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Last Updated: Tuesday, September 22 2020 18:27

Sunburst Sensors Presentation to NOAA Central Library Seminar

On September 9, 2020, Sunburst Sensors gave a presentation entitled "Sunburst Sensors: Oceanographic Instrumentation from Montana to Mauritius" discussing our use of SBIR and other grant funding mechanisms in growing our business.  The presentation is archived here.  You may want to skip over the video  (4 minutes) towards the end as it is pretty choppy.  If you're interested it can be found directly on YouTube at the link here.

The NOAA Central Library Seminar program provides an educational forum (hosting over 1,000 presentations since 1992) for the presentation of ideas, research updates and share news in support of NOAA's mission: to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts; to share that knowledge and information with others; and to conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources.

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Last Updated: Thursday, July 30 2020 18:56

 Sunburst Sensors Instruments Used to Study Arctic Carbon Cycle

Researchers have used the SuperCO2, SAMI-CO2 and SAMI-pH along with other instruments to learn more about the changing carbon cycle in the arctic.

From the linked article:

Sea surface pCO₂ variability in the Arctic Ocean is intertwined with biological production, ice formation, and melting (where CO₂ is concentrated or diluted, respectively), heating and other processes, all of which are no longer in steady state. Sparse long-term data have limited our ability to assess variability of sea surface pCO₂ that is related to these changes.

(The authors) have been measuring pCO₂ in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean since 2012 to help address this shortcoming. Cruises have taken place on the Canadian icebreaker, the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System and Joint Ocean Ice Study (BGOS/JOIS) programs through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) and the Institute of Ocean Sciences (Sidney, British Columbia), respectively. These cruises, conducted since 2002 with support from NSF, have focused on the hydrography and biogeochemistry of the western Arctic Ocean.

For full article, click here: Arcus: The Changing Carbon Cycle of the Arctic  (this will open article in a new tab or window)

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Last Updated: Tuesday, June 02 2020 17:23

Sunburst Sensors SAMI-CO₂ Helping OOI Measure Ocean Carbon

SAMI-CO₂ mounted to OOI float. Picture credit: OOI

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) uses both SAMI-CO₂ and SAMI-pH instruments at many of its observatories to help monitor the marine carbonate system. OOI recently published an article: Altered Carbon: Improvement to CO₂ Measurements Enhance OOI Data Quality  (Link will open new tab/window) 

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Last Updated: Friday, September 25 2020 18:59

 Sunburst Demonstrates SAMI-CO₂ at ICOS OTC 2019

Sunburst Sensors was invited to participate in the 2nd Integrated Carbon Observation System Ocean Thematic Centre (ICOS OTC) sensor workshop at GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany in November 2019. The purpose of the 3-day workshop was to train ICOS members in best practices for CO₂ measurements, as well as instrument maintenance and data handling. Reggie Spaulding presented SAMI-CO₂ best practices, maintenance, and quality control. Approximately 30 members from across Europe attended.

ICOS will sponsor a pCO₂ measurement intercomparison exercise in 2021 at the Flanders Marine Institute in Belgium. The exercise will focus on underway instruments. We plan to test our SuperCO₂ and our AFT-CO₂ instruments.