After a long year of planning and logistical hurdles, including a change of location from North Carolina to Buzzards Bay, we successfully deployed our air-sea interaction tower this April. The tower, dubbed BBASIT (Buzzards Bay Air-Sea Interaction Tower), is a 70 ft tall open-frame tower in 40 ft of water that serves as a stable platform for a host of meteorological and oceanic instrumentation as part of an NSF-funded project to study turbulence near the air/water interface.
Thanks all for attending Smart Oceans 2020! See the excecutive summary here
I am funded by NSF to investigate the wave-modulated transfer of energy between the atmosphere and the ocean by making measurements of the mean, wave-driven and turbulent motions on both sides of the air-sea interface. Field work anticipated for Fall 2021, and 2022
Smart Oceans 2020 is a series of workshops funded through NSF's Convergence Accelerator to blue sky the future of oceans and accelerate convergent research towards societal impact.