Notes on ocean observation, sensor design, open science, and building a network in the Indian Ocean. By Derin George.https://thalwag.com/en-gbTHALWAG · CC BY 4.0https://thalwag.com/log/2026-06-20-partnership-not-platform/https://thalwag.com/log/2026-06-20-partnership-not-platform/Every vessel-of-opportunity programme that has tried to use fishing vessels for ocean observation has treated fishers as infrastructure. That is both ethically wrong and operationally self-defeating. Here is why the design has to be different.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTderin@thalwag.com (Derin George)https://thalwag.com/log/2026-06-10-sensor-economics/https://thalwag.com/log/2026-06-10-sensor-economics/The price collapse in solid-state ocean sensors over the past decade is real, but it is not uniform. This post looks at what has become cheap, what has not, and what that means for a fleet-scale observation network.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTderin@thalwag.com (Derin George)https://thalwag.com/log/2026-06-01-why-the-indian-ocean-is-underobserved/https://thalwag.com/log/2026-06-01-why-the-indian-ocean-is-underobserved/The Indian Ocean drives the monsoon, feeds hundreds of millions of people, and is warming faster than any other major basin. We have less data on it than almost anywhere else in the world ocean. This post examines why.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTderin@thalwag.com (Derin George)