INVESTIGATIVE QUESTION:

Please open your chromies and find the border between Canada & France.

If we talked about a re-do on your TFAD please schedule with me for next Thurs or Friday (next week)

WORDS OF THE DAY:

WORK OF THE DAY:

I was talking to my colleagues about this unit this morning during our collab and Ms Berkey was kind enough to share THIS video.

DATA LINKS:

NOAA Tsunami Tracking Site is HERE

NOAA Lat/Long Distance Calculator is HERE

The OOI Data Portal is HERE

OOI Website is HERE

We will record our results on THIS spreadsheet

Kodiak Sample Data is HERE (3rd Period Use This!)

Tonga Volcano Sample Data is HERE (4th Period Use This!)

Tonga Volcano Sample Data REPLACEMENT is HERE (4th Period Use This!)

LAB Report Specifications for this lab are HERE

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Measuring wave characteristics for a low amplitude tsunami lab!

I put together this lab as part of a project with the University of Washington and the STEM folks at West Sound Tech.

Our goal is to see if we can measure wavelength, frequency, speed and amplitude using state-of-the-art underSea instruments located off the Pacific Northwest Coast as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

Take a moment to sketch your home showing JUST the items connected to the internet.

What resources MUST be present in order to do that?

Now image having to place those resources on the bottom of the ocean-- hundreds of feet below the surface. What problems might be associated with that?

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Now please take a few moments to briefly tour the OOI website. It is very, very, remarkably cool!

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Now we'll get into the good stuff-- THE DATA!!!!

The OOI Data Portal is a doorway into a rich treasure trove of data from the ocean floor and the surrounding water column.  The image above shows just one instrument package from one of the 10 different locations monitored by the Ocean Observatories Initiative on or near the Juan de Fuca Plate.

Let’s go take a look at that data portal now.

Notice in the upper left hand corner is a list of the instrument packages (shown in the graphic above):

There are a dozen or so research locations. We need to check each of those locations to see if they have the sensor that we need. Not al ll sensors have historic data, and even some of those that indicate that they do, don't work.

The OOI first went online in 2012 or so, but not all sensors have data going back that far.

Our task for today is to build a list of working sensors that we will then use to do our lab.

We will also build a list of tsunami generating earthquakes that fit in our date range.

There are 3 different pressure sensors:

• PREST

• PRESF (I think?)

• CTD (Connectivity/Temperature/DEPTH

• I will assign your group one of the sensor locations. Please work with your team to determine which of those 3 sensors (if any) is present there
• For each sensor that we find at each location, we need to determine if we can obtain historical data from that sensor (I will model this)
• We will record our results on THIS spreadsheet

Now Please go to the NOAA Tsunami Tracking Site HERE and find candidate earthquakes that fit in our eligible data date range.