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The Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie is pleased to sponsor a Public Lecture: A global array of robots observing the ocean. Who: Dr. Ken Johnson; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute When: Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 6:30 PM Where: Paul O’Regan Hall; Halifax Central Library, 5400 Spring Garden Road Today, much of the ocean that covers 75% of our planet is remote and seldom visited or observed. Our ability to detect changes in the ocean that we believe are occurring - the warming of the water and increases in acidity – is made difficult due to the lack of measurements on a global scale. In collaboration with satellite observing systems (which are effective at detecting global patterns but only at the surface), a global array of robotic sensing platforms is under development to meet this challenge. At present, over 4000 robots are silently probing the ocean depths and sending back critical data on changes in ocean physics, biology and chemistry. Dr. Ken Johnson is a leading world expert on the development of novel ocean sensors for use on robotic platforms and will discuss these efforts and future plans. Sponsors: The Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University; the Bedford Institute of Oceanography; the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network, the Institute for Ocean Research Enterprise, the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and Sea-Bird Scientific.
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