ASA's Applied Science Weblog

While Oil Gently Seeps from the Seafloor

Interesting article on oil naturally leaking into the ocean offering a 'laboratory' to study accidential spills by Christopher Reddy
Director of Coastal Ocean Institute
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Read the full article - http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=57272

OSSE: Observing System Simulation Experiment

ASA represented the Integrated Ocean Observing System, Data Management and Communications(IOOS DMAC) steering team, at the OSSE meeting held at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The meeting focused integrating cutting edge real time observation technology from remotely controlled ocean gliders (a type of autonomous underwater vehicle) with numerical ocean model predictions. The experiment’s goal was to use the model predictions to better steer the gliders though the ocean based on the model forecast, while using the real time data to improve the model predictions.  

This ambitious project brought together a wide range of scientists and engineers from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and MIT where they are working to optimize the glider navigation based on available data using methods developed for deep space exploration. On the ocean model side, teams from Rutgers University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Stevens Institute of Technology, and NASA's ocean model team presented their modeling efforts. ASA along with experts from the USGS and the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observing Institute Cyber Infrastructure team worked to provide the technological glue that will allow this integration and improve critical aspects of ocean forecasting.

 

More Info/Related Links:

http://www.i-cool.org/?p=1533

http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/

http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/