Prepping a Seaglider to Study Waters Off the Coast of Antarctica (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Prepping a Seaglider to Study Waters Off the Coast of Antarctica

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Oceanographers Liz Creed (Kongsberg, Inc.) and Andy Thompson (Caltech) run through a series of tests in preparation for the release of a Seaglider into the Weddell Sea in January 2012. (Work published on Nov. 10 in Nature Geoscience. The paper is titled "Eddy transport as a key component of the Antarctic overturning circulation.")

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Alan Jamieson/Caltech

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