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holy shit, more than half of my seagoing former colleagues were just fired in the government staff cuts before going full-time in crypto, i was a marine chemist and i worked with the one of the longest-running publicly-available datasets in the world - the dataset has been going for over 75 years now. it provides an extremely valuable picture of the chemical, physical, and biological changes off the california coast whether the project survives this is in question. at minimum, we're going to have a really big gap in data that people rely on to predict weather patterns, keep fisheries operating, and generally provide readily-available data for thousands of scientists to make inferences that relate to their own research fun fact: regions like this are less than 1% of the physical space in the ocean but they produce 20% of the fish catch because of how productive they are. they're INCREDIBLY important to study and predict for being able to EAT FISH
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What I would like to see is a histogram of resources required in order to operate data collection over the decades. I am wondering how we can make the case to constantly increase productivity of such essential tasks, because something isn't right when technology constantly evolves but we keep spending a lot of money on stuff that nobody ever rethinks.
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oh we can absolutely optimize a lot of processes here, and indeed these processes have been getting optimized over the years - you should see e.g. how water profile macronutrients were measured in 1970 vs today. Freeze and transport samples & then days of wet chemistry back onshore in the lab vs autoanalyzers at sea & then just dump the samples. Our project kind of assumed that those jobs would eventually be replaced by things like swarm UAVs - one swarm replacing 40 scientists and 6 weeks of ship time could save hundreds of thousands of dollars every season. We're definitely on that trajectory but you can't just... axe the program entirely and replace it with nothing
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