by crabman | Jun 25, 2015 | SEA News
The new SOCAL-15 page on www.socal-brs.org is now available at: <https://sea-inc.net/socal-brs/socal-15/>. On this page you will find a public summary of our research plans for 2015 <https://sea-inc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SOCAL15-summary.pdf>. We...
by crabman | Mar 10, 2015 | SEA News
Dr. Brandon Southall gave an invited “Visionary Research” presentation at the recent ONR Science and Technology Expo in Washington D.C. This expo highlights cutting edge research and innovative technology supported by ONR. Given their long-standing support of marine...
by crabman | Sep 19, 2014 | SEA News
After a few rough weather days – hot and windy with high seas – we got a break on our last day for this phase of SOCAL-14. It was nice and calm as we worked back towards our end point near LA and we found a number of different animals feeding on some rich aggregations...
by crabman | Sep 17, 2014 | SEA News
As you may have heard, the (second) hurricane off the Pacific coast earlier this week hit parts of Baja pretty badly. While we aren’t getting any direct effects of that (but thanks for the few emails we have received asking), we are picking up some of the swell from...
by crabman | Sep 15, 2014 | SEA News
It’s been a rough few days on the sea off southern California for the SOCAL-BRS effort. We need relatively calm seas (e.g, <10-15 kt winds and <3-4 ft seas) and if you check out the offshore actual weather and forecasts for the outer waters where we hope to work...
by crabman | Sep 13, 2014 | SEA News
Though we had planned on working nearshore today in SOCAL-BRS with some planned refueling and transfers of people and gear, the small craft advisory from large swell and 20+ knot winds in outer water ensured it. Knowing the weather would be poor we got an early start...