Glider Lab
Gliders and Mooring Google Calendar
Standard Operating Procedures
Glider Checkout Procedure The steps needed to prepare a glider for deployment.
How to upgrade the glider operating system
How to calibrate the compass on the glider
How to calibrate the shadowgraph
How to talk to the camera (shadowgraph or glidercam)
How to set up the Nortek compact echosounder
Online Calculators
Sea Water Density - Calculate sea water density and sound speed.
Calculators for Acoustics
Sound Absorption - Calculate Absorption using the Francois and Garrison, 1982 method.
Standard Sphere Target Strength - Standard sphere target strength calculator created by Advanced Survey Technologies, SWFSC.
Manuals
Slocum
Slocum Fleet Mission Control 2019
Slocum G3 Glider Operators Manual 2019
Cameras
Nortek compact echosounder
Signature 100 Operations Manual 2022
AZFP Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler
ECOPuck
AAnderaa Oxygen Optode
Software and settings
Add info on setting up a glider field laptop so they are all set up the same way.
| Software | Settings | Use |
|---|---|---|
| ZOC | Settings | Talking with the glider over Freewave |
| Tera Term | Settings | Talking with the camera |
| AZFP | Settings | Calibrating and settings for AZFP |
| MIDAS | Settings | Setting up Nortek |
| WinSCP | Settings | FTP client for the camera |
| Notepad++ | Settings | Changing and reading glider files |
| OceanContour | Settings | For viewing ADCP data |
Parts List
Where we buy specific parts
Training Documents
Slocum Basic Training Slides May 2024
Slocum Basic Training Slides May 2024 Materials
Contracts
Outer Limits 2024-28 Charter boat out of Mission Bay BPA site
Pacific Venture 2024-28 Charter boat out of Oceanside BPA site
Teledyne Webb Research 2024-28 IDIQ for Slocum gliders and parts site
Glider and Mooring Database
You can find the Glider and Mooring Database on the network drive under AMLR_Datasets. The database is a SQL server database with an Access front end. This is also possible via VPN. It is used to track glider builds, days and inflections sensors have been in use, calibration sheets, etc. We are working on scripts to get some standard data out as well as populate yml files for archiving deployment data.