December 2019 Community Newsletter
Ocean Sciences Workshop Announced
Data Labs: Using OOI Data to Engage Students in Oceanography
Sunday, February 16, 2020
8:30am - 4:00pm
We will be at Ocean Sciences 2020 in San Diego to present another NSF-sponsored workshop on the…
Discrete vs. Continuous Data
There are two key benefits of ocean serving systems: they collect data over long time periods, and in high-resolution.
Many oceanographic experiments rely on a single cruise or mooring deployment. But when a location is designated as part…
August 2019 Community Newsletter
Here's a quick snapshot of what's in this Data Labs project update:
Updates from our June & July Workshops
New Data Explorations in Development
Ocean Sciences 2020 - Call for Abstracts
Project EDDIE Module Development Workshop
Updates…
Caution… Real Data Ahead!
I love diving into data and discovering new things about the ocean, and we've been doing quite a bit of that lately*.
But one of the things that really amazes me about the OOI dataset, is that you don’t have to dig far to find some…
May 2019 Community Newsletter
Next Up: Our June OOI Data Lab Workshop
We’re excited about our next Data Lab Development workshop starting on June 1st, here on our “home campus” in New Brunswick, NJ. Ten professors, representing community colleges, primary undergraduate…
Our first Ocean Data Labs workshop is in the books!
Congratulations to our first OOI Data Lab workshop cohort! In March, we welcomed 20 professors from universities, community colleges, and primary undergraduate institutions to the Chauncey Center in Princeton, NJ, for our first weeklong development…
Scattering Data to See Correlations
The most popular data visualizations in oceanography are probably timeseries plots and maps. But I suspect a strong third is the scatterplot. While a timeseries plot can show how a variable changes in time, and maps can show variation…
The Upside and Downside of Basic Statistics
When it comes to analyzing and interpreting data, one of the first tools a scientist will reach for are a few basic statistics. This includes calculations like mean, median, standard deviation and range, though there are certainly many others.…
What Makes a Scientist?
Am I a scientist?
That’s a somewhat existential question that I, and others in positions like mine, often find myself asking. I’m sure my friends, and the K-12 teachers I work with, generally think of me as a scientist without any…
Air and Sea Temperatures
I love creating data visualizations. I always feel like I’m on an adventure when I take some data, visualize it in a number of different ways, and try to make sense of what secrets are hidden inside. Often times you have a good idea…
Oh My Data
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has a lot of data!
Conceived in the late 1990’s, the OOI was designed to bring together a cutting-edge collection of instruments into a single integrated ocean observatory. This observatory would be larger,…