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Autonomous Underwater Robots

Collect Climate Data throughout the Global Ocean

Presented by the Rutgers University Department of Marine & Coastal Science

Rutgers University’s Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) has been deploying and piloting autonomous underwater vehicle’s (AUVs) called gliders throughout the global ocean for over 20 years. These robots carry different sensors to collect data on a wide range of oceanographic parameters (temperature, salinity, pH, oxygen, currents). The data collected by these robots allow scientists to collect a baseline on past and current ocean conditions as well as monitor these conditions might be impacted by climate change. PhD student Joe Gradone has been part of a team of scientists piloting gliders and analyzing their data and will give a talk on his work studying the circulation of heat throughout the Caribbean region.

Joe is a PhD student using autonomous underwater vehicles (ocean robots) to study climate and hurricanes. He uses these robots to collect data on how much heat and salt are transported from all the way down in the Caribbean to the east coast of the US.

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