Laboratory for Ocean Sensing

02/15/2025

ORP is doing some really cool work in Greenland from a sailing research vessel!

08/13/2024

07/18/2024

It took me about a solid week to get my sea legs and then some more days to truly feel comfortable on the boat. Sailing and working on the open ocean is a state of mind. Here is a picture of us putting a sensor into the depth of the ocean and pulling it back up again for measuring the vertical structure of the ocean. It takes us about 1 hour to collect 1 profile with a 1000 m of line.

07/10/2024

Wind is blowing, sail is full. Doesn’t get much better than this.

03/19/2023

Amazing opportunity, amazing crew, and one heck of a mission.

Come sail with us this summer. We still have a few berths left. Check it out here. http://www.oceanresearchproject.org/home-business-veented-slider/berths/

07/10/2022

The C2PO team worked on glider ballasting and had an impromptu pool party this Friday. We are working on getting all of our gliders ready for this fall’s busy field season.

06/02/2022

R/V Atlantis, R/V Neil Armstrong, and SSV Corwith Cramer are all in port at Woods Hole for an uncommon gathering. Two of them are Global and Ocean class research vessels while the Cramer is Sea Education Association’s tall ship for training next generation stewards of the oceans. Thousands of scientists, educators, and students have gone to sea in these vessels over their decades of services. It’s hard to overstate their contributions to and .

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Donglai Gong

04/22/2022

Happy !! We do what we do not just because is totally cool and exciting, but in the end, it's for our children's . We have a responsibility to the kids to make sure that the will be as good of a home to them as it has been to us.

04/21/2022

Lots of exciting news and accomplishments in the C2PO Lab over the past year. In this very belated update, here are some of our highlights over the past 12 months:

1. The lab's first Ph.D. student Daniel Wang graduated in May 2021. He is now working at Berkshire Hathaway as a risk analyst.

2. The lab's second Ph.D. student Laur Ferris graduated in December 2021 (in record time!). Laur is now an ONR SEED postdoc at the Applied Physics Laboratory-UW.

3. The C2PO lab has two new projects funded by to study upper ocean sub-mesoscale dynamics, mixing, and impact on ocean acoustics in the western Atlantic and the North Atlantic.

4. The lab acquired two new gliders, one is an glider (MARACOOS03/SEA064) and the other is a Teledyne Webb Research Slocum G3S glider (Electa). Both gliders will be deployed for various projects this year.

5. Working with federal, academic, and industry partners, the lab successfully participated in 's 2021 hurricane glider campaign to provide realtime ocean data to help improve hurricane intensity forecast.

6. The lab is funded by and Maracoos - Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System to continue glider-based ocean observing efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region for the next 5 years.

7. We welcome two brand new members to the C2PO lab. Anthea Empson and Jack Slater are William & Mary physics undergraduate who are now working as glider and data technicians in the lab.

07/01/2021

A very engaged group of participants spent the week of June 21st thinking about how to optimize the Pioneer Array for its relocation to the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) in 2024. The five-day I…