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SEACOOS Investigators Bring New HF Radar Online
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SEACOOS investigators Hannuman Bull and Richard Styles have installed South Carolina's first ocean observing high frequency radar on Pritchards Island.
The radar provides near real time data about localized wave height which can be used for boater safety, tsunami detection, and homeland security. The radar coverage monitors 120,000 square miles of ocean surface. The $180,000 cost of the radar was paid by the SEACOOS grant.
More information may be found in local news coverage in the Beaufort Gazette.
Photos courtesy Rich Styles (University of South Carolina) and Hannuman Bull (University of South Carolina).
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| Cable run to the antenna array through elevated drainage pipe to protect from flooding by strong waves during spring tides. | Along the antenna array. | Single antenna. Note plastic fencing in foreground protecting a logger head sea turtle nest. |