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Glider deployment operations.

Glider deployment operations.
Glider deployment operations.
Glider deployment operations.
Glider deployment operations.
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Mahadevan, Amala
Glider deployment operations.
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07/20/2017
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 23:
board the research vessel SOCIB in 2017, researchers deployed autonomous underwater gliders. They repeatedly travel to depths of several hundred meters and then back to the surface while measuring = levels of chlorophyll and available light in the ocean.
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Researchers deploy an underwater glider in the Mediterranean Sea in 2017. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mara Freilich and her advisor Amala Mahadevan have been investigatingoceanic frontssimilar to meteorological fronts where high- and low-pressure systems meet in the atmosphere. Less-dense water rises toward the sunlit surface at these fronts, bringing with it nutrients that fuel the growth of plankton. Gliders operate autonomously, measuring levels of chlorophyll and available light in the ocean to help scientists learn where and why plankton are more likely to grow.
Photo by Amala Mahadevan
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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