AUV Sentry
Humans in the Ocean 1: when HOV Alvin portholes meet the lens of art-1
NDSF submersible and vehicle programs exist to be used in their traditional role to serve science, but they are also increasingly called to act in “non-traditional” capacities to satisfy human curiosity and cultivate broader human knowledge about the ocean. Rebecca Rutstein, currently sailing as an artist-at-sea on the Atlantis cruise AT42-05, is a visual…
Read MoreHOV Alvin is coming to San Diego this winter
#HOVAlvin and #AUVSentry are coming to San Diego this December for open house event. The San Diego Union Tribune features interviews of scientists at Scripps Institute of Oceanography who have had HOV Alvin dives recently. “In the age of marine robotics, scientists still jockey for the right to descend miles deep in Alvin, one of…
Read MoreAlvin/Sentry cruise in the calm Guaymas Basin: wind wave height is “nil”.
AT42-05 cruise lead by Prof. Andreas Teske of Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has set sail on November 16th. The weather has been very calm so far (win wave heigh (ft) has been “nil” on the weather forecast we’ve been receiving and gorgeous picture posted on one of the PI Samantha Joy’s tweet) – the…
Read MoreThe deepest volcanism discovered by AUV Sentry in Mariana back-arc
New York Times featured seafloor volcanism discovered by #AUVSentry: “A Vault of Glass and the Deepest Volcanic Eruption Ever Detected” This volcanism in Mariana back-arc is originally discovered by Dr. Chadwick using #AUVSentry during a 2015 cruise, for which subsequent imagery survey revealed the prolific lava flows in one of the deepest basins in the world.…
Read MoreThree HOV Alvin/AUV Sentry expeditions in this autumn/winter 2018!
Currently, HOV Alvin and AUV Sentry are on R/V Atlantis, conducting science program lead by Prof. Erik Cordes of Temple University off Costa Rica (Voyage AT42-03 – see where is Atlantis now?). This is the first of three consecutive autumn/winter 2018 expeditions for #HOVAlvin and #AUVSentry (all funded by @NSF_GEO). Upon completion of current cruise,…
Read More500th Sentry Dive (10.16.2018) !!!
When we recover AUV Sentry during night time, its strobe highlights the vehicle emerging on sea-surface, ensuring us the vehicle is back after a dive mission. 500th time of “welcome back, well done, Sentry!!” See the WHOI Top Story about this accomplishment
Read MoreNTSB released El Faro investigation Video (AUV Sentry and HOV Alvin-OV)
On September 18th, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released El Faro investigation video. #AUVSentry as well as Observation Vehicle (“OV”) of #HOVAlvin and the #NDSF_WHOI vehicle operations teams have contributed to this effort significantly and located the voice recorder of El Faro on the seafloor.
Read MoreAUV Sentry revealed new view of Bermuda’s seamounts
Louis Whitcomb, a professor in the JHU department of mechanical engineering and an adjunct scientist at WHOI, has lead #NSFfunded @ NSF_Geo studies on the navigation, dynamics, and control of robotic systems in seafloor with many seamounts, including the shallow Challenger seamount (located at a depth of 164 feet, or 50 meters) to the southwest…
Read MoreAUV Sentry finishing the cruise AE1824 today (with an old sailing mate at BIOS)
The AUV Sentry Team is completing a cruise on R/V Atlantic Explorer (Cruise AE1824) today. This is an NSF-funded science and engineering research expedition lead by Professor Louis Whitcomb (Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. James Kinsey (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) to test a novel directional sensing device and innovative acoustic communication methods. Like any UNOLS…
Read MoreAUV Sentry testing novel technologies on R/V Atlantic Explorer
AUV Sentry is currently sailing on the R/V ATLANTIC EXPLORER with co-Chief scientists Louis Whitcomb of Johns Hopkins and James Kinsey of WHOI. The mission of this expedition is to test novel technologies related to vehicle’s attitude sensing and acoustic communication capabilities. Read more »
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