ROBOTIC OCEAN EXPLORER UNDERTAKES ARCTIC MISSION

摘要

A team from the Oban-based Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) will deploy a small ecoSUB autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the foot of a melting glacier in Arctic Norway. The aim is to learn more about the effect of meltwater from calving - the process which results in huge chunks of ice to break away from the glacier edge. At less than lm long and weighing just 4kg, ecoSUB is a joint development between Planet Ocean Ltd and the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK. The AUV will enter one of the planet's most hostile environments and take measurements, such as temperature and salinity, as far down as loom below Kronebreen glacier on Svalbard.