An ocean first: Underwater drone tracks CO2 in Alaska gulf

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All eyes are on the sea, but it's not marine life this team is looking out for.

The 1.52 meter long, bright pink underwater sea glider is part of the major step forward in ocean greenhouse gas monitoring. — HEATHER MCFARLAND/ University of Alaska Fairbanks

The glider – believed to be the first configured with a large sensor to measure carbon dioxide levels in the ocean – had just completed its first overnight mission. “But the problem is now that the ocean is changing its chemistry because of this uptake,” said Claudine Hauri, an oceanographer with the International Arctic Research Center at the university.

Most days, researchers took the glider farther and farther into Resurrection Bay from the coastal community of Seward to conduct tests. Hauri said using this was “a huge step to be able to accommodate such a big and power hungry sensor, so that’s special about this project”. Researchers in Canada had previously attached a smaller, prototype CO2 sensor to an underwater drone in the Labrador Sea but found it did not yet meet the targets for ocean acidification observations.

 

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