We are excited to share with you the news that the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved a 53 million USD grant to a consortium of five top US ocean-research institutions to build a global network of 500 floats equipped with biogeochemical sensors. The new network, called Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array (GO-BGC Array), will be a 5-year effort to extend autonomous biological and chemical observing globally. It builds on the two ongoing efforts to monitor the ocean using robotic floats: the international Argo programme and the US Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) program. You can find more information about the new project at: https://www.go-bgc.org/
For more information, see the press release.
GO-BGC Array is NSF’s contribution to the international Biogeochemical Argo network which aims to grow to a sustained array of 1,000 biogeochemical floats uniformly distributed around the world ocean, and spaced about 1,000 kilometers apart.