ST. PETERSBURG, FL 鈥� Jay Law, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息College of Marine Science PhD graduate student and Research Associate in , and Randy Russell from the College鈥檚 Center for Ocean Technology, recently serviced the C22 buoy north of the Dry Tortugas. C22 has been in operation since the beginning of 2019 to study the Loop Current, a strong ocean current in the Gulf of Mexico. Its job is to collect and transmit a spate of ocean and atmosphere data used to predict how this warm river of water in the Gulf affects things like red tide formation and hurricane intensification. The coronavirus pandemic has introduced hefty interruptions to the day to day operations but the team is working hard to ensure continuous function by the network of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息buoys deployed in the Gulf of Mexico. The ultimate goal: safeguarding lives and livelihoods, and monitoring the health of the waters in our backyard.
鈥淭he 新澳门六合彩内幕信息C22 鈥楶ressure Point鈥� buoy is an important part of a larger National Academy of Science effort working to better understand and predict how the Loop Current impacts tropical weather, circulation and ecology in the eastern Gulf of Mexico,鈥� said Law. 鈥淎s we enter hurricane season and continue red tide monitoring efforts it鈥檚 critical that this buoy and our entire real-time observing system remains up and running. It鈥檚 a real credit to our CMS staff and engineers that during the present COVID crisis we鈥檝e been able to keep this essential data flowing to researchers, agency management and the general public.鈥�
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