Scientists from NOAA will participate in Ocean Sampling Day on June 21, 2015. Water samples will be collected at 15 sites around the continental U.S. and Hawaii. NOAA’s sites represent about half of the sites located in U.S. waters; 185 total sites will be sampled worldwide in 2015. In addition, some of the NOAA sites will take the opportunity to couple the sampling activities with education activities.
Below are some photos from the sites sampled by NOAA in 2014.
Watch The Ocean Sampling Day 2014 - A Global Scientific Effort to Study Our Ocean , a short film documenting 2014 sampling activities.
Scripps Pier site, La Jolla, California: Filtering seawater to collect marine microbes on special filters. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 3.5 MB).
Scripps Pier site, La Jolla, California: Kelly Goodwin (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) checking collected marine microbes samples through a microscope in the field lab. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 3.3 MB).
Oxford Lab pier Site, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland: Shawn McLaughlin filtering water to collect marine microbes. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 2.7 MB).
Delaware Bay site, Delaware: Lonnie Gonsalves preparing to take environmental data at the water sampling site. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 628 KB).
Charleston Harbor site, Charleston, South Carolina: Taking environmental data. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download image (jpg, 86 KB).
Sequim Bay site, Seattle, Washington: Instrument used to take environmental data (e.g., GPS position, temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, etc). Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 2.1 MB).
Ala Wai site, Hawaii: Tiani Naholowaa collecting water at the site. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 740 KB).
Maunalua Bay site, Hawaii: Jon Martinez collecting environmental data at the site. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 497 KB).
North Inlet site, Charleston, South Carolina: Michael Fulton collecting samples. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 2.9 MB).
North Inlet site, Charleston, South Carolina: Coolers ready to be used for transporting refrigerated samples from the site to the lab. Image courtesy of NOAA. Download larger version (jpg, 3.9 MB).
