Ocean Research Project

ORP’s founder and director is Matt Rutherford (Left), the first person to solo circumnavigate the Americas. Matt traveled 27k miles in 10 months in a tiny sailboat by himself. Check out this podcast on his journey: youtube.com/watch?v=PE33PY…

The Ocean Research Project is dedicated to the scientific exploration of human-induced stresses on the Ocean. Projects currently include climate science, marine pollution, and movement ecology. Check out our website oceanresearchproject.org to learn more!

The Ocean Research Project's first research expedition was in 2013 when the pair spent 70 days sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, collecting samples of plastic debris and mapping out the eastern side of the North Atlantic garbage patch.

ORP’s founder and director is Matt Rutherford (Left), the first person to solo circumnavigate the Americas. Matt traveled 27k miles in 10 months in a tiny sailboat by himself. Check out this podcast on his journey: youtube.com/watch?v=PE33PY…

Satellite observations have shown us that since 1978, #Arctic sea ice extent has declined and ice cover has thinned, according to a review paper by NSIDC’s @MarkSerreze and Walt Meier: bit.ly/2N3DAfp. @CIRESnews #CUBoulder Photo cred: Wasif Malik

They crossed over to the Bahamas in early January and have spent the past month exploring and "Fish Finding" around Great Harbor Cay, Eleuthera, and the rest of the Exumas before settling in the park.

MV Privateer made their first receiver deployment in Newport, RI in September. They have since traveled down the U.S. Atlantic coast to the keys, deploying their receiver in 21 locations to listen for tagged fish along the way.

Fish Finder Team MV Privateer’s Vemco VR2W receiver is currently deployed in Cambridge Cay, Bahamas, where they are February mooring field hosts with the Exumas Land and Sea Park!

Welcome to the world of Movement of Life! @SmithsonianMoL @fishinvertlab @SmithsonianEnv

This past Thursday, ORP co-founder Nicole Trenholm presented at the Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment #PARCA2019 meeting. Our current research seeks to understand how ocean warming is influencing the melting of ice sheets from Greenland to Canada.

As part of Nasa’s Oceans Melting Greenland program, we conduct regional hydrographic surveys to map the depth and pathways of the warmer currents originating from the Atlantic to understand the complex forces contributing to the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

The primary objective of our research in Greenland is to learn more about the warm, salty water column that is thought to be melting Greenland’s glaciers from the bottom-up.

“This is a call to action, not a declaration of defeat,” “If we mitigate, or reduce, human emissions, [it] looks like you can avoid 70 to 80 percent of the permafrost climate feedback,” #ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #Science yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/methan…

@verbaldyslexia @FrankSmithXYZ Yes, that’s correct!

@OceanResProject @FrankSmithXYZ There I go asking questions before researching what was in the tweet again... I'm guessing they're 69kHz?

Fish Finder team SV No Worries started working with us in July and have deployed their receiver from the Great Lakes to the Gulf! This month they traveled from Biloxi, MS to St. Petersburg, FL with deployments in Perdido Beach, AL and several locations along Florida’s Panhandle.

Check out Fish Finder Team Confetti’s story on the Kady Krogen website! Link below! kadeykrogen.com/wp-content/upl…

@verbaldyslexia @FrankSmithXYZ Yes, we have done moving trials but these receivers aren’t effective at typical cruising speeds.

@OceanResProject @FrankSmithXYZ Just looked on your website. So it's a passive receiver that detects the pings from previously tagged animals to track them? That's a great idea! Do they only deploy the transducer when they're stationary?

@FrankSmithXYZ @ClarkGRichards @OceanTracking @GLATOS_Fish Thank you! We are connected with them and shared data with the GLATOS network during our last season.

@OceanResProject @ClarkGRichards @OceanTracking You might also be interested in talking to @GLATOS_Fish

@verbaldyslexia @FrankSmithXYZ The receivers are Vemco VR2W passive acoustic receivers. They record “pings” from acoustically tagged fish and tell us the fish was within ~1 km of the receiver.

@OceanResProject @FrankSmithXYZ What sort of data does the receiver collect? Passive sonar or active?