Crew Prepares RU29 Challenger Deployment
Dave Aragon (Rutgers) and the boat crew from Kalpitiya Diving prepare to deploy glider RU29 from Trincomalee, Sri Lanka on August 12, 2018. The University of Western Australia, the National…
The World’s First pH glider
An all-female team from the Saba Research Group met their glider off the coast of Long Island, NY to clean off biofouling and collect water samples to compare to the…
Typhoon Soulik Approaches Korea
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…
Rutgers Scientists Explain Hurricane Sandy’s Odd Behavior
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…
Challenger Glider Sets New World Record in the Indian Ocean
An international team of scientists and students has just completed the first of three legs in a three-year effort to be the first to navigate an autonomous underwater robot completely…
Rutgers deploys underwater glider (RU28)
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…
Craig McLean receives Challenger and Distinguished Alumni Awards
On Thursday November 10th, Craig McLean, Assistant Administrator of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spoke at the Marine and Coastal…