Typhoon Soulik, currently a category 3 storm, approaches Japan and Korea. Rutgers glider RU22 is deployed ahead of the eye in the Yellow Sea off of Korea’s Jeju Island. Glider RU22 is looking for ocean processes similar to those discovered by Rutgers gliders during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy in the Mid Atlantic. RU22 was deployed by Rutgers Professor Travis Miles as part of the KOREA-US Joint Program Agreement (JPA) between KIOST and NOAA. Typhoon Soulik, August 22, 2018 Typhoons Soulik and Cimaron, August 22, 2018 Travis Miles on the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea, as Soulik approaches

via British Antarctic Survey The seas around the Antarctic Peninsula are biologically extremely rich, but are climatically sensitive, having experienced some of the fastest warming globally in recent decades. A special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published this week (14 May 2018) puts this region in the spotlight with a combination of the latest research on how it is being affected by environmental change. The special issue brings together contributions from international marine scientists from 28 institutes who study the region’s ocean dynamics, biology, chemical oceanography and biogeochemistry. As well as presenting new research, this issue contains synthesis papers, and a “horizon scanning” introduction to address the outstanding research questions and knowledge gaps that exist in the field. Read more at the British Antarctic Survey » For the West Antarctic Peninsula theme issue click here »

Four days before Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, scientists from the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences launched a data-collecting, submersible robot glider in front of the massive storm. Read the full article here.

Deployment of NJ Department of Environmental Protection funded underwater glider (RU28). It will provide data from the ocean floor to surface on temperature, salinity, waves, chlorophyll, sediment and oxygen, and keep sending us scientific data as Hurricane Jose passes through the mid-Atlantic next week. View the deployment here.

New Hurricane Sandy science and Editior’s Highlight in the current issue of JGR-Oceans. http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/article/10.1002/2017JC013031/editor-highlight/ View the full collection of Rutgers (MARACOOS) hurricane science papers at https://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/oceans-and-extreme-weather-publications

After a two and a half year hiatus, Silbo, the first glider of the Challenger Glider Mission is back in the water! Deployed at noon on April 13 2016 right off of Cape Cod Massachusetts , the glider spent roughly a week flying a low angle thruster mission through the shallow waters of the Georges Basin along the shelf. Then Silbo made its way along the Fundian Valley before entering the deep water of the North Atlantic on the evening of April 26th. Now off of the shelf and heading East, the team is discussing the end point for the mission. The overall goal is to complete another crossing of the North Atlantic, however where we want to set the finish line is still up in the air. In 2009 the Scarlet Knight, a 200m glider crossed from New Jersey to Northern Spain. The potential plans as proposed by Ben Allsup (TWR) are as follows: Scenario 1: Falmouth, United Kingdom – 4400km in deep water, 320km along the shelf. This scenario would be interesting as Silbo was deployed from the town of Falmouth Massachusetts and would be nice to connect the two cities. Scenario 2: Galway , Ireland – 4300km deep water, 100 km on the shelf. This choice would include a partnership with our friends at the Marine Institute in Galway. Scenario 3: Canaries – 4500km deep water, 10km on shelf. This brings Silbo back to where he made land fall in the summer of 2012 after deployment from Iceland and reunites him with Antonio at ULPGC and the friends at PLOCAN. Scenario 4: West Coast of Norway – 5512km deep water, 80km shelf and shallow area around the Faroe Islands. This would be the most difficult path and is mot unlikely. Scenario 5: Iceland – 4200km deep 85km along shelf. This route returns Silbo from his initial deployment location from June 2011, however the consensus seems to be that Iceland doesnt feel far enough across the ocean for it to be a full crossing. Scenario 6: Mallorca – 5700km deep, 50km on shelf. This is the pie in the sky route which involves the very tricky passage through the Straight of Gibraltar. For more information about the Challenger Glider Mission check out the Challenger Glider Mission Website

After a long night of steaming out to the deployment location roughly 150 miles off shore of Ubatuba, Marcelo Dottori and a team from the University of Sao Paulo deployed RU29 at 5:46 this morning just past the 900m isobath. After roughly a six month hiatus during which RU29’s hulls were brought back to the US to be replaced, Scott and Chip traveled down to Ubatuba towards the end of May to put the glider back together and run some initial tests while the glider was on land. Then Marcelo and his crew prepared for a window of opportunity where they could safely get out to the deployment site and remain on location until a number test dives could be done to make sure Challenger was flying well before turning back to shore. Dave was then able to run the deployment while remotely contacting Marcelo and controlling the glider from New Jersey. So far the glider looks to be flying well and is 6 hrs in to a 9 hr mission to 1000m during which she will complete 3 full dives. Tomorrow we will update everyone further as we get more information back from our team For more information about the Challenger Glider Mission, check out the Challenger Glider Mission Blog