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RDSEA welcomes everyone to the “2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season”, an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season officially started on June 1st and will end on November 30th. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. However, the formation of tropical cyclones is […]

          RDSEA supports new tide gauge installations in Costa Rica.  The five-star Los Suenos Marina, Herradura, Puntarenas, Costa Rica now has daily tidal data available for its’ users and the nearby community.  Original specifications for the system were for routine monitoring, with future upgrade to a tsunami warning station planned.  Campbell Scientific, Centro Caribe and […]

    RDSEA supports and assists AMBIDADOS and the Oceanographic Institute, Univ. of Sao Paulo (IOUSP), in the deployment of Brazil’s first “home-grown” buoy system (ATLAS-B) in the Atlantic.  With a fiberglass toroid donated by NOAA-PMEL (Seattle, WA) and systems integration by AMBIDADOS, a successful deployment was conducted from R/V ALPHA CRUSIS (formerly MOANA WAVE of […]

Three publications this spring. See the links below on our recent projects.

Happy New Year Everyone! As RDSEA’s 10th Anniversary Year comes to a close we thank all of our friends and colleagues on all projects for their support and a very successful and rewarding 2012. RDSEA was proud to see and hear about one of our buoy systems deployed on a new project in the Andaman […]

RDSEA to support and assist the Oceanographic Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (IOUSP) efforts in the western Subtropical South Atlantic Ocean. An important component of the Brazilian observational program is the PIRATA Project, which has been monitoring the Tropical Atlantic for more than a decade, in cooperation with France and the United States. […]

RDSEA attends 2012 IOOS Summit: Ocean observing has come a long way since the Ocean Sciences Decadal Committee met over a decade ago. Since then, our use of the ocean and coast and their vast resources has increased substantially – with increased shipping, fishing, offshore energy development and recreational boating.  That increased use has also […]

RDSEA teams with Olin Hydrographic Solutions of Miami, FL

Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) deployed in 8~m depth offshore Sebastian Inlet State Park, Brevard County, Florida have recorded frequent summer cold water upwelling events.

RDSEA recently returned from a very successful research cruise in the Indian Ocean as part of the RAMA Program (Indian Ocean Observing System: “IndOOS”)