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