1. Drifters and Particle tracking Charles Seaton

2. Uses of drifters and particle tracking Search and Rescue: SAROPSSAROPS Oil Spills: GNOME (animation)GNOMEanimation Science: –Where does the water go? –Way to measure data at sea for extended periods of time. Planning: Where will the drifter go?

3. Particle tracking in the model Glider rescue: http://www.stccmop.org/news/2010/mo deling-technology-supports-glider- rescue http://www.stccmop.org/news/2010/mo deling-technology-supports-glider- rescue Glider rescue animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/glider- ptrack2.avi http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/glider- ptrack2.avi Particle cloud animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/drogs 3.avi http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/drogs 3.avi Particle tracking in Southern California: http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SCB/ http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SCB/ Particle tracking in CMOP model coming soon…

4. Drifter Programs CMOP drifters in model context: CMOP MATE Drifters (under development): http://core02.stccmop.org/datamart/obs ervation_network/driftermissionsmodel context http://core02.stccmop.org/datamart/obs ervation_network/driftermissions ARGO Floats: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/ Global Drifters (in google maps) Global drifters: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/da c_animations.php Southern California: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/drifter/deploy ments/index.php http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/ (in google maps) http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/da c_animations.php http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/drifter/deploy ments/index.php http://www.stccmop.org/corie/cruise_support?year=2008&month=09&day=01&time=00%3A15&durationunits=days&duration=30&rtype=14&var=salt_surface&velvar=none&cutoff=5& zsize=10&zoomto=zoom&map.x=325&map.y=247&map=image&drifter=on&drifterid=111&backgrounds=None&marky=&markx=&llformat=DDMM&extent=- 127.988651002+43.2341+-121.499448998+49.1323&image=%2Fscripts%2Ftmp%2F4c3e0ff1_3eb8_3.PNG&tool=zoomin&mapwidth=550&mapheight=500

5. Ideas for drifters Message on an orange: http://www.une.edu/news/2008/orangedrifters 08.cfm http://www.une.edu/news/2008/orangedrifters 08.cfm Dr. Charles Tilburg http://faculty.une.edu/cas/ctilburg/research/in dex.htm http://faculty.une.edu/cas/ctilburg/research/in dex.htm Message in a bottle: 10-20% recovery rate! But you only get start and endpoint. Rubber duckies: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/ eveningnews/main566138.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/ eveningnews/main566138.shtml MATE project: http://coseenow.net/mate/http://coseenow.net/mate/ North East Fisheries Science Center: http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/epd/ocean/MainP age/lob/driftdesign.html http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/epd/ocean/MainP age/lob/driftdesign.html Gulf of Maine drifters: http://gisweb.wh.whoi.edu/cgi- bin/ioos/drift/index.html http://gisweb.wh.whoi.edu/cgi- bin/ioos/drift/index.html (both visualizations and descriptions of how to make inexpensive drifters)

6. Gulf of Maine River Plumes and HABs: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/9/1131 http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/9/1131 Merrimack River Plume research: http://www.smast.umassd.edu/CEFM/mermade.htm http://www.smast.umassd.edu/CEFM/mermade.htm