Go! Fight! Win!

The Scarlet Knight is doing one heck of a job fighting her way across the Atlantic. She is showing great progress navigating the various eddies especially since she has been fighting through a head current the entire time. Her current waypoint is set for 40 30 N 42 30 W, we need to dig deep into this eddy to make the turn east. Then we prepare for the next eddy after that. We are still having patchy SST due to the cloud cover but we continue to try and make the best navigational decisions we can.

In other news, things have been very busy back at Rutgers in the glider lab. We currently have gliders in Alaska, Norway, two off the New Jersey coast and of course Scarlet out in the middle of the Atlantic. It is an exciting and busy time for all of us.

Lastly, the summer institute is in full swing. Our undergraduates have been buzzing about the lab working on various projects. Some looking at satellite prediction models to see if Scarlet will be able to make her call in time. Others are looking at flight behaviors or comparing glider data to other instrumentation data. At the end of the summer each student will make a poster that documents his or her findings.

- Tina Haskins (06/29/09)