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Northernmost Gliders Battle Ocean Conditions on the Newfoundland Shelf and Shelfbreak

Memorial University (www.mun.ca; Brad deYoung, Ralf Bachmayer, Robin Matthews, and Brian Claus) and McGill University (www.mcgill.ca; Jaime Palter and Tara Howatt) are our northernmost partners for Gliderpalooza 2014. They just […]

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Canadian Gliderpaloozians use AUVs for Animal Tracking and Habitat Monitoring

The text below is a repost from a Field Ops blog entitled “Gliderpalooza II: Glide Harder” written by Nikki Beauchamp from the Ocean Tracking Network out of Dalhousie University, Canada […]

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Rutgers, NJDEP, and Coast Guard Coordinate to Recover Glider Monitoring Water Quality

Today, in a coordinated effort between Rutgers, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), and the U.S. Coast Guard, an underwater glider was recovered off the coast of New Jersey […]

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Gliderpalooza 2014 Already Far Exceeding Last Year’s Efforts!

Last year’s Gliderpalooza was a success with a total of 17 deployments from 14 different gliders. But Gliderpalooza 2014 is bigger and better. The number of gliders (20) and the […]

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MARACOOS represents at OCEANS ’14 MTS/IEEE

The OCEANS ’14 MTS/IEEE (Marine Technology Society/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) took place in St John’s Newfoundland September 15-19. It is an annual meeting that delivers ground-breaking research on […]

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Gliderpalooza 2014!

We are kicking off the second annual collaborative glider event – Gliderpalooza 2014! This is a coordinated effort that uses multiple underwater AUVs called gliders (Fig. 1) to sample the […]

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News Release from the Naval Oceanography Operations Command

For Immediate Release No. 13-003 131024-N-ZZ99-001 NORFOLK, Va. – Aerographer’s Mate 1st Class (AW/SW/IDW) Gina Hegg navigates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) website. Using real time […]

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The Mystery of Canyons

Amelia has been deployed for just over 10 days now. She is flying excellently. The first half of her mission of exploring Norfolk Canyon and the Slope Sea has already […]

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Amelia’s mission to explore the Mid-Atlantic shelfbreak and the Slope Sea

Greetings! My name is Donglai and I am a physical oceanographer at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. I want to tell you a bit about Amelia’s Gliderpalooza mission and […]

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The week that was: October 14 – 18, Back to busy, busy, busy

After a couple of weeks highlighted by a couple of recoveries and no deployments, this past week suddenly got very active once again as we watch the transition from our […]