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Synchro is a UN Ocean Decade Project. And it’s all about Co-Design!

The Ocean Decade of the United Nations (2021-2030) has 271 projects that fall within its highlighted challenges. Of those 17 challenges, one is Ocean Observing C0-Design: Evolving Ocean Observing for a Sustainable Future, sponsored by The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). Beneath that umbrella are a dozen projects, of which Synchro is one: Co-design for [...]

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Have you heard of SEER? They synthesize useful information on offshore wind

Offshore wind is coming to the west coast, and as with many topics on the internet, the rabbit hole of information can feel endless. But if you want one source of information to call on for offshore wind questions, we highly recommend the SEER website: Synthesis of Environmental Effects Research. It is a joint collaboration [...]

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Synchro’s sister organization: CeNCOOS

If you are in the observing community, then you know about CeNCOOS, the Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System. The director of CeNCOOS, Henry Ruhl, leads Synchro, benefiting Synchro greatly in its coming years from the spiderweb of projects and folks and technology involved. They Recently the groups, including Synchro staff, all met in […]

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Introducing Synchro: A Co-Designed Ocean Testbed for Technology Deployment

A collaboration to help meet growing demands for monitoring the ocean In marine labs and technology start-ups around the world, innovative solutions are being developed that may never make it to the marketplace even if they offer a cost effective and high-quality alternative to present ocean observing tools. The reason? It’s often beyond the capacity [...]

Past Newsletters

Initial Newsletter– July 2023