Vessel & Fleet Data Reports Now Available
SeaKeepers is now sharing comprehensive data reports with its Founders, yacht partners and other supporters summarizing both the individual monitoring results of member yachts as well as the collective monitoring activities of the entire SeaKeepers’ monitoring fleet. These Reports provide Society supporters with a quantitative look at the important work their donations and efforts are sustaining.
 Founders with a SeaKeeper 1000™ monitoring system installed onboard their yacht will receive both a Vessel Data Report, a strictly confidential summary of their vessel’s contributions, as well as a Fleet Data Report, summarizing the data collection of the entire SeaKeepers’ fleet. All SeaKeepers who have not underwritten a SeaKeeper 1000™ system receive the synopsis outlining the fleet’s data contributions - which last year resulted in more than 90 million measurements, spanning an estimated 2.4 million miles of ocean, at a cost of less than two cents per measurement [see cover story].
SeaKeepers’ Fleet Data Reports include a map depicting the entire fleet’s tracks across the globe. This Report also incudes a quantitative analysis of the fleet’s data contributions during that quarter, as well as the cumulative contribution since SeaKeepers began its data collection. A guide to understanding the monitoring terminology and SeaKeepers data collection and transmission process is also contained within.
The individual Vessel Data Reports include a ship’s track along which the data was collected, a graphic depiction of the total amount of data collected in the last quarter and also since the system’s installation, and a sample of the raw data as it is delivered to satellites from the vessel. In addition, the Vessel Data Report includes important metadata
All scientific data must be accompanied by metadata ‐ defined as “data about the data,” without which researchers would not be able to perform meaningful analyses. For example, the seawater intake aboard SeaKeepers-equipped cruise ships is significantly deeper, usually 20 feet deeper, than on most yachts. If these two vessels were to sample seawater in the same location at the same time, the data would look quite different. Without the attached metadata information, these differences would be inexplicable, and therefore useless to researchers.
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“We are very excited to provide personalized, detailed Reports on the data SeaKeepers is collecting,” said CEO John Englander. “These reports paint a tangible picture of the invaluable information being provided to the scientific community, and powerfully underscore our mission of turning yachts and other vessels into bona fide research vessels.”
In addition to giving Society supporters a quantitative progress account, the Reports provide feedback to the owner and ship operators about the status of the scientific instruments installed on their vessel. “Combined with our new, real-time, data display technology, SeaKeepers now has a concrete way of showing the important contributions our charity is making to understanding such critical issues as climate change and ocean acidification,” said Michael T. Moore, board chairman. 
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