{"id":1931,"date":"2010-01-19T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2010-01-19T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:24:53","slug":"featured-photo-drive-by-oceanography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/01\/19\/featured-photo-drive-by-oceanography\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Photo: Drive-by Oceanography"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1930\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/01\/tanya-sampling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930\" title=\"Tanya Sampling\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/01\/tanya-sampling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/01\/tanya-sampling.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/01\/tanya-sampling-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/01\/tanya-sampling-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/01\/tanya-sampling-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya Novak of the Physical Oceanography Lab collects data outside of Elkhorn Slough (photo: S. Buckley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What do you do if you want to measure the properties of water in realtime?\u00a0 Take out your portable Underway Data Aquisition System (UDAS), of course!\u00a0 This week&#8217;s photo comes from Physical Ocenography student Tanya Novak. \u00a0\u00a0 Tanya drove the boat pictured above in a back-and-forth transect in Monterey Bay with her UDAS in tow,\u00a0 trying to characterize the water that flows from the mouth of Elkhorn Slough.<\/p>\n<p>That UDAS contains a whole suite of impressive-sounding instruments:\u00a0 a <em>thermosalinigraph<\/em>, to take automated measurements of temperature and salinity, a <em>transmissometer<\/em>, which measures the fraction of light transmitted through the water (to determine water clarity), a <em>fluorometer<\/em> which measures fluorescence (the light emitted from chlorophyll in phytoplankton), and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbari.org\/twenty\/isus.htm\">ISUS<\/a>, or In-Situ Ultraviolet Spectromter, which measures the amount of nitrate in the water.<\/p>\n<p>What do you get when you put all those measurements together? <a href=\"http:\/\/192.190.45.11\/udasport_html\/portudas_20090727.html\">Click here to see the plume Tanya traced<\/a> (and the information she collected) on the MLML public data portal.\u00a0 Thanks for the photo, Tanya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do if you want to measure the properties of water in realtime?\u00a0 Take out your portable Underway Data Aquisition System (UDAS), of course!\u00a0 This week&#8217;s photo comes from Physical Ocenography student Tanya Novak. \u00a0\u00a0 Tanya drove the boat pictured above in a back-and-forth transect in Monterey Bay with her UDAS in tow,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}