running amok at the amoc lecture!

Hey, just a little inside joke for me and Jackson!

When I read the title of this month's Evening @ Skidaway talk, that just popped into my head and has taken up residence!

"From Space To The Sea: Using Advanced Technology To Understand The AMOC" was what Dr. Nick Foukal called it.

Remember him?

I visited his lab last year and learned about his trips to Greenland.

(By the way, his last name is pronounced "FO call".)

That's him on the right, with Jackson on the left, in front of this slide that explains the acronym: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

What that all means is the transport of the warm waters near the equator up to the colder waters formed by ice melt up north.

 

The focus of Dr. Foukal's talk, though, was on the use of satellite cameras in novel ways to follow changes in temperature, salinity, and density.

Specifically, he uses the SWOT (Surface Water Ocean Topography) satellite that has been in use for several years, but is doing so differently than in the past.

Four years ago, the images rendered were those on the left, which have a lot of averaging to render changes in temperature.

Now, however, there are clear and definitive transitions visible, as shown in the image on the right.

How amazing!!!

He also spoke at some length about another gadget he uses.

Called the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), there are several located at key points along the AMOC.

Namely, there are two on the North American coast, one on the African coast, two off Greenland, and one in northern Europe (possibly).

I just may need to watch the video to catch all the information.

I'm just thrilled that this was about analytical chemistry!

SCIENCE!!! 

(smile!)