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<p class="headergray">NEWS</p> |
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<p><span class="headergray">21 May 2007: 50 year GECCO solution made available online</span></p> |
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A fifty year state estimate covering 1950 to 2000 |
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is now available on the ECCO LAS server at <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org/eccolas/servlets/dataset" target="_blank">SDSC</a> The estimate was produced by the "German ECCO" <a href="http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/" target="_blank">(GECCO)</a> group at the University of Hamburg |
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The product is described in |
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Koehl, A., D. Dommenget, K. Ueyoshi, D. Stammer, The Global ECCO |
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1952 to 2001 Ocean Synthesis Report No.40, March 2006. </p> |
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<p><span class="headergray">18 May 2007: New ECCO web page goes live.</span></p> |
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In collaboration with web designer Colleen Boisvert |
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ECCO has launched a new overall project web site. |
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Main purpose of this site is to provide an integrated view |
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of ECCO and it's follow-on projects |
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(ECCO-GODAE, ECCO2, GECCO, ...). |
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It is hoped that readers will get a clear understanding |
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of |
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ECCO's various activities, and will find |
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among ECCO's various ocean state estimation products |
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those which best suit their needs. |
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We welcome any <a href="mailto:heimbach@mit.edu">feedback</a> you may wish to provide. </p> |
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<p class="headergray">30 March 2007: Ocean model captures diversity of marine microbes</p> |
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<p> Scientists at MIT have developed a new marine ecosystem model that allows its populations of |
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phytoplankton to realistically evolve, reflecting the diversity in populations in the natural world. This |
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should lead to a better understanding of the coupling between ocean and atmospheric chemistry. |
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The model makes use of ECCO's ocean state estimate to capture the physical environment in |
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which the ecosystem evolves. The study "Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a |
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Model Ocean" by Michael J. Follows, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Scott Grant, and Sallie W. Chisholm was published in today's issue of <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5820/1843" target="_blank">Science magazine</a>. It is part of the <a href="http://www.moore.org/newsitem.aspx?id=2064" target="_blank">MIT Darwin Project</a> and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.<br /> |
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<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/microbes.html" target="_blank">(Click here for a related MIT News Story)</a></p> |
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<p><span class="headergray">19 March 2007: ECCO products now hosted on SDSC's SRB archive.</span></p> |
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<p> In a collaboration between the San Diego Supercomputing Center |
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(SDSC) and ECCO, |
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a large part of the ECCO products have been transfered to |
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<a href="http://datacentral.sdsc.edu/resources.html" target="_blank">SDSC's Datacentral</a> and managed via <a href="http://datacentral.sdsc.edu/srb_resource.html" target="_blank">Storage Resource Broker (SRB)</a>. To make these data available to the community via |
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different commonly used servers and software tools, |
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including DODS/OPeNDAP and LAS, |
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SDSC's DataCentral specialist Roman Olschanowsky |
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and MIT's Constantinos Evangelinos successfully |
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implemented DODS/OPeNDAP on top of SRB. |
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The SRB system allows fast and easy data access |
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across various disk and tape resources while ensuring |
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archiving/backup capability. |
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High speed access to the SDSC data using the SRB client tools is also |
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<p class="headergray">13 December 2006: Carl Wunsch awarded the 2006 William Bowie Medal by the American Geophysical Union</p> |
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<p>On December, 13, 2006, AGU awarded the Bowie Medal to Carl Wunsch "For his wide-ranging research in the study of the ocean and its roles in shaping Earth's climate and its changes, and for unselfish cooperation in the field of physical oceanography." <a href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/special_wunsch.html" target="_blank">Read Citation</a></p> |
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<p class="headergray">13 November 2006: Elephant seals serving ECCO</p> |
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<p> A unique set of roughly 320,000 individual sub-surface measurements |
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of salinity (conductivity), temperature, and depth (CTD) taken by elephant |
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seals which carried bio-logging and telemetry devices |
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was added to the ECCO state estimation system as new |
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observational constraints. |
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The data were kindly provided by the <a href="http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/seaos/index.html" target="_blank">"Southern Elephant Seals as |
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Oceanographic Samplers" (SEaOS)</a> project involving |
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the <a href="http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of St. Andrew's NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)</a> and the <a href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/" target="_blank">British Antarctic Survey</a>. The uniqueness of the data derives from the ability of seals |
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to go under the sea-ice which covers large parts of the Southern |
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Ocean poleward of 60S during austral winter and where in-situ data |
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<p class="headergray">30 August 2006: NAS Teamwork Helps Researchers Cruise Through Ocean Data</p> |
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<p> Working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), experts at the NAS facility visualized, in real time, a one-year ocean simulation with 330 million grid cells running on 2,048 processors of the Columbia supercomputer. |
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<a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/News/Archive/2006/08-30-06.html" target="_blank">(Click here for more details)</a></p> |
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