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Saildrones complete first unmanned passage of Strait of Gibraltar

Today, the 31-nautical mile (58-kilometer) passage between Europe and Africa is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The strait is only seven...

Scientists call for global array of autonomous vehicles

In the paper, “Air-Sea Fluxes with a Focus on Heat and Momentum,” Meghan F. Cronin, Chelle L. Gentemann, et al. discuss a need for...

Building an ecological baseline in the Central Pacific with USV

A Saildrone unmanned surface vehicle (USV) deployed from Honolulu, is studying the behavior of small midwater fishes, squids, and crustaceans, collectively called micronekton, in...

Saildrones work with ships during NOAA fisheries surveys

The 60-day Saildrone effort to asses stocks of Pacific hake and five coastal pelagic species was carried out in two sub-missions extending the full...

Innovative data collection in the Western Pacific

The first partnership between Japan’s premiere marine-earth science agency and Saildrone included missions to the reference KEO offshore buoy, a study of the Kuroshio...

VIDEO: A global fleet of sailing drones is monitoring oceans

Our oceans are changing at an unprecedented rate. Saildrone is taking action by building a global fleet of 1,000 wind-powered, emission-free ocean drones to...

CENIC network helps to efficiently share large volumes of ocean data

The nonprofit Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) operates the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), an advanced broadband network with a...

VIDEO: Saildrone completes first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica

Despite a run-in with an iceberg that wrecked some of its sensors, Saildrone 1020 completed its mission on August 3 having successfully collected oceanic...

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