Ocean Research Project

#SailingForScience Enabling the scientific exploration of the factors impacting the oceans health ⛵️ #ClimateScience #MarinePollution #MovementEcology

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

ORP’s founder and director is Matt Rutherford (Left), the first person to solo circumnavigate the Americas. Matt traveled 27k miles in 10 months in a tiny sailboat by himself. Check out this podcast on his journey: https://t.co/Vyw1qf10iR

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

The Ocean Research Project is dedicated to the scientific exploration of human-induced stresses on the Ocean. Projects currently include climate science, marine pollution, and movement ecology. Check out our website https://t.co/1qVcsQk3Zf to learn more!

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

ORP’s founder and director is Matt Rutherford (Left), the first person to solo circumnavigate the Americas. Matt traveled 27k miles in 10 months in a tiny sailboat by himself. Check out this podcast on his journey: https://t.co/Vyw1qf10iR

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

The Ocean Research Project's first research expedition was in 2013 when the pair spent 70 days sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, collecting samples of plastic debris and mapping out the eastern side of the North Atlantic garbage patch.

[National Snow and Ice Data Center @NSIDC]

Satellite observations have shown us that since 1978, #Arctic sea ice extent has declined and ice cover has thinned, according to a review paper by NSIDC’s @MarkSerreze and Walt Meier: https://t.co/hkH9K0jqgn. @CIRESnews #CUBoulder Photo cred: Wasif Malik

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They crossed over to the Bahamas in early January and have spent the past month exploring and "Fish Finding" around Great Harbor Cay, Eleuthera, and the rest of the Exumas before settling in the park.

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Fish Finder Team MV Privateer’s Vemco VR2W receiver is currently deployed in Cambridge Cay, Bahamas, where they are February mooring field hosts with the Exumas Land and Sea Park!

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MV Privateer made their first receiver deployment in Newport, RI in September. They have since traveled down the U.S. Atlantic coast to the keys, deploying their receiver in 21 locations to listen for tagged fish along the way.

[Matt Ogburn @OceanOgburn]

Welcome to the world of Movement of Life! @SmithsonianMoL @fishinvertlab @SmithsonianEnv

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This past Thursday, ORP co-founder Nicole Trenholm presented at the Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment #PARCA2019 meeting. Our current research seeks to understand how ocean warming is influencing the melting of ice sheets from Greenland to Canada.

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

As part of Nasa’s Oceans Melting Greenland program, we conduct regional hydrographic surveys to map the depth and pathways of the warmer currents originating from the Atlantic to understand the complex forces contributing to the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

The primary objective of our research in Greenland is to learn more about the warm, salty water column that is thought to be melting Greenland’s glaciers from the bottom-up.

[Paul Dawson 📚 @PaulEDawson]

“This is a call to action, not a declaration of defeat,”

“If we mitigate, or reduce, human emissions, [it] looks like you can avoid 70 to 80 percent of the permafrost climate feedback,”

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #Science https://t.co/vN9Y595xwi

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

@verbaldyslexia @FrankSmithXYZ Yes, that’s correct!

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Fish Finder team SV No Worries started working with us in July and have deployed their receiver from the Great Lakes to the Gulf! This month they traveled from Biloxi, MS to St. Petersburg, FL with deployments in Perdido Beach, AL and several locations along Florida’s Panhandle.

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

Check out Fish Finder Team Confetti’s story on the Kady Krogen website! Link below! https://t.co/Noc37AQiSI

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@verbaldyslexia @FrankSmithXYZ Yes, we have done moving trials but these receivers aren’t effective at typical cruising speeds.

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

@FrankSmithXYZ @ClarkGRichards @OceanTracking @GLATOS_Fish Thank you! We are connected with them and shared data with the GLATOS network during our last season.

[Ocean Research Project @OceanResProject]

@verbaldyslexia @FrankSmithXYZ The receivers are Vemco VR2W passive acoustic receivers. They record “pings” from acoustically tagged fish and tell us the fish was within ~1 km of the receiver.