Ground-truth and cleaning.
[Entered for Francisco by Jim.]
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
more LPPR1 news from the field
I've spoken by phone with Chris Langdon, who is working at LPPR1 this week.
The SAMI is the same unit that I tested earlier this year in my office. It was set up to output a report once per hour, approximately on the hour. He is bringing me a sample of the instrument's output so I can check it against the programming.
The SAMI is connected but not reporting to the station. It seems unlikely that this is either a programming or instrument problem. That leaves cable failure or loose connections to the brain. The next trip will probably be designed around swapping the SAMI cable and verifying that the programming is correct and complete. In the meantime, the SAMI also logs all measurements to its own flash memory.
Other news: they've replaced the mounting arm of the Deep BIC with one fashioned by Manny. They've taken the old mount and used it to mount the Shallow BIC away from the station as well. Roy and Lew have both noticed that the Shallow BIC is shaded by the chains during the day, and it is hoped that this will correct that problem.
Chris also reports that they've cleaned the BICs.
-- Mike Jankulak
The SAMI is the same unit that I tested earlier this year in my office. It was set up to output a report once per hour, approximately on the hour. He is bringing me a sample of the instrument's output so I can check it against the programming.
The SAMI is connected but not reporting to the station. It seems unlikely that this is either a programming or instrument problem. That leaves cable failure or loose connections to the brain. The next trip will probably be designed around swapping the SAMI cable and verifying that the programming is correct and complete. In the meantime, the SAMI also logs all measurements to its own flash memory.
Other news: they've replaced the mounting arm of the Deep BIC with one fashioned by Manny. They've taken the old mount and used it to mount the Shallow BIC away from the station as well. Roy and Lew have both noticed that the Shallow BIC is shaded by the chains during the day, and it is hoped that this will correct that problem.
Chris also reports that they've cleaned the BICs.
-- Mike Jankulak
Monday, November 06, 2006
SAMI pCO2 installed
SAMI is installed since 10 am your time. New bottom BIC bracket also installed. Will talk to Roy about what to do about top BIC bracket. Let me know how how the pCO2 data look.
Chris Langdon
Research Assoc. Professor
RSMAS/MBF
Uni. of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy
Miami,FL 33149
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Bleaching assessment
Hi Jim:
I did not notice anything that could be considered “new” bleaching due to this summer’s conditions. Corals were pale to begin with before the 2006 summer warming began. But Ernesto has far more data and information than I do, so I’d like to read his opinion.
Alina
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Dr. Alina M. Szmant
Coral Reef Research Group
UNCW-Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K. Moss Ln
Wilmington NC 28409
I did not notice anything that could be considered “new” bleaching due to this summer’s conditions. Corals were pale to begin with before the 2006 summer warming began. But Ernesto has far more data and information than I do, so I’d like to read his opinion.
Alina
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Dr. Alina M. Szmant
Coral Reef Research Group
UNCW-Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K. Moss Ln
Wilmington NC 28409
Thursday, September 28, 2006
No Bleaching
Even though it has been a pretty warm summer, according to the local students and other observations, there has been no widespread coral bleaching.
Jim Hendee
Jim Hendee
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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