Student Spotlight: 6 DOF AUV Model
Ilana Stern, a hydrodynamics modeling intern at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Seattle, has developed an application for any elliptical AUV.
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Student Spotlight: Glider Hydrodynamics
ST would like to call attention to a young scholar who has written a paper on a project that simulates AUV flight to improve efficiency for scientific operations.
Read moreSeaglider Reveals the Arctic’s Frigid Secrets
By NyxoLyno Cangemi Sitting on a stool in tattered painter’s pants, hiking boots and a green t-shirt, Dr. Jason Gobat looks better suited for an afternoon hike than an Arctic expedition. His blue eyes look larger than life as he peers through the magnification goggles in front of him and down through the smoky plume coming from his solder iron.
Read moreSo, This is Ocean Tech?
By Viviana Castillo, APL-UW The humid air penetrates my pores as I sit over the bridge on a massive ship. The sun is setting, I can hear the engines roaring as the water splashes the sides of the hull. I put my headphones on to try and drown out the noise. It doesn’t work, but I pretend it does. I’m
Read moreCareers: The Journey to Mastering Ocean Electronics
Stay tuned for the full story, coming online this June at Sea Technology. Viviana Castillo is a research scientist and engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. In August, she boarded a 300-ft. vessel to participate in an at-sea test of a U.S. Department of Defense maritime project. How did she land on that ship? That
Read moreROV Hercules Used to Study Deep Sea Sediments and Compare Modern Biology to the Past
Sonia Fernandez, UCSB—General animal characteristics of the Santa Barbara Basin deep sea animal communities have been described in previous studies. But thanks to state-of-the-art underwater exploration technology in the form of the ROV Hercules, UC Santa Barbara paleoceanographers Dorothy Pak and James Kennett, geophysicist Craig Nicholson and colleagues at the University of Washington, including lead author Sarah Myrhe, recently got
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