Rutgers University Foundation
Studying the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem with a Robotic Cluster
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Amount |
Date Approved |
| 42 months |
$1,347,416 |
Jun. 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Rutgers University is to support the acquisition and deployment of newly outfitted Webb Slocum gliders, breakthrough technology for data collection in extreme ocean environments. The collaborating team plans to deploy an integrated network of specially configured gliders to amass cohesive sets of data from the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) providing clues to how changing ocean physics is altering ecosystems globally.
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