A grant has been recently awarded to a consortium of the country’s top 5 ocean research institutes, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is the lead. The money will be used to deploy a fleet of 500 robotic sensors to monitor ocean health. The data streaming from the float array will be made available, (within a day of being collected) to researchers, educators and policy makers around the world.
This grant totaling $53 Million was approved by the National Science Foundation.
This new network of floats is called the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (also known as GO-BGC Array).
