• 100 years of sea surface temperature data from Hopkins Marine Station

    Caretakers at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California have been taking the temperature of the surface seawater on the beach every morning at 8:00 AM for over 100 years. In a new open access paper, Larry Breaker and myself run through some methods to fill in the gaps in that data set, look at…


  • Little screws

    This is for no one else’s benefit but my own. These are the little screws from McMaster-Carr that are useful for screwing into the mounting holes in Pelican cases and similar knock-off watertight gear boxes.


  • Accessing NOAA tide data with R (updated 2021)

    It’s been a decade since I wrote a script to retrieve observed tide height data from NOAA’s CO-OPS server, which lets you grab up to a month of tide data for a given tide station at a time. In that time, they’ve migrated over to a new server and slightly different API, so it’s probably…