Deployment Partners

SOCCOM relies on U.S. and international partners to help us deploy our biogeochemical floats throughout the Southern Ocean.  The tables below list the researchers and programs from around the world that have partnered with SOCCOM to build our array since 2014.

CountryChief ScientistInstitutionShipCruise nameCruise IDCruise start date
GermanyOlaf BoebelAWIPolarsternA12PS8912/2/2014
AustraliaTom TrullCSIROInvestigatorSOTSIN2015_V013/21/2015
UKYvonne FiringBASJC RossGO-SHIP SR1BJR1500312/17/2015
AustraliaMike CoffinU. TasmaniaInvestigatorHEOBIIN2016_V011/8/2016
AustraliaAndrew ConstableAADAurora AustralisK-AxisAU16031/11/2016
AustraliaTom TrullCSIROInvestigatorEddyIN2016_V023/14/2016
AustraliaBernadette SloyanCSIROInvestigatorGO-SHIP P15SIN2016_V034/26/2016
SwitzerlandDavid WaltonBAS (UK)Akademik TryoshnikovACE Leg 112/20/2016
JapanHiroshi UchidaJAMSTECMiraiGO-SHIP P17EMR16-092/8/2017
South AfricaTahlia Henry; Isabelle AnsorgeUCTAgulhas IIGough9/7/2017
IndiaRajani Kanta MishraNCPORAgulhas ISOE1012/9/2017
AustraliaSteve Rintoul
CountryChief Scientists NameInstitutionShipCruise nameCruise IDCruise start date
USLynne TalleySIONB PalmerGO-SHIP P16SNBP14-033/20/2014
USSebastien BigorreWHOINB PalmerOOISONBP15-1112/6/2015
USAlison MacdonaldWHOIRevelleGO-SHIP S4PRR16032/8/2016
USRolf Sonnerup; Brendan CarterNOAA/PMELRon BrownGO-SHIP P18RB-16-0611/19/2016
USSteve Riser; Tatiana RynearsonUW; URINB PalmerHazMatNBP17-0112/24/2016
USSteve AckleyUT San AntonioNB PalmerPipersNBP17-044/10/2017
USSabine MeckingUWNB PalmerGO-SHIP P6WNBP17-067/3/2017
USKevin SpeerFSUNB PalmerGO-SHIP P6ENBP17-078/20/2017
USAlison MacdonaldWHOINB PalmerGO-SHIP I8SNBP18-023/9/2018
USAlex OrsiTAMUThompsonGO-SHIP I6STN-3664/3/2019
USJulia WellnerU. HoustonNB PalmerITGC (Thwaites)NBP20-021/25/2020
USLeticia BarberoNOAA/AOMLRon BrownGO-SHIP A13.5RB-xx3/21/2020