Imagine you can send a computer server out into the ocean for up to a year to collect and analyze whatever data you wanted? What would you do with it? That’s the question that has been inspiring researchers to do creative work with Wave Gliders for years. Since the first …Read more
Monitoring Currents with ADCPs on Wave Gliders
April 6, 2017
Some of the best applications of technology are ones where someone takes a longstanding process and reimagines it. At one point, people thought “why would I need a camera in my phone?” Now it’s hard to imagine our smartphones without them. It’s simply a more efficient way to get the …Read more
The Multi-Tasking Robot
March 30, 2017
If you’re going to send a robot out into the ocean for a long period of time, why not have it do more than one job? Lately we’re seeing more of our missions do just that. Combat Illegal Fishing + Collect Marine Biodiversity Data How do you protect 840,000 square …Read more
High Bandwidth on the Open Seas
March 23, 2017
For those of us who spend most of our time on land, it can be hard to understand how much our lives have changed with the availability of both bandwidth and the internet. If you travel, you think nothing of sending some emails with important documents or images while on …Read more
Webcast: Fish & Marine Mammal Tracking with Ocean Robots
March 9, 2017
Did you know that snow crabs can travel up to 600km (approximately 373 miles)? The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a global research, technology, and partnership organization with headquarters at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a leader in the use of autonomous systems for ocean monitoring, OTN also …Read more
