Prof. Hilary Palevsky to co-lead new NSF-funded workshop on biogeochemical sensors

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) includes sensors that measure key biogeochemical properties (pH, pCO₂, bio-optics, nitrate, dissolved oxygen) on both moored and mobile autonomous platforms across arrays in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans. To broaden the use of OOI biogeochemical sensor data and increase community capacity to produce analysis-ready data products, Prof. Palevsky and collaborators at Old Dominion University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have been awarded new NSF support to bring together scientists with expertise in biogeochemical sensor calibration and analysis to develop guidelines and best practices for using OOI biogeochemical sensor data. These recommendations will be collated in a published white paper that will be shared with the broader oceanographic community to build data user capacity and enable new scientific applications of OOI biogeochemical sensor data.