Oceanography students at the University of Rhode Island specializing in marine robotics, remote sensing and mapping have started using a WASSP S3 multibeam system as part of a project to survey inland ponds and coastal estuaries. The students have deployed the WASSP multibeam system aboard a specially developed autonomous kayak. The kayak can be deployed out of the bed of a pickup truck to collect
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Greensea has appointed Regina Yopak as applications engineer and service manager. Yopak has extensive at-sea experience through several tours as lead navigator and mapping specialist on board E/V Nautilus for the Ocean Exploration Trust. Yopak holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and environmental science as well as a master of science degree in ocean engineering from the University
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As part of the research project, “Assessment of the Tidal Energy at a Demonstration Site: Cape Cod Canal, MA,” University of Rhode Island ocean engineering doctoral student Soroush Kouhi and three other students went out to the Bourne Tidal Test Site (BTTS) to retrieve an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) that was deployed for one month to take water column
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