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Open source. Open science. Open Ocean. Oceanography for Everyone and the OpenCTD

Posted on June 24, 2016June 24, 2016 By Andrew Thaler 2 Comments on Open source. Open science. Open Ocean. Oceanography for Everyone and the OpenCTD
Oceanography for Everyone

Nearly four years ago, Kersey Sturdivant and I launched a bold, ambitious, and, frankly, naive crowdfunding initiative to build the first low-cost, open-source CTD, a core scientific instrument that measures salinity, temperature, and depth in a water column. It was a dream born from the frustration of declining science funding, the expense of scientific equipment, … Read More “Open source. Open science. Open Ocean. Oceanography for Everyone and the OpenCTD” »

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