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The 2nd deployment of our new-technology Saildrone will take place in July, in coordination with a Chukchi Sea cruise on the USCGC Healy. The first use in 2015 proved the usefulness of this innovative data-collection platform, and returned ocean and met data in real time. This year we will gather some of the same data types, having honed the technology and the return. Additionally we will collect two new data types that will be stored and examined after the unit has returned.