Glider Recovery

One component of our work down here on the Antarctic Peninsula involoves deploying AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) that we refer to as gliders. These gliders are controlled by scientists back in New Jersey at Rutgers University and they communicate via Iridium satellite that is housed in the tail of the glider. The glider collects data about salinity, temperature, surface currents, chlorophyll a concentrations, and many different optical properties in the water column. To read more about the gliders and how they are assisting in our data collection down here in the Antarctic, you can always go to the Rutgers website or our personal  Antarctic website, and read more from our local scientist Dr. Alex Kahl.

We just had our first successful deployment and recovery of the glider down here at Palmer Station. Here is another video that Alex put together of the big event.