Past Webinars

How to select the right CTD
Discover which CTDs are best for moored applications, coastal and ocean profiling, polar oceanography, gliders, AUVs, and more.

Meet Ruskin, RBR's all-in-one software tool
In this highly interactive session, we cover how to get the most out of this free software at all stages of your project – from planning to deployment to post-processing.

Improved data processing with Python
Due to growing demand from the oceanographic research community, RBR recently released pyRSKtools, an official, open-source data processing toolbox for Python. Get a brief overview of the toolbox and insights from RBR research scientist Qi Wang in this technical session with Scripps Oceanography.

Meet the RBRtridente fluorescence and backscatter sensor.
Join RBR President Greg Johnson, and Sensor Manager Jon Taylor as they introduce the RBRtridente and show you how the multi-channel sensor improves how you measure backscatter and fluorescence.

Wave measurement and analysis using RBR instruments.
Researchers are often surprised by the flexibility of our wave instruments and how that helps them in their projects. We’ve seen a spike in interest in wave studies recently, so we decided to host a webinar on the topic.

Introduction to oceanographic sensor technology
Join Jon Taylor, RBR Sensor Manager, for a highly interactive webinar and discover the science and technology behind common oceanographic sensors for measuring temperature, pressure, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, PAR, fluorescence, backscatter, and turbidity.

Learn how we calibrate a CTD at RBR
Our calibration lab tours are some of our most popular events. In this webinar we expand beyond the cal lab to follow an RBR CTD through the complete process. See how we inspect and test each instrument before calibration; watch how we calibrate temperature, pressure, and conductivity channels; and learn how we calibrate and maintain our reference standards.

Simplify underwater PAR measurements
Learn how the new line of RBR PAR and narrow-band radiometers can help you simplify PAR measurements on your next project.

RBR integration with the Sofar Spotter Buoy
Learn how the RBR range of sensors is adding to the capability of Sofar’s Smart Mooring for cost-effective, real-time monitoring.

Présentation de la CTD RBR - Explore RBR's CTD
Découvrir l’instrumentation CTD haute résolution de RBR pour les applications de mesures sur mouillages, profils et plateformes autonomes.
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Learn about RBR’s high-accuracy CTD and integrated sensors for mooring, profiling, and autonomous platform applications. (Presented in French)

Introducing the RBRquartz³ Q|plus
Learn about our newest addition to our line of high-accuracy quartz based pressure loggers: the RBRquartz³ Q|plus. Developed specifically for long-term wave, tide, and sea-level measurements.

RBR software tools: Ruskin and RSKtools
Learn about the power and ease of use of RBR’s desktop and mobile software for sensor configuration, data visualization, and data analysis.

CTD and sensor calibrations at RBR
Tour RBR’s new calibration lab, and learn about our calibration process for conductivity, temperature, pressure, and DO, and how you can maintain and verify some sensors in the field.

Assessment of RBRcoda T.ODO optode for profiling and long-term deployments
Learn more about how the RBR optical DO sensor has enabled improved oxygen measurement for vertical profiling and high-stability long-term moorings.

Profiling CTDs: RBR instruments in Wirewalker, gliders/AUVs, and Argo floats
Learn about RBR’s CTD integrations into different profiling platforms, and how this has helped increase mission duration and reduce price per profile.

Inductive-conductivity cell: a primer on high-accuracy CTD technology
Learn the operating principles, accuracy and stability, and deployment guidance for the RBR unpumped inductive conductivity cell.

Ping the President - getting the most out of your RBR instrumentation
An informal interview type Q&A session with Greg Johnson focusing on getting the most out of your instrumentation – an opportunity to ask RBR anything.

Pressure sensors in the age of artificial intelligence
This talk explores how data collected using RBRsolo D pressure loggers can be combined with artificial intelligence to provide crucial information about surf and swash zone dynamics.

Using waves and power efficient loggers for autonomous profiling
Measure for longer, more often, and faster using the DMO wave powered profiler and RBR power efficient loggers reporting via an energy efficient modem.

Wave processes on coral reefs and the impact of sea level rise on atoll islands
Field measurements highlight the importance of different surf-zone processes and are critical for validating numerical models to explore the future.

Chronicling seasonality in Beaufort Sea Lagoons
Techniques and challenges using moored CTDs in the nearshore Arctic by the Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Program.

Monsoons and plumes limit subsurface chlorophyll fluorescence
Explore the coupling between subsurface irradiance, chlorophyll fluorescence, and diel vertical migration in the Bay of Bengal.

Tidal measurements to support hydrographic operations in Queensland
Learn how the Port of Brisbane is using high accuracy tidal observations to support hydrography at their port and throughout Queensland.

Observing beach breaching in Carmel, CA
This webinar will show observations of beach breaching at Carmel River that include seasonal migration of the beach as well as prediction of breach closure.

Surf zone monitoring at the Palm Beach artificial reef using nine RBRduet T.Ds
Surf zone wave monitoring to assess the performance of the Palm Beach artificial reef, using nine RBRduet T.Ds deployed in the lee of the artificial reef along two shore parallel lines.

Measuring the pore pressure response in sandy beaches using RBRsolo³ Ds
Pore pressure response to wave action can lead to sand liquefaction. Learn the results of measuring pore pressure at beaches using RBRsolo³ Ds.

Measuring waves to better quantify coastal hazards
Explore an array of projects where the powerful RBRsolo³ D was used to obtain critical wave and water level data for studying coastal hazards.

Wave energetics in a complicated reef environment; observations and modeling
RBRsolo³ D data is used to validate modeled wave energetics along West Maui, enlightening energy transformations and run-up components.

Community science in New England: the CFRF/WHOI shelf research fleet
For many years, the fishing community in Rhode Island has been working with WHOI scientists to collect data over the continental shelf. Learn what their combined efforts have discovered.

Robots, RBRs, and reconnaissance under the ice
Learn the highlights of how the GIT team have used RBRconcertos and other CTDs in the McMurdo Sound, under the Ross Ice Shelf, and the Thwaites Glacier, both on the Icefin and profiling casts through the ice.

Community-based observing of the coastal ocean in Nunatsiavut
This webinar will outline some pilot activities of community-based observing of the coastal ocean in Nunatsiavut, and plans to expand in the future.

Sensor technologies for measuring Arctic methane: the ChemYak in Nunavut
Learn the results of a ChemYak field deployment from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada that demonstrate a large methane release during the spring freshet.

Revealing under‐ice convection in a large lake
Explore the application of the high accuracy RBRsolo³ T temperature logger to reveal the weak vertical temperature gradients in cold waterbodies.

CTD and sensor calibrations
Learn about the RBR calibration procedure for conductivity, temperature, pressures, and other sensors, and how you can maintain, verify, and calibrate some sensors in the field.

Wave measurements for ocean, coastal, and transient wave studies
Expand your understanding of wave measurements, learn how to optimize your deployment settings, and review Ruskin wave processing methods.

RSKtools: a free toolbox for CTD post-processing and data visualization
Learn more about the many functions in the the free post-processing toolbox and how it can improve your CTD data quality.

A fast biophysical underway profiler: the EcoCTD
Discover how researchers are improving profiles of CTD and optical measurements from underway vessels.

Development and evaluation of the RBRlegato CTD on glider platforms
Learn how customers are using the new RBRlegato glider CTD to extend glider missions, improve data quality, and enable more measurements.

Ruskin software Pro Tips
Learn about the full capability of the Ruskin software, including simulating different instrument configurations, automatic cast detection, wave processing, and editing calibration coefficients.

CTD dynamic performance and correction through gradients
Learn how RBR is helping customers improve data quality when profiling through strong thermoclines with vertical profiles, Argo floats, and gliders.

Using the Ruskin Mobile app with Wi-Fi to view data and map your cruise
Explore how the Ruskin Mobile app can be used to view your data, GPS tag events, and map your profile locations on your phone or tablet.

Multi-parameter observations and telemetry with the DMO Wirewalker
Experience how researchers are achieving rapid, continuous vertical profiles and receiving realtime data using the Wirewalker with RBR systems.

Assessment of RBRcoda T.ODO optode for profiling and long-term deployments
Learn more about how the RBR optical DO sensor has enabled improved oxygen measurement for vertical profiling and high-stability long-term moorings.

Explore the RBRquartz³ BPR|zero, the long-term bottom pressure recorder
Explore how the RBRquartz³ is designed and configured to provide drift-corrections using the AzeroA method for long-term pressure measurements.
