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Seminar: The Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (GO-BGC), a sensor and platform network for the global ocean

Ken Johnson, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute The ocean is under threat from a variety of processes driven by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide such as ocean warming, changing winds and currents, decreasing pH and oxygen, and less ice cover at high latitudes.  However, vast areas of the open ocean are sampled from research ships for chemical and biological properties only once per decade or less, with sampling occurring mainly in summer.  Our ability to detect changes in ocean chemical and biological processes that may be occurring are greatly hindered by this undersampling.  Robotic platforms carrying chemical and