RDSEA, NOAA and BPPT Indonesia (Jakarta) Post Very Successful Research Cruise on RAMA/IndOOS
RDSEA recently returned from a very successful research cruise in the Indian Ocean as part of the RAMA Program (Indian Ocean Observing System: “IndOOS”). RDSEA is a registered government contractor and positions a percentage of company time annually to the Global Moored Tropical Buoy Array which consists of the sub-programs TAO in the Pacific, PIRATA in the Atlantic and RAMA in the Indian Ocean. RDSEA’s President Rick Cole joined researchers from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) of NOAA (Seattle, WA) along with scientists and students from Indonesia on a RAMA leg aboard Research Vessel Baruna Jaya III (BJ3). BJ3 departed Cilegon in west Java in mid-April and returned to Banda Aceh in western Sumatra (ground zero for the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia) three weeks later after turning around ocean climate monitoring systems in the eastern array, and deploying NOAA drift buoys and ARGO floats along the cruise track. Please see “Gallery” for a new pictorial of this work