Ocean Research Project
@OceanResProject
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#SailingForScience Enabling the scientific exploration of the factors impacting the oceans health ⛵️ #ClimateScience #MarinePollution #MovementEcology
Joined October 2012
ORP’s founder and director is Matt Rutherford (Left), the first person to solo circumnavigate the Americas. Matt traveled 27k miles in 10 months in a tiny sailboat by himself. Check out this podcast on his journey: https://t.co/Vyw1qf10iR
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The Ocean Research Project is dedicated to the scientific exploration of human-induced stresses on the Ocean. Projects currently include climate science, marine pollution, and movement ecology. Check out our website https://t.co/1qVcsQk3Zf to learn more!
oceanresearchproject.org
All life requires a healthy Ocean to survive. Ocean Research Project's mission is to observe the unknown and monitor humanity’s impact on the marine environment through science and research.
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The Ocean Research Project's first research expedition was in 2013 when the pair spent 70 days sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, collecting samples of plastic debris and mapping out the eastern side of the North Atlantic garbage patch.
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During his solo trip, Matt often pulled two fishing lines behind the boat to supplement his food supply. To his surprise, he caught more plastic than fish. This was the inspiration for ORP which was founded in Annapolis, MD in 2012.
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Nicole Trenholm (right) is ORP’s Science & Education director. Also an experienced mariner, she joined ORP shortly after its conception.
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Satellite observations have shown us that since 1978, #Arctic sea ice extent has declined and ice cover has thinned, according to a review paper by NSIDC’s @MarkSerreze and Walt Meier: https://t.co/hkH9K0jqgn.
@CIRESnews #CUBoulder Photo cred: Wasif Malik
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They crossed over to the Bahamas in early January and have spent the past month exploring and "Fish Finding" around Great Harbor Cay, Eleuthera, and the rest of the Exumas before settling in the park.
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MV Privateer made their first receiver deployment in Newport, RI in September. They have since traveled down the U.S. Atlantic coast to the keys, deploying their receiver in 21 locations to listen for tagged fish along the way.
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Fish Finder Team MV Privateer’s Vemco VR2W receiver is currently deployed in Cambridge Cay, Bahamas, where they are February mooring field hosts with the Exumas Land and Sea Park!
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Using bananas 🍌 to learn how to tag a shark 🦈 @FCPSScience @EDGreenRibbon @fcpsGet2Green @Lanier_MS @MHBechtel @FairfaxSchools @SmithsonianEnv
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This past Thursday, ORP co-founder Nicole Trenholm presented at the Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment #PARCA2019 meeting. Our current research seeks to understand how ocean warming is influencing the melting of ice sheets from Greenland to Canada.
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As part of Nasa’s Oceans Melting Greenland program, we conduct regional hydrographic surveys to map the depth and pathways of the warmer currents originating from the Atlantic to understand the complex forces contributing to the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
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The primary objective of our research in Greenland is to learn more about the warm, salty water column that is thought to be melting Greenland’s glaciers from the bottom-up.
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“This is a call to action, not a declaration of defeat,” “If we mitigate, or reduce, human emissions, [it] looks like you can avoid 70 to 80 percent of the permafrost climate feedback,” #ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #Science
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Researchers cast doubt on one of the scariest ideas in climate science.
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Check out Fish Finder Team Confetti’s story on the Kady Krogen website! Link below! https://t.co/Noc37AQiSI
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Fish Finder team SV No Worries started working with us in July and have deployed their receiver from the Great Lakes to the Gulf! This month they traveled from Biloxi, MS to St. Petersburg, FL with deployments in Perdido Beach, AL and several locations along Florida’s Panhandle.
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Every time it snows on the US east coast, there’s at least one politician or pundit who trots out the old chestnut: “Global warming?! Global cooling, more like!” This episode tackles that myth + explains how climate change affects the polar vortex, too: https://t.co/hX7yep8ZTE
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Fish Finder Team Amel is traveling between the Bahamas and eastern Florida this winter. Each time they stop, they deploy a receiver to listen for acoustically tagged fish. This week their receiver is deployed near Sampson Cay, Bahamas! In collaboration with @SmithsonianEnv
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Our "Fish Finder" Project, a collaboration with @SmithsonianEnv is aimed at filling holes in acoustic telemetry data by working with recreational mariners. Citizen scientists deploy VR2W receivers from their boats each time they stop, essentially "fishing" for tag detections.
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We seem to have missed the boat ⛵️ with Twitter but here we are! We'll be sending out brief updates about our work from now on so be SHORE to check back. 😎
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