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Dr. Pillsbury manages the Oregon State University Buoy Group which is currently involved in experiments dealing with the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) South of Australia, and Pressure Difference Measurements across the ACC. Upcoming experiments will include the Indonesian Throughflow, Labrador Sea Meteorology and the Malvinas Current.
Current research is focused on deep western boundary currents and the continuing development of low cost expendable mooring systems. Additional areas of interest are database management, object oriented applications, and developing on-line data report services.
The Current Meter Data Assembly Center has recently come off of a one year funding hiatus. We have spent the first half of the year requesting data that is overdue and processing data that was received during the funding hiatus. The second half of the year our efforts will be focused on creating and refining an on-line data report capability.
The OSU Buoy Group has always issued a printed data report for each mooring experiment. We have recently decided to provide the tools on-line for the user to produce all of the figures normally found in our data reports. Using new web authoring tools we are in the process of creating such a web site. Someadvantages of this method over providing a printed report are that all of the non-OSU data can be displayed in the same way as the OSU data, it will no longer be necessary to reprint old data reports, and the only people who will get data report plots are those that want them.
A low-cost auto-reporting current meter mooring has also been developed. There are currently nine moorings placed beneath the Malvinas Current retroflection area. Nine additional moorings were deployed on the WOCE S-4 cruise in May-June from the R/V Palmer in the Antarctic.
The data from these moorings will be broadcast through the Argos System in the early Spring of 1997. This will be our first full-scale attempt to deliver data from the middle of the ocean directly to the scientist's desktop.
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