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Thoughts on Oceanography in 2025--Daniel Rudnick
Thoughts on Oceanography in 2025--Daniel Rudnick
Pages 49-51
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The observational focus should then be what is now commonly called the submesoscale or finescale, smaller than mesoscale eddies of order tens of kilometers, and larger than the microscale of centimeters. Many autonomous platforms are well suited to such observations, and their use will certainly expand.
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As the number of courses taken by an undergraduate is necessarily finite, this increased breadth must come at a cost of depth of knowledge in a particular discipline. We are already seeing this effect in physical oceanography, as incoming students with interdisciplinary undergraduate degrees are notably less capable at math than typical graduate students of the past.
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The fundamental limitation on the durability of oceanographic instrumentation will continue to be corrosion and biofouling. Whatever advances will be made in improved sensors and energy sources for ocean observations, electrons will always move and life will find a way.
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