News Articles with Category: Drifters
October 9, 2014 – via University of Maine
Researcher uses fleet of Bio-optical Argo floats to measure marine snow.
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September 16, 2014 – via Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
SOCCOM researchers plan to deploy approximately 200 profiling floats in the Southern Ocean over the next six years.
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June 17, 2014 – via National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Called Deep Argo floats, they contain sensors to measure temperature and salinity between the surface and about 6000m deep, along with devices to transmit the data to satellites.
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March 11, 2014 – via Autonaut
The new unmanned surface vessel (USV) uses motion from the ocean to propel herself, silently, with stability and zero emissions.
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July 20, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb Research
Two key unmanned systems providing cost-effective access to the global ocean are gliders and floats. Gliders are becoming very well known, with hundreds employed by users around the world. Profiling floats number in the thousands and are an integral component of ocean observation strategies.
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February 27, 2013 – via Teledyne Webb
Teledyne Webb Research will begin testing various sensors for APEX Deep. “Our next priority is an altimeter, which will allow APEX Deep to “see” the bottom and either hover at some altitude above the bottom or avoid contacting it as the bathymetry changes.
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December 31, 2012 – via Teledyne Webb
Teledyne Webb Research announced today that a new version of the company’s Autonomous Profiling Explorer (APEX®) set a record on October 30 and 31, 2012, by diving below 4,000 meters off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island.
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October 1, 2012 – via NASA
Scientists at Stennis Space Center at NASA have used two prototype environmental monitoring buoys, created as easy-to-build school projects, to monitor the effect of storm surges in waters as Hurricane Isaac moved on shore in late August.
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August 27, 2012 – via Marine Technology and Engineering Center (MARITEC)
The ultimate goal is to develop a vehicle which can stay in a specific area for fixed-point observation while keeping the body in balance under water and controlling its own direction by moving the on-board ballast weight.
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July 29, 2012 – via British Antarctic Survey
Due to the size and remote location of the Southern Ocean, scientists have only recently been able to explore the workings of the ocean with the help of small robotic probes – known as Argo floats. In 2002, 80 floats were deployed in the Southern Ocean to collect information on the temperature and salinity. This unique set of observations spanning 10 years has enabled scientists to investigate this remote region of the world for the first time.
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July 6, 2012 – via National Science Foundation
Phenomenon of spring and summer is jump-started by swirling currents of seawater
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December 19, 2011 – via Arizona State University
Futuristic robots may be coming soon to an ocean near you. Sensorbots are spherical devices equipped with biogeochemical sensors, that promise to open a new chapter in the notoriously challenging exploration of earth’s largest ecosystem – the ocean.
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October 13, 2011 – via OurAmazingPlanet
Each robot is known as a Mobile Earthquake Recorder in Marine Areas by Independent Divers, or Mermaid. They are equipped with hydrophones, or underwater microphones, with which they record seismic waves from quakes and other earth-shaking phenomena as they ripple through the water. The mics can pick up the waves of quakes from as far away as 7,450 miles (12,000 km).
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July 6, 2010 – via Energy Digital
AUVs have been used for underwater inspection by oil and gas companies for a while—new technological advancements are being made
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March 29, 2010 – via Teledyne Webb Research
Teledyne Webb Research, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today the shipment of it’s 6000th float designed and manufactured at it’s Falmouth, MA facility. The float, known as the Autonomous Profiling Explorer (APEX), was designed in the late 1980s by company founder Douglas Webb and is widely used by oceanographers to take temperature, salinity, and pressure measurements providing a broad understanding of the world’s oceans and the effects of climate change.
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