Human activities have altered the state of the ocean, leading to warming, acidification and
deoxygenation. These changes impact ocean biogeochemistry and influence ecosystem …

Autonomous sailboats are promising platforms for long-term marine science missions and
have become a research area of increased interest over the last two decades. To date …

In remote and harsh sea areas, ocean robots are practical tools to replace humans to
execute ocean operations. However, limited power supply constrains the performance of …

Abstract From 11 April to 11 June 2018 a new type of ocean observing platform, the
Saildrone surface vehicle, collected data on a round-trip, 60-day cruise from San Francisco …

Partnership between the private sector and the ocean-observing community brings exciting
opportunities to address observing challenges through leveraging the unique strengths of …

Two saildrones participated in the Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study 2
(SPURS-2) field campaign at 10° N, 125° W, as part of their more than six-month Tropical …

The design, development and deployment of autonomous sustainable ocean platforms for
exploration and monitoring can provide researchers and decision makers with valuable …

Saildrones are unmanned surface vehicles engineered for oceanographic research and
powered by wind and solar energy. In the summer of 2016, two Saildrones surveyed the …

On 30 September 2021, a saildrone uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) was steered into
category 4 Hurricane Sam, the most intense storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. It …

During recent decades the US Arctic is experiencing a rapid loss of sea ice and
subsequently increasingly warmer water temperatures. To better study this economically …