Integration of an Emerging Highly Sensitive Optical CO2 Sensor for Ocean Monitoring on an Existing Data Acquisition System SeaKeeper 1000 (trademark)

• Main Author: Rao, Govind
• Other Authors: MARYLAND UNIV BALTIMORE COUNTY BALTIMORE MD
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *MONITORING; *DETECTORS; *OCEANS; DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE; LOW COSTS; PROTOTYPES; RELIABILITY; DRIFT; PLATFORMS; OPERATION; DATA ACQUISITION; SELF OPERATION; CALIBRATION; STATISTICAL PROCESSES; OPEN WATER; DEPLOYMENT; HIGH SENSITIVITY; ELECTRONICS; OPTICS; SEAKEEPER 1000(TRADEMARK); Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA540212; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA540212

Long-term goals are to: Develop a high-performance pCO2 sensor that is affordable enough to be deployed in geat numbers to autonomously monitor the overall patterns of CO2 emissions and ocean acidification. Thew objectives are: Meet the challenging requirements for ocean pCO2 monitoring using an innovative sensor design based on high sensitivity fluorescence detection; Assemble the system with low-cost optics and electronics in order to make it affordable enough (target cost <$1,000) to be deployed in greater numbers; Make the entire system drift and calibration free by perfecting a patch renewal process using an innovative microfluidics-based approach; Integrate the system into an existing platform system, the Seakeeper 1000(trademark), to leverage already proven deployment systems readily amenable to autonomous operation; Test the reliability and robustness of the prototype system in the lab and open waters with our partners NOAA and Seakeepers International; and Commercialize sensors with our industrial partner Fluorometrix Corporation.