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Happy Holidays and Thank You
Wishing you a healthy and joyous holiday season from all of us at Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. Thank you for your support this year, we look forward to continuing our partnership in the coming year. As you make your holiday purchases, consider shopping AmazonSmile and Amazon will donate to SECOORA. Funds generated will help us educate students and the public about coastal ocean observing activities...
GIS Day 2014
This year SECOORA showcased their interactive maps during GIS day, November 18, 2014 at University of South Florida St. Petersburg. SECOORA teamed with member organizations, such as FWRI, to educate children in middle and high school about real-world applications of GIS.Students learned how to navigate SECOORA’s Interactive Regional Map, Marine Weather Portal, Biological Habitat/Physical Data Viewer, Beach Water Quality Model...
November Newsletter
Read SECOORA's latest newsletter! Learn about a call for HFR funding, 2010 Red Tide, our new Climatology Tool and more.http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs181/1103098301442/archive/1119220881071.html
Undergraduate Environmental Science Lab Tours Water Quality Monitoring Station
On October 29th, SECOORA joined USF COMPS Systems Engineer, Jeffrey Scudder, and YSI Senior Applications Specialist, Mike Lizotte, as they hosted a tour of the USF COMPS Clam Bayou water quality station. A University of South Florida St. Petersburg environmental science lab applied classroom knowledge about water quality systems to the field.During the tour, the students learned about the new YSI...
Why did red tide not reach the West Florida Continental Shelf in 2010?
Robert Weisberg, SECOORA Principal Investigator, and his affiliates were recently published in the journal Harmful Algae*, Volume 38. The paper, “Why no red tide was observed on the West Florida Continental Shelf in 2010,” analyzes why Karenia Brevis, Florida red tide organism, did not reach the Florida coastline in 2010. They concluded that the lack of red tide along the west coast of Florida...
High-Frequency Radar Stations Could Save Lives, Track Spills in Gulf and Atlantic
Nonprofit groups call for network of high frequency radar monitoring stations along the U.S. Gulf and Southeastern Atlantic coasts Two coastal ocean observing organizations are calling for a major expansion of the high frequency radar (HFR) system in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Southeastern Atlantic coast as a cost-effective way to gain near real-time information about surface currents,...
UM, NOAA Track Hurricane Edouard Intensification by Aircraft
Images credit: Benjamin Jaimes, Ph.D. As tropical storm Edouard was forming in the Eastern Atlantic west of the Cape Verde Islands, a team of hurricane scientists from NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division (HRD) and the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science were taking to the skies to deploy a series of highly specialized instruments to...
SECOORA Inspires Future Ocean Experts at St. Petersburg Science Festival
On October 18, SECOORA participated in the St. Petersburg Science Festival. Since 2011, the festival hosted on the Bayboro Harbor in St. Petersburg, FL has been inspiring children to get excited about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) activities. It is estimated the two-day event attracts over 25,000 visitors.SECOORA, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (GCOOS-RA), and the...
Canterbury School of Florida Oceanography Class Assists in Researching Plastic Marine Debris
Did you know that plastic items like those you probably use every day can end up in the middle of the ocean, thousands of miles from land? Plastic is one of the most abundant marine debris found in beach cleanups and open ocean samples. As plastics travel, they are weathered, become irregular in shape and break down to form microplastics....
Gliderpalooza 2014
SECOORA Members, Catherine Edwards, University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (UGA SKIO), and Dr. Ruoying He, North Carolina State University (NCSU) are participating in the second annual Gliderpalooza. Edwards with Modena, Gliderpalooza 2013 Image Credit: UGA SKIOGliderpalooza 2014 is running from August to November 2014. Over the months, there will be more than 30 deployments of autonomous underwater gliders,...