Tag: "AUV"

Belize's Great Blue Hole. Photo credit: wstera2 via photopin cc.

The Great Barrier Reef, Charcoal, and Robots for Sharks

Today’s highlights include the world’s top ten dive spots, charcoal in the oceans, a ‘shark-stalking’ robot, and the challenges of fish stocks recovering from overexploitation.

Apr 21, 2013 | 0 comments View Post
Google Earth Map Mashup of Rutgers "Scarlet Knight" Glider Crossing

Rutgers Glider Successfully Crosses Atlantic

The “Scarlet Knight,” a Rutgers-Slocum autonomous underwater glider, has successfully completed its crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Nov 19, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
University Roundup: The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University

University Roundup: The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University

New from the University Roundup: Rutgers’ Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, well-known for its fleet of AUVs

Jul 27, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Don Peters, WHOI Engineer, holding the new ceramic spheres that provide buoyancy - Photo by Tom Kleindinst

Latest WHOI Deep-Sea Vehicle Has Newest Technologies

The development of a new type of deep-sea vehicle sporting unique technologies and innovative methods made it possible to routinely reach the bottom of the ocean.

Jul 07, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Rutgers RU27 Glider Scarlet Knight Preparing for Launch -- Image Courtesy of Rutgers

Rutgers Glider Flies Along Gulf Stream on Transatlantic Voyage

A successor to the original Rutgers University “Scarlet Knight” autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has crossed the continental shelf of the U.S. and is well on its way along the Gulf Stream in its fourth week of an eight-month voyage across the Atlantic.  Launched on 27 April from the New Jersey coast, the glider, somewhat more [...]

May 19, 2009 | 3 comments View Post
The Scarlet Knight at the surface

AUV Glides Across The Atlantic Underwater

(This article was originally published on OceanLines on August 11, 2008.)   A 93 inch, 134 pound unmanned yellow glider is nearly half way through with its underwater journey from New Jersey to Spain. It left New Jersey on May 21st on its mission to gather data about the salinity and temperature of the Atlantic [...]

Aug 11, 2008 | 1 comment View Post
One of the robot fish used in the experiment

Robofish Could Cooperate for Tracking

(This article was originally published on OceanLines on June 6, 2008.) If University of Washington scientist Kristi Morgansen’s work pans out, a school of cooperatively communicating robot fish could help track whales, pollution slicks, or other mobile targets of scientific interest.  Over the past five years, she has built three “Robofish” that communicate with one [...]

Jun 06, 2008 | 0 comments View Post