News
News
April 20, 2021
Model Forecasting Piney Point Wastewater Plume in Tampa Bay
SECOORA members and funded scientists are responding to emergency wastewater discharge in Tampa Bay from a phosphate mining facility reservoir.
News
April 20, 2021
SECOORA 2021 Education and Outreach Request for Proposals - $8,500 Opportunity
SECOORA is soliciting proposals to develop online or online accessible K-12 marine science curricula and/or activities that can be implemented by parents, teachers, and other educators. Proposals must demonstrate how they will increase participation of underrepresented communities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics educational activities.
News
April 13, 2021
Webinar | 4th Grade Curriculum: Water Shapes our Planet and our Lives
Join SECOORA for a webinar on April 27 at 3:30 PM ET to learn about a new comprehensive fourth grade, virtual-learning science unit on the water cycle, weather, climate, and natural processes that shape the Earth’s coasts and communities. Click here to reserve your spot.
News
April 2, 2021
USF COMPS Maintaining Operations on the West Florida Shelf
In March 2021, USF COMPS headed to sea on the R/V Weatherbird to replace the C10 buoy off the coast of Sarasota, Florida. This buoy provides real time data on water velocity, wind speed, air temperature, water temperature, salinity, and more.
News
March 26, 2021
New Acoustic Receivers Help FACT Network Track Marine Animals
SECOORA collaborated with the FACT Network to install new acoustic receivers on buoys in North Carolina and West Florida. This is helping build bridges between oceanography and acoustic telemetry researchers to expand marine animal observations in the Southeast.
News
March 22, 2021
Job Opportunity: Part-Time Contractor for Program Coordinator Services
Deadline to apply is April 21, 2021.
News
March 12, 2021
Webinar | Making the Data Work for You
Join SECOORA for a webinar titled "Making the Data Work for You" on March 23 at noon ET presented by Lauren Showalter and Brian Stone from Axiom Data Science. The team will discuss how the SECOORA data system is using data to meet the needs of users and how to make the data work for you. Click here to reserve...
News
March 5, 2021
Buoy Turnaround Cruise off the Carolinas
In early February, the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program (UNCW CORMP) replaced buoys off the coasts of North Carolina and South Carolina.
News
March 3, 2021
2021 Annual Meeting
Thank you to everyone who tuned in for SECOORA’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting on May 24. The meeting included a brief Board and Members business meeting and an update on SECOORA's revised Strategic Plan.
News
March 3, 2021
Identify Eddys with Surface Current Data Collected by High Frequency Radars
SECOORA’s 2020 Data Challenge Winner, Douglas Cahl from the University of South Carolina, has developed a new online tool that identifies eddies from 6km resolution High Frequency radar (HF radar) current data.
