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Martha’s Vineyard Youth Initiative:

November 2015

Oceanographic Profilers, Water Samplers and Flotation for the Physical and Biogeochemical Research Community

Why study the ocean?

Hic sunt dracones

Franklin map

About those dragons?

Water

Pressure

Dark

Hard to get there!

Dangerous

You’re going to need a bigger boat!

Rise of the Machines

Argo floats

Fast forwarding our knowledge

Moorings, AUVs, Satellites, Nodes

Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory

Mechanical Description (housing)

Fluidic Description

SampleAnalysis

IFCB Dashboard

Take out your phones and google: IFCB Dashboard

Look for: http://ifcb-data.whoi.edu/mvco

IFCB Dashboard

Career in Ocean Sciences

Ask questions

Be interested in sciences

Learn how to solve problems/critical thinking

Learn how to write

Work hard and develop grit

Many avenues to a career in ocean sciences besides scientist: technicians, engineers, AUV drivers, finance/economists, politics, media

IFCB Dashboard

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” Arthur C. Clark

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