MLRF1/MLRF2 SEAKEYS station back online

On Wednesday, June 22nd, Mike Jankulak of AOML's ICON program traveled to the Florida Keys to work with Jon Fajans of the Florida Institute of Oceanography and Andrew Crowder of the Keys Marine Laboratory on the "mlrf1" SEAKEYS station located atop the Molasses Reef light tower. SEAKEYS is a program which has installed and maintained oceanographic instruments at seven Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations in the Florida Keys dating back to 1989 in collaboration with the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). Last December, NDBC applied programming updates to its C-MAN stations which removed their ability to receive, store and transmit data from the SEAKEYS sensors, reducing the number of active SEAKEYS stations to zero. On Wednesday, Mike worked with Jon and Andrew to connect the Conductivity/Temperature sensor at Molasses Reef to a secondary datalogger and transmitter, effectively bringing one SEAKEYS station back online. Data from this station are already viewable on ICON's web sites and will shortly start feeding to NDBC's systems as well. Addition "secondary" stations may also be installed at other SEAKEYS/C-MAN locations in the near future.