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Argo Canada

@argocanada.bsky.social

Account representing the Canadian contribution to the global Argo profiling float program. Maintained by @clarkgrichards.bsky.social

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Clark Richards, PhD@clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Just got featured as part of Science Literacy Week for my work with the @argocanada.bsky.social #AdoptAFloat program and for other outreach. What can I say -- I like to talk about what I do! 😀🌊 www.linkedin.com/posts/fisher...

For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages… | F...

For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages bett...

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Clark Richards, PhD@clarkgrichards.bsky.social · last yr.

After many years of direct and collaborative involvement in working towards implementing a new CTD sensor on Argo floats, it is very satisfying to finally see it (officially) come to fruition. 🌊🧪

Argo Canada@argocanada.bsky.social · last yr.

🌊One decision that came from the Argo AST last month is that the RBRArgo CTD is now accepted for global implementation. Argo Canada has committed to buying at least 50% of our floats with RBR sensors to support diversification of the fleet. In photos, an update to my lego Argo float 😄.

A lego Argo float with the traditional (black) sensor on the end cap (with a lego tortoise named Gus, who lives at the NS Museum of Natural History, looking on).
Argo Canada@argocanada.bsky.social · last yr.

🌊One decision that came from the Argo AST last month is that the RBRArgo CTD is now accepted for global implementation. Argo Canada has committed to buying at least 50% of our floats with RBR sensors to support diversification of the fleet. In photos, an update to my lego Argo float 😄.

A lego Argo float with the traditional (black) sensor on the end cap (with a lego tortoise named Gus, who lives at the NS Museum of Natural History, looking on).A lego Argo float outfitted with the new (red) RBRArgo CTD.14 Teledyne Webb APEX Argo floats set up in a lab for testing at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. 7 of them have an SBE CTD, and the other 7 have the new RBRArgo CTD (red).
Argo Canada@argocanada.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can't believe that @clarkgrichards.bsky.social forgot to include an example of an #Argo float for #CTDAppreciationDay, one of the most important CTD-equipped platforms for understanding the global ocean. There are currently 4091 operational floats, profiling every 10 days and sending data back! 🌊

A gaggle of yellow Apex Argo floats standing in a lab, being tested before being prepared for deployment.A world map showing positions and countries of all currently operational Argo floats (4091 as of December 2024).
Clark Richards, PhD@clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 2y ago

I almost forgot about #CTDappreciationDay! There aren't many aspects of my job that don't rely on CTD data. Here are some photos of our trusted SBE CTD and rosette sampling the Canadian Northwest Passage, the cutest little CTD on a turbulence profiler (made by JFE), and a glider CTD made by RBR.

A CTD rosette is lowered over the side of a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker (the CCGS Pierre Radisson) in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during a field program in August 2024. The sky is grey with wildfire smoke from wildfires in the Northwest Territories.
Clark Richards, PhD@clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Year's resolution to try and write more things on my blog, so I got started right away (catching up on a backlog of things). First up, my friend Igor Shkvorets deploys an @argocanada.bsky.social float in the Caribbean from his SailForScience.org sailboat! 🌊 www.clarkrichards.org/2025/01/01/a...

Argo Canada float deployed from S/V Oceanolog

In fall 2023, I hosted my friend Igor Shkvorets for a visit and tour at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Igor and I had previously worked together at RBR in Ottawa, where I had worked my first j...

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Argo Canada@argocanada.bsky.social · 2y ago

Want to access, download, read, and vizualize #Argo data using open source tools? To help, we developed the `argoFloats` package for the R language, available through CRAN and easily installable. For more details, check out the website: argocanada.github.io/argoFloats/

Analysis of Oceanographic Argo Floats

Supports the analysis of oceanographic data recorded by Argo autonomous drifting profiling floats. Functions are provided to (a) download and cache data files, (b) subset data in various ways, (c) han...

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to the Oceanography feed! Reply to @davidho.bsky.social to be added as a contributor. Use the water wave emoji on posts you want to appear in the feed. 🌊 Please like the feed. Also, no disinformation, oceanography post only, add alt text and credit for images, and provide external links.

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