Our new science bay from Teledyne arrived! This modular bay carries a hydrophone (to listen for sound in the ocean), a CTD (water temperature and salinity) and a fluorometer (phytoplankton and organic particle abundance). We delivered our bay to Skidaway Institute of Oceanography for integration into an autonomous underwater vehicle called a slocum glider. We'll be flying this glider over the winter to listen for right whales on their way to and from the southeast US calving ground. The hydrophone has real-time baleen whale detection capabilities, so the glider can send reports back to the lab that tell us what whales it heard. How exciting!! |
AuthorErin Meyer-Gutbrod is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her lab researches human impacts to marine ecosysems. Archives
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