Facilitated by the invention of an elegant and precise wet - chemical method by Winkler (1888), which has remained essentially unchanged until today, reliable and
comparable oxygen measurements have been made during innumerable research cruises to all parts of world ocean such that a detailed picture of the distribution of oxygen has emerged long since.
«Stalagmites are a very interesting proxy because they can be very well dated and they can also be measured at high resolution to give
us oxygen measurements that we can relate to rainfall,» Carolin said.
The situation is murkier for
the oxygen measurements, which the NSF and NOAA supported for more than two decades.
The oxygen measurements, by contrast, would fit nicely into NOAA's portfolio, Butler adds, but his division's budget has shrunk by 12 % since 2011, with further cuts expected this fiscal year.
We utilize monitoring equipment with ECG, invasive and non-invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry, capnometry, temperature,
oxygen measurement and agent gas detection capabilities.