ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE
THE INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION
Hydraulics Laboratory Engineering and Field Support
This group designs and builds equipment for long term time-series
data acquisition and control of underwater devices including video
and digital cameras in support of field programs using a variety
of self-contained and real-time sensing instrumentation. Experience
includes the deployments of sub-surface and surface ocean arrays,
bottom mounted instrumentation and free vehicles in near-shore,
shelf and deep ocean environments measuring physical, biological
and chemical processes, along with the deployment of meteorological
arrays at sea and on land. Projects have been staged in the US and
abroad for principal investigators from various SIO departments,
other institutions, universities, and governmental agencies. Please
visit the Hydraulics Laboratory website
and the Technology Application Group
website for more information.
Members of the Hydraulics Laboratory staff also oversee the Scripps Technical
Forum (STF) which is a grassroots effort
to make technical expertise and resources more widely available within
the UCSD/Scripps community. The STF mission is four-fold:
1) Enhance communications between technical staff and researchers;
2) Develop and enhance opportunities for interdepartmental collaboration,
technology transfer, and industry interactions;
3) Explore, monitor, and disseminate trends in new technologies as innovative solutions
to emerging earth science challenges and applications;
4) Aid in personnel retention and enhanced job satisfaction with
continuing education, and opportunities for job growth.
