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Article: Oceans of Research Flowing Together SUBTITLE: Scientists were among the first to use the Net. Now it's standard equipment for collecting data and sharing them with the world.
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- Newsweek International
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- October 11, 1999
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When Juli Berwald started her research career a decade ago, oceanography was no discipline for landlubbers. Whether it was an afternoon on Santa Monica Bay or monthlong research expeditions to the South Pacific, collecting data meant going out to sea and dropping bottles, thermometers and probes down into the deep. Times are changing. These days, much of her data come in over the Internet, from automated sampling equipment, satellites and colleagues around the world. Sitting at her desk on the University of Southern California's South-Central L.A. campus, Berwald can summon up water-temperature measurements from the Sargasso Sea, current speeds and directions off Hawaii ...