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Account representing the Canadian contribution to the global Argo profiling float program. Maintained by @clarkgrichards.bsky.social

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just got featured as part of Science Literacy Week for my work with the @argocanada.bsky.social #AdoptAFloat program and for other outreach. What can I say -- I like to talk about what I do! 😀🌊 www.linkedin.com/posts/fisher...
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For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages… | F...
For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages bett...
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I see an #Argo float at the NS Maritime Museum of the Atlantic for #WorldOceansDay!
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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
After many years of direct and collaborative involvement in working towards implementing a new CTD sensor on Argo floats, it is very satisfying to finally see it (officially) come to fruition. 🌊🧪
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🌊One decision that came from the Argo AST last month is that the RBRArgo CTD is now accepted for global implementation. Argo Canada has committed to buying at least 50% of our floats with RBR sensors to support diversification of the fleet. In photos, an update to my lego Argo float 😄.
A lego Argo float with the traditional (black) sensor on the end cap (with a lego tortoise named Gus, who lives at the NS Museum of Natural History, looking on).A lego Argo float outfitted with the new (red) RBRArgo CTD.14 Teledyne Webb APEX Argo floats set up in a lab for testing at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. 7 of them have an SBE CTD, and the other 7 have the new RBRArgo CTD (red).
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Spring 2025 BGC-Argo Newsletter is here! 🎉 Stay updated with the latest science, program developments, and community insights. Check it out now 👉 mailchi.mp/2ebe68c5010c... Subscribe to stay in the loop! 📩 biogeochemical-argo.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🌊 The Argo Steering Team Meeting has begun at @scrippsocean.bsky.social, San Diego (California), with 60+ in-person attendees from around the world! 🌍 Historic moments ahead, and just like the Earth shook bsky.app/profile/cali..., our discussions are sure to make waves! #argofloat
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Two @argocanada #Argo floats deployed in the Southern Ocean from the HMCS Margaret Brooke! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Scientists launch 'Argo float' to gather ocean data in Antarctica
The science team aboard HMCS Margaret Brooke has launched a specialized data-collecting tool known as an Argo float, to measure ocean data like water temperature, salinity and water cycle. The data co...
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I can't believe that @clarkgrichards.bsky.social forgot to include an example of an #Argo float for #CTDAppreciationDay, one of the most important CTD-equipped platforms for understanding the global ocean. There are currently 4091 operational floats, profiling every 10 days and sending data back! 🌊
A gaggle of yellow Apex Argo floats standing in a lab, being tested before being prepared for deployment.A world map showing positions and countries of all currently operational Argo floats (4091 as of December 2024).
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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I almost forgot about #CTDappreciationDay! There aren't many aspects of my job that don't rely on CTD data. Here are some photos of our trusted SBE CTD and rosette sampling the Canadian Northwest Passage, the cutest little CTD on a turbulence profiler (made by JFE), and a glider CTD made by RBR.
A CTD rosette is lowered over the side of a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker (the CCGS Pierre Radisson) in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during a field program in August 2024. The sky is grey with wildfire smoke from wildfires in the Northwest Territories.Fisheries and Oceans Canada employee Mandi Newhook samples water from the Niskin bottles attached to the small CTD rosette in the Canadian Arctic. Components of a soon-to-be-deployed mooring (yellow streamlined floatation) rest in the background.A close-up look at the business end of a Rockland Scientific "microCTD", which contains a small inductive CTD manufactured by JFE in addition to the microstructure shear and temperature probes that allow the instrument to measure centimeter-scale variations in the ocean.A view of the dual CTDs mounted on a SeaExplorer ocean glider, including a pumped SBE CTD on the nose as well as an inductive RBR CTD attached to the body (red).
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Roberta Hotinski @hotinski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
GO-BGC is hosting a float data workshop this summer at the University of Washington - let us know if you'd be interested in joining! @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social
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GO-BGC Float Data Workshop – Interest Form | GO-BGC
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
New shipment of @argocanada.bsky.social #Argo floats arrived (Teledyne Apex)! Getting them tested and ready to start deploying. Can't tell because of the baggies over the sensors, but half of them are #RBR sensors and the other half are #SBE sensors. Our committment to diversifying the Argo fleet!
Fourteen yellow Teledyne Webb Apex Argo floats stand in a lab at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. One in the center shows off it's RBR inductive-style CTD sensor.
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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
New Year's resolution to try and write more things on my blog, so I got started right away (catching up on a backlog of things). First up, my friend Igor Shkvorets deploys an @argocanada.bsky.social float in the Caribbean from his SailForScience.org sailboat! 🌊 www.clarkrichards.org/2025/01/01/a...
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Argo Canada float deployed from S/V Oceanolog
In fall 2023, I hosted my friend Igor Shkvorets for a visit and tour at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Igor and I had previously worked together at RBR in Ottawa, where I had worked my first j...
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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hi! I'm Clark, an observational physical oceanographer working at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. I monitor Arctic outflows, manage a fleet of ocean gliders, and contribute to the international Argo program (see @argocanada.bsky.social). Also interested in internal waves. 🌊
A polar bear standing on an ice floeA selfie while wearing an immersion suit on a Canadian Coast Guard icebreakerA zodiac navigating small sea ice floes to recover an oceanographic mooringLaunching an autonomous underwater ocean glider from the stern of a small research vessel.
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Looks like a good ship for deploying future #ArgoFloats! 🌊
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Want to access, download, read, and vizualize #Argo data using open source tools? To help, we developed the `argoFloats` package for the R language, available through CRAN and easily installable. For more details, check out the website: argocanada.github.io/argoFloats/
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Analysis of Oceanographic Argo Floats
Supports the analysis of oceanographic data recorded by Argo autonomous drifting profiling floats. Functions are provided to (a) download and cache data files, (b) subset data in various ways, (c) han...
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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I wish that shipping Argo floats was as easy as deploying them!🌊🧪
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Argo Canada @argocanada.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Prepping two of our #NKE #Argo floats to ship to colleagues in New Zealand, to be used to measure the ocean around Antarctica (ignore the floats in the foreground)! One of them was signed by a grade 6 class in Halifax NS Canada as part of our "Adopt-a-float" program. adopt-a-float.ocean.dal.ca
Several wooden crates containing Argo profiling floats.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
🧵These "Sputnik" plots of global ocean properties are now ubiquitous. Have you ever wondered who first made them? Wonder no more. 1/3
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Welcome to the Oceanography feed! Reply to @davidho.bsky.social to be added as a contributor. Use the water wave emoji on posts you want to appear in the feed. 🌊 Please like the feed. Also, no disinformation, oceanography post only, add alt text and credit for images, and provide external links.
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