The Expanding Role of Ocean Color and Optics in the Changing Field of Operational Oceanography

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Scott Glenn | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Oscar Schofield | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Tommy D. Dickey | Ocean Physics Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA, USA

Robert Chant | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Josh Kohut | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Hervé Barrier | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Jennifer Bosch | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Louis Bowers | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Elizabeth Creed | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Chip Haldeman | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Eli Hunter | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

John Kerfoot | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Chhaya Mudgal | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Matthew Oliver | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Hugh Roarty | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Emmeline Romana | Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Mike Crowley | SeaSpace Corporation, Poway, CA, USA

Donald Barrick | CODAR Ocean Sensors, Los Altos, CA, USA

Clayton Jones | Webb Research Corporation, E. Falmouth, MA, USA

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Ocean observatories are changing the way oceanographers go to sea. The rapidly evolving field of ocean optics is producing new technologies and analysis procedures that are contributing to this transition. Optical oceanography is now moving beyond the slow-boat approach of stopping to collect discrete profiles and water samples for later laboratory analysis. These traditional methods often require filtering of discrete samples or even solvent extractions, which are time consuming and challenging to use when at sea. Older submersible spectral radiometers had slow scanning speeds, requiring the instrument to be held at constant depth while taking a measurement.

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Citation

Glenn, S., O. Schofield, T.D. Dickey, R. Chant, J. Kohut, H. Barrier, J. Bosch, L. Bowers, E. Creed, C. Haldeman, E. Hunter, J. Kerfoot, C. Mudgal, M. Oliver, H. Roarty, E. Romana, M. Crowley, D. Barrick, and C. Jones. 2004. The expanding role of ocean color and optics in the changing field of operational oceanography. Oceanography 17(2):86–95, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.52.

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