Matthew's Journal

Most of the instruments that are deployed either on an open-ocean buoy or on the mooring line are unable to transmit their data to shore via satellite phone. They have to store their data on internal memory cards. As a result, if you want to collect the… more »

One of the tasks in completing the VOCALS mission to study ocean and atmospheric processes and interaction involves maintaining a buoy with myriad instruments in the vicinity of 20S, 85W; right in the heart of the Eastern Pacific stratocumulus region. Th… more »