RUCOOL hosted a meeting with the Marine Technology Society leadership on March 14th. During the visit their administrative staff was immersed into hands on oceanographic research with Slocum underwater gliders and CODAR HF-Radar systems. Our undergraduate students stole the show on this day while having interactive and inspiring research discussions with Dr. Rick Spinrad, MTS […]
Ms. Teresa Updyke and Dr. Hugh Roarty visited with Mr. Philip Myers at the National Search and Rescue School on Thursday February 14, 2019. The National Search and Rescue School is located in Yorktown, Virginia and is the world’s premier source for Search and Rescue (SAR) training. Ms. Updyke and Dr. Roarty were updating the […]
The 13 MHz CODAR SeaSonde is operating once again in North Wildwood. The station which was first installed in 2012 had to be turned off due to construction on a new boardwalk. Working with officials from the City of North Wildwood we were able to relocate the station and started measuring surface currents on January […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Research Campaign to Advance Understanding of Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Moves Forward By Awarding $10.3 Million in Initial Grants WASHINGTON – Following recommendations from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report released earlier this year, the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program (GRP) is developing a long-term research campaign […]
Dr. Hugh Roarty delivered a talk to the cadets of the United States Coast Guard Academy on Thursday November 29, 2018, on behalf of MARACOOS. His talk was entitled “The Use of Ocean Surface Currents for Coast Guard Search and Rescue” and was part of the Coast Guard Academy Science Lecture Series.
Dr. Scott Glenn and Dr. Hugh Roarty travelled to Wuhan, China for the Third Ocean Radar Conference for Asia-Pacific meeting this past April. Dr. Hugh Roarty and Dr. Scott Glenn travelled to China in April 2016 to speak on their experience of using High Frequency radar in a coastal ocean observing system. The first meeting […]