How Can We "Sea" the Ocean? - Building New Windows for Discovery and Education by Mike Crowley

Mike Crowley is a Research Program Manager at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (RU-COOL). He has spent over 20 years working in the ocean remote sensing community. Mike has comprehensive experience in the field of remote sensing including ocean, land and atmospheric research/education with real-time data.

He is currently working in both the IOOS and OOI worlds. He is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observation System's (MARACOOS) Operations Manager overseeing all aspects of real time data acquisition for the mid-Atlantic. Mike is also the Program Manager for the OOI's Education and Public Engagement (EPE) Implementing Organization, which is focusing on developing transformative web-based tools for the OOI to use real-time data in the early undergraduate classroom.