Hi all, this is the start of a great journey!!!

Gear Bear

Some of my pics from Svalbard!

I just want to thank you for a great week. Loved to meet you all, and I hope we'll see each other in November again. Here are a few of my pics from the week spent at Svalbard.

http://picasaweb.google.no/anemarte.oeye/NORUSWorkshop#

Best wishes Ane-Marte

More pictures from Svalbard

Hi everybody - and thanks for a really nice week:-)
Here are my pictures from Svalbard:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Elenbel2/SvalbardMedNORUS#

Elen

Pictures from Svalbard

Hi everyone! I've posted an album of pictures to Picasa, have a look at: Svalbard 2009. Enjoy!

Erlend

The NORUS official website

An oficial website for NORUS is online.
http://www.hancke.net/norus-science.html

The address is temporal so look up for updates..

Great that everybody is using the blogg!!

Hi all,
Here is a copy of all the sensors that we own, and are opperable.

- optical backscatter: the fraction of light scattered in the backward direction.
- Solar Irradiance: light propogating downwards in the water column
- Radiance: measurement of the amount of light that passes through a given area.
- chlorophyll concentrations
- colored dissolved organic mater (CDOM) concentrations
- phycoerythrin concentrations
- dissolved oxygen (percent saturation and absolute concentration)
-Aanderra optode
-Bioprobe
-OSU Chipod
-Fishfinder
-FIRE sensor
-Mote Breve Buster

Also, we have an ADCP, which has not been installed but should be ready to work soon.

let me know if you have any questions!

RU COOL Room

Here is Rutgers COOL Room web site.

http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/

Pictures

All of the pictures I take this week will be posted here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sprtnlayofclay/NORUSSvalbardNorwayWorkshop1?feat=directlink

More Pictures

Further pictures taken by me will be posted on my Picasa page.

Google Earth file

Good job Robbie!!!

Now NORUS is online...

Go here: http://www.hancke.net/NORUS.html
for a kmz-file for GoogleEarth containing the locations of the partner institutions in NORUS (NTNU, UNIS, Cal Poly and Rutgers) and some useful links to the instututions etc.

Video of Hotel and UNIS

More Pictures

Small Polar Bear in Hotel

View outside Hotel


Same window as above


Scott Layton

Various Svalbard Pictures

These pictures were taken outside of the Svalbard airport.

Members - Robbie Plankenhorn - Background

I am a senior at Cal Poly and currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. I have been working with Dr. Chris Clark and Scott Layton on the OceanServer Iver2 AUV for the NORUS project. For the initial NORUS trip, I plan on getting as much feedback as possible about how I should improve the interface with the AUV. I want to eventually get operating the AUV as seemless as possible so that instead of a technological barrier for biologists, it becomes an easily usable tool that can improve research techniques and the data that they are collecting.