Go Big or Go Home: instrumenting the nearshore
Go Big or Go Home: instrumenting the nearshore
6 PagesGo Big or Go Home: instrumenting the nearshore MacMahan handles a bio-fouled line of temperature sensors during recovery of his team's moorings, July 2015 Leaning over the side of the 22-foot boat and pulling up the first line of temperature sensors, oceanographer Jamie MacMahan described the state of the line as the worst bio-fouling he had ever seen. It was slimy and smelly. One down, 34 more to go. This was only a pilot project, but MacMahan’s mantra of ‘Go big or go home’ meant that more than 300 instruments were attached to the arrays of moorings his team deployed offshore of California’s Point Sal State Park. MacMahan, an associate professor of oceanography at the Naval PostgraduateSchool in Monterey, California, is studying how water moves in the nearshore, the region from twenty me
