{"id":899,"date":"2017-04-26T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2017-04-27T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:54:13","slug":"back-to-the-small-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/back-to-the-small-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Small Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nathan Laxague<\/p>\n

Hey folks- I\u2019m back in the saddle and ready to report on the Walton Smith\u2019s recent operations. Yesterday (4\/25\/17), it was decided that we would focus our efforts on a small-scale observational study centered around surface-layer current dynamics. The small boat Tatiana was filled with its payload and launched for rapid deployment of drifting and sensing objects.<\/p>\n

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The drifting objects: hundreds of bamboo plates, thrown in clusters and allowed to move with the very near-surface currents which figure so prominently into the transport of oil in the ocean.<\/p>\n

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These plates were tracked from 100 meters above by our Phantom 4 Pro drone, shown below while photographed far from the ship.<\/p>\n

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The sensing object: the Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit(S)- REMUS to its friends (nicknamed ROMULUS in order to really sell the ancient Rome connection). Once deployed, this torpedo-shaped object moves along a pre-programmed route, sensing upper-ocean currents and water chemical properties along its way. For the day\u2019s operations, ROMULUS moved beneath the bamboo plate patch to provide an additional estimate of near-surface current.<\/p>\n

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For reference, here\u2019s what it looks like once it\u2019s been deployed (that\u2019s yours truly wearing the sombrero on the bow of the Tatiana):<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s tough to complain- it was a beautiful day out on the water and we accomplished our major observational objectives. Today\u2019s a bit rougher, so there will be no small boat operations (more time to write, I suppose).<\/p>\n

Keep coming back to the blog as we continue to splash our way through the Gulf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nathan Laxague Hey folks- I\u2019m back in the saddle and ready to report on the Walton Smith\u2019s recent operations. Yesterday (4\/25\/17), it was decided that we would focus our Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}