Sentinel Home The Sentinel Mission Flight Viewer Our Goals Our Challenges UN Ocean Decade What is a Glider? What Gliders Can Do Slocum Gliders The Sentinel Glider History Doug Webb and Henry Stommel’s Challenge to Humanity The Scarlet Knight’s Atlantic Crossing Our Team Topics in Marine Science Teledyne Technologies Get Involved Social Media Mission Donors Outreach Events Sentinel Home The Sentinel Mission Flight Viewer Our Goals Our Challenges UN Ocean Decade What is a Glider? What Gliders Can Do Slocum Gliders The Sentinel Glider History Doug Webb and Henry Stommel’s Challenge to Humanity The Scarlet Knight’s Atlantic Crossing Our Team Topics in Marine Science Teledyne Technologies Get Involved Social Media Mission Donors Outreach Events The ocean has been a historically challenging part of our world to explore and research. However, the Slocum glider is an autonomous underwater vehicle that has fundamentally changed the way ocean science is conducted.  Over the past two decades, Slocum gliders have been an essential part of modern day research thanks to their ability to operate out at sea for months at a time with minimal energy requirements. These gliders are able to collect vast amounts of data which research projects rely on over the course of a single mission duration. Due to their unmanned nature and low cost of operation, Slocum gliders have also managed to reduce the price of ocean data collection drastically while simultaneously improving its quality. The namesake of the Slocum Glider is Joshua Slocum. He was the first sailor to complete a solo circumnavigation journey, which concluded in 1898 after a three year long journey. Joshua Slocum was chosen to be the namesake of this glider as he pushed the boundaries of exploration of the ocean and shocked the world with his success – which is what the Slocum Glider was also created to do. As Slocum gliders have become more popularized in academic research, student involvement in their operation has become integral to their success. The Slocum glider has complemented a tremendous amount of the research conducted at Rutgers University in the past two decades, and students have been at the center of their implementation. The new Sentinel Glider is the product evolution of the Slocum Glider, and has been improved in every aspect to further push the limits of what can be done with a glider.

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This is for a 1.5 research credit course is offered every semester. The ultimate goal is to get students thinking about this ocean planetStudent working groups use observational tools/robots in the ocean to explore the ocean.  Students are provided historic challenges that they work on as a team. Rutgers students have made history in this class. Students lead the Scarlet Knight Voyage, which was the RU27 Slocum glider, that made history’s first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. More can be read about this historic journey here: The Scarlet Knight Voyage.Now, students in Topics in Marine Science are preparing for the launch of the Sentinel Glider as we have been challenged to circumnavigate the globe. Since the fall semester of 2022, we have been planning and working on this mission to ensure its success. We are involved in every facet of this mission (engineering, navigation, cultural outreach), and we will be until the Sentinel Glider returns to United States after being the first underwater robot to circumnavigate Earth.   Undergraduate Student Contributors Class Motto Fall 2022: Can we do this? Madison Aguilar, Paul Alves, Bianca Buchhalter-La Fata, Julia Cancro, Kayla Cerrone, Josh Cleary, Annijah Collins, Justin Dirosa, Samantha Donner, Jeru Dwyer, Idaisha Edwards, Christopher Ferrandino, Salvatore Fricano, Brendan Henley, Matt Learn, Gregory Lee, Amanda Lemasters, Lucas Macioci, Marin Marquez, Tyler Marshall, Jonathan Melendez, Hikari Oshiro, Trivik Ragha, Maddy Ripper, Colin Sabol, Bryant Shang, Clayton Smith, Veronica Soto, Kenneth Tra, Hongxin Wang, Jingheng Xu Class Motto Fall 2023: Launch Planning Paul Alves, Maya Barnes, Trevor Barry, Natalia Benejam, Charlotte Bramich, Samuel Butera, Cynthia Chen, Julia Citkowski, Josh Cleary, Austin Crawley, Nishika D’Souza, Justice Denmon, Idaisha Edwards, Jaheem Ellison, Mox Engelman, Brianna Estevez, Delicia Flores-Gomez, Bella Fowler, Salvatore Fricano, Yael Grayson, Michael Hasselmann, Eugene Im, Emily Katz, Adam Kos, Shea Lawless, Matt Learn, Gregory Lee, Amanda Lemasters, Tyler Lewis, Samantha Macaluso, Lucas Macioci, Marin Marquez, Megan Martinez, Jonathan Melendez, Taylor Mitchell, Megan Murie, Samantha Naulty, Jesse Noble, Trivik Ragha, Maddy Ripper, M’Kayla Rosen, Rachel Rosenblatt, Rebecca Sangmeister, Dakota Slack, Clayton Smith, Veronica Soto, Ivy Stempkovski, Kenneth Tra, Tanya Upadhyaya, Hongxin Wang, Yahiree Yoplac, Devorah Zambas Class Motto Spring 2024: Prepare to Launch Peterson Baldera, Charlotte Bsile, Ireland Benson, Aiden Blanos, Gabrielle Bond, Christine Capria, Jason Cardona, Jonathan Chin, Shea Cinquemani, Sophia D’Arienzo, Terrika Davis, Jessica Defo, Justin Dirosa, Jaheem Ellison, Baylee Foreman, Tyonna Griffin, Michael Hasselmann, Sarah Keppler, Ezekiel Kloza, Tolga Kose, Shea Lawless, Matt Learn, Karolina Leleniewski, Amanda Lemasters, Christopher Maderia, Brendan McCann, Grace Mchugh, Helena Messihi, Elizabeth Morocho, Jefferey Mowen, Kenneth Navarrete, Hailey Nowak, Hirkari Oshiro, Giaminh Phan, Ashley Rosales, Victoria Samuel, Luis Saula, Sonia Sharma, Zoe Sousa, Abigail Stisi, Jessica Stochel, Greg Wareham, Keva Wilson, Marc Youhana, Devorah Zambas DMCS Faculty The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences of Rutgers University would not be the same without its faculty! Whether it is by encouraging their students to learn more about our oceans or pushing forward research into our knowledge of the ocean and its systems, they are always striving to be the best faculty a department can have. This is very apparent within the Sentinel Mission. The faculty at DMCS are working as much as they can to ensure the success of the Sentinel Mission and are working daily with the students of Rutgers University to achieve this. Here are the Rutgers University faculty involved in the Sentinel Mission: Here are the Rutgers University faculty involved in the Sentinel Mission: Michael Crowley Technical Director of RUCOOL & MARACOOS Scott Glenn Distinguished Professor Josh Kohut Professor Oscar Schofield Distinguished Professor & Department Chair

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Lessons learned from ocean observations during hurricanes Irene and Sandy pushed the U.S. to deploy a fleet of underwater robots during every hurricane season. As extreme weather events are becoming more frequent due to climate change, is it time to expand this hurricane forecasting capacity to other regions? 11 years after Hurricane Sandy hit the Caribbean islands and the East Coast of the United States in 2012, its destructive power is undoubtedly still vivid in the memories of its witnesses. The largest Atlantic hurricane on record, Sandy killed 233 people across the Caribbean and North America, and brought destruction with extreme winds, mudslides and flooding that inflicted almost US $70 billion in damage. “Just one year before that, we had Hurricane Irene, which was supposed to be a devastating storm – but then it kind of fizzled out. The next year, when alerts about Hurricane Sandy came up, people remembered Irene, and it was really difficult to convince anyone that this time it was going to be much bigger,” Dr Scott Glenn, distinguished professor at Rutgers University shares his memories. What he knew that the weather forecasters did not, was the alarming conditions below the ocean surface that warned the hurricane would be extremely powerful. “When hurricanes Irene and Sandy hit, we had our underwater gliders – autonomous underwater vehicles that collect ocean observations, and they were deployed during both of these events. And right before Irene arrived, we saw the ocean cool very rapidly,” says Dr Glenn. “This cooling just pulled the energy out of the storm and rapidly weakened it. But there was no such cooling before Sandy, and so the heat would only fuel the storm.” The ocean controls our planet’s water cycle, and even small changes within it can have a big impact on weather events on land. Such different ocean conditions observed before Hurricane Sandy raised serious concerns between scientists, including Dr Glenn himself, who quickly understood that this time the hurricane was not going to show any mercy. But surprising though it may seem today, 11 years ago weather forecasts were not automatically absorbing ocean data into their models. “I had this data from the gliders in the ocean, but at that time there was no way for me to communicate this. There was no way to add it to the information stream that reaches the forecasters,” he says. Since then, Dr Glenn and other oceanographers have worked hard to raise the importance of ocean observations in extreme event forecasting and to develop an operational system for data collection in the path of storms. Today the U.S. boasts a full hurricane glider fleet deployed during every hurricane season. These sturdy underwater robots can withstand destructive weather conditions in order to collect and transmit near real-time ocean data into the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), a part of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). Since 2018, this data is included into hurricane forecast models, contributing to timely and more accurate warnings. Full article at GOOS

History  Growing up in Pennsylvania with outdoorsy parents, I’ve had the opportunity to get outside my whole life. From hiking to fishing to camping, I knew being outside was the place for me. When I was introduced to the idea of majoring in marine sciences, I doubled down. That’s what I was doing. When people ask me today why marine science, I have no answer other than why not. I graduated from Rutgers with a major in directed marine studies and a minor in fishery science.    Research interests  I’ve worked with the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab on various projects and have dabbled amongst other projects throughout my time as an undergrad. On top of this, I was a FIGS instructor for freshman, leading a 10-week accredited course on the very first marine science and conservation. As I pursue my higher degree, I look forward to narrowing down the research I’m interested in.