What's New in the
U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
Web Site

January 4, 2000

• The main U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data and information server will be unavailable Wednesday, January 5, 2000 to replace a failing disk drive. We hope to be back up sometime in the afternoon (EST).

October 21, 1999

• Lew Incze's Zooplankton density data from OC301, OC303, and SJ9508 are now available on-line.

August 12, 1999

• The About Utility is now available. Within this web form, enter a cruise id, project, scientific investigator's last name, or any other word used within the inventory data files, and we'll check to see if we have anything in the Inventory about it.

August 6, 1999

• Please register now for the 1999 Scientific Investigators' Meeting. It will be held November 8-10, 1999 at the National Academy of Sciences' J. Erik Jonsson Woods Hole Center, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

August 4, 1999

• On Wednesday, August 4, the main U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data and information server will be down for several hours during software upgrades.

May 27, 1999

• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank main data and information server (globec.whoi.edu) will be unavailable June 10, 1999, from 1800 - 2100 (local time) due to a scheduled, local, network outage. Note: this is a rescheduling of the outage expected today.

May 19, 1999

• 1999 AVHRR satellite images are now available on-line. The depth contours and latitude/longitude grid will be added shortly. [Contours and grid were added as of May 25, 1999.]

March 5, 1999

• If you are interested in the status of the New Carissa which is now gronded about 15 miles south of Newport, and within the U.S. west coast GLOBEC study region, there is a website with all the latest. See the URL http://161.55.32.17:591/carissa/home.htm

February 22, 1999

• U.S. GLOBEC, with funding support from the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Coastal Ocean Program and National Marine Fisheries Service, announces the availability of funds to support research in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is being released by NOAA and will appear shortly in the Federal Register. Deadline for proposal submission to NOAA is April 15, 1999. A version of the NOAA announcement can be obtained from the National U.S. GLOBEC web site using URL: http://cbl.umces.edu/fogarty/usglobec/news/globec-rfp.html

Februay 10, 1999

• Ted Durbin's Zooplankton meter² count data and Zooplankton meter³ count data are available via our U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data management system. The data, accessed directly from Ted's Oracle database, are organized by cruise. If you prefer, you can still access the data directly from Ted's web site at http://globec.gso.uri.edu/.

December 16, 1998

• The EasyKrig, Matlab based, kriging tool written by Dezhang Chu is available for download from ftp://globec.whoi.edu/pub/software/kriging/easy_krig. It will operate on many platforms (PC-Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh and Unix-based) as long as the Matlab program is installed. See the program documentation for details.

  December 10, 1998

• We have replace our NCSA based web server software with Apache software and updated our "Plotting and Other Options Menu" software used for data plotting and data selection/projection functions .


• The U.S. GLOBEC National Office has a new web site home page address. It is http://cbl.umces.edu/fogarty/usglobec/

September 17, 1998

• U.S. GLOBEC Northwest Atlantic/Georges Bank Study T-shirts are now available.

July 13, 1998

• Please register now for the 1998 Scientific Investigators' Data Workshop

  June 8, 1998

• With the efforts of Karl Seeman at URI, coastlines and lat/lon grids have been added to the displayed, J. Bisagni, AVHRR satellite images for the years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and beyond.

May 18, 1998

• The main U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data and information server will be unavailable this Wednesday, May 20 from 8:30am to about 6:00pm for hardware upgrades. If this causes you significant problems, please contact the Data Management Office and we will reschedule.

May 14, 1998

• You can now search for data using a field name search form. By specifying the field names of interest, e.g. find me all data with salinity (sal) and temperature (temp), you will see a list of clickable object links, providing access directly to the data.

May 8, 1998

• Photosynthetically available radiation data from 1995 process cruises are now available on-line. See the data object called spherical_par.

April 7, 1998

• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Web site and data server (this machine) will be unavailable Wednesday, April 8, 1998 from 0830 until approximately 1400 in order to replace a failing disk. If this will cause you trouble please contact the Data Management Office.

  March 18, 1998

• Thumbnail and their corresponding page size and original images, are available on-line for your viewing. These illustrations and figures were created by our program's scientific investigators. You can also search for an illustration or image by specifying key words.

March 9, 1998

• The next U.S. GLOBEC Geoges Bank Scientific Investigators' Data Workshop will be held at the University of New Hampshire's New England Conference Center starting September 8, 1998. More details and on-line registration are now available.

March 9, 1998

• A message board is now available primarily for use by the U.S GLOBEC Georges Bank Program participants. The contents of the message board are moderated by the Data Management Office (DMO) and contains information and announcements (other than meeting annoucements) of potential interest to our program. If you wish to have something placed here, please contact the DMO via electronic mail.

  January 7, 1998

• The new JGOFS software release, version 1.5 is being used by the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank home page. The data directory has a new look, with listing, display and other options available via buttons at the top of each data page when these are available. The data objects are located near the top of the page and the directory of available objects is moved to the bottom of the page. Since this is a new release and some bugs may yet be uncovered, please report any problems you have to the Data Management Office.

  January 5, 1998

• There will be no access from outside WHOI to the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank home page and on-line data on Friday January 9, 1998 from 7:00am to approximately 11:00am. Comm Electric is replacing the power meters that service the Institution's connection to the Internet during this time.

  December 16, 1997

  The new JGOFS software release, version 1.5, is now available. If you are serving your U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data from your computer you can take advantage of the new features and capabilities in this new release; however, you do not have to upgrade at this time. Some of these new features will be visible within a few weeks, when you access our home page data directory.

  December 12, 1997

• You are invited to participate in a special volume of papers originating out of the research on going on Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine. Please read the announcement for more information.

December 8, 1997

• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program Phase III Ship Time request is available on-line in Microsoft Word, WorkPerfect and Web (html) formats.

December 2, 1997

• U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program Phase III Prologue is now available. This prologue is intended to be a preface to individual proposals that are being sent to NSF/NOAA in response to the Announcement of Opportunity for the Phase III research on Georges Bank which has a deadline of 15 December 1997 for submission of proposals.

November 13, 1997

• A new Web page pointing to meeting minutes is now available on-line. For example, the recent Broad-scale 1998 Planning Meeting minutes are available, as are the already announced EXCO minutes.

  October 27, 1997

• Nominations are requested for U.S. GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee are requested. See this link for more details.

October 10, 1997

• U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Executive Committee (EXCO) meeting minutes on now available on-line

October 7, 1997

• An open meeting to discuss and plan Phase III of the U.S. GLOBEC North Atlantic Georges Bank Program will be held on November 3 and 4, 1997. If you plan to attend, please register on-line.

September 24, 1997

• The "Plotting and Other Options Menu" page used to access plot, list, and data extraction options from the data system is reformatted to show the different options more logically and allow for easier expansion as more options are added. Also, the "Simple XY Plot"
page used to specify the X- and Y- variables to plot has a new look. Over time, we plan to add new, and improve existing, user interfaces to all of the data manipulation and plotting tools.

September 23, 1997

• A new, more user-friendly, form is used to specify data value selections (i.e. only view data with certain value(s)) and projections (i.e. only view certain columns of data), when accessing data. For an example, see the test data object.

September 17, 1997

• Our program's Phase 3 is on schedule. A final version of the THE U.S. GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS DYNAMICS PROGRAM , Northwest Atlantic Field Studies, Phase 3: Modeling, Observation and Process Field Studies, and Synthesis, Announcement of Opportunity is available on-line. An open meeting of all interested principal investigators who plan to respond to this AO will be held November 3 - 4, 1997 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. More information about this meeting will follow.

August 18, 1997

• Our program's Phase 3 is on schedule. A tentarive, unofficial, unapproved version of the THE U.S. GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS DYNAMICS PROGRAM , Northwest Atlantic Field Studies, Phase 3: Modeling, Observation and Process Field Studies, and Synthesis, Announcement of Opportunity is available on-line. We are now working on the details of an open meeting of all interested principal invenstigators. The meeting is currently planned for sometime during the week of November 3, 1997. More details will follow. [Update: AO is now final.]

July 30, 1997

• Schedule information for the ICES 1997 (Baltimore) Session T meeting is now available

June 24, 1997

• Our main Web server was upgraded with additional memory, disk storage and faster ethernet controller. The new ethernet controller is capable of 100Mbit per second transfers once the building/campus wiring is upgraded.

  June 17, 1997

• Register now for the 1997 Scientific Investigators' Meeting

  March 18, 1997

• Summary of Abstracts contributed by the Program's participants is now available on-line. Note: if your abstract is not on-line yet, send a copy, via email, to mclancy@whoi.edu.

March 6, 1997

• Preliminary MOCNESS 10 data are now available on-line. Brief information about these data is also available on-line.

February 11, 1997

• The 1996 Data Workshop Report is now available on-line.

January 4, 1997

• The first of the 1997 hydrography is available on-line, thanks to Maureen Taylor.

  December 5, 1996

• Daily cloud-free, AVHRR-derived, optimally interpolated SST images are now available on-line for 1993, 1994, and 1995. Documentation is also available.

December 4, 1996

• There is now a link called Other GLOBEC sites and home pages on our home page, providing "one-click" access to other GLOBEC Web sites.

November 18, 1996

• TASC information is available on their web-pages at URL http://calanus.nfh.uit.no/TASC.HTML. This information includes: the TASC address-list, TASC Sample protocols (TASC1, TASC 2 and All-TASC Protocols), Ship Schedules and Subtasks.

November 7, 1996

• A page for Coastal Ocean Program Reports, Cruise Instructions, etc. is now available on our Web site.

October 31, 1996

• Registration for the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Scientific Investigators' Workshop is now closed. We have 60 people registered. See you in New Hampshire!

October 29, 1996

• ADCP, CTD, meteorological, and microstructure data from Seward Johnson process cruises SJ9506 and SJ9508 have been added to the on-line data base.

October 15, 1996

• Many event logs are being served via the database system and can be accesses like any other data. Click here to access these data. Also, Jim Manning has added the ST2 mooring data from 1995 to the on-line data base.

  October 2, 1996

• Register now for the Scientific Investigator's workshop via the on-line registration form. For an updated description of the workshop, and a more detailed agenda, click here.

  September 27, 1996

• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Phase II Principal Investigators' Meeting, July 2, 1996 report is now available on-line .

  August 22, 1996

• A preliminary data inventory is available on-line. A more detailed version is still in preparation. Scientific Investigators in the Program are asked to review this list for completeness and accuracy.

  August 8, 1996

• A key word search of our documentation pages has been added via the documentation page. The search is restricted to our own Web pages. There are other search engines available if you want to search the entire Web.

July 29, 1996

• Click here for a summary of the recent Phase 2 meeting and the feedback from the Program Managers.

July 23, 1996

• 1996 Scientific Investitors' Workshop, November 5 - 12, 1996. If you plan to attend, please register now.

June 27, 1996

• On-line mooring CTD data have been added for 1994 and for 1995 .

June 10, 1996

• The Dartmouth College Circulation Models for the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank are accessed using http://fundy.dartmouth.edu/gom/gom.html. On-line data files can be copied over the network by clicking on the data file name of interest. Some files are in compressed format and documentation about the file contents are avaible from this same Web site. A link to this site is also available from our Data access and demonstation page.

June 7, 1996

• Preliminary MOCNESS station data are available on-line. Brief information about these data is also available on-line.

March 20, 1996

• Drifter track information has been reorganized and data from 1996 has been added.

March 15, 1996

• The hardware and software upgrade on the central server (globec.whoi.edu) is planned for Wednesday, March 27, 1996. The system will be unavailable all day. If this will cause you a problem, please contact the Data Management Office.

March 11, 1996

• Alongtrack data for Endeavor Cruise EN276 is now available on-line. The data set includes ship navigation, meteorological and sea surface temperature data.

March 8, 1996

• Jim Bisagni is now serving final (compressed), navigated (final but uncompressed) and unnavigated satellite images. This will allow investigators to look at very recent satellite images on a timely basis, recognizing that the most recent images have not yet been navigated.
• The planned hardware and software upgrade to our Web server is delayed because of problems in getting the correct disk drive delivered. We hope to move ahead on this within the next two weeks.

March 1,1996

• The Other Reports page (now titled "Reports, presentations and announcements") has been redesigned. It is now divided into several Web pages to make it easier to locate our reports and presentations; related reports and announcements of interest to our Scientific Investigators and others.

  February 6, 1996

• On-line bathymetry is now available for Georges Bank from two sources: bathymetric data triplets and depth data from ADCP records.
• It is now possible to get a Matlab formatted ".mat" file of the data you are retrieving. Choose the "Matlab" option on the "Other options" page. You can get to this by clicking on the "Plotting and Other Operations" or "Other options" link at the top of a page of data. (Click here for an example.) Save the file on your system as a .mat file and then use load filename.mat (where filename.mat is the name you gave the file) from within the Matlab program. The data will be loaded as vectors, with a separate vector for each field name.

February 5, 1996

• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank central data server and Web site will be unavailabe Wednesday, February 21, 1996 to complete the operating system and hardware upgrades. (See What's New for 01/16/1996).

  January 29, 1996

• Broad-scale hydrography data from 1996 are now available on-line.

January 16, 1996

• Meteorological data from Endeavor cruises is now available in both one hour and one minute versions. The one hour data are a much smaller data set and more manageable for most applications.
• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank central data server and Web site will be unavailabe in early February in order to upgrade its operating system to Solaris 2.5 and hardware (more memory and disk space.) Please contact the Program Office if you have questions about this. Note that the system will be available January 25th in order not to interfer with the February 1 due date for Phase II proposals.

January 11, 1996

• Broad-scale hydrography data from 1995 are now available on-line.

January 10, 1996

• Data from the Bedford Institude of Oceanography, Canada are now available on-line. CTD data for 1993 and 1994 are available under the broad-scale heading and moored current meter data for 1993 - 1995 are available under the mooring heading.

January 5, 1996

• The Broad-scale station protocol has changed. See the new protocol documentation for details, including a new cruise track line and a new comprehensive table of positions, depths and distances between stations.

December 26, 1995

• The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program Phase II - Prologue is now available on-line and will be mailed, along with the ship-time request documentation, to Phase II proposal writers on Friday, December 29, 1995.

December 20, 1995

• The Report of the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program Scientific Investigators' Workshop 16 - 18 October 1995 is now available on-line. Note that figures, scientific equations and other special symbols may not yet be available in this version.

December 18, 1995

• An updated version of our thesaurus is now in place. I have redefined many field names and added new field names, using a set of guidelines and much input from the Data Management Advisory Group and the U.S. JGOFS Program Office.

December 7, 1995

• AVHRR NOAA-14 satellite images are now available. Note that since the demise of the NOAA-9 (a.k.a. NOAA-K) AVHRR sensor in August 1995, only two "k" images are available for August and none for subsequent months.

November 21, 1995

• Click here for information on how to obtain the raw unedited 1995 GLOBEC drifter track data via anonymous ftp.

November 6, 1995

• An open meeting to discuss and plan Phase II of the U.S. GLOBEC North Atlantic Georges Bank Program will be held on 30 November and 1 December 1995 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.

October 20, 1995

• Add a new page showing proposed new features to the data management system to encourage feedback.
• Add a proposed software documentation format used to document software used in our Program.

October 10, 1995

• The Scientific Investigators' Workshop agenda is available on-line. Participants should receive their package via regular mail within a day or two.
• The official U.S. GLOBEC AO for Phase 2 research on Georges Bank is now on the Berkeley web site. It is only slightly different from the version posted there in mid-August, but you should have the most recent version in responding to the announcement.
• The viewgraphs for the talk U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank / Data Management System / Overview and Demonstration by Bob Groman, presented at the U.S. GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee October 5-6, 1995 meeting, is available on-line from the Other reports and documentation page.

September 11, 1995

• Add pointer on the "Data Access" page to the National Data Buoy Center WWW on-line buoy data and to the Environmental Data Information Management System (EDIMS).

September 5, 1995

• Add tentative 1996 ship schedule. Note change in organization to allow for future changes and growth to the ships' schedules.

September 1, 1995

• Add access to a "Data Notes" page for time critical information about our on-line data. It is accessible via the "Data access and demonstration" page.
• Added a link to the U.S. GLOBEC Office's on-line versions of the 1995 Progress Reports.

August 15, 1995

• Reorganized the satellite images by year and month to improve system performance

July 27, 1995

• Added Albatross IV AL9508 alongtrack sensor data

July 24, 1995

• Added Seward Johnson SJ9507 alongtrack sensor data
• Added NMFS images from March - June 1995 cruises, including satellite images.
• Added several cruise reports on-line

July 12, 1995

• Added Navigated AVHRR SST satellite images.

July 6, 1995

• Added process NMFS CTD data for 1995 and restructured the existing data into correct year subdirectory (1992-1994).
• Added process/1995 small scale drifter data.
• Added additional WHOI drifter movies and restructed these data, calling the object "drifters", rather than "images".

  June 21, 1995

• Changed the starting point for the data objects list so it automatically starts at /globec/gb (Georges Bank).
• Installed NCSA's httpd server version 1.4.1.
• Installed new version of JGOFS software
  1. to address restriction in specifying method plus object
  2. handles optional descriptive link in desciption file (descript.html)
  3. adds optional (alternate) OPTIONSERVER= and additional environment variables when specifying an entry in the .objects file.

June 12, 1995

• Added brief information about the ongoing projects in the program.
• Added movie of the drifter tracks.
• Added color plots of total calanus abundance by two month period.

June 1, 1995

• Updated and corrected the ship schedule information, especially for the mooring cruises.
• Added additional protocol documentation.

May 15, 1995

• Added first broadscale alongtrack (navigation, CTD and meteorlogical) data.
• Added link to new entry in documentation for "Other reports and documentation". Access to the program's implementation plan is included here.

April 10, 1995

• Added link to U.S. GLOBEC home page.

March 10, 1995

• Drifter tracks are now accessible. Click on the "gb" subdirectory when you first see the list of GLOBEC data objects, then click on the "images" object.

February 24, 1995

• The "manipulating data" option, accessed via "other options" is now supported. This feature allows you to compute new variables from existing variables, e.g. rho=28.5-0.2*temp+0.7*(sal-35) .
• This is a newly designed home page for the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program. Contact the program service office for additions, corrections or suggesttions for change.
• You are now using the real U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank computer system. It is a Sun SPARCstation 20. Many thanks to the General Fluid Dynamics Program at WHOI and to Professor Glenn Flierl at MIT for the use of their SUN SPARstation 1+ until our machine was up and running.
• The 1995 cruise year has begun. There are 25 cruises planned for this year and data will be made available as soon as possible. There will be some initial delays until some software is completed.