When your Wave Gliders complete a mission, you have a choice: takeout (send a boat to pick them up) or delivery (have the Wave Gliders swim home to you). After their most recent mission, CSIR researchers at the Southern Ocean Carbon & Climate Observatory (SOCCO) chose the latter, and a …Read more
Wave Glider Measuring Carbon Dioxide in Monterey Bay
Liquid Robotics — April 30, 2019
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have observed unusually high concentrations of carbon dioxide blowing out to sea from the Bay Area. MBARI has been measuring CO2 concentrations in Monterey Bay since 1993, but in 2017 they started looking more closely at the data being collected from …Read more
Monitoring Reefs, Pollution, and Mariculture in the Philippines
Liquid Robotics — March 25, 2019
The Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes (PCARI) Project connects higher education institutions in the Philippines with top research universities in California, in an effort to collaborate on innovative research and build technological capacity in the Philippines. To date, over 5 billion Philippine pesos ($96M USD) has been invested in 40 research …Read more
Research Roundup: Acoustic Tag Tracking, Animal Biotelemetry, and GNSS
Liquid Robotics — February 5, 2019
We’re always excited to see how researchers are using Wave Gliders in new and creative ways, exploring what’s possible when you use technology to move beyond the limitations of traditional methods, combined with rigorous scientific validations. Here are three recent examples that have us excited for the future. A …Read more
A 12-Year Walk Down Memory Lane
Liquid Robotics — January 16, 2019
January 2019, a year we mark twelve years since Liquid Robotics was born. A time when Roger Hine, Joe Rizzi and a few other adventurous friends turned their dream of designing an ocean robot to listen to Humpback whales into a business. In some ways, it feels like yesterday when …Read more
My 2019 New Year’s Resolutions
Liquid Robotics — January 2, 2019
As a Wave Glider, I have a pretty interesting job. I’m in the water all the time, swimming in calm and rough seas, collecting data from the seafloor and sending it in real time to folks around the world. I’m happiest when I can help my customers listen, learn and …Read more