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Introducing the miniPAR logger
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PME’s new miniPAR logger, modeled after the durable and portable miniDOT, logs photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), temperature, and orientation, ensuring the integrity of data at every measurement interval.
Researchers from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies used miniDOT loggers to track stream metabolism around Baltimore, Maryland, in this new case study, and were surprised to see the devices that rode out the 2012 storm surge emerge unscathed.
A comparison of ocean heat content (OHC) analyses shows warming trends since the 1970s, but also illustrates challenges in understanding data discrepancies.
Warm temperatures in the Indian Ocean are no longer widespread, NOAA says, but reefs in the Atlantic and Pacific are still stressed by bleaching, which has lasted 3 years.
Gustavo Rival, an aquaculture engineer with Casco Antiguo Chile, visited PME’s Vista offices in June. Casco Antiguo supplies diving and oceanography equipment in Spain, Portugal, and Central and South America. Pictured are:
A NOAA and USGS forecast based on nutrient discharge data predicts that a hypoxic area in the Gulf of Mexico this summer will be the size of New Jersey.
Cleanup and runoff mitigation efforts have paid off in the U.S.’s largest estuary, but increased rainfall means more nutrients in the bay this year, scientists say.
