12-13 September 20 06 Arctic GOOS Planning Meet ing 1 Scottish Association for Marine Science • Based at the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban, Scotland • Established in 1884 • Committed to promoting, delivering and supporting high- quality independent research and education in marine science • Collaborative centre of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) • Hosts – National Facility for Scientific Diving – Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa • Academic partner in UHI Millennium Institute • Research activities encompass the entire breadth of marine science • Focus on multidisciplinary research questions from Scottish coastal waters to the Arctic Ocean – Core science programme investigating past and present changes in Northern Seas
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12-13 September 2006 Arctic GOOS Planning Meeting 1
Scottish Association for Marine Science
• Based at the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban, Scotland• Established in 1884• Committed to promoting, delivering and supporting high-quality independent
research and education in marine science• Collaborative centre of the UK
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)• Hosts
– National Facility for Scientific Diving– Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
• Academic partner in UHI Millennium Institute• Research activities encompass the entire
breadth of marine science• Focus on multidisciplinary research questions
from Scottish coastal waters to the Arctic Ocean– Core science programme investigating past and
present changes in Northern Seas
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In Situ Monitoring
• GreenICE/DAMOCLES buoy systems
– Extended battery life– Multi-sensor
• Meteorology
• Tiltmeters
– Two-way Iridium communications
• Moorings and landers– Oceanographic moorings in Kongsfjorden
and Storfjorden, Svalbard (MariClim)– Seabed observing
systems• Landers
• HOMER
• SIMOP
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In Situ Monitoring
• Latest buoy systems– Cryosat Cal/Val– 7 deployed in Nares Strait in
May 2006
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In Situ Monitoring
• Fieldwork (cruises/ice camps)– Royal Navy ICEX– Autosub Under Ice– GreenICE– Cryosat– Northern Seas– DAMOCLES
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Maximum AW Depth Oden '91 Bathymetry 1987 Maximum
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Modelling
• Fjords• Greenland Sea salt flux model
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• Project work– EuroClim– IRIS– Cryosat Cal/Val
• Other work– Commercial work for
• UK Hydrographic Office
• Royal Navy
Earth Observation
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Collaborative Partners
• NERC– Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory– Plymouth Marine Laboratory– National Oceanography Centre
• University of Cambridge DAMTP
• Edinburgh Earth Observatory (University of Edinburgh)
• EC– Project partners
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Future Arctic Work
• IPY
• Oceans 2025
• Q from UK GOOS Action Group:How best can the UK support Arctic GOOS?
