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X-Spar buoy in vertical position in Great Harbor during deployment tests.

X-Spar buoy in vertical position in Great Harbor during deployment tests.
X-Spar buoy in vertical position in Great Harbor during deployment tests.
X-Spar buoy in vertical position in Great Harbor during deployment tests.
X-Spar buoy in vertical position in Great Harbor during deployment tests.
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Kostel, Kenneth
X-Spar buoy in vertical position in Great Harbor during deployment tests.
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02/24/2015
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Image Of the Day caption:
A team on R/V Mytilus keeps a watch on an expendable spar (X-spar) buoy during testing in an unseasonable February cold snap. WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute director Carol Anne Clayson and senior scientist John Toole conceived of the x-spar buoy as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble platform for instruments that gather climatic and other data from inaccessible or inhospitable locations such as the Southern Ocean. Once perfected and operational, Clayson envisions a fleet of X-spar buoys delivering data in real-time to climate and ocean scientists worldwide, much as Argo floats and Ice-tethered Profilers do now.
Photo by Ken Kostel
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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