AUSTRALIA

The Australian contribution to global Biogeochemical-Argo is coordinated through the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Indian Ocean Bio-Argo project “Characterizing the changing Indian Ocean’s biogeochemistry and ecology using revolutionary new robotic tools” and the IMOS Argo-Australia facility.

• The overall priorities of the Australian Biogeochemical-Argo program is to enable cost-effective observations of large scale changes in the biogeochemistry and pelagic ecology of the oceans surrounding Australia.


• Areas of preferential deployments are essentially (but not exclusively) the eastern South Indian Ocean, the western South Pacific Ocean, and the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean.


• A strong focus on data management is a high priority for the Biogeochemical-Argo program in Australia, with a strong commitment to coordinating data management with the Argo-Australia data management team and activity in development of quality control software tools.

The Australian contribution to global Biogeochemical-Argo is currently supported through project-based funding, including:

• AISRF “Characterizing the changing Indian Ocean’s biogeochemistry and ecology using revolutionary new robotic tools”
  
  • IO Bio-Argo project: https://research.csiro.au/iobioargo


• IMOS Argo-Australia facility
  
  • http://imos.org.au/argo.html

• Name:Thomas W. Trull
• Affiliation:Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• Country:Australia
• Email:Tom.Trull at csiro.au