Final Countdown: Preparing for SPLASH
The final countdown to CARTHE’s last large scale experiment has begun. SPLASH (Submesoscale Processes and Lagrangian Analysis on the Shelf) will take place in April 8-May 5 2017. The team Continue Reading →
BayDrift BOLO
Have you seen these drift cards? Be on the look out for the Bay Drift drift cards. Scientists need your help in locating these small, eco-friendly wood cards, as part Continue Reading →
Drift Card Discoveries!
The Bay Drift Study launched on September 12, 2016. More than 120 volunteers simultaneously released 320 drift cards, 160 drift plates, and 15 GPS drifters from 8 locations across Biscayne Continue Reading →
Bay Drift Study hits Biscayne Bay
The CARTHE team of world renown scientists is known for our ground breaking ocean current research in the Gulf of Mexico and the new technology we have developed to make these Continue Reading →
Fostering a love of learning
CARTHE teamed up with Project Give Kids (PGkids) to expose a bright group of foster kids, ranging in age from 1st grade to high school, to the amazing world of Continue Reading →
CARTHE drifter headed for the Pacific
On July 5, 2016, the TARA Expeditions schooner departed Miami, Florida, headed for the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal, with one additional piece of equipment from CARTHE. The 36 Continue Reading →
An Ocean Oil Spill Science Legacy
-June 8, 2016 An Ocean Oil Spill Science Legacy There have been two large scale oil spills over the past 4 decades in the Gulf of Mexico. The Ixtoc I Continue Reading →
Have you seen our drifters?
The LASER, GPS-equipped, biodegradable drifters have been washing up on the beaches of the Gulf coast over the last several weeks. We have been contacted by wildlife officials, park rangers, Continue Reading →
BioBlitz: fish, mangroves, and… trash?!
National Geographic has sponsored over 250 “BioBlitz” events across the country. A BioBlitz brings a community together to survey a particular area, identifying as many plants and animals as possible. Continue Reading →
Do drifters/drift cards really move like oil?
CARTHE recently took a field trip to the Ohmsett Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility in New Jersey. The oil spill wave tank is 203 meters long Continue Reading →