Deploying a moored CTD can be a game of trust. Nobody wants to return to their long-estranged CTD to find poor data quality. Of course, nobody wants to visit the middle of the ocean everyday either. Fortunately, we’ve created a basic troubleshooting guide for moored...
Zooming in shows salinity and dissolved oxygen are fluctuating heavily alongside the tidal cycle. Can you determine what is causing this?
With auxiliary sensor integration, the humble CTD becomes a powerful hub for sampling and data. Learn how to identify the required cable for any sensor integration.
Watch how one of our Senior Service Technicians replaces the O-rings on the endcap of a 9plus CTD using specialized tools.
Can you correctly label the 4 plots? Hint: this area is subject to periods of eutrophication during the late summer/early fall.
Integrating analog sensors is relatively painless, at least compared to the more finicky RS-232 sensors. But what happens when you've diligently followed the instructions yet fail to receiving data from your sensor? Watch our troubleshooting video to learn our methods...
From bottom contact triggers to transmissometers, oceanographic sensor options are vast and diverse, and choosing the right combination of sensors can significantly augment a CTD’s measurement capabilities. Although getting disparate technologies to talk to one...
Dissolved oxygen should not be negative. Can you determine the error that created the unusual oxygen profile above?
Unlike analog auxiliary sensors, instruments that output serial RS-232 data are more challenging to integrate with Sea-Bird Scientific CTDs. Despite RS-232 being a standard communication protocol, most instruments have a unique data output format and command set. As...
Consider this hypothetical situation: you find a loose cable with a 6-pin connector and a 4-pin connector - exactly what you need to connect an oxygen sensor to your CTD. However, just because the cable ends fit on the instrument connectors, you still don’t know if...
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sea-Bird Scientific Announces New Distribution Agreement with TERAMARA (formerly DASCO Equipment Inc.) Bellevue, WA – August 1st, 2024 – Sea-Bird Scientific, a leading provider of oceanographic and environmental monitoring...
We hope to see you at our upcoming Scripps Technical Forum We invite members of the Scripps community to join us for an in-person Technical Forum and visit at the Scripps campus on October 16 + 17 in La Jolla, San Diego, CA, to showcase the latest in software...
We hope to see you at Ocean Optics Conference XXVI 2024 Please join us for our exhibition at the Ocean Optics Conference XXVI in Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain, from October 6-11, 2024. Overview The Ocean Optics Conference attracts a diverse audience of active...