CARTHE receives 3rd GoMRI grant
CARTHE has been awarded another highly competitive research grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), providing 2 more years of funding to complete our mission that started in 2012. Continue Reading →
New statistical model to aid in prediction of oil, trash, and fish transport
University of Miami scientists develop new statistical model to aid in prediction of oil, trash, and fish transport By Philippe Miron and Laura Bracken Offshore oil exploration, oil spill contingency Continue Reading →
CARTHE drifters are surveying currents in the Gulf with NOAA’s GOMECC-3 cruise
Originally posted in the NOAA GOMECC-3 blog New biodegradable surface drifters to survey the ocean currents of the Gulf Over the next few weeks, researchers on the NOAA research vessel, Ronald H. Continue Reading →
Drifter Study Tracks Oil Near Damaged Platform and Mississippi Delta
Scientists gain a better understanding of how spilled oil moves in the Gulf of Mexico Scientists at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science (UM) and Continue Reading →
CARTHE drifters track Miami sewage leak
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, a 63 inch sewage pipe broke and began leaking into the Biscayne Canal, according to a No Contact with Water advisory issued by Miami Dade Continue Reading →
A message from our Director
A message from CARTHE director Tamay Ozgokmen at the conclusion of SPLASH: I would like to congratulate everybody who has participated in SPLASH, because this was an experiment that was truly Continue Reading →
Work hard, play hard
Over the past month, the CARTHE team has worked tirelessly to conduct an elaborate experiment with hundreds of pieces of equipment and nearly as many people. We have overcome challenges, Continue Reading →
High tech drones (plus some low tech problem solving)
CARTHE relied on high resolution cameras mounted to drones to track the initial transport of drift cards (biodegradable bamboo plates) during the SPLASH experiments to measure currents. The acquired images Continue Reading →
Kodiak the Zodiac: The one boat fleet
By Kaushik Srinivasan The UCLA Zodiac and its myriad array of on-board instruments have primarily been designed to measure oceanic phenomena that can be collectively grouped under the moniker of ‘submesocales’. Submesoscales Continue Reading →
Back to the Small Scale
By Nathan Laxague Hey folks- I’m back in the saddle and ready to report on the Walton Smith’s recent operations. Yesterday (4/25/17), it was decided that we would focus our Continue Reading →