Waiting for an undersea robot in Antarctica to call home
"Call! Just call!" I think loudly in my head. "Did something happen? Are you okay?"
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2019
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News tagged with gliders
Robotic glider makes first turbulence measurements beneath an Antarctic ice shelf
A small group of scientists and doctoral students from the University of California, Davis, recently returned from Antarctica, where they became the first group to collect turbulence measurements from an underwater glider ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2019
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New robot can sense plankton optically and acoustically
Oceanographers and engineers at the University of California San Diego collaborated to modify a common physical oceanography instrument to be able to image zooplankton as it glides through the ocean.
Earth Sciences
Jan 07, 2019
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Study counts the high cost of infidelity for swift parrots
Scientists at ANU have found a chronic shortage of females in a critically endangered parrot species has led to love triangles, sneaky sex on the side, increased fighting between males and fewer babies.
Plants & Animals
Dec 04, 2018
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AI could help drones ride air currents like birds
Birds have long inspired humans to create their own ways to fly. We know that soaring bird species that migrate long distances use thermal updrafts to stay in the air without using up energy flapping their wings. And glider ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 20, 2018
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An underwater glider for measuring turbulence in Lake Geneva
Huge systems of rotating water masses—called gyres—form in oceans and large lakes. Two EPFL laboratories, working with the University of California, Davis, are using an underwater glider to explore one such gyre in Lake ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2018
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Wave Glider surfs across stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica
The Southern Ocean is key to Earth's climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves and strong currents that are important to ocean physics make it perilous for oceanographers.
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2017
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New revelations from Superstorm Sandy data
Five years ago next month, four days before Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, Rutgers University-New Brunswick marine scientists launched a data-collecting, submersible robot glider in front of the massive storm.
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2017
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Researchers discover first winged mammals from the Jurassic period
Two 160 million-year-old mammal fossils discovered in China show that the forerunners of mammals in the Jurassic Period evolved to glide and live in trees. With long limbs, long hand and foot fingers, and wing-like membranes ...
Archaeology
Aug 09, 2017
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Island volcano monitoring system tested at Nishinoshima
During the October cruise of KS16-16 a research team with members from the Kobe University Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2016
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