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With visiting scientists sidelined by coronavirus pandemic, Bering Sea residents take on more research duties

January 25, 2021

Eight hundred miles east of the Bering Sea island of St. Paul, Lauren Divine woke up in Anchorage to a cryptic early morning text message on her mobile phone: “Mission accomplished at 4:52 a.m. It’s sitting on the Bering Sea floor doing its thing.” Phyllis Stabeno is quoted and PMEL's pop-up floats are referenced.

Link: With visiting scientists sidelined by coronavirus pandemic, Bering Sea residents take on more research duties

Saildrones return from the Arctic after milestone research mission

November 22, 2019

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - After covering more than 36,000 nautical miles and going where no drones have gone before, a fleet of five research saildrones has returned to shore in Dutch Harbor, while one wayward machine was recovered in Utqiagvik. Chris Meinig is featured. 

Link: Saildrones return from the Arctic after milestone research mission

Podcast: How robots are revolutionizing chemical oceanography

May 22, 2019

Robots in the ocean are giving scientists more details about processes above and below the surface that affect our weather, our food supply, and more. They’re also helping chemical oceanographers understand and record the effects that climate change is having on our waters. Drs. Jessica Cross and Nancy Williams are featured on the podcast discussing their ocean carbon research using ocean robots such as Saildrone.

Link: Podcast: How robots are revolutionizing chemical oceanography

NOAA deploys a flotilla of Saildrones in the Arctic

September 06, 2018

In 2014, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) partnered with Saildrone, Inc. to test the possibilities of using unmanned sailing vehicles to collect data. From 2015 to 2017, missions including one to the Bering Sea, were used to verify the data platforms and to confirm that the sensors were working well. Each year they continued to tweak the challenge sensors adding more complex variables. Jessica Cross is quoted. 

Link: NOAA deploys a flotilla of Saildrones in the Arctic

Saildrones go where humans can’t — or don’t want to — to study the world’s oceans

July 01, 2018

NEAH BAY, Clallam County — As the crew of a Makah tribal salmon boat unloaded their catch like generations of fishermen before them, scientists at the other end of the pier in this small coastal community were wrangling more futuristic cargo. Chris Meinig is quoted and the Arctic and TPOS Saildrone missions are referenced. 

Link: Saildrones go where humans can’t — or don’t want to — to study the world’s oceans

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