All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
Nathan Laxague The LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment (LASER, for those following at home) kicked off not with a bang, but a whimper. At the time of this writing, the R/V F.G. Continue Reading →
Category: Experiments
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 →
Loading day 1 (T-2)
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 →
Student drifters selected and ready for LASER (T-3)
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 →
Meet R/V Walton Smith Captain Shawn Lake (T-4)
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 →
Final LASER preparations (T-7)
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 →
Count down to LASER – Meet Lead Scientist Eric D’Asaro (T-8)
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 →
Painting with a Purpose
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 →
Fuel Spill Exercise
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 →
Fuel Spill Exercise Prep
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 →