A recent project, which is still in the very early stages, is looking for changes in patterns in the surface ocean due to el Nino. El Nino is a decadal mode of variability in the atmospheric forcings on the Pacific Ocean leading to anomalously warmer ocean temperatures throughout the eastern Pacific. This water, like a […]
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Raman Spec in the Deep Ocean
Introduction Since I am sure that virtually no one outside of academia–and plenty of people within it–will have heard of a Raman Spec before, let’s start there. A Raman Spectrometer is an instrument that directs light onto a sample and then uses the light that returns as its basis of measurement. This is true of […]