Where in the water is that float from San Diego?
Jim Bishop of DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, co-director of the DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration, was chief scientist on a recent voyage of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s research vessel New Horizon out of San Diego, developing what Bishop calls “a forensic science to detect biological activity in the deep sea.” A device for optically measuring particulate inorganic carbon was among the instruments tested and calibrated, along with a SOLO float that tested a new way to measure carbon sedimentation. An intermittent GPS caused the SOLO to spend most of ten days hiding, but it faithfully transmitted satellite data that aided a midnight recovery off wind-whipped Point Conception.
