC available on GitHub
Version 3.0.0 is available here: https://github.com/ArgoDMQC/matlab_owc/releases Notes about what is new in release 3.0.0 from Annie Wong and Cecile Cabanes: To resolve some legacy issues with the old OW variables: “scale_age” is renamed “scale_age_small”; “scale_age_large” is set to NaN for the old OW mapped profiles. “build_ptmp_xyt_cov.m” is now used in “calculate_piecewisefit.m” to compute the number of degrees of freedom (NDF) … Read More
JCOMMOPS is now OceanOPS
JCOMMOPS has been re-branded to OceanOPS, complete with a new URL: https://www.ocean-ops.org/board?t=argo Click here to see the press release. To learn more about OceanOPS, read their report card or study their five year strategy. Congratulations OceanOPS!
AST-22 will be a virtual meeting
The AST executive committee has decided to hold the AST-22 meeting in the spring of 2021 as a virtual meeting due to ongoing travel concerns related to the global pandemic.
Argo bibliography, Argo in press updated.
Argo bibliography, Argo in press, BGC Argo Mission bibliography and Deep Argo Mission bibliography updated. Argo thesis list to be updated soon. Inform argo@ucsd.edu of changes.
SOCCOM Data Management Meeting 22 – 23 September and 29 September
SOCCOM will hold virtual data management team sessions as follows: Sept. 22 9 – 2 PDT (12 – 5 EDT): Float data management, Day 1 Sept. 23 9-12:30 PDT (12-3:30 EDT): Float data management, Day 2 Sept. 29 9-12 PDT (12-3 EDT): Calibration and shipboard data management The meeting is open to all. Please see the final agenda for … Read More