Physical oceanography
Mixing it up in the Southern Ocean
A team of scientists used underwater ocean gliders to measure ocean turbulence and mixing along the Antarctic continental slope and…
Tag: Gliders
ocean engineering
Making waves in the Southern Ocean
Scientists from the Applied Physics Laboratory in Seattle tested a wave-powered ocean robot in the treacherous, turbulent waters of the…
Physical oceanography
Ocean robots record California’s latest hot year
Using underwater gliders, researchers explain what caused the extremely warm ocean along the coast of California in 2014-2015 and what…
Biogeochemistry
Ocean eddies suck carbon out of the atmosphere, thanks to plankton
When phytoplankton sink into the deep ocean, they take carbon with them, storing CO2 away from the atmosphere. This new…