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REPAIR & CONVERSION “We did a demonstration with Roger Revelle on sea trials, the likely trajectory of the Earth’s climate, which we are now a test shot with a SATCOMs provider (where we) bumped up observing.” the internet connection on the ship to be equivalent to about Revelle served as an oceanographer for the U.S. Navy dur- what I experience at home. All of the sudden we went from a ing World War II and was instrumental in the founding of the situation where you could barely get an email out to stream- Of? ce of Naval Research. Roger Revelle worked at Scripps ing video and real-time sending undecimated data sets, big Oceanography before and after the war and served as its di- data sets back to shore to be analyzed in near real time and re- rector from 1950 to 1964. He was among the ? rst to consider turned to the ship. We’ve demonstrated that it can work, and the implications of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the it really is going to be a game changer for how U.S. scienti? c atmosphere and absorption rates of the greenhouse gas by the community does work at sea in the short term.” ocean. A continuous pro? ling system under the ship will also measure carbon dioxide in seawater, an essential component

The Ship RV Roger Revelle of ocean acidi? cation research.

R/V Roger Revelle was put into service in 1996. It honors The ? rst research expedition on the all-new R/V Roger former Scripps Oceanography Director Roger Revelle who is Revelle got underway in early November, an essential re- widely regarded for not only establishing the institution as an search mission led by UC Santa Barbara to retrieve ocean internationally prominent science center, but for solidifying bottom seismometers measuring seismic activity and to col- the decades-long relationship between Scripps Oceanogra- lect rocks from seamounts and underwater volcanoes. phy and the U.S. Navy. “The ship went down to about the Cook Islands where we “Roger Revelle was a visionary who – back in 1946 – en- recovered ocean bottom seismometers,” said Appelgate. “We visioned the Of? ce of Naval Research as a world leader in retrieved 30 out of 30 of these ocean bottom seismometers, sponsoring oceanographic basic research, and later foresaw which is terri? c as these things are worth half a million dol- the need for a new University of California in La Jolla that lars each; the data on them are priceless. They had been up eventually grew around Scripps,” said Tom Drake, director for a year and they were running out of batteries, so we had of the Ocean Battlespace and Expeditionary Access depart- to go get them. It was a high priority cruise.” ment at the Of? ce of Naval Research. “He also suggested The second research cruise began on Christmas day 2020. www.marinelink.com 35

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