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SOCAT Quality Control Cookbook - for version 2025 of the Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas.
(SOCAT, 2025)This is the SOCAT quality control (QC) cookbook for SOCAT version 2025. It is an update to the cookbooks for version 1 (Olsen and Metzl, 2009), version 3 (Olsen et al., 2015; Wanninkhof et al., 2013) and version 2019 ... -
The shallow underwater forests of Cystoseira s.l. in the Balearic Islands.
(MedGardens - Cleanwave Foundation, Mallorca, Spain, 2023)The forests composed of Cystoseira sensu lato (hereinafter Cystoseira s.l.) are largely unknown, even though they are very common habitats on our coasts and provide important services to society. Unfortunately, these ... -
American Academy of Underwater Sciences Standards for Scientific Diving Manual.
(American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), Mobile, AL, 2024)The purpose of these Scientific Diving Standards is to ensure scientific diving is conducted in a manner that will maximize the protection of scientific divers from accidental injury and/or illness, and to set forth standards ... -
Chemical Reference Materials for Oceanography: History, Production, and Certification.
(Springer, Singapore, 2025)Concentrations of inorganic macro-nutrients, carbonate system parameters (total alkalinity, pH, the concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon, and the partial pres- sure of CO2 ), salinity, and the concentration of ... -
Guidelines for the active restoration of Posidonia oceanica.
(University of Corsica Pascal Paoli, Corsica, France, 2024)As initiated by other international or regional agreements (e.g. OSPAR, UNEP-MAP), seagrass restoration operations require an analysis of existing practices in order to identify what is “working” (operational techniques) ... -
Life and Science at Sea: Advice for your First Scientific Research Cruise from Experienced Oceanographers.
(Meg Yoder, Boston, MA, 2025)This guide contains information about what to expect when going to sea as a scientist, with a particular focus for graduate students on their first sea-going experience. It synthesizes input from over 160 scientists worldwide ... -
Low-cost Marine Robotic Vehicles for Rapid Assessment of Submesoscale Ocean Processes.
(2023)In this paper, we describe our experience with readily deployable, low-cost (c. Can$30k) underwater platforms and, in particular, with our application of this emerging class of platform to address the need to characterize ... -
Guía para la restauración de los bosques de Cystoseira s.l. de poca profundidad en las Islas Baleares.
(Fundación Cleanwave, Mallorca, Spain, 2023)This guide outlines a strategic approach to restoring the shallow-water Cystoseira forests in the Balearic Islands, a critical yet highly threatened marine ecosystem in the Mediterranean. These underwater forests provide ... -
Monitoring marine plastics – will we know if we are making a difference?
(2020)In the context of marine anthropogenic debris management, monitoring is essential to assess whether mitigation measures to reduce the amounts of waste plastic entering the environment are being effective. In South Africa, ... -
User manual SBE 9plus CTD: Conductivity, Temperature, Depth sensor. Version C.
(Sea-Bird Electronics Inc., Bellevue, WA, 2024)The SBE 9plus continuously measures conductivity, temperature, pressure, and parameters from up to eight auxiliary sensors in salt or fresh water at depths to 10,500 m. It is designed to take vertical profiles at 24 ... -
Promoting best practices in ocean forecasting through an Operational Readiness Level.
(2024)Predicting the ocean state in a reliable and interoperable way, while ensuring high-quality products, requires forecasting systems that synergistically combine science-based methodologies with advanced technologies for ... -
FAIR ADCP data with OSADCP: a workflow to process ocean current data from vessel- mounted ADCPs.
(2024)This paper presents the open-source Python software OSADCP developed for the processing of vessel-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (VMADCP) data. At this stage, the toolbox is designed for processing ... -
Guía para el control de calidad de datos de temperatura y salinidad obtenidos en cruceros oceanográficos regionales. Version 2.
(Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur (CPPS), Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2023)Establish a methodology for quality control of salinity and temperature data from the water column, obtained using CTD profilers on associated oceanographic cruises to the ERFEN program of the CPPS. The proposed quality ... -
Recommended practices for Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) deployment.
(International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), London, UK, 2022)This Recommended Practice Guide for Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) deployments is designed to provide sufficient information to identify the most appropriate deployment method, instrument selection, and setup ... -
Ocean surface radiation measurement best practices.
(2024)Ocean surface radiation measurement best practices have been developed as a first step to support the interoperability of radiation measurements across multiple ocean platforms and between land and ocean networks. This ... -
ICCAT Manual, (2005-2016).
(2016)Tunas and other large highly-migratory species are typically assessed and managed through international arrangements. Since the distribution of such stocks is not limited to the waters of any single sovereign nation, such ... -
Geotechnical and Geophysical Investigations for Offshore an Nearshore Developments.
(International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, London, UK, 2005)This review of the aspects and techniques of marine site investigation has been produced by Technical Committee 1: Offshore and nearshore geotechnical engineering, of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and ... -
Standards for Hydrographic Surveys. Edition 4.
(Canadian Hydorgraphic Service, Ottawa, Canada, 2021)Hydrographic surveying is undergoing fundamental changes in measurement technology. The advent of satellite positioning systems, multibeam and multitransducer acoustic systems and sophisticated data processing systems ... -
Good Practice Guidelines for Hydrographic Surveys in New Zealand Ports and Harbours.
(New Zealand Government, Wellington, New Zealand, 2020)These guidelines provide guidance to decision-makers and operators for planning, carrying out and managing hydrographic surveys that: support the safe navigation of vessels in New Zealand ports and harbours help to ... -
IWC photo-identification catalogues: draft guidelines.
(International Whaling Commission, Impington, UK, 2017)The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has a history of using data and analyses from photo-identification catalogues to assist with its work. (Within this document the term ‘photo-ID catalogue’ describes a database ...
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