A National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Project
GO-BGC
The Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array is a global robotic network of profiling floats carrying chemical and biological sensors that will revolutionize our understanding of ocean biogeochemical cycles, carbon uptake, acidification, deoxygenation, and ecosystem health.
Data
Data from floats and ships, and tutorials on using the data
Array Status
Array map and status table, current and future deployments
Adopt-A-Float
Partnering teachers with scientists to bring research into the classroom
Events
Upcoming events related to the GO-BGC project
Latest News
Robots to fan out across world’s oceans to monitor their health
After years studying the icy waters of the Southern Ocean with floating robotic monitors, a consortium of oceanographers and other researchers is deploying them across the planet, from the north Pacific to the Indian Ocean.
GO-BGC floats on NSF’s list of 7 “cool” robots
NSF features the GO-BGC array of robots in a report linking robotics with benefits to society.
Taking the vital signs of the global ocean with biogeochemical floats
March 31, 2021 – With the first floats of the GO-BGC array deployed in the western North Atlantic, researchers now look forward to a new influx of data.
Revolutionizing our understanding of the ocean
Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the University of Washington, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Princeton University will use this grant to build and deploy 500 robotic ocean-monitoring floats around the globe as part of NSF’s Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 program
