Coastal Observing Research and Development Center

The Coastal Observing Research and Development Center maintains and operates a broad range of research equipment. Below is a partial list of equipment and tools that are applied to Center activities.

Sampling platforms, buoys, and mooring equipment

  • 22' Boston Whaler equipped with wireless telemetry system, radar, GPS, vhf radio
  • Parker Marine 26' coastal research vessel
  • REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle with GPS, Iridium, ADCP, CTD, optical backscatter and chlorophyll sensor, and 900MHz sidescan sonar
  • Guildline Minibat Towed undulating vehicle with portable winch system
  • IDG CBLAST profilers with ambient noise, wave, and CTD sensors
  • Seabird/Wetlabs coastal CTD with transmissometer, flourometer, and volume scatterer
  • Bottom mounted tripods for current meters and other sensors
  • Lightweight surface buoy systems ranging in buoyancy from a few hundred to few thousand pounds of surface floatation
  • Gilman Corporation surface buoys in 24", 36", and 48" diameters
  • Subsurface steel sphere floatation - 24", 30", 36" diameters
  • In-line mooring load cages
  • Syntactic foam cable floatation
  • Edgetech coastal acoustic releases with ranging capability
  • Edgetech deckbox and transducer
  • Freewave, Intuicom, Orbcomm, ARGOS, and 802.11 telemetry equipment
  • Mooring deckbox with gear for coastal mooring deployments and recovery

Sensors

  • RDI Workhorse ADCPs (300kHz, 600kHz, 1200kHz) both with and without waves options
  • 5Mhz, 13MHz, and 25MHz Codar Ocean Sensors Seasonde HF radar surface current mapping units
  • Wetlabs transmissometers at 660nm and 750nm
  • Wetlabs chlorophyll and uranine dye tuned flourometers
  • Broadband (100-50kHz) underwater sound recorders
  • Coda-Octopus Echoscope MK II
  • Pro Oceanus Gas Tension Device (total dissolved gas saturation level)
  • Applied Microsystems sound velocimeter
  • Applied Microsystems high speed CTD
  • Riegl QMS - 80 Scanning LIDAR
  • Coda-Octopus F180 combined IMU+GPS navigation system
  • Crossbow three axis accelerometers, DMU, and DMU-AHRS units
  • RM Young Meteorological Sensors
  • Davis Instruments Meteorological Sensors
  • Star Oddi self-logging underwater temperature sensors
  • Onset self-logging underwater temperature sensors
  • Brancker & Associates self-logging underwater temperature sensors
  • Brancker & Associates self-logging CTD
  • Brancker & Associates self-logging, 8 node temperature chain in lengths ranging from 10-30m
  • Precision Measurement Engineering conductivity and temperature probes
  • Precision Measurement Engineering digital temperature chain
  • Campbell Scientific data loggers
  • Oxford Lasers 'Visi-sizer' modifed for particle/bubble counting
  • Codar Ocean Sensors short and long range HF radar units

Dive, Video, and Field Equipment:

  • Sony HDTV camcorder and underwater housing
  • Sony mini-dv camcorder and underwater housing
  • Outland Technology underwater pan/tilt camera systems (UWC-180, UWC-185, UWC-235)
  • Outland Technology underwater lights (120A/C)
  • Underwater hand held HID lights (battery operated)
  • NIR b/w weatherproof 'bullet' cameras
  • Mini-DV editing system and decks
  • Horita GPS video time code generator
  • WAAS-enabled GPS
  • Iridium satcoms field telephone
  • Handheld, underwater sonar
  • SCUBA diving gear and tanks
  • Radio Direction Finding Equipment (Doppler Systems)

Workstation, Software, and Computing Equipment:

  • Two air-conditioned server closets with 3 full-height server racks for RAID storage and computing clusters
  • PC workstations running Windows 2000
  • LINUX workstations running Red Hat Enterprise
  • SUN 80 Workstations running SOLARIS/UNIX
  • RAID Array Storage Unit
  • ARCIMS
  • ENVI
  • MATLAB
  • Terascan
  • SRB
  • Delft 3D and FLOW hydrodynamic modeling software
  • Various mapping, navigation, and GIS software
  • ADOBE video editing
  • Photoshop, MS office, MS ACCESS
  • SQL, MySQL
  • Antelope Realtime Data Handling Software
  • Storage Resource Broker