Thursday, November 12, 2009

Oceanographers Develop "Swarms" of Robotic Ocean Explorers

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 In an effort to plug gaps in knowledge about key ocean processes, the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s division of ocean sciences has awarded nearly $1 million to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. The Scripps marine scientists will develop a new breed of ocean-probing instruments:  Autonomous underwater explorers, or AUEs.
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