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Phil. Inquirer: Out in the Southern Ocean, a sea-going oceanographic robot glider calls home

The Inquirer’s Sandy Bauers has a charming portrait of a Rutgers oceanographer sitting warm and comfy in his office while a slow-moving, tough, battery-powered robot dips and bobs its way along the Antarctic Peninsula. It reports data via satellite link. The story fills readers in on how high-technology and elegant engineering can make science cheaper and better, not to mention more comfortable (if less heroic) for the scientist. The robot is called a Slocum. It has no propeller. It changes its bouyancy via battery-powered changes in its density. The fins and rudders etc. steer it along as its risings to the surface, or drops to the depths, are displaced by the wings into forward motion.

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See Also: Asbury Park (NJ) Press Kirk Moore; Nice colorful story, too, and it’s about the same group. Was there a press conference?

Grist for the Mill (late addition): Rutgers Press Release;

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2 Responses to “Phil. Inquirer: Out in the Southern Ocean, a sea-going oceanographic robot glider calls home”

  1. Boyce Rensberger Says:
    January 9th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    Ken Branson, Rutgers PIO sends this response:

    Regarding the post on Rutgers’ submersible robot glider — no, there was no press conference. I issued a press release on Dec. 12, and then pitched hard at reporters who, at one time or another, had either written about our oceanographic work or expressed an interest. Sandy and Kirk were the first two to respond. I’m hoping there will be others. Any reporters who would like to know more about the gliders and — more important — the ocean-observatory of which they are part — should contact me.

    Ken Branson
    Media Relations
    Rutgers University
    (732) 932-7084, x633


  2. Charlie Petit Says:
    January 9th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Thanks for the info Ken. I did not troll deeply enough for a release. It’s now linked to the post.


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