Collaborative Research: The Oleander Project: Sustained observations between New York and Bermuda

夹竹桃项目始于1992年，目的是进行持续多年的高分辨率上层海洋速度测量。夹竹桃项目的建立是为了通过长时间的连续测量来跟踪墨西哥湾流区域的近地表热通量。在过去15年的这一项目中，安装在每周往返于新泽西和百慕大之间的集装箱船（CMV Oleander）船体上的声学多普勒海流剖面仪对上层海洋速度和近表面温度进行了采样。这些断面包括在四个不同的海洋学重要区域进行的测量：大陆架、斜坡海、墨西哥湾流和西北马尾藻海。除了创造长期的测量记录外，夹竹桃项目的结果还被各种研究人员和一系列海洋学领域所使用。智力优势：目前，罗得岛大学的海洋科学家与纽约州立大学斯托尼布鲁克分校的一名海洋学家合作，将继续领导夹竹桃项目的工作。除了维持这一长期记录的测量外，他们还将进一步分析收集到的数据，以阐明上层海洋质量和热通量的长期气候变化，并调查墨西哥湾速度和热通量状况之间的联系及其与大尺度强迫场的联系。更广泛的影响：夹竹桃项目的测量为CLIVAR（气候变化和可预测性）计划做出了宝贵的贡献，并补充了其他研究计划，如海洋观测计划的先锋阵列和西部深海边界海流测量计划。PI将继续他们的外展计划，为高中学生与巴约讷高中在新泽西。这项研究的资金将支持研究生的研究和教育机会。

The Oleander project began in 1992 as an effort to conduct high-resolution upper-ocean velocity measurements on a sustained multiyear basis. The Oleander project was established to track near surface heat-fluxes in the Gulf Stream region by taking continuous measurements over a long period of time. In the past 15 years of this project, upper-ocean velocity and near-surface temperatures have been sampled by an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted in the hull of a container vessel (CMV Oleander) that operates weekly between New Jersey and Bermuda. These transects include measurements taken in four distinct and oceanographically important regions: the continental shelf, the Slope Sea, the Gulf Stream, and the northwestern Sargasso Sea. In addition to creating a long-term record of measurements, results from the Oleander project have been used by a variety of researchers and in a range of oceanographic fields. Intellectual Merit: Currently, ocean scientists from the University of Rhode Island in collaboration with an oceanographer from SUNY at Stony Brook will continue in leading the efforts of the Oleander project. In addition to maintaining the measurements for this long-lasting record, they will be further analyzing the collected data to elucidate the long-term climatological variability of the upper-ocean mass- and heat-fluxes, as well as investigating the linkages between velocity and heat flux regimes in the Gulf of Mexico and their connections to large-scale forcing fields. Broader Impacts: The measurements from the Oleander project have made valuable contributions to the CLIVAR (CLImate VARiability and predictability) program and compliment the measurements taken by other research initiatives such as the Ocean Observatory Initiative's Pioneer Array and the deep western boundary current measurement program. The PIs will continue their outreach program for high school students with Bayonne High School in new Jersey. Funding from this research will support research and education opportunities for graduate students.