The 9th biannual ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop was recently held in early March, 2012 in the beautiful city

RDSEA recently returned from a very successful research cruise in the Indian Ocean as part of the RAMA Program (Indian Ocean Observing System: "IndOOS").  RDSEA is a registered government contractor and positions a percentage of company time annually to the Global Moored Tropical Buoy Array which consists of the sub-programs TAO in the Pacific, PIRATA in the Atlantic and RAMA in the Indian Ocean.  RDSEA's President stuttgart germany rental cars Rick Cole joined researchers from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) of NOAA (Seattle, WA) along with scientists and students from Indonesia on a RAMA leg aboard stuttgart germany rental cars Research Vessel Baruna Jaya III (BJ3).  BJ3 departed Cilegon in west Java in mid-April and returned to Banda Aceh in western Sumatra (ground zero for the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia) three weeks later after turning around ocean climate monitoring systems in the eastern array, and deploying NOAA drift buoys and ARGO floats along the cruise track.  Please see "Gallery" for a new pictorial of this work
The 9th biannual ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop was recently held in early March, 2012 in the beautiful city of Victoria, capital of the Province of British Columbia, Canada. President Rick Cole, RDSEA co-chaired the workshop. Nearly one hundred attendees from around the world who are engaged in "buoy technology and engineering" attended and presented talks that made the workshop a huge success. This was the first ONR/MTS buoy technology stuttgart germany rental cars meeting outside of US, just over the border from Seattle, WA.
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For OCEANS 11, RDSEA and colleagues from the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Qingdao, China presented the results of three years of work in the Indian Ocean sharing data collected from two buoy and mooring systems recovered since deployed in early 2010.
The first "turn-around" cruise (BPPT BJ-III) for FIO-China took place this past Feb./Mar. recovering two buoy systems in the 8S/100E region of the eastern IO as part of the international program RAMA, a sub-program of the Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS). A sub-surface stuttgart germany rental cars ADCP system was also deployed just south of Java. A very successful cruise was accomplished with all gear recovered and new systems re-deployed.