Joleen Heiderich and Patrick Deane prepare to launch Spray glider.

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Joleen Heiderich and Patrick Deane prepare to launch Spray glider.

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04/18/2006

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Used in Oceanus magazine, Vol. 54, No. 1, pg. 7, Making Waves section.
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MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Joleen Heiderich and WHOI engineer Patrick Deane deploy a Spray glider from a small boat off the coast of Miami. The robotic vehicle is the workhorse of a research program led by Heiderichs advisor, WHOI scientist Robert Todd, that involves taking routine measurements of the Gulf Stream current along the U.S. East Coast. Spray gliders cruise up the east coast from Miami to Cape Cod over several months, surfacing every few hours to transmit their data back to Heiderich and Todd in Woods Hole, Mass. The information they collect helps the scientists study the Gulf Streams ability to transport heat northward. It can also help them understand how hurricanes affect the current as they pass over it.

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