California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations

  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
Home Field Work Supplementary Activities
Supplementary Activities


SCCOOS

E-mail Print PDF
here

SCCOOS brings together coastal observations in the Southern California Bight to provide information necessary to address issues in climate change, ecosystem preservation and management, coastal water quality, maritime operations, coastal hazards and national security. As a science-based decision support system, SCCOOS works interactively with local, state and federal agencies, resource managers, industry, policy makers, educators, scientists and the general public to provide data, models and products that advance our understanding of the current and future state of our coastal and global environment.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:31 Read more...
 

Drifter Buoys

E-mail Print PDF
dol
The Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) utilizes Pacific Gyre GPS/ Mobitex™ "Microstar" drifters to observe and study near-shore ocean circulation off the Southern California coast. The drifters record their position with GPS every 10 minutes and transmit their position data in near real-time to a web-based host computer using the Mobitex narrow band, data-only, cellular communications system. This sort of time and space resolution enables characteristic near-shore circulation patterns to be properly resolved. The drifters give direct observations of paths taken by freely floating objects at the ocean surface such as spilled oil, other pollutants, or things lost at sea.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:33 Read more...
 



Newsflash

Follow the latest CalCOFI cruise status on Twitter at http://twitter.com/calcofi