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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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