History of SMCC drifter production

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History of SMCC drifter production

• eMOLT (Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps)?
• 3 parties SMCC, GoMLF, NOAA
• Evolution of designs/technology
• Science resulting
• How the system works (after break)?

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www.emolt.org
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Environmental Monitors on Lobster Trapsa
cooperative research project

• Jim Manning, Mike Faulkingham, Clayton Philbrook,
  JohnSr Chipman, Brad Parady, Sooky Sawyer, Brian
  Tarbox, Wayne Lamborghini, Fred Penny, Dick
  Carver, Ricky Alley, Woody Post, Ray Gilliam,
  Lucas Chioffi, Parkhurst Matt, Druin John,Billy
  Lister, Russell Brewer, George Sprague, William
  Bond, Oscar Look, Peter Cheney, Mitchell Brett,
  Roger Chipman, Bob Colbert, Jason Day, Walter
  Day, Bro Cote, Arnie Gamage, Todd Jesse, David
  Johnson, Steve Keane, Chad Mahoney, Bobby Martin,
  Bob Buffington, Grant Moore, Kurt Oehme, Marc
  Palombo, John Peabody, Stevie Robbins, Skip Ryan,
  Jon Shafmaster, Jay Smith, Billy Souza, Jim
  Tripp, George Stover, Bob Baines, Leroy Bridges,
  Alex Brown, Dave Casoni, Pat White, John Carver,
  RobRoy Campanale, John Haviland, Mike Tupper,
  Mike Tufts, David Spencer, Ralph Backman, Dave
  Kandrick, Bob Marcella, Paul Bennett, Jimmy
  Violet, Scott Christopher, Tim Handrigan, Norbert
  Lemieux, Jon Carter, Brian Mclain, Billy
  Anderson, Bobby Ingalls, Jack MerrillIII, Ted
  Bear, Denny Colbert, John MelquistSr, Bill
  Doherty, Emmett Carroll, Nick Lemieux, Brian
  Cates, Jeremy Cates, Steve Rosen, Mattie Thomson,
  Bobby NuddJr, Peter Flanigan, Joe Golter, Kurt
  Martin, Jeff Brown, Mike Dassatt, Clive Farrin,
  Shane Carter, Jeff White, Dan Miller, Jeff
  Alberts, Therese Sauvageau, Phil Mason, Tom
  MacVane, Bruce Fernald, MarkWells, Pete Mason,
  Elliott Thomas, Randy Newcomb, Zach Whitener,
  Mike Oconner, John Grey, Rob Connelly, DJ Davis,
  Mike Marchetti, Erin Pelletier,Patrice McCarron,
  Dave Casoni, Clare Grindal

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Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps (eMOLT)

• 2001- Temperature
• 2002- Salinity
• 2003- Database Management
• 2004- Surface Current (drifters)?
• 2006- Telemetry
• 2008- Bottom Current (moored)?

Funded by the Northeast Consortium
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(See Manning Pelletier 2009 J. Operational
Oceanography)?
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Juvenile Lobster Settlement Sampling Sites
(Wahle et al. Bigelow Labs)?
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New England lobstermen deploy student-made,
satellite-tracked drifters
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Phase IV Drifters(Summer 2004)?
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Three parties involved2003-present

• SMCC (Tom)?
• Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation (Erin)?
• NOAA (JiM)?

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Our Goals

• Maximize
• Deployments
• Student involvement
• Minimize
• Redundant development
• Cost
• Maintain
• standards

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History of SMCC drifter production

• eMOLT (Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps)?
• 3 parties SMCC, GoMLF, NOAA
• Evolution of designs/technology
• Science resulting

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Evolution of designs/technology

• Commercial drifters used prior to 2003
• 4 drifters made at SMCC
• CODE Davis-style rachel surface drifter
• WOCE-style kara drogued drifter
• paul estuarine drifter
• xxxx barrel drifter
• 4 transmitters used on these drifters

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See eMOLT photo gallery at http//www.nefsc.noaa
.gov/epd/ocean/MainPage/lob/pic_links.html
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History of SMCC drifter production

• eMOLT (Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps)?
• 3 parties SMCC, GoMLF, NOAA
• Evolution of designs/technology
• Science resulting

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• Applications funded thus far
• Lobster larvae advection
• Harmful Algal Bloom advection
• Zooplankton (whale food) advection
• Educational demonstrations
• Invasive crab dispersal
• Transient eddy formations
• Fish larvae (salmon,cod) advection
• Power plant effluent dispersal
• Clam acidification

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Animations 2003-2008 drifters
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(see Manning et al. 2009 Drifter Observations of
the Gulf of Maine coastal current. Continental
Shelf Research.)?
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How the system works

• companies involved w/satellite service
• service we (SMCC,GoMLF,NOAA) provide
• 3 steps you take to get data
• kit part list and construction manual
• costs

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Companies Involved

• AXONN manufactures transmitters
• COMTECH (formerly AeroAstro) service provider
• GLOBALSTAR runs the satellite

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Services we provide

• waterproof transmitters
• provision transmitters w/satellite companies
• phone and email support
• customized googlemap displays
• bulk purchase of hard-to-find parts
• compile RD on new components/methods
• automatic delivery to data to IOOS
• integrate MATE non-MATE deployments

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How the system works

• companies involved w/satellite service
• service we (SMCC,GoMLF,NOAA) provide
• 3 steps you take to get data
• Kit parts list and construction manual
• costs

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Steps to get your data...

• Program transmitter w/PC
• Visit NOAA website to
• enter deployment info
• view tracks download
• enter recovery info
• demo later today

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How the system works

• companies involved w/satellite service
• service we (SMCC,GoMLF,NOAA) provide
• steps you take to get data
• Kit parts list and construction manual
• costs

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COSTS

• Rachel Kit 700 (barrel drifters less)?
• 1/3 parts, 1/3 labor, 1/3 overhead/support
• Satellite Fees
• 30/transmitter to provision
• 2.50/mth/transmitter service fee
• 0.15/fix (100/mth for hourly positions)?
• Additional cost
• shipping, labeling, extra sensors (p.e. Garmin)?

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Workshop Stations
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Review of topics presented yesterday

• eMOLT (Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps)?
• 3 parties SMCC, GoMLF, NOAA
• Evolution of designs/technology
• Science resulting
• How the system works

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Our Goals

• Maximize
• Deployments
• Student involvement
• Minimize
• Redundant development
• Cost
• Maintain
• Standards
• Quality control

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Todays Presentations

• methods to
• forecast tracks
• program transmitter
• register your deployments/recoveries data
• distinguish between ID and ESN
• access/download real-time archived data
• process, visualize, animate your data
• encourage offshore vs inshore
• connect with local modelers mariners

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Steps to Forecasting Tracks... (optional)?

• Contact your computer science department
• Find your local MATLAB guru
• Install njtbx package from sourceforge.net
• Email james.manning _at_ noaa.gov and ask for
  latest code for accessing circulation model
  output and tracking particles through
  publically-available netCDF ocean forecast fields

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Programming Transmitter

• You will execute a 2-3 click java routine to
  communicate with your transmitter
• This routine uses a wireless USB dongle which
  we will supply to each institution
• we will install this java routine along with the
  dongle driver on your laptops today (if you like)
  after this talk
• I will now demonstrate the program

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Programming transmitter

• Dongle pass key
• AD5D5KMSI48PLC
• Click search for transmitters
• Select the transmitter you want and scroll down
• Click Other standard configuration and change
  to 24/day
• Click configure and wait

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Turning off transmitter

• Highlight the unit you want to turn off
• Under Mode, click inventory
• Click configure

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Registering deployments

• Visit website fill in form with
• ESN
• Deployment date and time (GMT)?
• Deployment latitudes (DDMM.M)?
• Deployment longitude (DDDMM.M)?
• Drogue depth (meters)?
• Drifter type (p.e. rachel, paul, kara, ...)?
• Deployer's name
• Project's acronymn (p.e. GOMTOX, SNECRI)?
• Project Principal Investigators email contact (if
  you want emailed confirmation)

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Registering Recoveries

• Visit website
• http//gisweb.wh.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/ioos/drift/promp
  t_deployment.cgi
• fill in form with
• ESN
• deployment ID (if known)?
• recovery date and time (GMT)?
• recovery latitudes (DDMM.M)?
• recovery longitude (DDDMM.M)?
• recoverer's name
• click on adrift or aground when recovered
• notes on drogue status, condition, etc.

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Deployment ID Convention

• digit 1-2 year
• digit 3 month
• digit 4-5 latitude
• digit 6-9 longitude
• remaining digits consecutive deployment
  number
• EXAMPLE 099410712 is the 2nd drifter dropped in
  September 2009 at approximately 41N and 71W
• Note All drifters dropped Oct-Dec have a month
  code of "0"
• Note Deployment ID is different from Electronic
  Serial Number and can be entered on ComTechAAs
  commercial site

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Electronic Serial Number (ESN)?

• distinct for each transmitter
• can be your code for the physical drifter
• Although some investigators may want to attach
  multiple transmitter to the same drifter and
  label the physical drifter with letter codes like
  A, B, etc

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Where are we in todays presentations?

• methods to
• forecast tracks
• register your deployments/recoveries
• distinguish between ID and ESN
• access/download real-time archived data
• process, visualize, animate your data
• encourage offshore vs inshore
• connect with local modelers mariners

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Accessing your data(demo of three websites)?

• Commercial (https//sensor.aeroastro.com/portal/in
  dex.php)
• NOAA realtime
• NOAA archive
• Both NOAA sites can accessed from SMCC site
  http//www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
• (Alternatively, you can have the data
  automatically emailed, sent to ftp site, or you
  can query it when you want. To do this, you must
  email Jim or Joe with the email or ftp site.)

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Long messy MATLAB Code for processing,
visualizing, animating tracks

• fixfix.m is code to quality controls data
  according to speed and accelerations criteria
• axtrack.m is code to generate static plots of
  tracks and velocity time series
• animate.m is code to incrementally loop through a
  time period, generate ppm frames, execute ppm2fli
  
• (Note in the process of migrating to Python)?

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... on the advantage of offshore vs inshore
deployments

• Time, energy, and to deploy, monitor,
  recover, refurbish, redeploy, and log multiple
  shallow water (estuarine) deployments is far
  greater than a single offshore (coastal current)
  deployments unless you have a devoted crew who is
  ready and willing to chase drifters ashore

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Connect with your local

• Numerical circulation modelers
• NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing Sytem (IOOS)
  Regional Association
• Fishermen Associations
• Harbor Masters Associations
• US Coast Guard
• Beachcomers (keep database of contact info
  provide feedback)?

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Summary of Todays Presentations

• methods to
• forecast tracks
• program transmitter
• register your deployments/recoveries data
• distinguish between ID and ESN
• access/download real-time archived data
• process, visualize, animate your data
• encourage offshore vs inshore
• connect with local modelers mariners

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Future

• Real-time telemetered bottom temperature
• Internally-recording bottom currents
• Bio-degradable drifters
• Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystems
  Organization (CAMEO) proposal?

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Should we submit CAMEO proposal?

• Priority1 Development of strategies and
  methodologies for comparative analyses that can
  be applied consistently across spatial and
  temporal scales and ecosystems, and that
  facilitate the design of decision support tools
  for marine populations, ecosystems and habitats.
• Priority2 Models that are geographically and
  temporally portable, and that incorporate
  assessment of modeling skill, are particularly
  encouraged.

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Some things yet to do today

• Install software w/Joe
• Setup your future billing account with Joe
• Setup your access account with Joe
• Drill 4 holes in your coupling
• Widen slot if you want bag your transmitter
• Mount your transmitter on coupling
• Label your pipe w/Drift Study
• Pack one dongle per institution

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eMOLT Phase V Realtime Temperature
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eMOLT Summary

• Cooperative research w/fishermen works
• gt100 sites w/hourly bottom temp for multi-years
• gt100,000 kms drifter tracks surface current
• Analysis underway
• Validating circulation models
• Moored bottom-current prototype development
• Investigating effects of environment on catch
• eMOLT.org serves database
• Integrating with Northeast Regional Association
  Coastal Ocean Observing System (NERACOOS)

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Related Projects

• Ventless Traps Projects (GoMLF, MA-DMF,ME-DMR)?
• Settlement Trap Projects
• Fisherman Scientist Research Society
• NEFSC Ecosystem Assessment Program
• NERACOOS

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emolt.org has link to oceanography website
www.nefsc.noaa.gov/epd/ocean/MainPage

• Water Column Profiles (CTD)?
• Groundfish Surveys (Trawls) w/oceanography
• Shiptrack (Hull-mounted sensors)?
• Temperature Salinity (by region/layer)?