John W. Halfacre (Purdue University, Indiana) and Carlton
Rauschenberg (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine)
August 7, 2011 The O-buoy Project is an NSF funded research
project involving the collaboration of Bigelow Laboratory,
Purdue University, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, the U.S.
Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory,
Environment Canada, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,
SRI and CH2M HILL Polar Services. The O-buoy is an autonomous,
multi-instrument, sea-ice tethered buoy with the ability to
measure surface level ozone, carbon dioxide, bromine oxide,
meteorological conditions, and its own location using a GPS
device. The goal of the project is to deploy a large network of
O-buoys across the Arctic to further our understanding of
current Arctic ozone and carbon dioxide chemistry, both
important greenhouse gases, and to help us predict how that
chemistry might change as the Arctic environment changes. Ozone
has been observed to precipitously decrease from background lev