Loading Day 2 (T-1)
With roughly 10 tons of equipment divided between the two ships we are using for LASER, it took over two days to load everything onto 1) the R/V Walton Smith Continue Reading →
Measure. Model. Mitigate.
With roughly 10 tons of equipment divided between the two ships we are using for LASER, it took over two days to load everything onto 1) the R/V Walton Smith Continue Reading →
It’s Loading Day! Today felt much like moving day with a definite sense of excitement about what is to come, but also a lot of coordination and hard work. The LASER Continue Reading →
High school students from across South Florida were challenged by CARTHE to design, build, and test their own surface current drifters. Three programs took on this challenge and the results Continue Reading →
The University of Miami’s Research Vessel F.G. Walton Smith will be one of two ships used to execute the elaborate plans that the CARTHE team has designed for LASER. Lucky, Continue Reading →
The CARTHE-LASER team is extraordinarily busy preparing for the upcoming experiment, which will be conducted from January 15th to February 15th, 2016. With only one week to go, we thought Continue Reading →
T – 8 days. The final countdown to the LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment (LASER) has begun! This enormous effort will be the largest oceanographic experiment of its kind. Our mission is to Continue Reading →
Middle and high school students from across South Florida have spend weeks learning about CARTHE, our previous research efforts, and our plans for LASER (LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment), and volunteered to Continue Reading →
The University of Miami Department of Emergency Management hosted a full-scale environmental protection and preparedness response exercise on December 3, 2015. (see our previous post about the preparation for this Continue Reading →
CARTHE participated in a regional HAZMAT spill tabletop exercise, contributing information on the local currents and how the spill might move based on the environmental conditions. We are always preparing Continue Reading →
Two CARTHE graduate students, Nathan Laxague and David Ortiz-Suslow, will co-chair a session during the biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting, which will be held the 21-26 of February 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Continue Reading →